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A quick guide to Amazon's 40+ papers at EMNLP 2023

Research on natural-language understanding seeks to harness the power of large language models, while query reformulation and text summarization emerge as topics of particular interest.

By Staff writer
December 6, 2023
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Natural-language understanding (NLU) has long been a central focus of the papers that Amazon researchers publish at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural-Language Processing (EMNLP), but at this year's conference, which starts today, Amazon's NLU research shows a particular interest in harnessing the power of large language models (LLMs). Question answering also remains an active research topic, while query reformulation and text summarization emerge as new areas of concentration.

Automatic speech recognition

AdaBERT-CTC: Leveraging BERT-CTC for text-only domain adaptation in ASR
Tyler Vuong, Karel Mundnich, Dhanush Bekal, Veera Raghavendra Elluru, Srikanth Ronanki, Sravan Bodapati

Continual learning

Coordinated replay sample selection for continual federated learning
Jack Good, Jimit Majmudar, Christophe Dupuy, Jixuan Wang, Charith Peris, Clement Chung, Richard Zemel, Rahul Gupta 

Data extraction

InsightNet: Structured insight mining from customer feedback
Sandeep Mukku, Manan Soni, Chetan Aggarwal, Jitenkumar Rana, Promod Yenigalla, Rashmi Patange, Shyam Mohan

Knowledge-selective pretraining for attribute value extraction
Hui Liu, Qingyu Yin, Zhengyang Wang, Chenwei Zhang, Haoming Jiang, Yifan Gao, Zheng Li, Xian Li, Chenwei Zhang, Bing Yin, William Wang, Xiaodan Zhu

Data selection

Influence scores at scale for efficient language data sampling
Nikhil Anand, Joshua Tan, Maria Minakova

Document understanding

A multi-modal multilingual benchmark for document image classification
Yoshinari Fujinuma, Siddharth Varia, Nishant Sankaran, Bonan Min, Srikar Appalaraju, Yogarshi Vyas

Semantic matching for text classification with complex class descriptions
Brian de Silva, Kuan-Wen Huang, Gwang Lee, Karen Hovsepian, Yan Xu, Mingwei Shen

Embodied task completion

Multimodal embodied plan prediction augmented with synthetic embodied dialogue
Aishwarya Padmakumar, Mert Inan, Spandana Gella, Patrick Lange, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Entity linking

MReFinED: An efficient end-to-end multilingual entity linking system
Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Weiwei Cheng, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amir Saffari, Jens Lehmann

Few-shot learning

Automated few-shot classification with instruction-finetuned language models
Rami Aly, Xingjian Shi, Kaixiang Lin, Aston Zhang, Andrew Wilson

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A schematic view of the Aut-Few prompt automation method. From "Automated few-shot classification with instruction-finetuned language models".

Information retrieval

Deep metric learning to hierarchically rank—An application in product retrieval
Kee Kiat Koo, Ashutosh Joshi, Nishaanth Reddy, Ismail Tutar, Vaclav Petricek, Changhe Yuan, Karim Bouyarmane

KD-Boost: Boosting real-time semantic matching in e-commerce with knowledge distillation
Sanjay Agrawal, Vivek Sembium, Ankith M S

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The CESAR framework automatically merges compound tasks — such as, in this example, keyword-controlled generation and act-grounded generation. From "CESAR: Automatic induction of compositional instructions for multi-turn dialogs".

Multi-teacher distillation for multilingual spelling correction
Jingfen Zhang, Xuan Guo, Sravan Bodapati, Christopher Potts

Instruction tuning

CESAR: Automatic induction of compositional instructions for multi-turn dialogs
Taha Aksu, Devamanyu Hazarika, Shikib Mehri, Seokhwan Kim, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Yang Liu, Mahdi Namazifar

LLM hallucination

INVITE: A testbed of automatically generated invalid questions to evaluate large language models for hallucinations
Anil Ramakrishna, Rahul Gupta, Jens Lehmann, Morteza Ziyadi

Machine learning

Efficient long-range transformers: You need to attend more, but not necessarily at every layer
Qingru Zhang, Dhananjay Ram, Cole Hawkins, Sheng Zha, Tuo Zhao

Natural-language processing

NameGuess: Column name expansion for tabular data
Jiani Zhang, Zhengyuan Shen, Balasubramaniam Srinivasan, Shen Wang, Huzefa Rangwala, George Karypis

Natural-language understanding

Adversarial robustness for large-language NER models using disentanglement and word attributions
Xiaomeng Jin, Bhanu Vinzamuri, Sriram Venkatapathy, Heng Ji, Pradeep Natarajan

Measuring and mitigating dialog-to-API constraint violations of in-context learning
Shufan Wang, Sebastien Jean, Sailik Sengupta, James Gung, Nikolaos Pappas, Yi Zhang

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Overview of the pretraining of an intent-aware encoder. Given an utterance, x1, from the pretraining corpus, Amazon researchers generate a pseudo intent name, y1pseudo, using labels from the intent-role-labeling (IRL) tagger. The model is then optimized by pulling the gold utterance x1gold, the gold intent y1, and the pseudo intent, y1pseudo, close to the input utterance, x1, in the embedding space. From "Pre-training intent-aware encoders for zero- and few-shot intent classification".

