no code implementations • EMNLP (sustainlp) 2020 • Parul Awasthy, Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, John Kender, Radu Florian
Transfer learning is a popular technique to learn a task using less training data and fewer compute resources.
no code implementations • ACL (CASE) 2021 • Parul Awasthy, Jian Ni, Ken Barker, Radu Florian
In this paper, we present the event detection models and systems we have developed for Multilingual Protest News Detection - Shared Task 1 at CASE 2021.
no code implementations • ACL (CASE) 2021 • Ken Barker, Parul Awasthy, Jian Ni, Radu Florian
The NLI reranker uses a textual representation of target types that allows it to score the strength with which a type is implied by a text, without requiring training data for the types.
no code implementations • 12 Jan 2024 • Md Arafat Sultan, Aashka Trivedi, Parul Awasthy, Avirup Sil
We present a large-scale empirical study of how choices of configuration parameters affect performance in knowledge distillation (KD).
no code implementations • 16 Oct 2020 • Jian Ni, Taesun Moon, Parul Awasthy, Radu Florian
Relation extraction (RE) is one of the most important tasks in information extraction, as it provides essential information for many NLP applications.
no code implementations • 15 Sep 2020 • Parul Awasthy, Taesun Moon, Jian Ni, Radu Florian
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an essential precursor task for many natural language applications, such as relation extraction or event extraction.
no code implementations • 15 Sep 2020 • Parul Awasthy, Tahira Naseem, Jian Ni, Taesun Moon, Radu Florian
The task of event detection and classification is central to most information retrieval applications.
no code implementations • 19 Nov 2019 • Taesun Moon, Parul Awasthy, Jian Ni, Radu Florian
In this paper we investigate a single Named Entity Recognition model, based on a multilingual BERT, that is trained jointly on many languages simultaneously, and is able to decode these languages with better accuracy than models trained only on one language.
Ranked #1 on Cross-Lingual NER on CoNLL Dutch