Papers by Kevin Xu
ASPECTNEWS: Aspect-Oriented Summarization of News Documents (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for generating generic summarizations can't be used to generalize to these domains without seeing in-domain training data. |
| Approach: | They use a dataset of real-world aspect-oriented summaries to annotate articles from two different news sub-domains. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach produces better focused summaries than existing systems without seeing in-domain training data. |
TurkingBench: A Challenge Benchmark for Web Agents (2025.naacl-long)
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Kevin Xu, Yeganeh Kordi, Tanay Nayak, Adi Asija, Yizhong Wang, Kate Sanders, Adam Byerly, Jingyu Zhang, Benjamin Van Durme, Daniel Khashabi
| Challenge: | TurkingBench is a benchmark consisting of tasks presented as web pages with textual instructions and multi-modal contexts. |
| Approach: | They propose to use HTML pages to perform various annotation tasks on crowdsourcing platforms. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms other models on the TurkingBench benchmark. |
Automated Crossword Solving (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Using neural question answering models, our system generates answer candidates and then combines loopy belief propagation with local search to find full puzzle solutions. |
| Approach: | They propose a new approach to automatically solving crossword puzzles that uses neural question answering models and loopy belief propagation with local search to find full puzzle solutions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system outperforms even the best human solvers and can solve crosswords from a wide range of domains with perfect accuracy. |