Метрики оценки
Related Papers
Evaluation Metrics for Knowledge-Based Machine Translation
A methodology is presented for coml)onent-l)ase(l machine translation (MT) evaluation through causal error analysis to complement existing global evalu- ation methods. This methodology is particularly :q)- propriate for knowledgc-I)ased machine …...
A Robust System for Natural Spoken Dialogue
This paper describes a system that leads us to believe in the feasibility of constructing natural spoken dialogue systems in task-oriented domains. It specifically addresses the issue of robust interpre- …...
Corpus-Based Induction of Syntactic Structure: Models of Dependency and Constituency
We present a generative model for the unsupervised learning of dependency structures. We also describe the multiplicative combination of this dependency model with a model of linear constituency. The product …...
A Machine Learning Approach to Sentence Ordering for Multidocument Summarization and Its Evaluation
. Ordering information is a difficult but a important task for natural language generation applications. A wrong order of information not only makes it difficult to understand, but also conveys …...
Le rôle des métriques d’évaluation dans le processus de recherche en TAL [The role of evaluation metrics in the NLP research process]
. Research in natural language processing (NLP) has both scientific and technological dimensions. In both cases, it is necessary to evaluate the implemented systems in order to assess the success …...
All, and only, the Errors: more Complete and Consistent Spelling and OCR-Error Correction Evaluation
AbstractSome time in the future, some spelling error correction system will correct all the errors, and only the errors. We need evaluation metrics that will tell us when this has …...
Story Link Detection based on Dynamic Information Extending
Topic Detection and Tracking refers to au- tomatic techniques for locating topically re- lated materials in streams of data. As the core technology of it, story link detection is to …...
Automatic Keyphrase Extraction via Topic Decomposition
Existing graph-based ranking methods for keyphrase extraction compute a single impor- tance score for each word via a single ran- dom walk. Motivated by the fact that both documents and …...
Evaluating Lexical Substitution: Analysis and New Measures
AbstractLexical substitution is the task of finding a replacement for a target word in a sentence so as to preserve, as closely as possible, the meaning of the original sentence. …...
Filtered Ranking for Bootstrapping in Event Extraction
Several researchers have proposed semi-supervised learning methods for adapting event extraction systems to new event types. This paper investigates two kinds of bootstrapping methods used for event extraction: the document-centric …...
Learning Dense Models of Query Similarity from User Click Logs
The goal of this work is to integrate query similarity metrics as features into a dense model that can be trained on large amounts of query log data, in order …...
Multi-Document Summarization Using A* Search and Discriminative Learning
In this paper we address two key challenges for extractive multi-document summarization: the search problem of finding the best scoring summary and the training problem of learn- ing the best …...
Semantic Evaluation of Machine Translation
AbstractIt is recognized that many evaluation metrics of machine translation in use that focus on surface word level suffer from their lack of tolerance of linguistic variance, and the incorporation …...
SemEval-2010 Task 1: Coreference Resolution in Multiple Languages
This paper presents the SemEval-2010 task on Coreference Resolution in Multi- ple Languages. The goal was to evaluate and compare automatic coreference reso- lution systems for six different languages (Catalan, …...
SINotas: the Evaluation of a NLG Application
AbstractSINotas is a data-to-text NLG application intended to produce short textual reports on students academic performance from a database conveying their grades, weekly attendance rates and related academic information. Although …...
U-Compare: An Integrated Language Resource Evaluation Platform Including a Comprehensive UIMA Resource Library
AbstractLanguage resources, including corpus and tools, are normally required to be combined in order to achieve a users specific task. However, resources tend to be developed independently in different, incompatible …...
A Lightweight Evaluation Framework for Machine Translation Reordering
Reordering is a major challenge for machine translation between distant languages. Recent work has shown that evaluation metrics that explicitly account for target language word or- der correlate better with …...
Findings of the 2011 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
This paper presents the results of the WMT11 shared tasks, which included a translation task, a system combination task, and a task for machine translation evaluation metrics. We conducted a …...
A finite-state morphological transducer for Kyrgyz
AbstractThis paper describes the development of a free/open-source finite-state morphological transducer for Kyrgyz. The transducer has been developed for morphological generation for use within a prototype TurkishâKyrgyz machine translation system, …...
Apples to Oranges: Evaluating Image Annotations from Natural Language Processing Systems
We examine evaluation methods for systems that automatically annotate images using co- occurring text. We compare previous datasets for this task using a series of baseline mea- sures inspired by …...
