Wen Xiao

Wen Xiao

Researcher at Microsoft Azure AI

Publications

2022

  1. PRIMERA: Pyramid-based Masked Sentence Pre-training for Multi-document Summarization
    Wen Xiao, Iz Beltagy, Giuseppe Carenini, and Arman Cohan
    In ACL 2022
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  2. Human Guided Exploitation of Interpretable Attention Patterns in Summarization and Topic Segmentation
    Raymond Li, Wen Xiao, Linzi Xing, Lanjun Wang, Gabriel Murray, and Giuseppe Carenini
    In EMNLP 2022
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  3. Entity-based SpanCopy for Abstractive Summarization to Improve the Factual Consistency
    Wen Xiao, and Giuseppe Carenini
    2022
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  4. Attend to the Right Context: A Plug-and-Play Module for Content-Controllable Summarization
    Wen Xiao, Lesly Miculicich, Yang Liu, Pengcheng He, and Giuseppe Carenini
    2022
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2021

  1. KW-ATTN: Knowledge Infused Attention for Accurate and Interpretable Text Classification
    Hyeju Jang, Seojin Bang, Wen Xiao, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng, and Young Lee
    In DeeLIO at NAACL 2021
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  2. Predicting Discourse Trees from Transformer-based Neural Summarizers
    Wen Xiao, Patrick Huber, and Giuseppe Carenini
    In NAACL 2021
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  3. Demoting the Lead Bias in News Summarization via Alternating Adversarial Learning
    Linzi Xing*, Wen Xiao*, and Giuseppe Carenini
    In ACL 2021
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  4. W-RST: Towards a Weighted RST-style Discourse Framework
    Patrick Huber*, Wen Xiao*, and Giuseppe Carenini
    In ACL 2021
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  5. T3-Vis: visual analytic for Training and fine-Tuning Transformers in NLP
    Raymond Li, Wen Xiao, Lanjun Wang, Hyeju Jang, and Giuseppe Carenini
    In EMNLP (Demo) 2021
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2020

  1. Systematically Exploring Redundancy Reduction in Summarizing Long Documents
    Wen Xiao, and Giuseppe Carenini
    In AACL 2020
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  2. Do We Really Need That Many Parameters In Transformer For Extractive Summarization? Discourse Can Help !
    Wen Xiao, Patrick Huber, and Giuseppe Carenini
    In CODI at EMNLP 2020
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2019

  1. Extractive Summarization of Long Documents by Combining Global and Local Context
    Wen Xiao, and Giuseppe Carenini
    In EMNLP 2019
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  2. Extractive Summarization of Long Documents by Combining Global and Local Context
    Wen Xiao
    In Master Thesis 2019
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2017

  1. Crowdsourcing the Pronunciation of Out-of-Vocabulary Words.
    Sajad Shirali-Shahreza, Pieter Luitjens, Natalie Morcos, Wen Xiao, Zhenghong Qian, and Gerald Penn
    In AAAI Workshop on Crowdsourcing, Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence Agents 2017
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