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Ning Bian

5 accepted papers

2025

The Linguistic Connectivities Within Large Language Models

ACL 2025finding

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multilingual abilities in various applications. Unfortunately, recent studies have discovered that there exist notable disparities in their performance across different languages. Understanding the underlying mechanisms behind such disparitie…

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2024

ChatGPT Is a Knowledgeable but Inexperienced Solver: An Investigation of Commonsense Problem in Large Language Models

COLING 2024main

Large language models (LLMs) have made significant progress in NLP. However, their ability to memorize, represent, and leverage commonsense knowledge has been a well-known pain point. In this paper, we specifically focus on ChatGPT, a widely used and easily accessible LLM, and ask the following ques…

Cited by 137SourcePDFScholar
2024

Rule or Story, Which is a Better Commonsense Expression for Talking with Large Language Models?

ACL 2024long

Building machines with commonsense has been a longstanding challenge in NLP due to the reporting bias of commonsense rules and the exposure bias of rule-based commonsense reasoning. In contrast, humans convey and pass down commonsense implicitly through stories. This paper investigates the inherent…

2023

Contrastive Distant Supervision for Debiased and Denoised Machine Reading Comprehension

EMNLP 2023long findings

Distant Supervision (DS) is a promising learning approach for MRC by leveraging easily-obtained question-answer pairs. Unfortunately, the heuristically annotated dataset will inevitably lead to mislabeled instances, resulting in answer bias and context noise problems. To learn debiased and denoised…

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2021

Benchmarking Knowledge-Enhanced Commonsense Question Answering via Knowledge-to-Text Transformation

AAAI 2021technical

A fundamental ability of humans is to utilize commonsense knowledge in language understanding and question answering. In recent years, many knowledge-enhanced Commonsense Question Answering (CQA) approaches have been proposed. However, it remains unclear: (1) How far can we get by exploiting externa…

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