Papers by Shuyan Dong
SUPERB-SG: Enhanced Speech processing Universal PERformance Benchmark for Semantic and Generative Capabilities (2022.acl-long)
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Hsiang-Sheng Tsai, Heng-Jui Chang, Wen-Chin Huang, Zili Huang, Kushal Lakhotia, Shu-wen Yang, Shuyan Dong, Andy Liu, Cheng-I Lai, Jiatong Shi, Xuankai Chang, Phil Hall, Hsuan-Jui Chen, Shang-Wen Li, Shinji Watanabe, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Hung-yi Lee
| Challenge: | Existing evaluation methods for transfer learning are limited in speech research . authors show that pre-trained models transfer well across multiple tasks . |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate pre-trained models by increasing task diversity and difficulty over SUPERB. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark increases task diversity and difficulty over SUPERB-SG. |
Introducing Semantics into Speech Encoders (2023.acl-long)
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Derek Xu, Shuyan Dong, Changhan Wang, Suyoun Kim, Zhaojiang Lin, Bing Liu, Akshat Shrivastava, Shang-Wen Li, Liang-Hsuan Tseng, Guan-Ting Lin, Alexei Baevski, Hung-yi Lee, Yizhou Sun, Wei Wang
| Challenge: | Existing self-supervised speech encoders contain primarily acoustic rather than semantic information. |
| Approach: | They propose a task-agnostic unsupervised way to incorporate semantic information from large language model (LLM) systems into self-supervised speech encoders without labeled audio transcriptions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves spoken language understanding (SLU) performance by over 5% on intent classification (IC), with modest gains in named entity resolution (NER) and slot filling (SF), and spoken question answering (SQA) score by over 22%. |
Perovskite-LLM: Knowledge-Enhanced Large Language Models for Perovskite Solar Cell Research (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Xiang Liu, Penglei Sun, Shuyan Chen, Longhan Zhang, Peijie Dong, Huajie You, Yongqi Zhang, Chang Yan, Xiaowen Chu, Tong-yi Zhang
| Challenge: | a rapid advancement of perovskite solar cells has led to an exponential growth in research publications. |
| Approach: | They propose a knowledge-enhanced system for perovskite solar cells that integrates three key components. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system outperforms existing models in domain-specific knowledge retrieval and scientific reasoning tasks. |
Optimizing NLU Reranking Using Entity Resolution Signals in Multi-domain Dialog Systems (2021.naacl-industry)
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Tong Wang, Jiangning Chen, Mohsen Malmir, Shuyan Dong, Xin He, Han Wang, Chengwei Su, Yue Liu, Yang Liu
| Challenge: | In dialog systems, the Natural Language Understanding component makes the interpretation decision before the mentioned entities are resolved. |
| Approach: | They propose to leverage Entity Resolution (ER) features in NLU reranking to learn model weights . they propose a score distribution matching method to ensure the models are calibrated . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms the baseline model on multiple domain evaluations. |