Rebecca Passonneau — accepted AI-conference papers

2022

A POMDP Dialogue Policy with 3-way Grounding and Adaptive Sensing for Learning through Communication

Maryam Zare, Alan Wagner, Rebecca Passonneau

EMNLP 2022finding

Agents to assist with rescue, surgery, and similar activities could collaborate better with humans if they could learn new strategic behaviors through communication. We introduce a novel POMDP dialogue policy for learning from people. The policy has 3-way grounding of language in the shared physical…

Cited by 1 Source ↗PDF ↗code ↗Scholar ↗

2022

CONTaiNER: Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition via Contrastive Learning

Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Arzoo Katiyar, Rebecca Passonneau, Rui Zhang

ACL 2022long

Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Few-Shot setting is imperative for entity tagging in low resource domains. Existing approaches only learn class-specific semantic features and intermediate representations from source domains. This affects generalizability to unseen target domains, resulting in subo…

Cited by 211 Source ↗PDF ↗code ↗Scholar ↗