Papers by Shaopeng Lai
Type-Driven Multi-Turn Corrections for Grammatical Error Correction (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on data augmentation to combat exposure bias . but data augmented models lack the ability to recognize the procedure of gradual corrections . |
| Approach: | They propose a type-driven multi-turn corrections approach that uses multiple training instances to train dominant models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art single-model performance on English GEC benchmarks. |
Towards Better Graph-based Cross-document Relation Extraction via Non-bridge Entity Enhancement and Prediction Debiasing (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on relation extraction ignore non-bridge entities, leading to bias during inference. |
| Approach: | They propose a graph-based cross-document Relation Extraction model with non-bridge entity enhancement and prediction debiasing that integrates non-cross entities with target entities and bridge entities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baseline models on open and closed datasets. |
A Simple yet Effective Training-free Prompt-free Approach to Chinese Spelling Correction Based on Large Language Models (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Using an LLM for Chinese spelling correction tasks is completely different from previous approaches . given a Chinese character, there may exist many others with the same or similar pronunciations, or with similar shapes. |
| Approach: | They propose a training-free prompt-free approach to leverage large language models for Chinese spelling correction task. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model significantly improves performance on five public datasets, enabling them to compete with state-of-the-art domain-general CSC models. |
Improving Graph-based Sentence Ordering with Iteratively Predicted Pairwise Orderings (2021.emnlp-main)
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Shaopeng Lai, Ante Wang, Fandong Meng, Jie Zhou, Yubin Ge, Jiali Zeng, Junfeng Yao, Degen Huang, Jinsong Su
| Challenge: | Existing sentence ordering models can be classified into pairwise ordering models and set-to-sequence models. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel sentence ordering framework which introduces two classifiers to make better use of pairwise orderings for graph-based sentence ordering. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance on five commonly-used datasets. |