Findings of the 2012 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
This paper presents the results of the WMT12 shared tasks, which included a translation task, a task for machine translation evaluation metrics, and a task for run-time estimation of machine …...
Problems in Evaluating Grammatical Error Detection Systems
Many evaluation issues for grammatical error detection have previously been overlooked, making it hard to draw meaningful comparisons between different approaches, even when they are evaluated on the same corpus. …...
Exploring Consensus in Machine Translation for Quality Estimation
This paper presents the use of consensus among Machine Translation (MT) systems for the WMT14 Quality Estimation shared task. Consensus is explored here by com- paring the MT system output …...
Finding Good Enough: A Task-Based Evaluation of Query Biased Summarization for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
In this paper we present our task-based evaluation of query biased summarization for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) using relevance prediction. We de- scribe our 13 summarization methods each from one …...
Muli-label Text Categorization with Hidden Components
Multi-label text categorization (MTC) is supervised learning, where a documen- t may be assigned with multiple categories (labels) simultaneously. The labels in the MTC are correlated and the correlation re- …...
VOAR: A Visual and Integrated Ontology Alignment Environment
AbstractOntology alignment is a key process for enabling interoperability between ontology-based systems in the Linked Open Data age. From two input ontologies, this process generates an alignment (set of correspondences) …...
Learning the Impact of Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics for Semantic Textual Similarity
We present a work to evaluate the hy- pothesis that automatic evaluation metrics developed for Machine Translation (MT) systems have significant impact on pre- dicting semantic similarity scores in Se- …...
Automated speech-unit delimitation in spoken learner English
AbstractIn order to apply computational linguistic analyses and pass information to downstream applications, transcriptions of speech obtained via automatic speech recognition (ASR) need to be divided into smaller meaningful units, …...
Cross-validating Image Description Datasets and Evaluation Metrics
AbstractThe task of automatically generating sentential descriptions of image content has become increasingly popular in recent years, resulting in the development of large-scale image description datasets and the proposal of …...
How NOT To Evaluate Your Dialogue System: An Empirical Study of Unsupervised Evaluation Metrics for Dialogue Response Generation
We investigate evaluation metrics for dialogue response generation systems where supervised labels, such as task completion, are not avail- able. Recent works in response generation have adopted metrics from machine …...
Product Classification in E-Commerce using Distributional Semantics
AbstractProduct classification is the task of automatically predicting a taxonomy path for a product in a predefined taxonomy hierarchy given a textual product description or title. For efficient product classification …...
Reassessing the Goals of Grammatical Error Correction: Fluency Instead of Grammaticality
AbstractThe field of grammatical error correction (GEC) has grown substantially in recent years, with research directed at both evaluation metrics and improved system performance against those metrics. One unvisited assumption, …...
Supervised Distributional Hypernym Discovery via Domain Adaptation
Lexical taxonomies are graph-like hierarchi- cal structures that provide a formal representa- tion of knowledge. Most knowledge graphs to date rely on is-a (hypernymic) relations as the backbone of their …...
The dialogue breakdown detection challenge: Task description, datasets, and evaluation metrics
AbstractDialogue breakdown detection is a promising technique in dialogue systems. To promote the research and development of such a technique, we organized a dialogue breakdown detection challenge where the task …...
CrystalNest at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Using Sarcasm Detection for Enhancing Sentiment Classification and Quantification
AbstractThis paper describes a system developed for a shared sentiment analysis task and its subtasks organized by SemEval-2017. A key feature of our system is the embedded ability to detect …...
Fine Grained Citation Span for References in Wikipedia
AbstractVerifiability is one of the core editing principles in Wikipedia, where editors are encouraged to provide citations for the added content. For a Wikipedia article determining what content is covered …...
Metaheuristic Approaches to Lexical Substitution and Simplification
AbstractIn this paper, we propose using metaheuristics—in particular, simulated annealing and the new D-Bees algorithm—to solve word sense disambiguation as an optimization problem within a knowledge-based lexical substitution system. We …...
A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Natural Question Generation using Bi-discriminators
AbstractVisual Question Generation (VQG) aims to ask natural questions about an image automatically. Existing research focus on training model to fit the annotated data set that makes it indifferent from …...
