Search Results for author: Yong Cao

Found 16 papers, 4 papers with code

Does Mapo Tofu Contain Coffee? Probing LLMs for Food-related Cultural Knowledge

no code implementations10 Apr 2024 Li Zhou, Taelin Karidi, Nicolas Garneau, Yong Cao, Wanlong Liu, Wenyu Chen, Daniel Hershcovich

Recent studies have highlighted the presence of cultural biases in Large Language Models (LLMs), yet often lack a robust methodology to dissect these phenomena comprehensively.

Exploring Visual Culture Awareness in GPT-4V: A Comprehensive Probing

no code implementations8 Feb 2024 Yong Cao, Wenyan Li, Jiaang Li, Yifei Yuan, Antonia Karamolegkou, Daniel Hershcovich

Pretrained large Vision-Language models have drawn considerable interest in recent years due to their remarkable performance.

Image Captioning TAG

Bridging Cultural Nuances in Dialogue Agents through Cultural Value Surveys

1 code implementation18 Jan 2024 Yong Cao, Min Chen, Daniel Hershcovich

The cultural landscape of interactions with dialogue agents is a compelling yet relatively unexplored territory.

Dialogue Generation

MLPs Compass: What is learned when MLPs are combined with PLMs?

no code implementations3 Jan 2024 Li Zhou, Wenyu Chen, Yong Cao, Dingyi Zeng, Wanlong Liu, Hong Qu

While Transformer-based pre-trained language models and their variants exhibit strong semantic representation capabilities, the question of comprehending the information gain derived from the additional components of PLMs remains an open question in this field.

Cultural Adaptation of Recipes

no code implementations26 Oct 2023 Yong Cao, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Ruixiang Cui, Antonia Karamolegkou, Li Zhou, Megan Dare, Lucia Donatelli, Daniel Hershcovich

We introduce a new task involving the translation and cultural adaptation of recipes between Chinese and English-speaking cuisines.

Information Retrieval Machine Translation +1

Geo-Encoder: A Chunk-Argument Bi-Encoder Framework for Chinese Geographic Re-Ranking

1 code implementation4 Sep 2023 Yong Cao, Ruixue Ding, Boli Chen, Xianzhi Li, Min Chen, Daniel Hershcovich, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang

Chinese geographic re-ranking task aims to find the most relevant addresses among retrieved candidates, which is crucial for location-related services such as navigation maps.

Chunking Multi-Task Learning +1

Pay More Attention to Relation Exploration for Knowledge Base Question Answering

no code implementations3 May 2023 Yong Cao, Xianzhi Li, Huiwen Liu, Wen Dai, Shuai Chen, Bin Wang, Min Chen, Daniel Hershcovich

In this study, we propose a novel framework, RE-KBQA, that utilizes relations in the knowledge base to enhance entity representation and introduce additional supervision.

Knowledge Base Question Answering Relation +1

Assessing Cross-Cultural Alignment between ChatGPT and Human Societies: An Empirical Study

1 code implementation30 Mar 2023 Yong Cao, Li Zhou, Seolhwa Lee, Laura Cabello, Min Chen, Daniel Hershcovich

The recent release of ChatGPT has garnered widespread recognition for its exceptional ability to generate human-like responses in dialogue.

Cultural Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction

Explore More Guidance: A Task-aware Instruction Network for Sign Language Translation Enhanced with Data Augmentation

1 code implementation Findings (NAACL) 2022 Yong Cao, Wei Li, Xianzhi Li, Min Chen, Guangyong Chen, Long Hu, Zhengdao Li, Hwang Kai

Sign language recognition and translation first uses a recognition module to generate glosses from sign language videos and then employs a translation module to translate glosses into spoken sentences.

Data Augmentation Sign Language Recognition +2

Spiral Language Modeling

no code implementations20 Dec 2021 Yong Cao, Yukun Feng, Shaohui Kuang, Gu Xu

In almost all text generation applications, word sequences are constructed in a left-to-right (L2R) or right-to-left (R2L) manner, as natural language sentences are written either L2R or R2L.

Language Modelling Machine Translation +2

Deep Active Learning for Remote Sensing Object Detection

no code implementations17 Mar 2020 Zhenshen Qu, Jingda Du, Yong Cao, Qiuyu Guan, Pengbo Zhao

Recently, CNN object detectors have achieved high accuracy on remote sensing images but require huge labor and time costs on annotation.

Active Learning Object +2

Understanding Semantics from Speech Through Pre-training

no code implementations24 Sep 2019 Pengwei Wang, Liang-Chen Wei, Yong Cao, Jinghui Xie, Yuji Cao, Zaiqing Nie

End-to-end Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is proposed to infer the semantic meaning directly from audio features without intermediate text representation.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +4

Learning-to-Ask: Knowledge Acquisition via 20 Questions

no code implementations22 Jun 2018 Yihong Chen, Bei Chen, Xuguang Duan, Jian-Guang Lou, Yue Wang, Wenwu Zhu, Yong Cao

Almost all the knowledge empowered applications rely upon accurate knowledge, which has to be either collected manually with high cost, or extracted automatically with unignorable errors.

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