Publications

Approximate Planning and Learning for Partially Observed Systems
Aditya Mahajan
2020-11-09
International Conference of Control, Dynamic Systems, and Robotics (published)
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Effectiveness of quarantine and testing to prevent COVID-19 transmission from arriving travelers
Russell Wa
David Buckeridge
2020-11-04
medRxiv (preprint)
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Explainability and Interpretability: Keys to Deep Medicine
Arash Shaban-Nejad
Martin Michalowski
David Buckeridge
2020-11-03
Explainable AI in Healthcare and Medicine (published)
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Bisimulation metrics and norms for real-weighted automata
Borja Balle
Pascale Gourdeau
Prakash Panangaden
2020-11-01
Information and Computation (published)
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ComplexDataLab at W-NUT 2020 Task 2: Detecting Informative COVID-19 Tweets by Attending over Linked Documents
Kellin Pelrine
Jacob Danovitch
Albert Orozco Camacho
Reihaneh Rabbany
Given the global scale of COVID-19 and the flood of social media content related to it, how can we find informative discussions? We present … (see more)Gapformer, which effectively classifies content as informative or not. It reformulates the problem as graph classification, drawing on not only the tweet but connected webpages and entities. We leverage a pre-trained language model as well as the connections between nodes to learn a pooled representation for each document network. We show it outperforms several competitive baselines and present ablation studies supporting the benefit of the linked information. Code is available on Github.
2020-11-01
WNUT (published)
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Deconstructing Word Embedding Algorithms
Kian Kenyon-Dean
Edward Daniel Newell
Jackie Cheung
2020-11-01
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (published)
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Factual Error Correction for Abstractive Summarization Models
Meng Cao
Yue Dong
Jiapeng Wu
Jackie Cheung
Neural abstractive summarization systems have achieved promising progress, thanks to the availability of large-scale datasets and models pre… (see more)-trained with self-supervised methods. However, ensuring the factual consistency of the generated summaries for abstractive summarization systems is a challenge. We propose a post-editing corrector module to address this issue by identifying and correcting factual errors in generated summaries. The neural corrector model is pre-trained on artificial examples that are created by applying a series of heuristic transformations on reference summaries. These transformations are inspired by an error analysis of state-of-the-art summarization model outputs. Experimental results show that our model is able to correct factual errors in summaries generated by other neural summarization models and outperforms previous models on factual consistency evaluation on the CNN/DailyMail dataset. We also find that transferring from artificial error correction to downstream settings is still very challenging.
2020-11-01
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (published)
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MeDAL: Medical Abbreviation Disambiguation Dataset for Natural Language Understanding Pretraining
Zhi Wen
Xing Han Lu
Siva Reddy
2020-11-01
Proceedings of the 3rd Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop (published)
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Multi-Fact Correction in Abstractive Text Summarization
Yue Dong
Shuohang Wang
Zhe Gan
Yu Cheng
Jackie Cheung
Jingjing Liu
2020-11-01
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (published)
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arxiv.org
Multi-XScience: A Large-scale Dataset for Extreme Multi-document Summarization of Scientific Articles
Yao Lu
Yue Dong
Laurent Charlin
Multi-document summarization is a challenging task for which there exists little large-scale datasets. We propose Multi-XScience, a large-sc… (see more)ale multi-document summarization dataset created from scientific articles. Multi-XScience introduces a challenging multi-document summarization task: writing the related-work section of a paper based on its abstract and the articles it references. Our work is inspired by extreme summarization, a dataset construction protocol that favours abstractive modeling approaches. Descriptive statistics and empirical results—using several state-of-the-art models trained on the Multi-XScience dataset—reveal that Multi-XScience is well suited for abstractive models.
2020-11-01
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (published)
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arxiv.org
TeMP: Temporal Message Passing for Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion
Jiapeng Wu
Meng Cao
Jackie Cheung
William Hamilton
Inferring missing facts in temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) is a fundamental and challenging task. Previous works have approached this probl… (see more)em by augmenting methods for static knowledge graphs to leverage time-dependent representations. However, these methods do not explicitly leverage multi-hop structural information and temporal facts from recent time steps to enhance their predictions. Additionally, prior work does not explicitly address the temporal sparsity and variability of entity distributions in TKGs. We propose the Temporal Message Passing (TeMP) framework to address these challenges by combining graph neural networks, temporal dynamics models, data imputation and frequency-based gating techniques. Experiments on standard TKG tasks show that our approach provides substantial gains compared to the previous state of the art, achieving a 10.7% average relative improvement in Hits@10 across three standard benchmarks. Our analysis also reveals important sources of variability both within and across TKG datasets, and we introduce several simple but strong baselines that outperform the prior state of the art in certain settings.
2020-11-01
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (published)
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arxiv.org
TESA: A Task in Entity Semantic Aggregation for Abstractive Summarization
Clément Jumel
Annie Priyadarshini Louis
Jackie Cheung
Human-written texts contain frequent generalizations and semantic aggregation of content. In a document, they may refer to a pair of named e… (see more)ntities such as ‘London’ and ‘Paris’ with different expressions: “the major cities”, “the capital cities” and “two European cities”. Yet generation, especially, abstractive summarization systems have so far focused heavily on paraphrasing and simplifying the source content, to the exclusion of such semantic abstraction capabilities. In this paper, we present a new dataset and task aimed at the semantic aggregation of entities. TESA contains a dataset of 5.3K crowd-sourced entity aggregations of Person, Organization, and Location named entities. The aggregations are document-appropriate, meaning that they are produced by annotators to match the situational context of a given news article from the New York Times. We then build baseline models for generating aggregations given a tuple of entities and document context. We finetune on TESA an encoder-decoder language model and compare it with simpler classification methods based on linguistically informed features. Our quantitative and qualitative evaluations show reasonable performance in making a choice from a given list of expressions, but free-form expressions are understandably harder to generate and evaluate.
2020-11-01
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (published)
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