Machine Translation Evaluation beyond the Sentence Level
AbstractAutomatic machine translation evaluation was crucial for the rapid development of machine translation systems over the last two decades. So far, most attention has been paid to the evaluation metrics …...
A Working Memory Model for Task-oriented Dialog Response Generation
AbstractRecently, to incorporate external Knowledge Base (KB) information, one form of world knowledge, several end-to-end task-oriented dialog systems have been proposed. These models, however, tend to confound the dialog history …...
CoDraw: Collaborative Drawing as a Testbed for Grounded Goal-driven Communication
AbstractIn this work, we propose a goal-driven collaborative task that combines language, perception, and action. Specifically, we develop a Collaborative image-Drawing game between two agents, called CoDraw. Our game is …...
Graph Convolutional Network with Sequential Attention for Goal-Oriented Dialogue Systems
AbstractDomain-specific goal-oriented dialogue systems typically require modeling three types of inputs, namely, (i) the knowledge-base associated with the domain, (ii) the history of the conversation, which is a sequence of …...
Improving Neural Conversational Models with Entropy-Based Data Filtering
AbstractCurrent neural network-based conversational models lack diversity and generate boring responses to open-ended utterances. Priors such as persona, emotion, or topic provide additional information to dialog models to aid response …...
Latent Code and Text-based Generative Adversarial Networks for Soft-text Generation
AbstractText generation with generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be divided into the text-based and code-based categories according to the type of signals used for discrimination. In this work, we introduce …...
Self-Attention Networks for Intent Detection
AbstractSelf-attention networks (SAN) have shown promising performance in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) scenarios, especially in machine translation. One of the main points of SANs is the strength of capturing …...
Semantically Conditioned Dialog Response Generation via Hierarchical Disentangled Self-Attention
AbstractSemantically controlled neural response generation on limited-domain has achieved great performance. However, moving towards multi-domain large-scale scenarios are shown to be difficult because the possible combinations of semantic inputs grow …...
Song Lyrics Summarization Inspired by Audio Thumbnailing
AbstractGiven the peculiar structure of songs, applying generic text summarization methods to lyrics can lead to the generation of highly redundant and incoherent text. In this paper, we propose to …...
Suggestion Miner at SemEval-2019 Task 9: Suggestion Detection in Online Forum using Word Graph
AbstractThis paper describes the suggestion miner system that participates in SemEval 2019 Task 9 - SubTask A - Suggestion Mining from Online Reviews and Forums. The system participated in the …...
A Co-Attentive Cross-Lingual Neural Model for Dialogue Breakdown Detection
AbstractEnsuring smooth communication is essential in a chat-oriented dialogue system, so that a user can obtain meaningful responses through interactions with the system. Most prior work on dialogue research does …...
ASSET: A Dataset for Tuning and Evaluation of Sentence Simplification Models with Multiple Rewriting Transformations
AbstractIn order to simplify a sentence, human editors perform multiple rewriting transformations: they split it into several shorter sentences, paraphrase words (i.e. replacing complex words or phrases by simpler synonyms), …...
CoSimLex: A Resource for Evaluating Graded Word Similarity in Context
AbstractState of the art natural language processing tools are built on context-dependent word embeddings, but no direct method for evaluating these representations currently exists. Standard tasks and datasets for intrinsic …...
Data Manipulation: Towards Effective Instance Learning for Neural Dialogue Generation via Learning to Augment and Reweight
AbstractCurrent state-of-the-art neural dialogue models learn from human conversations following the data-driven paradigm. As such, a reliable training corpus is the crux of building a robust and well-behaved dialogue model. …...
End-to-End Speech Recognition and Disfluency Removal
AbstractDisfluency detection is usually an intermediate step between an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system and a downstream task. By contrast, this paper aims to investigate the task of end-to-end speech …...
Evaluating Dialogue Generation Systems via Response Selection
AbstractExisting automatic evaluation metrics for open-domain dialogue response generation systems correlate poorly with human evaluation. We focus on evaluating response generation systems via response selection. To evaluate systems properly via …...
GPT-too: A Language-Model-First Approach for AMR-to-Text Generation
AbstractAbstract Meaning Representations (AMRs) are broad-coverage sentence-level semantic graphs. Existing approaches to generating text from AMR have focused on training sequence-to-sequence or graph-to-sequence models on AMR annotated data only. In …...
