Papers by Bingyang Ye
Enhanced Noun-Noun Compound Interpretation through Textual Enrichment (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent benchmarks frame Noun-Noun Compound Interpretation as a multiple-choice question . but, it still faces key limitations: vague relation descriptions as options and inability to handle polysemous compounds. |
| Approach: | They propose a textual enrichment framework that parses relations into eventoriented descriptions . the framework explicitly surfaces the hidden event connecting head and modifier . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework yields consistently higher accuracy across three LLM families. |
Beyond Benchmarks: Building a Richer Cross-Document Event Coreference Dataset with Decontextualization (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing datasets for Cross-Document Event Coreference (CDEC) are small and lacking diversity. |
| Approach: | They propose a new approach leveraging large language models to decontextualize event mentions by simplifying the document-level annotation task to sentence pairs with enriched context. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves the quality of the dataset and generalizability of the model. |
GLAMR: Augmenting AMR with GL-VerbNet Event Structure (2024.lrec-main)
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Jingxuan Tu, Timothy Obiso, Bingyang Ye, Kyeongmin Rim, Keer Xu, Liulu Yue, Susan Windisch Brown, Martha Palmer, James Pustejovsky
| Challenge: | Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is a general-purpose semantic encoding for language. |
| Approach: | They propose an AMR interpretation of Generative Lexicon semantic components using a verb-net-encoded verb-node graph. |
| Outcome: | The proposed extension is compatible with current AMR specification and can be automated. |
Linguistically Conditioned Semantic Textual Similarity (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Semantic textual similarity (STS) is a fundamental NLP task that measures the semantic similarity between two sentences. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a conditional STS dataset to measure sentences’ similarity conditioned on a certain aspect to reduce the inherent ambiguity posed by the sentences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the performance over baselines on the C-STS dataset with over 80% F1 score. |
The Coreference under Transformation Labeling Dataset: Entity Tracking in Procedural Texts Using Event Models (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | et al., 2023) show that entity coreference resolution is improved when events bring about changes in entities that are not reflected in text mentions. |
| Approach: | They propose to perform transformation-based entity linking prior to coreference relation identification to improve entity coreference. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves coreference resolution of entities mentioned under a process-oriented model of events. |