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Multi-Dialectal Representation Learning of Sinitic Phonology

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ACL 2023

Multi-Dialectal Representation Learning of Sinitic Phonology

multi-dialectal

missing data imputation

historical phonology

computational phonology

sinitic

graph representation learning

representation learning

low resource languages

knowledge graph

chinese

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The great event is jointly organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP).

Multi-Dialectal Representation Learning of Sinitic Phonology

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### Welcome to ACL 2023, the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics! 
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A State-Vector Framework For Dataset Effects

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A State-Vector Framework For Dataset Effects

Probing for Hyperbole in Pre-Trained Language Models

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Probing for Hyperbole in Pre-Trained Language Models

We present Visual Knowledge oriented Programming platform (<b>VisKoP</b>), a knowledge base question answering (KBQA) system that integrates human into the loop to edit and debug the knowledge base (KB) queries. VisKoP not only provides a neural program induction module, which converts natural language questions into knowledge oriented program language (KoPL), but also maps KoPL programs into graphical elements. KoPL programs can be edited with simple graphical operators, such as <i>''dragging''</i> to add knowledge operators and <i>''slot filling''</i> to designate operator arguments. Moreover, VisKoP provides auto-completion for its knowledge base schema and users can easily debug the KoPL program by checking its intermediate results. To facilitate the practical KBQA on a million-entity-level KB, we design a highly efficient KoPL execution engine for the back-end. Experiment results show that VisKoP is highly efficient and user interaction can fix a large portion of wrong KoPL programs to acquire the correct answer. The VisKoP online demo, highly efficient KoPL engine, and screencast video are now publicly available.

VisKoP: Visual Knowledge oriented Programming for Interactive Knowledge Base Question Answering

Neuron analysis provides insights into how knowledge is structured in representations and discovers the role of neurons in the network. In addition to developing an understanding of our models, neuron analysis enables various applications such as debiasing, domain adaptation and architectural search. We present NeuroX, a comprehensive open-source toolkit to conduct neuron analysis of natural language processing models. It implements various interpretation methods under a unified API, and provides a framework for data processing and evaluation, thus making it easier for researchers and practitioners to perform neuron analysis. The Python toolkit is available at https://www.github.com/fdalvi/NeuroX.

Demo Video available at: https://youtu.be/mLhs2YMx4u8

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NeuroX Library for Neuron Analysis of Deep NLP Models

Information extraction systems often produce
hundreds to thousands of strings on a specific
topic. We present a method that facilitates
better consumption of these strings, in an ex-
ploratory setting in which a user wants to both
get a broad overview of what's available, and a
chance to dive deeper on some aspects. The sys-
tem works by grouping similar items together,
and arranging the remaining items into a hierar-
chical navigable DAG structure. We apply the
method to medical information extraction.

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Hierarchy Builder: Organizing Textual Spans into a Hierarchy to Facilitate Navigation

ROOTS is a 1.6TB multilingual text corpus developed for the training of BLOOM, currently the largest language model explicitly accompanied by commensurate data governance efforts. In continuation of these efforts, we present the ROOTS Search Tool: a search engine over the entire ROOTS corpus offering both fuzzy and exact search capabilities. ROOTS is the largest corpus to date that can be investigated this way. The ROOTS Search Tool is open-sourced and available on Hugging Face Spaces: https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigscience-data/roots-search. We describe our implementation and the possible use cases of our tool.

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The ROOTS Search Tool: Data Transparency for LLMs

This paper introduces the Unified Interactive Natural Understanding of the Italian Language (UINAUIL), a benchmark of six tasks for Italian Natural Language Understanding. We present a description of the tasks and software library that collects the data from the European Language Grid, harmonizes the data format, and exposes functionalities to facilitates data manipulation and the evaluation of custom models. We also present the results of tests conducted with available Italian and multilingual language models on UINAUIL, providing an updated picture of the current state of the art in Italian NLU.

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UINAUIL: A Unified Benchmark for Italian Natural Language Understanding

Past work in natural language processing interpretability focused mainly on popular classification tasks while largely overlooking generation settings, partly due to a lack of dedicated tools. In this work, we introduce Inseq, a Python library to democratize access to interpretability analyses of sequence generation models. Inseq enables intuitive and optimized extraction of models' internal information and feature importance scores for popular decoder-only and encoder-decoder Transformers architectures. We showcase its potential by adopting it to highlight gender biases in machine translation models and locate factual knowledge inside GPT-2. Thanks to its extensible interface supporting cutting-edge techniques such as contrastive feature attribution, Inseq can drive future advances in explainable natural language generation, centralizing good practices and enabling fair and reproducible model evaluations.

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Inseq: An Interpretability Toolkit for Sequence Generation Models

We present a human-in-the-loop dashboard tailored to diagnosing potential spurious features that NLI models rely on for predictions. 
The dashboard enables users to generate diverse and challenging examples by drawing inspiration from GPT-3 suggestions. 
Additionally, users can receive feedback from a trained NLI model on how challenging the newly created example is and make refinements based on the feedback.
Through our investigation, we discover several categories of spurious correlations that impact the reasoning of NLI models, which we group into three categories: Semantic Relevance, Logical Fallacies, and Bias. Based on our findings, we identify and describe various research opportunities, including diversifying training data and assessing NLI models' robustness by creating adversarial test suites.

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Which Spurious Correlations Impact Reasoning in NLI Models? A Visual Interactive Diagnosis through Data-Constrained Counterfactuals

Despite their omnipresence in modern NLP, characterizing the computational power of transformer neural nets remains an interesting open question. We prove that transformers whose arithmetic precision is logarithmic in the number of input tokens (and whose feedforward nets are computable using space linear in their input) can be simulated by constant-depth logspace-uniform threshold circuits. This provides insight on the power of transformers using known results in complexity theory. For example, if $\mathsf L \neq \mathsf P$ (i.e., not all poly-time problems can be solved using logarithmic space), then transformers cannot even accurately solve linear equalities or check membership in an arbitrary context-free grammar with empty productions. Our result intuitively emerges from the transformer architecture's high parallelizability. We thus speculatively introduce the idea of a fundamental parallelism tradeoff: any model architecture as parallelizable as the transformer will obey limitations similar to it. Since parallelism is key to training models at massive scale, this suggests a potential inherent weakness of the scaling paradigm.

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