A survey on legal judgment prediction: Datasets, metrics, models and challenges

J Cui, X Shen, S Wen - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Legal judgment prediction (LJP) applies Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to
predict judgment results based on fact descriptions automatically. The present work …

Ast-trans: Code summarization with efficient tree-structured attention

Z Tang, X Shen, C Li, J Ge, L Huang, Z Zhu… - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Code summarization aims to generate brief natural language descriptions for source codes.
The state-of-the-art approaches follow a transformer-based encoder-decoder architecture …

Diversifying dialogue generation with non-conversational text

H Su, X Shen, S Zhao, X Zhou, P Hu, R Zhong… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Neural network-based sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models strongly suffer from the low-
diversity problem when it comes to open-domain dialogue generation. As bland and generic …

Product answer generation from heterogeneous sources: A new benchmark and best practices

X Shen, G Barlacchi, M Del Tredici… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
It is of great value to answer product questions based on heterogeneous information
sources available on web product pages, eg, semi-structured attributes, text descriptions …

Ed2lm: Encoder-decoder to language model for faster document re-ranking inference

K Hui, H Zhuang, T Chen, Z Qin, J Lu, D Bahri… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
State-of-the-art neural models typically encode document-query pairs using cross-attention
for re-ranking. To this end, models generally utilize an encoder-only (like BERT) paradigm or …

Learning fine-grained fact-article correspondence in legal cases

J Ge, Y Huang, X Shen, C Li… - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatically recommending relevant law articles to a given legal case has attracted much
attention as it can greatly release human labor from searching over the large database of …

Topic-centric unsupervised multi-document summarization of scientific and news articles

A Alambo, C Lohstroh, E Madaus… - … Conference on Big …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in natural language processing have enabled automation of a wide range
of tasks, including machine translation, named entity recognition, and sentiment analysis …

Unsupervised pidgin text generation by pivoting english data and self-training

E Chang, DI Adelani, X Shen, V Demberg - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
West African Pidgin English is a language that is significantly spoken in West Africa,
consisting of at least 75 million speakers. Nevertheless, proper machine translation systems …

Knowledge-enhanced session-based recommendation with temporal transformer

R Zhang, Y Gu, X Shen, H Su - arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.08745, 2021 - arxiv.org
Recent research has achieved impressive progress in the session-based recommendation.
However, information such as item knowledge and click time interval, which could be …

Neural ranking with weak supervision for open-domain question answering: A survey

X Shen, S Vakulenko, M Del Tredici… - Findings of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Neural ranking (NR) has become a key component for open-domain question-answering in
order to access external knowledge. However, training a good NR model requires …