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  • Fahiem Bacchus

    Possible advisor · last author on 3 of their early first-author papers, 1993–1994

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  • LEARNING BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORKS: AN APPROACH BASED ON THE MDL PRINCIPLE

    Wai Pang Lam, Fahiem Bacchus

    Computational Intelligence · 1994

    A new approach for learning Bayesian belief networks from raw data is presented, based on Rissanen's minimal description length (MDL) principle, which can learn unrestricted multiply‐connected belief networks and allows for trade off accuracy and complexity in the learned model.

    903
  • A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: Tasks, Methods, and Challenges

    Wenxuan Zhang, Xin Yan Li, Yang Deng, Lidong Bing, Wai Pang Lam

    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 2022

    A new taxonomy for ABSA is provided which organizes existing studies from the axes of concerned sentiment elements, with an emphasis on recent advances of compound ABSA tasks.

    547
  • Transformation Networks for Target-Oriented Sentiment Classification

    Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Wai Pang Lam, Bei Shi

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2018

    A new model is proposed to overcome the drawbacks of attention mechanism and the obstacles that block CNN to perform well in this sentiment classification task, and employs a CNN layer to extract salient features from the transformed word representations originated from a bi-directional RNN layer.

    510
  • A Unified Model for Opinion Target Extraction and Target Sentiment Prediction

    Xin Yan Li, Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Wai Pang Lam

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2019

    This paper aims to solve the complete task of target-based sentiment analysis in an end-to-end fashion, and presents a novel unified model which applies a unified tagging scheme.

    360
  • Neural Rating Regression with Abstractive Tips Generation for Recommendation

    Piji Li, Zihao Wang, Zhaochun Ren, Lidong Bing, Wai Pang Lam

    International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 2017

    A deep learning based framework named NRT is proposed which can simultaneously predict precise ratings and generate abstractive tips with good linguistic quality simulating user experience and feelings.

    346
  • MEAD - A Platform for Multidocument Multilingual Text Summarization

    Dragomir Radev, Timothy Allison, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, John C. Blitzer, Arda Çelebi, Stanko Dimitrov, Elliott Franco Drábek, Ali Hakim, +9 more

    Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) · 2004

    345
  • Exploiting BERT for End-to-End Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

    Xin Yan Li, Lidong Bing, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Pang Lam

    Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT) · 2019

    This work builds a series of simple yet insightful neural baselines to deal with E2E-ABSA, and shows that even with a simple linear classification layer, the BERT-based architecture can outperform state-of-the-art works.

    335
  • Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction as Paraphrase Generation

    Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Xin Yan Li, Yifei Yuan, Lidong Bing, Wai Pang Lam

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2021

    This work introduces the Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction (ASQP) task, aiming to jointly detect all sentiment elements in quads for a given opinionated sentence, and proposes a novel Paraphrase modeling paradigm to cast the ASQP task to a paraphrase generation process.

    314
  • Towards Generative Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

    Wenxuan Zhang, Xin Yan Li, Yang Deng, Lidong Bing, Wai Pang Lam

    Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2021

    This paper proposes to tackle various ABSA tasks in a unified generative framework with two types of paradigms, namely annotation-style and extraction-style modeling, to enable the training process by formulating each ABSA task as a text generation problem.

    306
  • Aspect Term Extraction with History Attention and Selective Transformation

    Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Wai Pang Lam, Zhimou Yang

    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2018

    Experimental results over four benchmark datasets clearly demonstrate that the new framework for tackling ATE can outperform all state-of-the-art methods.

    290
  • Deep Multi-Task Learning for Aspect Term Extraction with Memory Interaction

    Xin Yan Li, Wai Pang Lam

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

    A novel LSTM-based deep multi-task learning framework for aspect term extraction from user review sentences designed for jointly handling the extraction tasks of aspects and opinions via memory interactions is proposed.

    260
  • Graph Transformer for Graph-to-Sequence Learning

    Deng Cai, Wai Pang Lam

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2020

    A new model, known as Graph Transformer, is proposed that uses explicit relation encoding and allows direct communication between two distant nodes and provides a more efficient way for global graph structure modeling.

    257
  • Using a generalized instance set for automatic text categorization

    Wai Pang Lam, Chao Yang Ho

    International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 1998

    This work proposes a new technique known as the generalized instance set (GIS) algorithm by unifying the strengths of k-NN and linear classifiers and adapting to characteristics of text categorization problems.

