Papers by Weiran Nie
Robustness Testing of Language Understanding in Task-Oriented Dialog (2021.acl-long)
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Jiexi Liu, Ryuichi Takanobu, Jiaxin Wen, Dazhen Wan, Hongguang Li, Weiran Nie, Cheng Li, Wei Peng, Minlie Huang
| Challenge: | a lack of systematic studies on the robustness of language understanding models in task-oriented dialog systems is limiting . authors propose a model-agnostic toolkit LAUG to approximate natural language perturbations . |
| Approach: | They propose a model-agnostic toolkit LAUG to approximate natural language perturbations for testing the robustness of language understanding models in task-oriented dialog systems. |
| Outcome: | The proposed toolkit reveals critical robustness issues in state-of-the-art models. |
metaCAT: A Metadata-based Task-oriented Chatbot Annotation Tool (2020.aacl-demo)
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| Challenge: | Creating high-quality annotated dialogue corpora necessitates a high level of human engagements. |
| Approach: | They propose to develop an annotation tool specifically for developing task-oriented dialogue data that provides comprehensive metadata annotation coverage to the domain, intent, and span information. |
| Outcome: | The tool provides comprehensive metadata annotation coverage to domain, intent, and span information. |