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  • Learning Deep Transformer Models for Machine Translation

    Qiang Wang, Bei Li, Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu, Changliang Li, Derek F. Wong, Lidia Sam Chao

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2019

    It is claimed that a truly deep Transformer model can surpass the Transformer-Big counterpart by 1) proper use of layer normalization and 2) a novel way of passing the combination of previous layers to the next.

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  • A Survey on LLM-Generated Text Detection: Necessity, Methods, and Future Directions

    Junchao Wu, Shu Yang, Runzhe Zhan, Yulin Yuan, Lidia Sam Chao, Derek F. Wong

    Computational Linguistics · 2025

    This survey examines various LLM-generated text detection paradigms, shedding light on challenges like out-of-distribution problems, potential attacks, real-world data issues and ineffective evaluation frameworks, and outlines intriguing directions for future research in LLM-generated text detection to advance responsible artificial intelligence (AI).

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  • Modeling Localness for Self-Attention Networks

    Baosong Yang, Zhaopeng Tu, Derek F. Wong, Fandong Meng, Lidia Sam Chao, Tong Zhang

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2018

    This work cast localness modeling as a learnable Gaussian bias, which indicates the central and scope of the local region to be paid more attention in self-attention networks, to maintain the strength of capturing long distance dependencies while enhance the ability of capturing short-range dependencies.

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  • Is ChatGPT a Highly Fluent Grammatical Error Correction System? A Comprehensive Evaluation

    Fang, Tao, Shu Yang, Kaixin Lan, Derek F. Wong, Jinpeng Hu, Lidia Sam Chao, Yue Zhang

    arXiv · 2023

    This work designs zero-shot chain-of-thought (CoT) and few-shot CoT settings using in-context learning for ChatGPT to showcase its capabilities in GEC and demonstrates that it has excellent error detection capabilities and can freely correct errors to make the corrected sentences very fluent.

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  • UM-Corpus: A Large English-Chinese Parallel Corpus for Statistical Machine Translation

    Tian Liang, Derek F. Wong, Lidia Sam Chao, Paulo Quaresma, Francisco Carlos Mattos Brito Oliveira, Lu Yi, Shuo Li, Yiming Wang, +1 more

    Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) · 2014

    The acquisition of a large scale and high quality parallel corpora for English and Chinese for Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) is described, designed to embrace eight different domains.

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  • Convolutional Self-Attention Networks

    Baosong Yang, Longyue Wang, Derek F. Wong, Lidia Sam Chao, Zhaopeng Tu

    Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) · 2019

    Novel convolutional self-attention networks are proposed, which offer SANs the abilities to strengthen dependencies among neighboring elements, and model the interaction between features extracted by multiple attention heads.

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  • Norm-Based Curriculum Learning for Neural Machine Translation

    Xuebo Liu, Houtim Lai, Derek F. Wong, Lidia Sam Chao

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2020

    This paper aims to improve the efficiency of training an NMT by introducing a novel norm-based curriculum learning method that uses the norm (aka length or module) of a word embedding as a measure of the difficulty of the sentence, the competence of the model, and the weight of the sentences.

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  • Recent Progress in the Discovery and Design of Antimicrobial Peptides Using Traditional Machine Learning and Deep Learning

    Jielu Yan, Jianxiu Cai, Bob Zhang, Yapeng Wang, Derek F. Wong, Shirley W. I. Siu

    Antibiotics · 2022

    The biology background of AMP is introduced, various feature encoding methods used to represent the features of peptide sequences are presented, and the most popular DL techniques are explained and highlighted, to survey the latest AMP prediction methods achieved by DL approaches.

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  • Context-Aware Self-Attention Networks

    Baosong Yang, Jian Li, Derek F. Wong, Lidia Sam Chao, Xing Wang, Zhaopeng Tu

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2019

    This work proposes to contextualize the transformations of the query and key layers, which are used to calculates the relevance between elements, and leverage the internal representations that embed both global and deep contexts, thus avoid relying on external resources.

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  • Uncertainty-Aware Curriculum Learning for Neural Machine Translation

    Yikai Zhou, Baosong Yang, Derek F. Wong, Yu Xuan Wan, Lidia Sam Chao

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2020

    This work proposes uncertainty-aware curriculum learning, motivated by the intuition that the higher the uncertainty in a translation pair, the more complex and rarer the information it contains; and the end of the decline in model uncertainty indicates the completeness of current training stage.

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  • Knowledge modeling via contextualized representations for LSTM-based personalized exercise recommendation

    Yujia Huo, Derek F. Wong, Lionel Ming-shuan Ni, Lidia Sam Chao, Jing Zhang

    Information Sciences · 2020

    Two approaches that use a contextualized representation of KCs are proposed, one with a content-based approach and another with a Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) network plus a personalization mechanism.

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  • Context-aware Self-Attention Networks for Natural Language Processing

    Baosong Yang, Longyue Wang, Derek F. Wong, Shuming Shi, Zhaopeng Tu

    Neurocomputing · 2021

    This work casts local context modeling as a learnable Gaussian bias, which indicates the central and scope of the local region to be paid more attention and leverage the internal representations that embed sentence-level information as the global context to contextualize the transformations of query and key layers.

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  • Content-Oriented User Modeling for Personalized Response Ranking in Chatbots

    Bingquan Liu, Zhen Xing Xu, Chengjie Sun, Baoxun Wang, Xiaolong Wang, Derek F. Wong, Min Zhang

    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing · 2017

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  • Is Your Model Really A Good Math Reasoner? Evaluating Mathematical Reasoning with Checklist

    Zihao Zhou, Shudong Liu, Maizhen Ning, Liu, Wei, Jindong Wang, Derek F. Wong, Xiaowei Huang, Qiufeng Wang, +1 more

    arXiv · 2024

    It is argued that if a model really understands a problem, it should be robustly applied across a diverse array of tasks and MathCheck, a well-designed checklist for testing task generalization and reasoning robustness, is introduced, as well as an automatic tool to generate checklists efficiently.

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  • LEPOR: A Robust Evaluation Metric for Machine Translation with Augmented Factors

    Aaron Li-Feng Han, Derek F. Wong, Lidia Sam Chao

    Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) · 2012

    Experiments show that this novel metric yields the state-of-the-art correlation with human judgments compared with classic metrics BLEU, TER, Meteor-1.3 and two latest metrics (AMBER and MP4IBM1), which proves it a robust one by employing a feature-rich and model-independent approach.

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  • CultureVLM: Characterizing and Improving Cultural Understanding of Vision-Language Models for over 100 Countries

    Shudong Liu, Yiqiao Jin, Cheng Li, Derek F. Wong, Qingsong Wen, Lichao Sun, Haipeng Allan Chen, Xing Xie, +1 more

    arXiv · 2025

    This paper constructs CultureVerse, a large-scale multimodal benchmark covering 19, 682 cultural concepts, 188 countries/regions, 15 cultural concepts, and 3 question types, and proposes CultureVLM, a series of VLMs fine-tuned on the authors' dataset to achieve significant performance improvement in cultural understanding.

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  • An incremental decision tree learning methodology regarding attributes in medical data mining

    Sam T. Chao, Derek F. Wong

    International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics · 2009

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  • Rejuvenating Low-Frequency Words: Making the Most of Parallel Data in Non-Autoregressive Translation

    Liang Ding, Longyue Wang, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong, Dacheng Tao, Zhaopeng Tu

    Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2021

    This work directly exposes the raw data into NAT by leveraging pretraining to rejuvenate more alignments for low-frequency target words, and combines these complementary approaches as a new training strategy for further boosting NAT performance.

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  • Self-Paced Learning for Neural Machine Translation

    Yu Xuan Wan, Baosong Yang, Derek F. Wong, Yikai Zhou, Lidia Sam Chao, Haibo Zhang, Boxing Chen

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2020

    Experimental results over multiple translation tasks demonstrate that the proposed NMT model yields better performance than strong baselines and those models trained with human-designed curricula on both translation quality and convergence speed.

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  • Stock Market Prediction from WSJ: Text Mining via Sparse Matrix Factorization

    Felix Ming Fai Wong, Derek F. Wong, Zhenming Liu, Mung Chiang

    Proceedings · 2014

    The problem of predicting directional movements of stock prices based on news articles is revisited and a unified latent space model is proposed to characterize the "co-movements" between stock prices and news articles.

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  • Salute the Classic: Revisiting Challenges of Machine Translation in the Age of Large Language Models

    Jianhui Pang, Fanghua Ye, Derek F. Wong, Dian Yu, Shuming Shi, Zhaopeng Tu, Longyue Wang

    Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2025

    This study revisits six core challenges of Neural Machine Translation, offering insights into their ongoing relevance in the context of advanced Large Language Models, and identifies three new challenges in LLM-based translation: inference efficiency, translation of low-resource languages during pretraining, and human-aligned evaluation.

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  • Meta-Curriculum Learning for Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation

    Runzhe Zhan, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong, Lidia Sam Chao

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2021

    Experimental results on 10 different low-resource domains show that meta-curriculum learning can improve the translation performance of both familiar and unfamiliar domains.

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  • Leveraging Local and Global Patterns for Self-Attention Networks

    Mingzhou Xu, Derek F. Wong, Baosong Yang, Yue Zhang, Lidia Sam Chao

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2019

    The extensive analyses verify that the two types of contexts are complementary to each other, and the proposed hybrid attention mechanism gives highly effective improvements in their integration.

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  • Understanding and Improving Lexical Choice in Non-Autoregressive Translation

    Liang Ding, Longyue Wang, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong, Dacheng Tao, Zhaopeng Tu

    arXiv · 2020

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  • Guiding Variational Response Generator to Exploit Persona

    Bowen Wu, Mengyuan Li, Zongsheng Wang, Yifu Chen, Derek F. Wong, Qihang Feng, Junhong Huang, Baoxun Wang

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2020

    This paper proposes to adopt the personality-related characteristics of human conversations into variational response generators, by designing a specific conditional variational autoencoder based deep model with two new regularization terms employed to the loss function, to guide the optimization towards the direction of generating both persona-aware and relevant responses.

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