Knowledge Graph Embedding with Atrous Convolution and Residual Learning
AbstractKnowledge graph embedding is an important task and it will benefit lots of downstream applications. Currently, deep neural networks based methods achieve state-of-the-art performance. However, most of these existing methods …...
Linguistic Appropriateness and Pedagogic Usefulness of Reading Comprehension Questions
AbstractAutomatic generation of reading comprehension questions is a topic receiving growing interest in the NLP community, but there is currently no consensus on evaluation metrics and many approaches focus on …...
Multi-Hypothesis Machine Translation Evaluation
AbstractReliably evaluating Machine Translation (MT) through automated metrics is a long-standing problem. One of the main challenges is the fact that multiple outputs can be equally valid. Attempts to minimise …...
One Size Does Not Fit All: Generating and Evaluating Variable Number of Keyphrases
AbstractDifferent texts shall by nature correspond to different number of keyphrases. This desideratum is largely missing from existing neural keyphrase generation models. In this study, we address this problem from …...
ProtoQA: A Question Answering Dataset for Prototypical Common-Sense Reasoning
AbstractGiven questions regarding some prototypical situation — such as Name something that people usually do before they leave the house for work? — a human can easily answer them via …...
Reproduction and Replication: A Case Study with Automatic Essay Scoring
AbstractAs in many experimental sciences, reproducibility of experiments has gained ever more attention in the NLP community. This paper presents our reproduction efforts of an earlier study of automatic essay …...
WSL-DS: Weakly Supervised Learning with Distant Supervision for Query Focused Multi-Document Abstractive Summarization
AbstractIn the Query Focused Multi-Document Summarization (QF-MDS) task, a set of documents and a query are given where the goal is to generate a summary from these documents based on …...
A Survey of Approaches to Automatic Question Generation:from 2019 to Early 2021
AbstractTo provide analysis of recent researches of automatic question generation from text,we surveyed 9 papers between 2019 to early 2021, retrieved from Paper with Code(PwC). Our research follows the survey …...
An Empirical Analysis of Topic Models: Uncovering the Relationships between Hyperparameters, Document Length and Performance Measures
AbstractNeural Topic Models are recent neural models that aim at extracting the main themes from a collection of documents. The comparison of these models is usually limited because the hyperparameters …...
An Evaluation of Disentangled Representation Learning for Texts
Learning disentangled representations of texts, which encode information pertaining to differ- ent aspects of the text in separate representa- tions, is an active area of research in NLP for controllable …...
Assessing Dialogue Systems with Distribution Distances
An important aspect of developing dialogue systems is how to evaluate and compare the performance of different systems. Existing au- tomatic evaluation metrics are based on turn- level quality evaluation …...
Benchmarking Neural Topic Models: An Empirical Study
Neural topic modeling approach has been at- tracting much attention recently as it is able to leverage the advantages of both neural net- works and probabilistic topic models. Previ- ous …...
Compression, Transduction, and Creation: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Natural Language Generation
AbstractNatural language generation (NLG) spans a broad range of tasks, each of which serves for specific objectives and desires different properties of generated text. The complexity makes automatic evaluation of …...
Controlling Text Edition by Changing Answers of Specific Questions
In this paper, we introduce the new task of con- trollable text edition, in which we take as input a long text, a question, and a target answer, and the …...
Dialogue Response Selection with Hierarchical Curriculum Learning
AbstractWe study the learning of a matching model for dialogue response selection. Motivated by the recent finding that models trained with random negative samples are not ideal in real-world scenarios, …...
Distantly Supervised Transformers For E-Commerce Product QA
AbstractWe propose a practical instant question answering (QA) system on product pages of e-commerce services, where for each user query, relevant community question answer (CQA) pairs are retrieved. User queries …...
Evaluating the Efficacy of Summarization Evaluation across Languages
While automatic summarization evaluation methods developed for English are routinely applied to other languages, this is the first at- tempt to systematically quantify their panlin- guistic efficacy. We take a …...
Exploring Metaphoric Paraphrase Generation
AbstractMetaphor generation is a difficult task, and has seen tremendous improvement with the advent of deep pretrained models. We focus here on the specific task of metaphoric paraphrase generation, in …...
Improving Generation and Evaluation of Visual Stories via Semantic Consistency
AbstractStory visualization is an underexplored task that falls at the intersection of many important research directions in both computer vision and natural language processing. In this task, given a series …...
