Papers by Andrew Johnson
An adaptable task-oriented dialog system for stand-alone embedded devices (P19-3)
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Long Duong, Vu Cong Duy Hoang, Tuyen Quang Pham, Yu-Heng Hong, Vladislavs Dovgalecs, Guy Bashkansky, Jason Black, Andrew Bleeker, Serge Le Huitouze, Mark Johnson
| Challenge: | a proposed speech-based task-oriented dialogue system is built on a small embedded device . the system does not require internet connectivity because all components run locally on the device - a cost-effective solution . |
| Approach: | They propose a spoken-language end-to-end task-oriented dialogue system for small embedded devices such as home appliances. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system is based on a demo run offline on swiss raspberry pi . it eliminates privacy risks and eliminates server costs and latency . |
We Are What We Repeatedly Do: Improving Long Context Instruction Following (2026.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Large language model context lengths have increased by at least 1000 in the past seven years . however, longer contexts pose challenges to system instruction following . |
| Approach: | They propose to formalize verifiable instructions to evaluate model compliance . they implement and evaluate six mitigation strategies to enhance instruction compliance in extended contexts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs better in long contexts than in natural language models. |
Cross-lingual Transfer Learning for Japanese Named Entity Recognition (N19-2)
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| Challenge: | a recent study focuses on bootstrapping named entity models from English to Japanese . TL is a technique that overcomes linguistic differences between the target and source languages . |
| Approach: | They propose to use a deep neural network model to transfer weights between languages . they also propose a novel approach that romanizes a portion of the Japanese input . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach overcomes linguistic differences by romanizing a portion of the Japanese input. |
Augmenting Small Data to Classify Contextualized Dialogue Acts for Exploratory Visualization (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | a new corpus of conversations is being developed to support data visualization exploration . we use data augmentation to improve our methods for dialogue act classification . |
| Approach: | They propose to use a corpus of conversations to annotate contextualized dialogue acts . they highlight how thinking aloud affects interpretation of dialogue acts in the context . |
| Outcome: | The proposed AI can support visualization exploration with a small corpus of conversations . the proposed AI outperforms existing models in terms of performance and performance . |
BPID: A Benchmark for Personal Identity Deduplication (2024.emnlp-industry)
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Runhui Wang, Yefan Tao, Adit Krishnan, Luyang Kong, Xuanqing Liu, Yuqian Deng, Yunzhao Yang, Henrik Johnson, Andrew Borthwick, Shobhit Gupta, Aditi Gundlapalli, Davor Golac
| Challenge: | Data deduplication is a critical task in data management and mining, focused on consolidating duplicate records that refer to the same entity. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a dataset with 1,000,000 unlabeled synthetic PII profiles and a subset of 10,000 pairs curated and labeled as matches or non-matches. |
| Outcome: | The proposed datasets contain synthetic profiles built from publicly available sources that do not represent real individuals. |