Papers by Seungtaek Choi

14 papers
Evaluation of Question Generation Needs More References (2023.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing evaluations of QG methods rely on single reference-based similarity metrics . multiple (pseudo) references are more effective for QG evaluation .
Approach: They propose to paraphrase the reference question for a more robust QG evaluation.
Outcome: The proposed frameworks show higher correlation with human evaluations than evaluation with a single reference.
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.
On Complementarity Objectives for Hybrid Retrieval (2023.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to hybrid retrieval focus on sparse models to capture “residual” features neglected in spars.
Approach: They propose a new objective to capture a fuller notion of complementarity . they propose to improve the model's Ratio of Complementarity to improve RoC .
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods on three representative IR benchmarks with statistical significance.
Retrieval-Augmented Controllable Review Generation (2020.coling-main)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to generate reviews using attribute identifiers are limited and dependent on how well they can capture vector representations of attributes.
Approach: They propose to leverage attributes as inputs for review generation by using reference sets . they propose to use these references to enrich inductive biases of given attributes .
Outcome: The proposed model improves over previous approaches on automatic and human evaluation metrics.
Debiasing Event Understanding for Visual Commonsense Tasks (2022.findings-acl)

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Challenge: a recent study shows that object-based event understanding is purely likelihood-based, leading to incorrect event prediction.
Approach: They propose to mitigate object-based event understanding by optimizing aggregation with association-based prediction.
Outcome: The proposed approach improves visual commonsense reasoning tasks by combining do-calculus with association-based prediction.
Retrieval-augmented Video Encoding for Instructional Captioning (2023.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Instructional videos provide a detailed multimodal context of each procedure in instruction. key-object degeneracy is a problem for machine systems, causing incorrect captions.
Approach: They propose a retrieval-based framework to augment the model representations in the presence of key-object degeneracy.
Outcome: The proposed framework can be extended over baselines using modalities with key-object degeneracy.
Visual Choice of Plausible Alternatives: An Evaluation of Image-based Commonsense Causal Reasoning (L18-1)

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Challenge: Existing methods for evaluating plausibility of events are focused on measuring causal dependency between events or actions.
Approach: They propose a task to identify the more plausible alternative with their commonsense causal context.
Outcome: The proposed task is based on a visual COPA dataset with 380 questions and over 1K images with various topics.
Interventional Speech Noise Injection for ASR Generalizable Spoken Language Understanding (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods to increase the robustness of pre-trained language models (PLMs) against unseen ASR systems produce noisy inputs for SLU models, which can significantly degrade their performance.
Approach: They propose to introduce ASR-plausible noises into pre-trained language models by cutting off the non-causal effect of noises.
Outcome: The proposed method improves the robustness and generalizability of SLU models against unseen ASR systems by cutting off the non-causal effect of noises.
MICRON: Multigranular Interaction for Contextualizing RepresentatiON in Non-factoid Question Answering (D19-1)

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Challenge: Existing approaches for non-factoid question answering can be categorized into representation and interaction focused approaches.
Approach: They propose a novel approach which derives contextualized uni-gram representation from n-grams.
Outcome: The proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art in two public non-factoid question answering datasets.
Less is More: Attention Supervision with Counterfactuals for Text Classification (2020.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Specifically, we explore the advantage of counterfactual reasoning, over associative reasoning . Adding human supervision to attention has been shown to improve model predictions and explanations .
Approach: They propose to use machine-augmented human attention supervision to enhance model quality.
Outcome: The proposed method is more effective than existing methods requiring higher annotation cost . the proposed method can be trained to generate similar attention to human supervision .
Structure-Augmented Keyphrase Generation (2021.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Creating keyphrases that are likely to be words absent from the given document is challenging .
Approach: They propose novel keyphrase generation tasks that augment missing context by adding keyphrases to documents.
Outcome: The proposed keyphrase generation task outperforms the state-of-the-art in two keyphrase tasks.
FLEX: Expert-level False-Less EXecution Metric for Text-to-SQL Benchmark (2025.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Existing evaluation methods for text-to-SQL systems show many false positives and negatives . however, the Execution Accuracy (EX) metric is flawed and can diverge from human experts.
Approach: They propose a method to evaluate text-to-SQL systems using large language models to emulate human expert-level evaluation of SQL queries.
Outcome: The proposed metric improves agreement with human experts with comprehensive context and sophisticated criteria.
Towards Compositional Generalization in Code Search (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing code search models that focus on code as an unstructured sequence fail to generalize when the lexical perturbation without changing structures and labels is applied in test codes.
Approach: They propose a compositional generalization model that extracts structural elements and a code template that targets compositional genericization.
Outcome: The proposed model is complementary to flow graphs in GraphCodeBERT, by enhancing structural context around variables.
Cross Encoding as Augmentation: Towards Effective Educational Text Classification (2023.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods to improve text classification in education suffer from data scarcity . authors propose a retrieval approach that provides effective learning in educational text classification.
Approach: They propose a retrieval approach that provides effective learning in educational text classification by introducing cross-encoder style texts to a bi-encoding architecture.
Outcome: The proposed method is effective in multi-label scenarios and low-resource tags compared to state-of-the-art models.

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