Papers by Ying Mo
It is AI’s Turn to Ask Humans a Question: Question-Answer Pair Generation for Children’s Story Books (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing question answering (QA) techniques are created mainly to answer questions asked by humans, but in educational applications, teachers often need to decide what questions to ask . |
| Approach: | They propose to use a fairytale-themed storybook as input to generate QA pairs that can test a student's comprehension skills. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system outperforms state-of-the-art QAG baseline systems and builds an interactive story-telling application for the future real-world deployment. |
Fantastic Questions and Where to Find Them: FairytaleQA – An Authentic Dataset for Narrative Comprehension (2022.acl-long)
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Ying Xu, Dakuo Wang, Mo Yu, Daniel Ritchie, Bingsheng Yao, Tongshuang Wu, Zheng Zhang, Toby Li, Nora Bradford, Branda Sun, Tran Hoang, Yisi Sang, Yufang Hou, Xiaojuan Ma, Diyi Yang, Nanyun Peng, Zhou Yu, Mark Warschauer
| Challenge: | Existing QA datasets rarely distinguish fine-grained reading skills, such as the understanding of varying narrative elements. |
| Approach: | They propose to use FairytaleQA to generate 10,580 questions based on 278 children-friendly stories to assess model's fine-grained learning skills. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset consists of 10,580 questions derived from 278 children-friendly stories, covering seven types of narrative elements or relations. |
C-ICL: Contrastive In-context Learning for Information Extraction (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for in-context learning with large language models focus on using correct or negative examples, ignoring the potential value of incorrect or negative samples. |
| Approach: | They propose a few-shot technique that leverages both correct and incorrect sample constructions to create in-context learning demonstrations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed technique outperforms previous few-shot in-context learning methods on a broad spectrum of related tasks. |
Towards Real-world Scenario: Imbalanced New Intent Discovery (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on detecting known and previously undefined categories of user intent . skewed and long-tailed distributions often encountered in open-world scenarios . |
| Approach: | They propose to use imbalanced new intent discovery task to identify familiar and novel intent categories within long-tailed distributions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the existing benchmark on three datasets to simulate the real-world long-tail distributions. |