Papers by Jamin Shin

12 papers
Reducing Gender Bias in Abusive Language Detection (D18-1)

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Challenge: Abusive language detection models tend to be biased toward identity words of a certain group of people . recent studies have raised concerns about the robustness of such systems .
Approach: They propose to use debiased word embeddings, gender swap data augmentation to reduce model bias . they also propose to fine-tune models with a larger corpus to correct such bias if needed .
Outcome: The proposed methods reduce model bias by 90-98% and can be extended to correct model bias in other scenarios.
Who Wrote this Code? Watermarking for Code Generation (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods to detect machine-generated text by embedding watermarks fail to function appropriately in code generation tasks due to the task’s nature of having low entropy.
Approach: They propose a logit-modifying watermark method which enhances detection ability and mitigates code quality degeneration by removing low-entropy segments at generating and detecting watermarks.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms baseline methods in detecting machine-generated code text while preserving code quality.
Evaluating the Knowledge Dependency of Questions (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing evaluation metrics for MCQ generation focus on the n-gram based similarity of the generated MCq to the gold sample and disregard their educational value.
Approach: They propose to use a human survey to measure the MCQ’s answerability given knowledge of the target fact.
Outcome: The proposed methods measure the MCQ’s answerability given knowledge of the target fact.
Prometheus 2: An Open Source Language Model Specialized in Evaluating Other Language Models (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing open-source evaluation paradigms lack flexibility and performance . language model-based evaluation is cheap and scalable, but it is difficult to evaluate .
Approach: They propose a language model-based evaluation paradigm that uses a scalar indicator of quality to assess LM outputs.
Outcome: The proposed language model-based evaluation model is more powerful than its predecessor.
MoEL: Mixture of Empathetic Listeners (D19-1)

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Challenge: Neural network approaches for conversation models have shown to be successful in generating fluent and relevant responses.
Approach: They propose a novel end-to-end approach for modeling empathy in dialogue systems by using Mixture of Empathetic Listeners (MoEL).
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms multitask training baseline in terms of empathy, relevance, and fluency.
Zero-shot Cross-lingual Dialogue Systems with Transferable Latent Variables (D19-1)

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Challenge: a lack of research on multilingual or cross-lingual task-oriented dialog systems has limited results . we propose a zero-shot adaptation of task-orientated dialog systems to low-resource languages . task-focused systems are often trained with monolingual datasets that are expensive to build or acquire .
Approach: They propose a zero-shot adaptation of multilingual task-oriented dialog systems to low-resource languages using latent variables and a set of very few parallel word pairs.
Outcome: The proposed model performs better in natural language understanding task compared to state-of-the-art model . the proposed model uses very few parallel word pairs to refine cross-lingual representations .
Dialogue Summaries as Dialogue States (DS2), Template-Guided Summarization for Few-shot Dialogue State Tracking (2022.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Annotating task-oriented dialogues is notorious for the expensive and difficult data collection process.
Approach: They propose to reformulate dialogue state tracking as a dialogue summarization problem by using synthetic dialogue summaries generated by a set of rules.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms previous studies on few-shot dialogue state tracking in MultiWoZ 2.0 and 2.1 in cross-domain and multi-domain settings.
The CoT Collection: Improving Zero-shot and Few-shot Learning of Language Models via Chain-of-Thought Fine-Tuning (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Language models with less than 100B parameters perform poorly on chain-of-thought reasoning . we aim to equip smaller LMs with the step-by-step reasoning capability .
Approach: They propose to equip smaller LMs with the step-by-step reasoning capability by tuning with CoT rationales.
Outcome: The proposed dataset outperforms large LMs on 4 domain-specific tasks even with demonstrations .
Fast End-to-end Coreference Resolution for Korean (2020.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Recent advances in coreference resolution have come at a cost of computational complexity and have not been addressed.
Approach: They propose a pointer network that leverages the linguistic property of head-final languages to reduce coreference linking search space and achieve 2x speedup in document processing time.
Outcome: The proposed model maintains state-of-the-art performance 66.9% of CoNLL F1 on ETRI test set while achieving 2x speedup (30 doc/sec) in document processing time.
Hierarchical Meta-Embeddings for Code-Switching Named Entity Recognition (D19-1)

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Challenge: Existing work on name-switching focuses on word-level aspects but neglects subword-level characteristics shared across languages.
Approach: They propose hierarchical meta-Embeddings that combine word-level and subword-level embeddings to create language-agnostic lexical representations.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art in English-Spanish code-switching scenarios.
The BiGGen Bench: A Principled Benchmark for Fine-grained Evaluation of Language Models with Language Models (2025.naacl-long)

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Challenge: a recent study evaluated language models using abstract evaluation criteria that lack the flexibility and granularity of human assessment.
Approach: They propose a benchmark to evaluate nine distinct language models' capabilities . they use instance-specific evaluation criteria to mirror human evaluation .
Outcome: The proposed benchmark evaluates nine distinct capabilities of language models across 77 tasks.
Aligning Large Language Models through Synthetic Feedback (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Currently, alignment learning requires significant human demonstrations and feedback from proprietary LLMs such as ChatGPT.
Approach: They propose a framework that uses synthetic feedback to align large language models to human values without extensive human annotations and proprietary LLMs.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms open-source models on human-annotated demonstrations in alignment benchmarks.

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