Publications

2023

1. Preprint

   Instance Needs More Care: Rewriting Prompts for Instances Yields Better Zero-Shot Performance

   Saurabh Srivastava*, Chengyue Huang, Weiguo Fan, and 1 more author

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.02107, 2023

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2. Preprint

   Large Language Model Cascades with Mixture of Thoughts Representations for Cost-efficient Reasoning

   (Featured in Hugging Face Daily Papers: https://huggingface.co/papers?date=2023-10-06)

   Murong Yue*, Jie Zhao, Min Zhang, and 2 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.03094, 2023

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3. Preprint

   Can Large Language Models be Good Path Planners? A Benchmark and Investigation on Spatial-temporal Reasoning

   Mohamed Aghzal*, Erion Plaku, and Ziyu Yao

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.03249, 2023

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4. EMNLP’23 Demo

   Gentopia: A Collaborative Platform for Tool-Augmented LLMs

   (An open-source planform for creating, evaluating, and community-sharing Augmented Language Model (ALM)-based Agents)

   Binfeng Xu, Xukun Liu, Hua Shen, and 7 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.04030 (to appear at EMNLP’23), 2023

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5. EMNLP’23

   MAILEX: Email Event and Argument Extraction

   Saurabh Srivastava*, Gaurav Singh*, Shou Matsumoto, and 4 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.13469 (to appear at EMNLP’23), 2023

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6. ACL’23

   Improving Generalization in Language Model-based Text-to-SQL Semantic Parsing: Two Simple Semantic Boundary-based Techniques

   (Rank#8 on Spider leaderboard as of Aug 2023)

   Daking Rai*, Bailin Wang, Yilun Zhou, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), 2023

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7. ACL’23

   Learning to Simulate Natural Language Feedback for Interactive Semantic Parsing

   Hao Yan*, Saurabh Srivastava*, Yintao Tai*, and 3 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

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8. AAAI’23 SA

   Explaining Large Language Model-Based Neural Semantic Parsers (Student Abstract)

   Daking Rai*, Yilun Zhou, Bailin Wang, and 1 more author

   AAAI Student Abstract, 2023

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9. JBP’23

   A paradigm shift from “human writing” to “machine generation” in personality test development: An application of state-of-the-art natural language processing

   (Editor Commendation, one of 13 out of 1,000+ submissions in 2022)

   Philseok Lee, Shea Fyffe, Mina Son, and 2 more authors

   Journal of Business and Psychology, 2023

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2022

1. EMNLP’22

   UnifiedSKG: Unifying and Multi-Tasking Structured Knowledge Grounding with Text-to-Text Language Models

   Tianbao Xie^, Chen Henry Wu^, Peng Shi, and 20 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

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2. ICLR’22 DL4Code

   Code Editing from Few Exemplars by Adaptive Multi-Extent Composition

   Peizhao Li, Xuchao Zhang, Ziyu Yao, and 3 more authors

   In Deep Learning for Code Workshop at International Conference on Learning Representations, 2022

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3. ACL’22

   Synthetic Question Value Estimation for Domain Adaptation of Question Answering

   Xiang Yue, Ziyu Yao, and Huan Sun

   In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2022

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2021

1. Dissertation

   On Advancing Natural Language Interfaces: Data Collection, Model Development, and User Interaction

   Ziyu Yao

   2021

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2. ICLR’21

   Learning Structural Edits via Incremental Tree Transformations

   Ziyu Yao, Frank F. Xu, Pengcheng Yin, and 2 more authors

   In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2021

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3. BIBM’21

   Cliniqg4qa: Generating diverse questions for domain adaptation of clinical question answering

   (Best Paper Award)

   Xiang Yue, Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Ziyu Yao, and 2 more authors

   In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2021

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2020

1. EMNLP’20

   An Imitation Game for Learning Semantic Parsers from User Interaction

   Ziyu Yao, Yiqi Tang, Wen-tau Yih, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020

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2019

1. EMNLP-IJCNLP’19

   Model-based Interactive Semantic Parsing: A Unified Framework and A Text-to-SQL Case Study

   Ziyu Yao, Yu Su, Huan Sun, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 2019

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2. ACL’19

   Reinforced Dynamic Reasoning for Conversational Question Generation

   Boyuan Pan, Hao Li, Ziyu Yao, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019

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3. WWW’19

   CoaCor: Code annotation for code retrieval with reinforcement learning

   Ziyu Yao, Jayavardhan Reddy Peddamail, and Huan Sun

   In The World Wide Web Conference, 2019

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4. AAAI’19

   Interactive semantic parsing for if-then recipes via hierarchical reinforcement learning

   Ziyu Yao, Xiujun Li, Jianfeng Gao, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019

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2018

1. KDD’18 DL Day

   A comprehensive study of staqc for deep code summarization

   Jayavardhan Reddy Peddamail, Ziyu Yao, Zhen Wang, and 1 more author

   In Deep Learning Day at KDD, 2018

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2. WWW’18

   Staqc: A systematically mined question-code dataset from stack overflow

   Ziyu Yao, Daniel S Weld, Wei-Peng Chen, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference, 2018

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2016

1. AAAI’16

   Semi-supervised multinomial naive bayes for text classification by leveraging word-level statistical constraint

   Li Zhao, Minlie Huang, Ziyu Yao, and 3 more authors

   In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016

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