Publications

• Jiahao Xu, Yubin Ruan, Wei Bi, Guoping Huang, Shuming Shi, Lihui Chen, Lemao Liu. On Synthetic Data for Back Translation. Proceedings of NAACL 2022.

• Yanling Xiao, Lemao Liu, Guoping Huang, Qu Cui, Shujian Huang, Shuming Shi, and Jiajun Chen. BiTIIMT: A Bilingual Text-Infilling Method for Interactive Machine Translation. Proceedings of ACL 2022.

• Yangming Li, Lemao Liu, and Shuming Shi. Rethinking Negative Sampling for Handling Missing Entity Annotations. Proceedings of ACL 2022.

• Yi Chen, Jiayang Cheng, Haiyun Jiang, Lemao Liu, Haisong Zhang, Shuming Shi, and Ruifeng Xu. Learning from Sibling Mentions with Scalable Graph Inference in Fine-Grained Entity Typing. Proceedings of ACL 2022.

• Minghuan Tan, Yong Dai, Duyu Tang, Zhangyin Feng, Guoping Huang, Jing Jiang, Jiwei Li, Shuming Shi. Exploring and Adapting Chinese GPT to Pinyin Input Method. Proceedings of ACL 2022.

• Jiannan Xiang, Huayang Li, Defu Lian, Guoping Huang, Taro Watanabe, and Lemao Liu. Visualizing the Relationship Between Encoded Linguistic Information and Task Performance. Proceedings of ACL 2022: Findings.

• Jiannan Xiang, Huayang Li, Yahui Liu, Lemao Liu, Guoping Huang, Defu Lian, and Shuming Shi. Investigating Data Variance in Evaluations of Automatic Machine Translation Metrics. Proceedings of ACL 2022: Findings (Short).

• Jing Qian, Yibin Liu, Lemao Liu, Yangming Li, Haiyun Jiang, Haisong Zhang and Shuming Shi. Fine-grained Entity Typing without Knowledge Base. Proceedings of EMNLP 2021.

• Yi Chen, Haiyun Jiang, Lemao Liu, Shuming Shi, Chuang Fan, Min Yang and Ruifeng Xu. An Empirical Study on Multiple Information Sources for Zero-shot Fine-grained Entity Typing. Proceedings of EMNLP 2021.

• Yangming Li, Lemao Liu and Shuming Shi. Segmenting Natural Language Sentences via Lexical Unit Analysis. Proceedings of EMNLP 2021: Findings. (short)

• Yu Feng, Jing Zhang, Gaole He, Wayne Xin Zhao, Lemao Liu, Quan Liu, Cuiping Li and Hong Chen. A Pretraining Numerical Reasoning Model for Ordinal Constrained Question Answering on Knowledge Base. Proceedings of EMNLP 2021: Findings.

• Huayang Li, Lemao Liu, Guoping Huang and Shuming Shi. GWLAN: General Word-Level AutocompletioN for Computer-Aided Translation. Proceedings of ACL 2021.

• Qiuxiang He, Guoping Huang, Qu Cui, Li Li and Lemao Liu. Fast and Accurate Neural Machine Translation with Translation Memory. Proceedings of ACL 2021.

• Deng Cai, Yan Wang, Huayang Li, Wai Lam and Lemao Liu. Neural Machine Translation with Monolingual Translation Memory. Proceedings of ACL 2021. (Outstanding Paper Award)

• Zexin Lu, Keyang Ding, Yuji Zhang, Jing Li, Baolin Peng and Lemao Liu. Engage the Public: Poll Question Generation for Social Media Posts. Proceedings of ACL 2021. (to appear)

• Zhangming Chan, Lemao Liu, Juntao Li, Haisong Zhang, Dongyan Zhao, Shuming Shi and Rui Yan. Enhancing the Open-Domain Dialogue Evaluation in Latent Space. Proceedings of ACL 2021: Findings. (to appear)

• Jiannan Xiang, Yahui Liu, Deng Cai, Huayang Li, Defu Lian and Lemao Liu. Assessing Dialogue Systems with Distribution Distances. Proceedings of ACL 2021: Findings. (short) (to appear)

• Lemao Liu, Haisong Zhang, Haiyun Jiang, Yangming Li, Enbo Zhao, Kun Xu, Linfeng Song, Suncong Zheng, Botong Zhou, dick zhu, Xiao Feng, Tao Chen, Tao Yang, Dong Yu, Feng Zhang, ZhanHui Kang and Shuming Shi. TexSmart: A System for Enhanced Natural Language Understanding. Proceedings of ACL 2021: Demo.

