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Reading the Manual: Event Extraction as Definition Comprehension
Yunmo Chen, Tongfei Chen, Seth Ebner +2
We ask whether text understanding has progressed to where we may extract event information through incremental refinement of bleached statements derived from annotation manuals. Su…
Espresso: A Fast End-to-end Neural Speech Recognition Toolkit
Yiming Wang, Tongfei Chen, Hainan Xu +7
We present Espresso, an open-source, modular, extensible end-to-end neural automatic speech recognition (ASR) toolkit based on the deep learning library PyTorch and the popular neu…
Uncertain Natural Language Inference
Tongfei Chen, Zhengping Jiang, Adam Poliak +2
We introduce Uncertain Natural Language Inference (UNLI), a refinement of Natural Language Inference (NLI) that shifts away from categorical labels, targeting instead the direct pr…
Learning to Rank for Plausible Plausibility
Zhongyang Li, Tongfei Chen, Benjamin Van Durme
Researchers illustrate improvements in contextual encoding strategies via resultant performance on a battery of shared Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks. Many of these tas…
Improving Long Distance Slot Carryover in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Tongfei Chen, Chetan Naik, Hua He +2
Tracking the state of the conversation is a central component in task-oriented spoken dialogue systems. One such approach for tracking the dialogue state is slot carryover, where a…
Scaling Multi-Domain Dialogue State Tracking via Query Reformulation
Pushpendre Rastogi, Arpit Gupta, Tongfei Chen +1
We present a novel approach to dialogue state tracking and referring expression resolution tasks. Successful contextual understanding of multi-turn spoken dialogues requires resolv…