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Story generation, namely generating a reasonable story from a leading context, is an important but challenging task. In spite of the success in modeling fluency and local coherence, existing neural language generation models (e.g., GPT-2)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Jian Guan , Fei Huang , Zhihao Zhao , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

Inquisitive probing questions come naturally to humans in a variety of settings, but is a challenging task for automatic systems. One natural type of question to ask tries to fill a gap in knowledge during text comprehension, like reading a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Wei-Jen Ko , Te-Yuan Chen , Yiyan Huang , Greg Durrett , Junyi Jessy Li

Multi-hop Question Answering (QA) is a challenging task since it requires an accurate aggregation of information from multiple context paragraphs and a thorough understanding of the underlying reasoning chains. Recent work in multi-hop QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Kaige Xie , Sarah Wiegreffe , Mark Riedl

We study the task of long-form opinion text generation, which faces at least two distinct challenges. First, existing neural generation models fall short of coherence, thus requiring efficient content planning. Second, diverse types of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Xinyu Hua , Ashwin Sreevatsa , Lu Wang

Extractive QA models have shown very promising performance in predicting the correct answer to a question for a given passage. However, they sometimes result in predicting the correct answer text but in a context irrelevant to the given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Yeon Seonwoo , Ji-Hoon Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Alice Oh

In designing multiple-choice questions (MCQs) in education, creating plausible distractors is crucial for identifying students' misconceptions and gaps in knowledge and accurately assessing their understanding. However, prior studies on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yooseop Lee , Suin Kim , Yohan Jo

Despite readily memorizing world knowledge about entities, pre-trained language models (LMs) struggle to compose together two or more facts to perform multi-hop reasoning in question-answering tasks. In this work, we propose techniques that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Kanishka Misra , Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Siamak Shakeri

The growing proliferation of customized and pretrained generative models has made it infeasible for a user to be fully cognizant of every model in existence. To address this need, we introduce the task of content-based model search: given a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Daohan Lu , Sheng-Yu Wang , Nupur Kumari , Rohan Agarwal , Mia Tang , David Bau , Jun-Yan Zhu

We present a novel response generation system that can be trained end to end on large quantities of unstructured Twitter conversations. A neural network architecture is used to address sparsity issues that arise when integrating contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Alessandro Sordoni , Michel Galley , Michael Auli , Chris Brockett , Yangfeng Ji , Margaret Mitchell , Jian-Yun Nie , Jianfeng Gao , Bill Dolan

We tackle the task of question generation over knowledge bases. Conventional methods for this task neglect two crucial research issues: 1) the given predicate needs to be expressed; 2) the answer to the generated question needs to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Cao Liu , Kang Liu , Shizhu He , Zaiqing Nie , Jun Zhao

Recently, utilizing deep neural networks to build the opendomain dialogue models has become a hot topic. However, the responses generated by these models suffer from many problems such as responses not being contextualized and tend to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Mengjuan Liu , Chenyang Liu , Yunfan Yang , Jiang Liu , Mohan Jing

Counterfactual instances offer human-interpretable insight into the local behaviour of machine learning models. We propose a general framework to generate sparse, in-distribution counterfactual model explanations which match a desired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Arnaud Van Looveren , Janis Klaise , Giovanni Vacanti , Oliver Cobb

Most neural machine translation systems still translate sentences in isolation. To make further progress, a promising line of research additionally considers the surrounding context in order to provide the model potentially missing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Sébastien Jean , Ankur Bapna , Orhan Firat

Recent advances in neural sequence-to-sequence models have led to promising results for several language generation-based tasks, including dialogue response generation, summarization, and machine translation. However, these models are known…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Semih Yavuz , Abhinav Rastogi , Guan-Lin Chao , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Relation linking is essential to enable question answering over knowledge bases. Although there are various efforts to improve relation linking performance, the current state-of-the-art methods do not achieve optimal results, therefore,…

A long-standing issue with paraphrase generation is how to obtain reliable supervision signals. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised paradigm for paraphrase generation based on the assumption that the probabilities of generating two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Yuxian Meng , Xiang Ao , Qing He , Xiaofei Sun , Qinghong Han , Fei Wu , Chun fan , Jiwei Li

Adapting to the addressee is crucial for successful explanations, yet poses significant challenges for dialogsystems. We adopt the approach of treating explanation generation as a non-stationary decision process, where the optimal strategy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Amelie S. Robrecht , Christoph R. Kowalski , Stefan Kopp

Question answer generation using Natural Language Processing models is ubiquitous in the world around us. It is used in many use cases such as the building of chat bots, suggestive prompts in google search and also as a way of navigating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Shashidhar Reddy Javaji , Haoran Hu , Sai Sameer Vennam , Vijaya Gajanan Buddhavarapu

The rapid advancements in large language models and generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities are making their broad application in the high-stakes testing context more likely. Use of generative AI in the scoring of constructed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jodi M. Casabianca , Daniel F. McCaffrey , Matthew S. Johnson , Naim Alper , Vladimir Zubenko

Despite recent advances, the remaining bottlenecks in deep generative models are necessity of extensive training and difficulties with generalization from small number of training examples. We develop a new generative model called…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-06 Sergey Bartunov , Dmitry P. Vetrov