Negation-Instance Based Evaluation of End-to-End Negation Resolution
AbstractIn this paper, we revisit the task of negation resolution, which includes the subtasks of cue detection (e.g. “not”, “never”) and scope resolution. In the context of previous shared tasks, …...
NITK-UoH: Tamil-Telugu Machine Translation Systems for the WMT21 Similar Language Translation Task
AbstractIn this work, two Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems have been developed and evaluated as part of the bidirectional Tamil-Telugu similar languages translation subtask in WMT21. The OpenNMT-py toolkit has …...
Progressive Generation of Long Text with Pretrained Language Models
AbstractLarge-scale language models (LMs) pretrained on massive corpora of text, such as GPT-2, are powerful open-domain text generators. However, as our systematic examination reveals, it is still challenging for such …...
SummEval: Re-evaluating Summarization Evaluation
AbstractThe scarcity of comprehensive up-to-date studies on evaluation metrics for text summarization and the lack of consensus regarding evaluation protocols continue to inhibit progress. We address the existing shortcomings of …...
Towards Realistic Few-Shot Relation Extraction
AbstractIn recent years, few-shot models have been applied successfully to a variety of NLP tasks. Han et al. (2018) introduced a few-shot learning framework for relation classification, and since then, …...
[CASPI] Causal-aware Safe Policy Improvement for Task-oriented Dialogue
AbstractThe recent success of reinforcement learning (RL) in solving complex tasks is often attributed to its capacity to explore and exploit an environment. Sample efficiency is usually not an issue …...
A Corpus for Understanding and Generating Moral Stories
AbstractTeaching morals is one of the most important purposes of storytelling. An essential ability for understanding and writing moral stories is bridging story plots and implied morals. Its challenges mainly …...
A Simple Yet Effective Corpus Construction Method for Chinese Sentence Compression
AbstractDeletion-based sentence compression in the English language has made significant progress over the past few decades. However, there is a lack of large-scale and high-quality parallel corpus (i.e., (sentence, compression) …...
Benchmarking Automated Clinical Language Simplification: Dataset, Algorithm, and Evaluation
AbstractPatients with low health literacy usually have difficulty understanding medical jargon and the complex structure of professional medical language. Although some studies are proposed to automatically translate expert language into …...
Composing Ci with Reinforced Non-autoregressive Text Generation
AbstractComposing Ci (also widely known as Song Ci), a special type of classical Chinese poetry, requires to follow particular format once their tune patterns are given. To automatically generate a …...
Contextual Fine-to-Coarse Distillation for Coarse-grained Response Selection in Open-Domain Conversations
AbstractWe study the problem of coarse-grained response selection in retrieval-based dialogue systems. The problem is equally important with fine-grained response selection, but is less explored in existing literature. In this …...
DP-Rewrite: Towards Reproducibility and Transparency in Differentially Private Text Rewriting
AbstractText rewriting with differential privacy (DP) provides concrete theoretical guarantees for protecting the privacy of individuals in textual documents. In practice, existing systems may lack the means to validate their …...
Empowering the Fact-checkers! Automatic Identification of Claim Spans on Twitter
AbstractThe widespread diffusion of medical and political claims in the wake of COVID-19 has led to a voluminous rise in misinformation and fake news. The current vogue is to employ …...
Evaluating Extreme Hierarchical Multi-label Classification
AbstractSeveral natural language processing (NLP) tasks are defined as a classification problem in its most complex form: Multi-label Hierarchical Extreme classification, in which items may be associated with multiple classes …...
Generating Textual Explanations for Machine Learning Models Performance: A Table-to-Text Task
AbstractNumerical tables are widely employed to communicate or report the classification performance of machine learning (ML) models with respect to a set of evaluation metrics. For non-experts, domain knowledge is …...
HyperBox: A Supervised Approach for Hypernym Discovery using Box Embeddings
AbstractHypernymy plays a fundamental role in many AI tasks like taxonomy learning, ontology learning, etc. This has motivated the development of many automatic identification methods for extracting this relation, most …...
Investigating Active Learning Sampling Strategies for Extreme Multi Label Text Classification
AbstractLarge scale, multi-label text datasets with high numbers of different classes are expensive to annotate, even more so if they deal with domain specific language. In this work, we aim …...
Learning from Missing Relations: Contrastive Learning with Commonsense Knowledge Graphs for Commonsense Inference
AbstractCommonsense inference poses a unique challenge to reason and generate the physical, social, and causal conditions of a given event. Existing approaches to commonsense inference utilize commonsense transformers, which are …...
