Papers by Yen-Ting Lin
SalesBot: Transitioning from Chit-Chat to Task-Oriented Dialogues (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Until now, researchers have separated open-domain and task-oriented dialogues into two different types due to their different purposes. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to automatically generate many dialogues without human involvement . the framework can be easily leveraged to generate unlimited dialogues in target scenarios . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can automatically generate many dialogues without human involvement . the human evaluation shows that the generated dialogues have a reasonable quality . |
Selective In-Context Data Augmentation for Intent Detection using Pointwise V-Information (2023.eacl-main)
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Yen-Ting Lin, Alexandros Papangelis, Seokhwan Kim, Sungjin Lee, Devamanyu Hazarika, Mahdi Namazifar, Di Jin, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
| Challenge: | Intent detection is a fundamental element in task-oriented dialogue systems, usually occurring within the Natural Language Understanding component. |
| Approach: | They propose an in-context data augmentation approach that fine-tunes a pre-trained language model and synthesizes new datapoints that correspond to given intents. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method produces training data that achieves state-of-the-art on three challenging intent detection datasets and performs on par with the state- of-the art in full-shot settings. |
NeKo: Cross-Modality Post-Recognition Error Correction with Tasks-Guided Mixture-of-Experts Language Model (2025.acl-industry)
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Yen-Ting Lin, Zhehuai Chen, Piotr Zelasko, Zhen Wan, Xuesong Yang, Zih-Ching Chen, Krishna C Puvvada, Ke Hu, Szu-Wei Fu, Jun Wei Chiu, Jagadeesh Balam, Boris Ginsburg, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Chao-Han Huck Yang
| Challenge: | Existing methods to train a model on a mixture of domain datasets require separate correction language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-task correction MoE that trains experts to become an "expert" of speech-to-text, language-totext and vision-to text datasets by learning to route each dataset’s tokens to its mapped expert. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms GPT-3.5 and Claude-3.5-Sonnet on the Open ASR Leaderboard and reaches an average relative 5.0% WER reduction and substantial improvements in BLEU scores. |