Papers by Kai Ong

6 papers
MetaPro 2.0: Computational Metaphor Processing on the Effectiveness of Anomalous Language Modeling (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods for metaphor interpretation are slow due to lack of annotated datasets and effective pre-trained language models.
Approach: They propose a large annotated dataset and a PLM for the metaphor interpretation task.
Outcome: The proposed method improves on metaphor identification and interpretation with comparable baselines on the new dataset.
Commonsense-augmented Memory Construction and Management in Long-term Conversations via Context-aware Persona Refinement (2024.eacl-short)

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Challenge: Memorizing and utilizing speakers’ personas is a common practice for response generation in long-term conversations, yet human-authored datasets often provide uninformative persona sentences that hinder response quality.
Approach: They propose a framework that leverages commonsense-based persona expansion to address such issues in long-term conversations.
Outcome: The proposed framework facilitates better response generation via human-like persona refinement.
Coffee-Gym: An Environment for Evaluating and Improving Natural Language Feedback on Erroneous Code (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) have made great progress in code generation, however, they still produce errors.
Approach: They propose a RL environment that provides feedback on code editing by analyzing the performance of the revised code in unit tests.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms baselines in enhancing open-source code LLMs’ code editing, making them comparable with closed-source LLM.
Dialogue Chain-of-Thought Distillation for Commonsense-aware Conversational Agents (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: a human-like chatbot requires commonsense reasoning to comprehend and respond to information . however, identifying and aggregating key evidence within a single hop is a challenge . a knowledge distillation framework is proposed that leverages LLMs as unreliable teachers .
Approach: They propose a framework that leverages large language models as unreliable teachers to facilitate multi-hop reasoning over a dialogue context.
Outcome: The proposed framework leverages LLMs as unreliable teachers and selectively distills consistent and helpful rationales via alignment filters.
Language Models as Compilers: Simulating Pseudocode Execution Improves Algorithmic Reasoning in Language Models (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Prior work has used LLMs to generate programming language and applied external compilers for such tasks.
Approach: They propose a framework that expresses task-level logic with pseudocode and tailors it to each instance and simulates execution of it.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms baselines in diverse reasoning tasks.
InTriage: Intelligent Telephone Triage in Pre-Hospital Emergency Care (2025.emnlp-demos)

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Challenge: Existing TT processes face challenges such as incomplete data collection, communication barriers, and manual errors, leading to high over-triage and under-triages rates.
Approach: They propose to use an AI-driven multilingual TT system to provide decision support for triage.
Outcome: The proposed system achieves word error rate of 14.57% for speech recognition and an F1 score of 73.34% for key information extraction.

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