• Yangming Li, Lemao Liu and Kaisheng Yao. Neural Sequence Segmentation as Determining the Leftmost Segments. Proceedings of NAACL 2021.

• Yangming Li, Lemao Liu and Shuming Shi. Empirical Analysis of Unlabeled Entity Problem in Named Entity Recognition. Proceedings of ICLR 2021.

• Xintong Li, Lemao Liu, Zhaopeng Tu, Guanlin Li, Max Meng and Shuming Shi. Attending from Foresight: A Novel Attention Mechanism for Neural Machine Translation. In Journal of IEEE/ACM Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2021.

• Guanlin Li, Lemao Liu, Rui Wang, Conghui Zhu, Tiejun Zhao and Shuming Shi. Detecting and Understanding Generalization Barriers for Neural Machine Translation. In Journal of IEEE/ACM Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2021.

• Huayang Li, Guoping Huang, Deng Cai, Lemao Liu. Neural Machine Translation with Noisy Lexical Constraints. In Journal of IEEE/ACM Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2020.

• Xintong Li, Lemao Liu, Rui Wang, Guoping Huang and Max Meng. Regularized Context Gates on Transformer for Machine Translation. Proceedings of ACL 2020. (short)

• Jierui Li, Lemao Liu, Huayang Li, Guanlin Li, Guoping Huang and Shuming Shi. Evaluating Explanation Methods for Neural Machine Translation. Proceedings of ACL 2020.

• Yangming Li, Kaisheng Yao, Libo Qin, Wanxiang che, Xiaolong Li, and Ting Liu. Slot-consistent NLG for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems with Iterative Rectification Network. Proceedings of ACL 2020.

• Yangming Li, Han Li, Kaisheng Yao, and Xiaolong Li. Handling Rare Entities for Neural Sequence Labeling. Proceedings of ACL 2020.

• Lemao Liu, Andrew Finch, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita. Agreement on Target-bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks for Sequence-to-Sequence Learning. In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2020.

• Tianxiang Zhao, Lemao Liu, Guoping Huang, Zhaopeng Tu, Huayang Li, Yingling Liu, Guiquan Liu, Shuming Shi. Balancing Quality and Human Involvement: An Effective Approach to Interactive Neural Machine Translation. Proceedings of AAAI 2020.

• Yangming Li, Kaisheng Yao, Libo Qin, Shuang Peng, Yijia Liu, and Xiaolong Li. Span-based Neural Buffer: Towards Efficient and Effective Utilization of Long-Distance Context for Neural Sequence Models. Proceedings of AAAI 2020.

• Guanlin Li, Lemao Liu, Guoping Huang, Conghui Zhu, Tiejun Zhao. Understanding Data Augmentation in Neural Machine Translation: Two Perspectives towards Generalization. Proceedings of EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019. (short)

• Xintong Li, Guanlin Li, Lemao Liu, Max Meng and Shuming Shi. On the Word Alignment from Neural Machine Translation. Proceedings of ACL 2019.

• Guanlin Li, Lemao Liu, Xintong Li, Conghui Zhu, Tiejun Zhao, and Shuming Shi. Understanding and Improving Hidden Representations for Neural Machine Translation. Proceedings of NAACL 2019.

• Mengzhou Xia, Guoping Huang, Lemao Liu, and Shuming Shi. Graph-based Translation Memory for Neural Machine Translation. Proceedings of AAAI 2019.

• Lianhui Qin, Lemao Liu, Victoria Bi, Yan Wang, Xiaojiang Liu, Zhiting Hu, Hai Zhao and Shuming Shi. Automatic Article Commenting: the Task and Dataset. Proceedings of ACL 2018. (short)

• Xintong Li, Lemao Liu, Zhaopeng Tu, Max Meng and Shuming Shi. Target foresight based attention for neural machine translation. Proceedings of NAACL 2018.

• Lemao Liu, Muhua Zhu and Shuming Shi. Improving Sequence-to-Sequence Constituency Parsing. Proceedings of AAAI 2018.