Papers by Kenneth Kwok
Commonsense inference in human-robot communication (D19-60)
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| Challenge: | a gap exists in natural language understanding of commands between humans and machines. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for commonsense inference to transform high-level commands into action commands for robotic systems to execute. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method allows to build a knowledge base that consists of a large set of commonsense inferences. |
Dual Adversarial Neural Transfer for Low-Resource Named Entity Recognition (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Named entity recognition (NER) is an important step in most natural language processing (NLP) applications. |
| Approach: | They propose a dual-adversarial neural transfer method for addressing low-resource Named Entity Recognition (NER) they propose 'Generalized Resource-Adversarial Discriminator' and 'accidental training' |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on low-resource Named Entity Recognition (NER) with two variants, i.e., DATNet-F and DATNET-P, and adversarial training is adopted to boost model generalization. |
From Grounding to Manipulation: Case Studies of Foundation Model Integration in Embodied Robotic Systems (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | a new study examines the operational characteristics of different integration strategies for robotics . end-to-end vision-language-action models implicitly unify perception and planning . |
| Approach: | They propose end-to-end vision-language-action models that implicitly unify perception and planning . they also propose modular pipelines using either vision-linguistic models or MLLMs . |
| Outcome: | The proposed frameworks implicitly unify perception and planning, and modular pipelines using either vision-language models or multimodal large language models. |
SenticNet 7: A Commonsense-based Neurosymbolic AI Framework for Explainable Sentiment Analysis (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Despite recent advances, AI still struggles with complex tasks that require commonsense reasoning such as natural language understanding. |
| Approach: | They propose a commonsense-based framework that aims to overcome these limitations in the context of sentiment analysis. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework overcomes these limitations in the context of sentiment analysis. |