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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Sentiment Analysis in the Era of Large Language Models: A Reality Check

    Wenxuan Zhang, Yue Deng, Bing Liu, Sinno Jialin Pan, Lidong Bing

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL · 2024

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  • 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.

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  • Multilingual Jailbreak Challenges in Large Language Models

    Yue Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Sinno Jialin Pan, Lidong Bing

    arXiv · 2023

    Experimental results show that ChatGPT fine-tuned with such data can achieve a substantial reduction in unsafe content generation, and a novel self-defense framework that automatically generates multilingual training data for safety fine-tuning is proposed.

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  • M3Exam: A Multilingual, Multimodal, Multilevel Benchmark for Examining Large Language Models

    Wenxuan Zhang, Sharifah Mahani Aljunied, Chang Gao, Yew Ken Chia, Lidong Bing

    arXiv · 2023

    This work introduces M3Exam, a novel benchmark sourced from real and official human exam questions for evaluating LLMs in a multilingual, multimodal, and multilevel context, and finds that current models, including GPT-4, still struggle with multilingual text, particularly in low-resource and non-Latin script languages.

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  • Cross-lingual Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis with Aspect Term Code-Switching

    Wenxuan Zhang, Ruidan He, Haiyun Peng, Lidong Bing, Wai Pang Lam

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

    This paper considers the unsupervised cross-lingual transfer for the ABSA task, where only labeled data in the source language is available and aims at transferring its knowledge to the target language having no labeled data and proposes an alignment-free label projection method.

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  • A Simple Baseline that Questions the Use of Pretrained-Models in Continual Learning

    Paul Janson, Wenxuan Zhang, Rahaf Aljundi, Mohamed Elhoseiny

    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Repository (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) · 2022

    It is argued that the pretrained feature extractor itself can be strong enough to achieve a competitive or even better continual learning performance on Split-CIFAR100 and CoRe 50 benchmarks and a simple baseline is designed that achieves 88.53% on 10-Split-CifAR-100, surpassing most state-of-the-art continual learning methods that are all initialized using the same pretrained transformer model.

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  • Seeking Patterns, Not just Memorizing Procedures: Contrastive Learning for Solving Math Word Problems

    Zhongli Li, Wenxuan Zhang, Chao Yan, Qingyu Stephanie Zhou, Chao Li, Hongzhi Liu, Yunbo Cao

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022 · 2022

    This paper investigates how a neural network understands patterns only from semantics, and proposes a contrastive learning approach, where the neural network perceives the divergence of patterns.

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  • Toward Personalized Answer Generation in E-Commerce via Multi-perspective Preference Modeling

    Yang Deng, Yaliang Li, Wenxuan Zhang, Bolin Ding, Wai Pang Lam

    ACM Transactions on Information Systems · 2022

    Experimental results on real-world E-commerce QA datasets demonstrate that the proposed Personalized Answer GEneration method outperforms existing methods by generating informative and customized answers and show that answer generation in E-Commerce can benefit from personalization.

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  • Knowledge-enhanced Mixed-initiative Dialogue System for Emotional Support Conversations

    Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Yifei Yuan, Wai Pang Lam

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2023

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

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

    arXiv · 2022

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  • Answer Ranking for Product-Related Questions via Multiple Semantic Relations Modeling

    Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Wai Pang Lam

    International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 2020

    This paper proposes an answer ranking model named MUSE which carefully models multiple semantic relations among the question, answers, and relevant reviews, and achieves superior performance on the concerned answer ranking task.

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  • Bi-Factorial Preference Optimization: Balancing Safety-Helpfulness in Language Models

    Wenxuan Zhang, Philip H. S. Torr, Mohamed Elhoseiny, Adel Bibi

    arXiv · 2024

    A supervised learning framework called Bi-Factorial Preference Optimization is proposed, which re-parameterizes a joint RLHF objective of both safety and helpfulness into a single supervised learning objective and significantly outperforms existing approaches in both safety and helpfulness.

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  • Nonfactoid Question Answering as Query-Focused Summarization With Graph-Enhanced Multihop Inference

    Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Weiwen Xu, Ying Shen, Wai Pang Lam

    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems · 2023

    A novel query-focused summarization method, namely a graph-enhanced multihop query- focused summarizer (GMQS), to tackle the nonfactoid QA problem and possesses the capability of performing explainable multihip reasoning.

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  • Opinion-aware Answer Generation for Review-driven Question Answering in E-Commerce

    Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Pang Lam

    Proceedings of the ... ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management · 2020

    Two kinds of opinion fusion strategies, namely, static and dynamic fusion, are proposed to distill and aggregate important opinion information learned from the opinion mining task into the answer generation process.

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  • The concept of decentralized and secure electronic marketplace

    Constantin Serban, Yingying Jennifer Chen, Wenxuan Zhang, Naftaly H. Minsky

    Electronic Commerce Research · 2008

    The concept of Decentralized Electronic Marketplace (DEM) is proposed which allow buyers and sellers to engage in commercial transactions, subject to an explicitly stated set of trading rules, called the law of this marketplace—which they can trust to be observed by their trading partners.

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  • AnswerFact: Fact Checking in Product Question Answering

    Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Jing Ma, Wai Pang Lam

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

    This paper introduces AnswerFact, a large scale fact checking dataset from product question answering forums, and proposes a novel neural model with tailored evidence ranking components to handle the concerned answer veracity prediction problem.

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  • Experience transfer for the configuration tuning in large scale computing systems

    Haifeng Chen, Wenxuan Zhang, Guofei Jiang

    ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review · 2009

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  • Overcoming Generic Knowledge Loss with Selective Parameter Update

    Wenxuan Zhang, Paul Janson, Rahaf Aljundi, Mohamed Elhoseiny

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    This work proposes a novel approach that, instead of updating all parame-ters equally, localizes the updates to a sparse set of parame-ters relevant to the task being learned, striking a balance between efficiency and new task performance, while main-taining the transferability and generalizability of foundation models.

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  • Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis in Question Answering Forums

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

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021 · 2021

    A model with a design of cross-sentence aspect-opinion interaction modeling to address the task of ABSA on QA forums (ABSA-QA), aiming to jointly detect the discussed aspects and their sentiment polarities for a given QA pair.

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  • PACIFIC: Towards Proactive Conversational Question Answering over Tabular and Textual Data in Finance

    Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Pang Lam, Tat‐Seng Chua

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2022

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  • Unsupervised Cross-lingual Adaptation for Sequence Tagging and Beyond

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

    arXiv · 2020

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  • Bidirectional Generative Framework for Cross-domain Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

    Yue Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Sinno Jialin Pan, Lidong Bing

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2023

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  • Babel: Open Multilingual Large Language Models Serving Over 90% of Global Speakers

    Yiran Zhao, Chaoqun Liu, Yue Deng, Jiahao Ying, Mahani Aljunied, Zhaodonghui Li, Lidong Bing, Hou Pong Chan, +3 more

    arXiv · 2025

    Babel is introduced, an open multilingual LLM that covers the top 25 languages by number of speakers, supports over 90% of the global population, and includes many languages neglected by other open multilingual LLMs and sets a new standard for open multilingual LLMs.

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