Papers with contextual representation
Addressing the Vulnerability of NMT in Input Perturbations (2021.naacl-industry)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in NMT have improved translation quality but are vulnerable to input perturbations. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to reduce the effect of noisy inputs by using a Context-Enhanced Reconstruction approach. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves robustness on Chinese-English and French-English translation tasks. |
Context Tracking Network: Graph-based Context Modeling for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition (2021.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing models fail to fully utilize contextual information which plays an important role in interpreting sentences. |
| Approach: | They propose a graph-based Context Tracking Network to model the discourse context for IDRR. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can integrate sentence-level and token-level contextual semantics better than existing models. |
Dependency parsing with structure preserving embeddings (2021.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Modern neural approaches to dependency parsing are trained to predict a tree structure by learning a contextual representation for tokens in a sentence and a head–dependent scoring function. |
| Approach: | They propose to combine a contextual representation for tokens and a head–dependent scoring function to learn interpretable representations by training a parser to explicitly preserve structural properties of a tree. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach yields strong tree distance preservation and parsing performance on par with a competitive graph-based parser. |
Cross-domain Named Entity Recognition via Graph Matching (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Empirical results show that our method outperforms a series of transfer learning, multitask learning, and few-shot learning methods due to the data scarcity in the real-world scenario. |
| Approach: | They propose to model the label relationship as a probability distribution and construct label graphs in both source and target label spaces. |
| Outcome: | Empirical results show that the proposed method outperforms transfer learning, multi-task learning, and few-shot learning methods on four datasets. |
Graph-tree Fusion Model with Bidirectional Information Propagation for Long Document Classification (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for document classification struggle with token limits and fail to adequately model hierarchical relationships within documents. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel model leveraging a graph-tree structure to capture local and global dependencies. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model captures syntactic relationships and broader document contexts without token limits and can handle arbitrarily long contexts. |
Contextual Distortion Reveals Constituency: Masked Language Models are Implicit Parsers (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | a novel chart-based method for extracting parse trees from masked language models is proposed . a graph-based approach can be used to extract parser trees without training separate parsers . |
| Approach: | They propose a chart-based method for extracting parse trees from masked language models . they use a set of perturbations motivated by the linguistic concept of constituency tests to score each span . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods on english with masked LMs and in multilingual settings. |
Deep Inside-outside Recursive Autoencoder with All-span Objective (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing neural approaches for constituency parsing are limited for low-resource languages and domains. |
| Approach: | They extend the training objective of DIORA by making use of all spans instead of only leaf-level spans. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on two languages and provides better parsing accuracy than the original model. |
AV-TranSpeech: Audio-Visual Robust Speech-to-Speech Translation (2023.acl-long)
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Rongjie Huang, Huadai Liu, Xize Cheng, Yi Ren, Linjun Li, Zhenhui Ye, Jinzheng He, Lichao Zhang, Jinglin Liu, Xiang Yin, Zhou Zhao
| Challenge: | Existing models for speech-to-speech translation suffer from distinct degradation in noisy environments and fail to translate visual speech. |
| Approach: | They propose a text-based audio-visual speech-to-speech translation model that integrates visual information with audio-only data to improve system robustness. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms models trained on audio-only corpus in two languages . it also improves with low-resource audio-visual data, compared with baselines . |
Adaptive Axes: A Pipeline for In-domain Social Stereotype Analysis (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to quantify social stereotypes have struggled to capture the variability in stereotypes across conceptual domains for the same social group. |
| Approach: | They propose to use text embedding models and adaptive semantic axes to recover stereotypes from contextual representations by using large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline surpasses token-based methods in capturing in-domain framing and tracks stereotypes along domain-specific semantic axes for in- domain texts. |
DM-Codec: Distilling Multimodal Representations for Speech Tokenization (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Md Mubtasim Ahasan, Md Fahim, Tasnim Mohiuddin, Akmmahbubur Rahman, Aman Chadha, Tariq Iqbal, M Ashraful Amin, Md Mofijul Islam, Amin Ahsan Ali
| Challenge: | Existing speech tokenization models lack contextual representations for speech synthesis . absence of contextual representation results in elevated WER and WIL scores . |
| Approach: | They propose a language model-guided distillation method that incorporates contextual information into a comprehensive speech tokenizer. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art tokenization models in reducing WER and WIL scores. |