MultiSpanQA: A Dataset for Multi-Span Question Answering
AbstractMost existing reading comprehension datasets focus on single-span answers, which can be extracted as a single contiguous span from a given text passage. Multi-span questions, i.e., questions whose answer is …...
SemEval-2022 Task 2: Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection and Sentence Embedding
AbstractThis paper presents the shared task on Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection and Sentence Embedding, which consists of two subtasks: (a) a binary classification task aimed at identifying whether a sentence contains …...
SQuALITY: Building a Long-Document Summarization Dataset the Hard Way
AbstractSummarization datasets are often assembled either by scraping naturally occurring public-domain summaries—which are nearly always in difficult-to-work-with technical domains—or by using approximate heuristics to extract them from everyday text—which frequently …...
Stylized Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation via Disentangled Template Rewriting
AbstractCurrent Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation (KDG) models specialize in producing rational and factual responses. However, to establish long-term relationships with users, the KDG model needs the capability to generate responses in …...
Varifocal Question Generation for Fact-checking
AbstractFact-checking requires retrieving evidence related to a claim under investigation. The task can be formulated as question generation based on a claim, followed by question answering. However, recent question generation …...
A Context-Aware Annotation Framework for Customer Support Live Chat Machine Translation
AbstractTo measure context-aware machine translation (MT) systems quality, existing solutions have recommended human annotators to consider the full context of a document. In our work, we revised a well known …...
A Dataset of Argumentative Dialogues on Scientific Papers
AbstractWith recent advances in question-answering models, various datasets have been collected to improve and study the effectiveness of these models on scientific texts. Questions and answers in these datasets explore …...
A Survey on Zero Pronoun Translation
AbstractZero pronouns (ZPs) are frequently omitted in pro-drop languages (e.g. Chinese, Hungarian, and Hindi), but should be recalled in non-pro-drop languages (e.g. English). This phenomenon has been studied extensively in …...
Counterspeeches up my sleeve! Intent Distribution Learning and Persistent Fusion for Intent-Conditioned Counterspeech Generation
AbstractCounterspeech has been demonstrated to be an efficacious approach for combating hate speech. While various conventional and controlled approaches have been studied in recent years to generate counterspeech, a counterspeech …...
Do You Hear The People Sing? Key Point Analysis via Iterative Clustering and Abstractive Summarisation
AbstractArgument summarisation is a promising but currently under-explored field. Recent work has aimed to provide textual summaries in the form of concise and salient short texts, i.e., key points (KPs), …...
HAUSER: Towards Holistic and Automatic Evaluation of Simile Generation
AbstractSimiles play an imperative role in creative writing such as story and dialogue generation. Proper evaluation metrics are like a beacon guiding the research of simile generation (SG). However, it …...
Python Code Generation by Asking Clarification Questions
AbstractCode generation from text requires understanding the user’s intent from a natural languagedescription and generating an executable code snippet that satisfies this intent. While recent pretrained language models demonstrate remarkable …...
Revisiting Commonsense Reasoning in Machine Translation: Training, Evaluation and Challenge
AbstractThe ability of commonsense reasoning (CR) decides whether a neural machine translation (NMT) model can move beyond pattern recognition. Despite the rapid advancement of NMT and the use of pretraining …...
Revisiting non-English Text Simplification: A Unified Multilingual Benchmark
AbstractRecent advancements in high-quality, large-scale English resources have pushed the frontier of English Automatic Text Simplification (ATS) research. However, less work has been done on multilingual text simplification due to …...
Semantically-informed Hierarchical Event Modeling
AbstractPrior work has shown that coupling sequential latent variable models with semantic ontological knowledge can improve the representational capabilities of event modeling approaches. In this work, we present a novel, …...
Shironaam: Bengali News Headline Generation using Auxiliary Information
AbstractAutomatic headline generation systems have the potential to assist editors in finding interesting headlines to attract visitors or readers. However, the performance of headline generation systems remains challenging due to …...
UScore: An Effective Approach to Fully Unsupervised Evaluation Metrics for Machine Translation
AbstractThe vast majority of evaluation metrics for machine translation are supervised, i.e., (i) are trained on human scores, (ii) assume the existence of reference translations, or (iii) leverage parallel data. …...