MultiCoNER v2: A large multilingual dataset for fine-grained and noisy named entity recognition
Besnik Fetahu, Zhiyu Chen, Sudipta Kar, Oleg Rokhlenko, Shervin Malmasi

Pre-training intent-aware encoders for zero- and few-shot intent classification
Mujeen Sung, James Gung, Elman Mansimov, Nikolaos Pappas, Raphael Shu, Salvatore Romeo, Yi Zhang, Vittorio Castelli

Personalization

Personalized dense retrieval on global index for voice-enabled conversational systems
Masha Belyi, Charlotte Dzialo, Chaitanya Dwivedi, Prajit Reddy Muppidi, Kanna Shimizu

Retrieve and copy: Scaling ASR personalization to large catalogs
Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi, Devang Kulshreshtha, Saket Dingliwal, Srikanth Ronanki, Sravan Bodapati

Query reformulation

CL-QR: Cross-lingual enhanced query reformulation for multi-lingual conversational AI agents
Zhongkai Sun, Zhengyang Zhao, Sixing Lu, Chengyuan Ma, Xiaohu Liu, Xing Fan, Wei (Sawyer) Shen, Chenlei (Edward) Guo

Graph meets LLM: A novel approach to collaborative filtering for robust conversational understanding
Zheng Chen, Ziyan Jiang, Fan Yang, Eunah Cho, Xing Fan, Xiaojiang Huang, Yanbin Lu, Aram Galstyan

Improving contextual query rewrite for conversational AI agents through user-preference feedback learning
Zhongkai Sun, Yingxue Zhou, Jie Hao, Xing Fan, Yanbin Lu, Chengyuan Ma, Wei (Sawyer) Shen, Chenlei (Edward) Guo

Question-answer databases

Protege: Prompt-based diverse question generation from web articles
Vinayak Puranik, Anirban Majumder, Vineet Chaoji

QUADRo: Dataset and models for question-answer database retrieval
Stefano Campese, Ivano Lauriola, Alessandro Moschitti

Question answering

Strong and efficient baselines for open domain conversational question answering
Andrei C. Coman, Gianni Barlacchi, Adrià de Gispert

Tokenization consistency matters for generative models on extractive NLP tasks
Kaiser Sun, Peng Qi, Yuhao Zhang, Lan Liu, William Yang Wang, Zhiheng Huang

Too much of product information: Don’t worry, let’s look for evidence!
Aryan Jain, Jitenkumar Rana, Chetan Aggarwal

Reasoning

Plan, verify and switch: Integrated reasoning with diverse x-of-thoughts
Tengxiao Liu, Qipeng Guo, Yuqing Yang, Xiangkun Hu, Yue Zhang, Xipeng Qiu, Zheng Zhang 

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An overview of the x-of-thought (XoT) problem-solving framework, which integrates chain-of-thought (CoT) and program-of-thought (PoT) methods with the researchers' novel equation-of-thought (EoT) approach. From "Plan, verify and switch: Integrated reasoning with diverse x-of-thoughts".

Responsible AI

Geographical erasure in language generation
Pola Schwöbel, Jacek Golebiowski, Michele Donini, Cédric Archambeau, Danish Pruthi

Speech translation

End-to-end single-channel speaker-turn aware conversational speech translation
Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez, Zhaocheng Huang, Xing Niu, Rohit Paturi, Sundararajan Srinivasan, Prashant Mathur, Brian Thompson, Marcello Federico

Text summarization

Enhancing abstractiveness of summarization models through calibrated distillation
Hwanjun Song, Igor Shalyminov, Hang Su, Siffi Singh, Kaisheng Yao, Saab Mansour

Generating summaries with controllable readability levels
Leonardo Ribeiro, Mohit Bansal, Markus Dreyer

Improving consistency for text summarization with energy functions
Qi Zeng, Qingyu Yin, Zheng Li, Yifan Gao, Sreyashi Nag, Zhengyang Wang, Bing Yin, Heng Ji, Chao Zhang

InstructPTS: Instruction-tuning LLMs for product title summarization
Besnik Fetahu, Zhiyu Chen, Oleg Rokhlenko, Shervin Malmasi

Multi document summarization evaluation in the presence of damaging content
Avshalom Manevich, David Carmel, Nachshon Cohen, Elad Kravi, Ori Shapira

Re-examining summarization evaluation across multiple quality criteria
Ori Ernst, Ori Shapira, Ido Dagan, Ran Levy

Topic modeling

DeTiME: Diffusion-enhanced topic modeling using encoder-decoder based LLM
Weijie Xu, Wenxiang Hu, Fanyou Wu, Srinivasan Sengamedu, "SHS"

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