16 accepted papers
Irregular Multivariate Time Series (IMTS) analysis is a challenging task as asynchronous irregular sampling disrupts intra-variable temporal consistency and cross-variable alignment. Most existing methods model multivariate correlations at either the variable or observation level in static ways. The
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has been demonstrated to effectively mitigate the knowledge recency issue in Large Language Models (LLMs) while significantly reducing hallucinations. However, existing RAG methods exhibit insufficient capability in modeling reasoning paths for complex multi-hop
Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) aims to integrate textual, acoustic, and visual information to predict sentiment polarity. With the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs), existing studies commonly employ learnable queries to compress audio-visual representations and feed them as soft prompts
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning improves performance on complex tasks but introduces significant inference latency due to its verbosity. In this work, we propose Multiround Adaptive Chain-of-Thought Compression ( MACC ), a framework that leverages the token elasticity phenomenon —where overly small
Automatic depression detection provides cues for early clinical intervention by clinicians. Clinical interviews for depression detection involve dialogues centered around multiple themes. Existing studies primarily design end-to-end neural network models to capture the hierarchical structure of clin…
CoT distillation is critical for enhancing small language models’ (SLMs) reasoning by transferring multi-step reasoning capability from the larger teacher models. However, existing work underestimates the importance of rationale quality, focusing primarily on data quantity, which may result in trans
Medical decision rules play a key role in many clinical decision support systems (CDSS). However, these rules are conventionally constructed by medical experts, which is expensive and hard to scale up. In this study, we explore the automatic extraction of medical decision rules from text, leading to…
Retrieval-based augmentations (RA) incorporating knowledge from an external database into language models have greatly succeeded in various knowledge-intensive (KI) tasks. However, integrating retrievals in non-knowledge-intensive (NKI) tasks is still challenging. Existing works focus on concatenati…
By modeling the interaction among instances and avoiding error propagation, Set Prediction Networks (SPNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance on the tasks of named entity recognition and relation triple extraction respectively. However, how to jointly extract entities and relation triples via SPNs…
Measuring Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) is a fundamental task in biomedical text processing, which aims at quantifying the similarity between two input biomedical sentences. Unfortunately, the STS datasets in the biomedical domain are relatively smaller but more complex in semantics than common…
Event co-occurrences have been proved effective for event extraction (EE) in previous studies, but have not been considered for event argument extraction (EAE) recently. In this paper, we try to fill this gap between EE research and EAE research, by highlighting the question that “Can EAE models lea…
Artificial Intelligence (AI), along with the recent progress in biomedical language understanding, is gradually offering great promise for medical practice. With the development of biomedical language understanding benchmarks, AI applications are widely used in the medical field. However, most bench…
Recently, speech assistants have brought convenience to our lives from many aspects. In the education field, speech assistants can also help teachers to reduce their burdens. However, there is no suitable solution to synthesize speeches for mathematical formulas although there have been lots of good…
"We propose a generic feature compression method for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) problems, which speeds up existing ANNS methods in a plug-and-play manner. Specifically, based on transformer, we propose a new network structure to compress the feature into a low dimensional space, and…
Human multimodal sentiment analysis is a challenging task that devotes to extract and integrate information from multiple resources, such as language, acoustic and visual information. Recently, multimodal adaptation gate (MAG), an attachment to transformer-based pre-trained language representation m…
Recently, joint recognition of flat, nested and discontinuous entities has received increasing attention. Motivated by the observation that the target output of NER is essentially a set of sequences, we propose a novel entity set generation framework for general NER scenes in this paper. Different f…