Papers by Liye Fu
Asking the Right Question: Inferring Advice-Seeking Intentions from Personal Narratives (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | To properly infer the intention of the narrator, one needs a certain degree of common sense and social intuition. |
| Approach: | They propose a task that uses common sense to extract pairs of questions that are appropriate candidates for the task. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method exploits commonalities in experiences people share online to extract pairs of semantically plausible advice-seeking questions that are appropriate candidates for the cloze task. |
Facilitating the Communication of Politeness through Fine-Grained Paraphrasing (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Using technology, people are increasingly able to communicate across geographical, cultural and language barriers, but they also face new challenges, as they need to adapt their communication approaches to increasingly diverse circumstances. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for suggesting paraphrases that achieve the intended level of politeness under a given communication circumstance and evaluate it in two realistic communication scenarios. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method reduces misalignment between the speaker’s intentions and listener’s perceptions in two realistic communication scenarios and is able to communicate with people from different backgrounds in diverse contexts. |