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Weiquan Mao

5 accepted papers

2024

Topic Detection and Tracking with Time-Aware Document Embeddings

COLING 2024main

The time at which a message is communicated is a vital piece of metadata in many real-world natural language processing tasks such as Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT). TDT systems aim to cluster a corpus of news articles by event, and in that context, stories that describe the same event are likel…

2022

A Simple and Effective Method to Improve Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning

COLING 2022main

Existing zero-shot cross-lingual transfer methods rely on parallel corpora or bilingual dictionaries, which are expensive and impractical for low-resource languages. To disengage from these dependencies, researchers have explored training multilingual models on English-only resources and transferrin…

2022

CSL: A Large-scale Chinese Scientific Literature Dataset

COLING 2022main

Scientific literature serves as a high-quality corpus, supporting a lot of Natural Language Processing (NLP) research. However, existing datasets are centered around the English language, which restricts the development of Chinese scientific NLP. In this work, we present CSL, a large-scale Chinese S…

2022

Multi-stage Distillation Framework for Cross-Lingual Semantic Similarity Matching

NAACL 2022findings

Previous studies have proved that cross-lingual knowledge distillation can significantly improve the performance of pre-trained models for cross-lingual similarity matching tasks. However, the student model needs to be large in this operation. Otherwise, its performance will drop sharply, thus makin…

2022

Parameter-efficient Continual Learning Framework in Industrial Real-time Text Classification System

NAACL 2022industry

Catastrophic forgetting is a challenge for model deployment in industrial real-time systems, which requires the model to quickly master a new task without forgetting the old one. Continual learning aims to solve this problem; however, it usually updates all the model parameters, resulting in extensi…