Yang Qin


2023

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Controllable Contrastive Generation for Multilingual Biomedical Entity Linking
Tiantian Zhu | Yang Qin | Qingcai Chen | Xin Mu | Changlong Yu | Yang Xiang
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Multilingual biomedical entity linking (MBEL) aims to map language-specific mentions in the biomedical text to standardized concepts in a multilingual knowledge base (KB) such as Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). In this paper, we propose Con2GEN, a prompt-based controllable contrastive generation framework for MBEL, which summarizes multidimensional information of the UMLS concept mentioned in biomedical text into a natural sentence following a predefined template. Instead of tackling the MBEL problem with a discriminative classifier, we formulate it as a sequence-to-sequence generation task, which better exploits the shared dependencies between source mentions and target entities. Moreover, Con2GEN matches against UMLS concepts in as many languages and types as possible, hence facilitating cross-information disambiguation. Extensive experiments show that our model achieves promising performance improvements compared with several state-of-the-art techniques on the XL-BEL and the Mantra GSC datasets spanning 12 typologically diverse languages.

2016

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Incorporating Label Dependency for Answer Quality Tagging in Community Question Answering via CNN-LSTM-CRF
Yang Xiang | Xiaoqiang Zhou | Qingcai Chen | Zhihui Zheng | Buzhou Tang | Xiaolong Wang | Yang Qin
Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers

In community question answering (cQA), the quality of answers are determined by the matching degree between question-answer pairs and the correlation among the answers. In this paper, we show that the dependency between the answer quality labels also plays a pivotal role. To validate the effectiveness of label dependency, we propose two neural network-based models, with different combination modes of Convolutional Neural Net-works, Long Short Term Memory and Conditional Random Fields. Extensive experi-ments are taken on the dataset released by the SemEval-2015 cQA shared task. The first model is a stacked ensemble of the networks. It achieves 58.96% on macro averaged F1, which improves the state-of-the-art neural network-based method by 2.82% and outper-forms the Top-1 system in the shared task by 1.77%. The second is a simple attention-based model whose input is the connection of the question and its corresponding answers. It produces promising results with 58.29% on overall F1 and gains the best performance on the Good and Bad categories.

2014

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Problematic Situation Analysis and Automatic Recognition for Chinese Online Conversational System
Yang Xiang | Yaoyun Zhang | Xiaoqiang Zhou | Xiaolong Wang | Yang Qin
Proceedings of the Third CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing

2013

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Grammatical Error Correction Using Feature Selection and Confidence Tuning
Yang Xiang | Yaoyun Zhang | Xiaolong Wang | Chongqiang Wei | Wen Zheng | Xiaoqiang Zhou | Yuxiu Hu | Yang Qin
Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing