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Abstract“Mongolian question answer matching task is challenging, since Mongolian is a kind of lowresource language and its complex morphological structures lead to data sparsity. In this work, we propose an …...
Investigation of feature processing modules and attention mechanisms in speaker verification system
AbstractIn this paper, we use several combinations of feature front-end modules and attention mechanisms to improve the performance of our speaker verification system. An updated version of ECAPA-TDNN is chosen …...
Is Encoder-Decoder Redundant for Neural Machine Translation?
AbstractEncoder-decoder architecture is widely adopted for sequence-to-sequence modeling tasks. For machine translation, despite the evolution from long short-term memory networks to Transformer networks, plus the introduction and development of attention …...
ITA: Image-Text Alignments for Multi-Modal Named Entity Recognition
AbstractRecently, Multi-modal Named Entity Recognition (MNER) has attracted a lot of attention. Most of the work utilizes image information through region-level visual representations obtained from a pretrained object detector and …...
Learning from Adjective-Noun Pairs: A Knowledge-enhanced Framework for Target-Oriented Multimodal Sentiment Classification
AbstractTarget-oriented multimodal sentiment classification (TMSC) is a new subtask of aspect-based sentiment analysis, which aims to determine the sentiment polarity of the opinion target mentioned in a (sentence, image) pair. …...
Measuring Alignment Bias in Neural Seq2seq Semantic Parsers
AbstractPrior to deep learning the semantic parsing community has been interested in understanding and modeling the range of possible word alignments between natural language sentences and their corresponding meaning representations. …...
Query and Extract: Refining Event Extraction as Type-oriented Binary Decoding
AbstractEvent extraction is typically modeled as a multi-class classification problem where event types and argument roles are treated as atomic symbols. These approaches are usually limited to a set of …...
Sentence-aware Adversarial Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Text Classification
AbstractMeta-learning has emerged as an effective approach for few-shot text classification. However, current studies fail to realize the importance of the semantic interaction between sentence features and neglect to enhance …...
Understanding Attention for Vision-and-Language Tasks
AbstractAttention mechanism has been used as an important component across Vision-and-Language(VL) tasks in order to bridge the semantic gap between visual and textual features. While attention has been widely used …...
Interpreting Positional Information in Perspective of Word Order
AbstractThe attention mechanism is a powerful and effective method utilized in natural language processing. However, it has been observed that this method is insensitive to positional information. Although several studies …...
Knowledgeable Parameter Efficient Tuning Network for Commonsense Question Answering
AbstractCommonsense question answering is important for making decisions about everyday matters. Although existing commonsense question answering works based on fully fine-tuned PLMs have achieved promising results, they suffer from prohibitive …...
State Spaces Aren’t Enough: Machine Translation Needs Attention
AbstractStructured State Spaces for Sequences (S4) is a recently proposed sequence model with successful applications in various tasks, e.g. vision, language modelling, and audio. Thanks to its mathematical formulation, it …...
Unisa at SemEval-2023 Task 3: A SHAP-based method for Propaganda Detection
AbstractThis paper presents proposed solutions for addressing two subtasks in SemEval-2023 Task 3: “Detecting the Genre, the Framing, and the Persuasion techniques in online news in a multi-lingual setup. In …...