Zhongli Li


2021

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Improving BERT with Syntax-aware Local Attention
Zhongli Li | Qingyu Zhou | Chao Li | Ke Xu | Yunbo Cao
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021

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Read, Listen, and See: Leveraging Multimodal Information Helps Chinese Spell Checking
Heng-Da Xu | Zhongli Li | Qingyu Zhou | Chao Li | Zizhen Wang | Yunbo Cao | Heyan Huang | Xian-Ling Mao
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021

2020

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Harvesting and Refining Question-Answer Pairs for Unsupervised QA
Zhongli Li | Wenhui Wang | Li Dong | Furu Wei | Ke Xu
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Question Answering (QA) has shown great success thanks to the availability of large-scale datasets and the effectiveness of neural models. Recent research works have attempted to extend these successes to the settings with few or no labeled data available. In this work, we introduce two approaches to improve unsupervised QA. First, we harvest lexically and syntactically divergent questions from Wikipedia to automatically construct a corpus of question-answer pairs (named as RefQA). Second, we take advantage of the QA model to extract more appropriate answers, which iteratively refines data over RefQA. We conduct experiments on SQuAD 1.1, and NewsQA by fine-tuning BERT without access to manually annotated data. Our approach outperforms previous unsupervised approaches by a large margin, and is competitive with early supervised models. We also show the effectiveness of our approach in the few-shot learning setting.