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  • Plan-and-Write: Towards Better Automatic Storytelling

    Lili Yao, Nanyun Peng, Ralph Weischedel, Kevin K. Knight, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2019

    Experiments show that with explicit storyline planning, the generated stories are more diverse, coherent, and on topic than those generated without creating a full plan, according to both automatic and human evaluations.

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  • Natural Language Inference by Tree-Based Convolution and Heuristic Matching

    Lili Mou, Rui Men, Ge Li, Yan Xu, Lu Zhang, Rui Yan, Zhi Gang Jin

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2016

    This model, a tree-based convolutional neural network (TBCNN) captures sentence-level semantics; then heuristic matching layers like concatenation, element-wise product/difference combine the information in individual sentences.

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  • Learning to Respond with Deep Neural Networks for Retrieval-Based Human-Computer Conversation System

    Rui Yan, Yiping Song, Hua Ren Wu

    International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 2016

    This paper proposes a retrieval-based conversation system with the deep learning-to-respond schema through a deep neural network framework driven by web data and demonstrates significant performance improvement against a series of standard and state-of-art baselines for conversational purposes.

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  • How Transferable are Neural Networks in NLP Applications?

    Lili Mou, Meng Zhao, Rui Yan, Ge Li, Yan Xu, Lu Zhang, Zhi Gang Jin

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2016

    In this paper, systematic case studies are conducted and an illuminating picture is provided on the transferability of neural networks in NLP.

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  • Multi-view Response Selection for Human-Computer Conversation

    Xiangyang Zhou, Daxiang Dong, Hua Ren Wu, Shiqi Zhao, Dianhai Yu, Hao Tian, Xuan Liu, Rui Yan

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2016

    Experimental results on a public corpus for context-sensitive response selection demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed multi-view model, which significantly outperforms other single-view baselines.

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  • RUBER: An Unsupervised Method for Automatic Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialog Systems

    Chongyang Tao, Lili Mou, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2018

    RUBER is proposed, a Referenced metric and Unreferenced metrics Blended Evaluation Routine, which evaluates a reply by taking into consideration both a groundtruth reply and a query (previous user-issued utterance).

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  • CGMH: Constrained Sentence Generation by Metropolis-Hastings Sampling

    Ning Miao, Hao Zhou, Lili Mou, Rui Yan, Lei Li

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2019

    This paper proposes CGMH, a novel approach using Metropolis-Hastings sampling for constrained sentence generation that allows complicated constraints such as the occurrence of multiple keywords in the target sentences, which cannot be handled in traditional RNN-based approaches.

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  • Citation count prediction

    Rui Yan, Jie Tang, Xiaobing Liu, Dongdong Shan, Xiaoming Li

    ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) · 2011

    This paper has implemented a system which takes a series of features of a particular publication as input and produces as output the estimated citation counts of that article after a given time period and considers several regression models to formulate the learning process and evaluate their performance based on the coefficient of determination (R-square).

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  • Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation with Pre-trained Language Models

    Xueliang Zhao, Wei Wu, Can Xu, Chongyang Tao, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan

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

    Empirical results indicate that the proposed response generation defined by a pre-trained language model with a knowledge selection module and an unsupervised approach to jointly optimizing knowledge selection and response generation with unlabeled dialogues can significantly outperform state-of-the-art methods in both automatic evaluation and human judgment.

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  • Evolutionary timeline summarization

    Rui Yan, Xiaojun Wan, Jahna Otterbacher, Liang Kong, Xiaoming Li, Yan Zhang

    International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 2011

    A novel framework for the web mining problem named Evolutionary Timeline Summarization (ETS), which aims to return the evolution trajectory along the timeline, consisting of individual but correlated summaries of each date, emphasizing relevance, coverage, coherence and cross-date diversity.

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  • Get The Point of My Utterance! Learning Towards Effective Responses with Multi-Head Attention Mechanism

    Chongyang Tao, Shen Gao, Mingyue Shang, Wei Wu, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan

    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2018

    A novel Multi-Head Attention Mechanism (MHAM) for generative dialog systems, which aims at capturing multiple semantic aspects from the user utterance is proposed, and a regularizer is formulated to force different attention heads to concentrate on certain aspects.

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  • OVERCOMING CATASTROPHIC FORGETTING FOR CONTINUAL LEARNING VIA MODEL ADAPTATION

    Wenpeng Hu, Lin Zhou, Bing Liu, Chongyang Tao, Zhengwei Tao, Jinwen Ma, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan

    International Conference on Learning Representations · 2019

    This paper proposes a very different approach, called Parameter Generation and Model Adaptation (PGMA), to dealing with the problem of catastrophic forgetting in standard neural network architectures.

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  • Multi-Representation Fusion Network for Multi-Turn Response Selection in Retrieval-Based Chatbots

    Chongyang Tao, Wei Wu, Can Xu, Wenpeng Hu, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan

    ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) · 2019

    This work proposes a multi-representation fusion network where the representations can be fused into matching at an early stage, at an intermediate stage, or at the last stage, and demonstrates the effect of each representation to matching, which sheds light on how to select them in practical systems.

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  • How to Make Context More Useful? An Empirical Study on Context-Aware Neural Conversational Models

    Zhiliang Tian, Rui Yan, Lili Mou, Yiping Song, Yansong Feng, Dongyan Zhao

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2017

    This paper conducts an empirical study to compare various models and investigate the effect of context information in dialog systems, and proposes a variant that explicitly weights context vectors by context-query relevance, outperforming the other baselines.

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  • One Time of Interaction May Not Be Enough: Go Deep with an Interaction-over-Interaction Network for Response Selection in Dialogues

    Chongyang Tao, Wei Wu, Can Xu, Wenpeng Hu, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan

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

    Evaluation results on three benchmark data sets indicate that IoI can significantly outperform state-of-the-art methods in terms of various matching metrics and unveil how the depth of interaction affects the performance of IoI.

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  • To better stand on the shoulder of giants

    Rui Yan, Congrui Huang, Jie Tang, Yan Zhang, Xiaoming Li

    ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) · 2012

    This work learns to identify potentially influential literature via Future Influence Prediction (FIP), which aims to estimate the future influence of literature, and applies the learned model to the application of bibliography recommendation and obtains prominent performance improvement in terms of Mean Average Precision (MAP).

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  • An Ensemble of Retrieval-Based and Generation-Based Human-Computer Conversation Systems

    Yiping Song, Cheng–Te Li, Jian‐Yun Nie, Ming Zhang, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan

    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2018

    Experimental results show that a novel ensemble of retrieval-based and generation-based conversation system outperforms each single module by a large margin.

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  • i, poet: automatic poetry composition through recurrent neural networks with iterative polishing schema

    Rui Yan

    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2016

    This paper forms the poetry composition task as a natural language generation problem using recurrent neural networks, and proposes a new generative model with a polishing schema, and outputs a refined poem composition.

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  • Tweet Recommendation with Graph Co-Ranking

    Rui Yan, Mirella Lapata, Xiaoming Li

    Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) · 2012

    A graph-theoretic model for tweet recommendation that presents users with items they may have an interest in and can be parametrized to take into account user preferences, the popularity of tweets and their authors, and diversity.

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  • VMSMO: Learning to Generate Multimodal Summary for Video-based News Articles

    Mingzhe Li, Xiuying Chen, Shen Gao, Zhangming Chan, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan

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

    A Dual-Interaction-based Multimodal Summarizer (DIMS), consisting of a dual interaction module and multimodal generator that handles the semantic relationship between news text and video from a high level.

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  • Timeline Generation through Evolutionary Trans-Temporal Summarization

    Rui Yan, Liang Kong, Congrui Huang, Xiaojun Wan, Xiaoming Li, Yan Zhang

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2011

    Evaluation results in ROUGE metrics indicate the effectiveness of the proposed approach based on trans-temporal information, and a novel combination of inter-date and intra-date sentence dependencies is presented.

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  • Learning with Noise: Enhance Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction with Dynamic Transition Matrix

    Bingfeng Luo, Yansong Feng, Zheng Wang, Zhanxing Zhu, Songfang Huang, Rui Yan, Dongyan Zhao

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2017

    It is shown that the dynamic transition matrix can effectively characterize the noise in the training data built by distant supervision and can be effectively trained using a novel curriculum learning based method without any direct supervision about the noise.

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  • "Chitty-Chitty-Chat Bot": Deep Learning for Conversational AI

    Rui Yan

    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2018

    This paper focuses on the survey of non-task-oriented chit-chat bots, which can converse seamlessly and appropriately with humans, playing the role of a chat companion.

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  • Towards Implicit Content-Introducing for Generative Short-Text Conversation Systems

    Lili Yao, Yaoyuan Zhang, Yansong Feng, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2017

    This paper proposes an implicit content-introducing method which incorporates additional information into the Seq2Seq model in a flexible way and fuse the general decoding and the auxiliary cue word information through the proposed hierarchical gated fusion unit.

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  • Product-Aware Answer Generation in E-Commerce Question-Answering

    Shen Gao, Zhaochun Ren, Yihong Zhao, Dongyan Zhao, Dawei Yin, Rui Yan

    ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) · 2019

    The task of product-aware answer generation, which tends to generate an accurate and complete answer from large-scale unlabeled e-commerce reviews and product attributes is proposed, which is composed of three components: a question-aware review representation module, a key-value memory network encoding attributes, and a recurrent neural network as a sequence generator.

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