Papers by Weiming Wen
Cross-Lingual Cross-Platform Rumor Verification Pivoting on Multimedia Content (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | rumors with multimedia content are becoming more and more common on social networks . a new feature set is proposed to verify rumors pivoting on multimedia content . |
| Approach: | They propose to use multimedia content to find external information on social media platforms . they propose to leverage semantic similarity between rumors and external information . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art results on social networks . it leverages semantic similarity between rumors and external information . |
Gunrock: A Social Bot for Complex and Engaging Long Conversations (D19-3)
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Dian Yu, Michelle Cohn, Yi Mang Yang, Chun Yen Chen, Weiming Wen, Jiaping Zhang, Mingyang Zhou, Kevin Jesse, Austin Chau, Antara Bhowmick, Shreenath Iyer, Giritheja Sreenivasulu, Sam Davidson, Ashwin Bhandare, Zhou Yu
| Challenge: | Gunrock is a speech-based social chatbot that can be used to understand complex sentences and have in-depth conversations. |
| Approach: | They propose a system that allows users to understand complex sentences and have in-depth conversations in open domains. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system produces longer sentences, which are directly related to user engagement (e.g., ratings, number of turns). |
Locate and Label: A Two-stage Identifier for Nested Named Entity Recognition (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Named entity recognition (NER) is a well-studied task in natural language processing. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that generates span proposals and labels them with categories . they use boundary information of entities and partially matched spans to locate them . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art models on nested NER datasets. |