Papers by Xiabing Zhou
Friend-training: Learning from Models of Different but Related Tasks (2023.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Current self-training methods focus on improving model performance on a single task. |
| Approach: | They propose a cross-task self-training framework where models trained to do different tasks are used in iterative training, pseudo-labeling, and retraining processes to help each other for better selection of pseudo-labeled labels. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves the best performance compared to baselines on two dialogue understanding tasks. |
Emotion Detection with Neural Personal Discrimination (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to automatically predict the emotions of posts consider each post individually and predict their emotions independently. |
| Approach: | They propose a Neural Personal Discrimination approach to identify personal attributes from posts and connect relevant posts with similar attributes to jointly learn their emotions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves on existing models by capturing attributes-aware words and predicting emotions among relevant posts. |
COF: Adaptive Chain of Feedback for Comparative Opinion Quintuple Extraction (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Comparative Opinion Quintuple Extraction (COQE) aims to extract all comparative sentiment quintuples from product review text. |
| Approach: | They propose a model-unaware adaptive chain-of-feedback method to extract quintuples from product review text. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves performance on three benchmarks. |
Exploring Logographic Image for Chinese Aspect-based Sentiment Classification (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for aspect-based sentiment classification have focused on English text, but Chinese is a language derived from pictographs and different from other phonetic languages. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a logographic image to capture internal morphological structure from character sequence . they propose to explicitly incorporate a symbolic image with review text for sentiment classification . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves over baselines and improves on existing methods. |
G-SPEED: General SParse Efficient Editing MoDel (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated incredible capabilities in understanding, generating, and manipulating languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a general SParse Efficient Editing MoDel which can fulfill diverse editing requirements through a single model while maintaining low computational costs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can fulfill diverse editing requirements through a single model while maintaining low computational costs. |
Towards Accurate and Consistent Evaluation: A Dataset for Distantly-Supervised Relation Extraction (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Distant Supervision (DS) generates large-scale annotated data but has wrong labels that result in incorrect evaluation scores during testing. |
| Approach: | They build a dataset using DS-generated data as training data and hire annotators to label test data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset NYTH has a much larger test set and performs more accurate and consistent evaluation. |