    237
  • Deep Recurrent Generative Decoder for Abstractive Text Summarization

    Piji Li, Wai Pang Lam, Lidong Bing, Zihao Wang

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

    A new framework for abstractive text summarization based on a sequence-to-sequence oriented encoder-decoder model equipped with a deep recurrent generative decoder (DRGN) achieves improvements over the state-of-the-art methods.

    218
  • Automatic text categorization and its application to text retrieval

    Wai Pang Lam, M. Ruiz, Padmini Srinivasan

    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 1999

    This work develops an automatic text categorization approach and investigates its application to text retrieval, demonstrating the effectiveness of the approach and demonstrating that the retrieval performance using automatic categorization achieves the same retrieval quality as the performance using manual categorization.

    206
  • A multilevel approach to intelligent information filtering

    Javed Mostafa, S. Mukhopadhyay, Mathew J. Palakal, Wai Pang Lam

    ACM Transactions on Information Systems · 1997

    A filtering model is proposed that decomposes the overall task into subsystem functionalities and highlights the need for multiple adaptation techniques to cope with uncertainties.

    199
  • Context-based generic cross-lingual retrieval of documents and automated summaries: Research Articles

    Wai Pang Lam, Ki Chan, Dragomir Radev, Horacio Saggion, Simone Teufel

    Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology · 2005

    PRAW—a PRivAcy model for the Web suggested in this paper—is aimed at hiding users' navigation tracks to prevent eavesdroppers from inferring their profiles but still allowing them to be identified.

    181
  • Evaluation challenges in large-scale document summarization

    Dragomir Radev, Simone Teufel, Horacio Saggion, Wai Pang Lam, John C. Blitzer, Hong Qi, Arda Çelebi, Danyu Liu, +1 more

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2003

    A large-scale meta evaluation of eight evaluation measures for both single-document and multi-document summarizers is presented, showing the strengths and draw-backs of all evaluation methods and how they rank the different summarizers.

    176
  • Unified Conversational Recommendation Policy Learning via Graph-based Reinforcement Learning

    Yang Deng, Yaliang Li, Fei Sun, Bolin Ding, Wai Pang Lam

    International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 2021

    A dynamic weighted graph based RL method to learn a policy to select the action at each conversation turn, either asking an attribute or recommending items, which significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods but also enhances the scalability and stability of CRS.

    169
  • A Comprehensive Survey on Relation Extraction: Recent Advances and New Frontiers

    Xiaoyan Zhao, Yang Deng, Min Yang, Lingzhi Wang, Rui Zhang, Hong Cheng, Wai Pang Lam, Ying Shen, +1 more

    ACM Computing Surveys · 2024

    This survey provides a comprehensive review of existing deep learning techniques for Relation extraction and proposes a new taxonomy to categorize existing works from three perspectives, i.e., text representation, context encoding, and triplet prediction.

    162
  • Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization via Phrase Selection and Merging

    Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Yi Liao, Wai Pang Lam, Weiwei Guo, Rebecca J. Passonneau

    Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2015

    This work proposes an abstraction-based multi-document summarization framework that can construct new sentences by exploring more fine-grained syntactic units than sentences, namely, noun/verb phrases, and achieves reasonably well results on manual linguistic quality evaluation.

    161
  • Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization via Phrase Selection and

    Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Yi Liao, Wai Pang Lam, Weiwei Guo, Rebecca J. Passonneau

    arXiv · 2015

    This work proposes an abstraction-based multi-document summarization framework that can construct new sentences by exploring more fine-grained syntactic units than sentences, namely, noun/verb phrases, and achieves reasonably well results on manual linguistic quality evaluation.

    148
  • News Sensitive Stock Trend Prediction

    Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Wai Pang Lam

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2002

    This paper investigates the immediate impact of news articles on the time series based on the Efficient Markets Hypothesis and proposes an algorithm, which is called guided clustering, to filter news articles with the help of the clusters that have been obtained from trends.

    147
  • On the Effectiveness of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

    Zihao Fu, Haoran Yang, Anthony Man–Cho So, Wai Pang Lam, Lidong Bing, Nigel Collier

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2023

    141
  • A Theoretical Analysis of the Repetition Problem in Text Generation

    Zihao Fu, Wai Pang Lam, Anthony Man–Cho So, Bei Shi

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2021

    A new framework for theoretical analysis for the repetition problem is proposed and a novel rebalanced encoding approach is proposed to alleviate the high inflow problem and thus reducing the upper bound.

    130

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