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Michael White

5 accepted papers

2024

When is Tree Search Useful for LLM Planning? It Depends on the Discriminator

ACL 2024long

In this paper, we examine how large language models (LLMs) solve multi-step problems under a language agent framework with three components: a generator, a discriminator, and a planning method. We investigate the practical utility of two advanced planning methods, iterative correction and tree searc…

2023

Text-to-SQL Error Correction with Language Models of Code

ACL 2023short

Despite recent progress in text-to-SQL parsing, current semantic parsers are still not accurate enough for practical use. In this paper, we investigate how to build automatic text-to-SQL error correction models. Noticing that token-level edits are out of context and sometimes ambiguous, we propose b…

2022

Towards Transparent Interactive Semantic Parsing via Step-by-Step Correction

ACL 2022findings

Existing studies on semantic parsing focus on mapping a natural-language utterance to a logical form (LF) in one turn. However, because natural language may contain ambiguity and variability, this is a difficult challenge. In this work, we investigate an interactive semantic parsing framework that e…

2021

Building Adaptive Acceptability Classifiers for Neural NLG

EMNLP 2021main

We propose a novel framework to train models to classify acceptability of responses generated by natural language generation (NLG) models, improving upon existing sentence transformation and model-based approaches. An NLG response is considered acceptable if it is both semantically correct and gramm…

2020

Best Practices for Data-Efficient Modeling in NLG:How to Train Production-Ready Neural Models with Less Data

COLING 2020industry

Natural language generation (NLG) is a critical component in conversational systems, owing to its role of formulating a correct and natural text response. Traditionally, NLG components have been deployed using template-based solutions. Although neural network solutions recently developed in the rese…