Jie Wang


2022

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Unregulated Chinese-to-English Data Expansion Does NOT Work for Neural Event Detection
Zhongqiu Li | Yu Hong | Jie Wang | Shiming He | Jianmin Yao | Guodong Zhou
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

We leverage cross-language data expansion and retraining to enhance neural Event Detection (abbr., ED) on English ACE corpus. Machine translation is utilized for expanding English training set of ED from that of Chinese. However, experimental results illustrate that such strategy actually results in performance degradation. The survey of translations suggests that the mistakenly-aligned triggers in the expanded data negatively influences the retraining process. We refer this phenomenon to “trigger falsification”. To overcome the issue, we apply heuristic rules for regulating the expanded data, fixing the distracting samples that contain the falsified triggers. The supplementary experiments show that the rule-based regulation is beneficial, yielding the improvement of about 1.6% F1-score for ED. We additionally prove that, instead of transfer learning from the translated ED data, the straight data combination by random pouring surprisingly performs better.

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The NiuTrans Machine Translation Systems for WMT22
Weiqiao Shan | Zhiquan Cao | Yuchen Han | Siming Wu | Yimin Hu | Jie Wang | Yi Zhang | Hou Baoyu | Hang Cao | Chenghao Gao | Xiaowen Liu | Tong Xiao | Anxiang Ma | Jingbo Zhu
Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)

This paper describes the NiuTrans neural machine translation systems of the WMT22 General MT constrained task. We participate in four directions, including Chinese→English, English→Croatian, and Livonian↔English. Our models are based on several advanced Transformer variants, e.g., Transformer-ODE, Universal Multiscale Transformer (UMST). The main workflow consists of data filtering, large-scale data augmentation (i.e., iterative back-translation, iterative knowledge distillation), and specific-domain fine-tuning. Moreover, we try several multi-domain methods, such as a multi-domain model structure and a multi-domain data clustering method, to rise to this year’s newly proposed multi-domain test set challenge. For low-resource scenarios, we build a multi-language translation model to enhance the performance, and try to use the pre-trained language model (mBERT) to initialize the translation model.

2021

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Deep Cognitive Reasoning Network for Multi-hop Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs
Jianyu Cai | Zhanqiu Zhang | Feng Wu | Jie Wang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021

2015

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KWB: An Automated Quick News System for Chinese Readers
Yiqi Bai | Wenjing Yang | Hao Zhang | Jingwen Wang | Ming Jia | Roland Tong | Jie Wang
Proceedings of the Eighth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing