Wei Xu

According to our database, Wei Xu authored at least 65 papers between 2006 and 2023.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of four.
• Erdős number of four.

2023

Automatic and Human-AI Interactive Text Generation.

Yao Dou, Philippe Laban, Claire Gardent, Wei Xu

CoRR, 2023

Can Language Models be Instructed to Protect Personal Information?

Yang Chen, Ethan Mendes, Sauvik Das, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

CoRR, 2023

Having Beer after Prayer? Measuring Cultural Bias in Large Language Models.

Tarek Naous, Michael J. Ryan, Wei Xu

CoRR, 2023

Multilingual Simplification of Medical Texts.

Sebastian Joseph, Kathryn Kazanas, Keziah Reina, Vishnesh J. Ramanathan, Wei Xu, Byron C. Wallace, Junyi Jessy Li

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

Thresh: A Unified, Customizable and Deployable Platform for Fine-Grained Text Evaluation.

David Heineman, Yao Dou, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

Dancing Between Success and Failure: Edit-level Simplification Evaluation using SALSA.

David Heineman, Yao Dou, Mounica Maddela, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

Teaching the Pre-trained Model to Generate Simple Texts for Text Simplification.

Renliang Sun, Wei Xu, Xiaojun Wan

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023

Revisiting non-English Text Simplification: A Unified Multilingual Benchmark.

Michael J. Ryan, Tarek Naous, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

Human-in-the-loop Evaluation for Early Misinformation Detection: A Case Study of COVID-19 Treatments.

Ethan Mendes, Yang Chen, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

LENS: A Learnable Evaluation Metric for Text Simplification.

Mounica Maddela, Yao Dou, David Heineman, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

Improved Instruction Ordering in Recipe-Grounded Conversation.

Duong Minh Le, Ruohao Guo, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

Distill or Annotate? Cost-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Compact Models.

Junmo Kang, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

Frustratingly Easy Label Projection for Cross-lingual Transfer.

Yang Chen, Chao Jiang, Alan Ritter, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023

2022

Stanceosaurus: Classifying Stance Towards Multilingual Misinformation.

Jonathan Zheng, Ashutosh Baheti, Tarek Naous, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

CoRR, 2022

Stanceosaurus: Classifying Stance Towards Multicultural Misinformation.

Jonathan Zheng, Ashutosh Baheti, Tarek Naous, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

arXivEdits: Understanding the Human Revision Process in Scientific Writing.

Chao Jiang, Wei Xu, Samuel Stevens

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

Improving Large-scale Paraphrase Acquisition and Generation.

Yao Dou, Chao Jiang, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

Extracting a Knowledge Base of COVID-19 Events from Social Media.

Shi Zong, Ashutosh Baheti, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022

2021

Controllable Text Simplification with Explicit Paraphrasing.

Mounica Maddela, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2021

WIKIBIAS: Detecting Multi-Span Subjective Biases in Language.

Yang Zhong, Jingfeng Yang, Wei Xu, Diyi Yang

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, 2021

BiSECT: Learning to Split and Rephrase Sentences with Bitexts.

Joongwon Kim, Mounica Maddela, Reno Kriz, Wei Xu, Chris Callison-Burch

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

Pre-train or Annotate? Domain Adaptation with a Constrained Budget.

Fan Bai, Alan Ritter, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

Neural semi-Markov CRF for Monolingual Word Alignment.

Wuwei Lan, Chao Jiang, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2021

2020

WNUT-2020 Task 1 Overview: Extracting Entities and Relations from Wet Lab Protocols.

Jeniya Tabassum, Sydney Lee, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

CoRR, 2020

Extracting COVID-19 Events from Twitter.

Shi Zong, Ashutosh Baheti, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

CoRR, 2020

A Focused Study to Compare Arabic Pre-training Models on Newswire IE Tasks.

Wuwei Lan, Yang Chen, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

CoRR, 2020

An Empirical Study of Pre-trained Transformers for Arabic Information Extraction.

Wuwei Lan, Yang Chen, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020

Learning Relation Entailment with Structured and Textual Information.

Zhengbao Jiang, Jun Araki, Donghan Yu, Ruohong Zhang, Wei Xu, Yiming Yang, Graham Neubig

Proceedings of the Conference on Automated Knowledge Base Construction, 2020

WNUT-2020 Task 1 Overview: Extracting Entities and Relations from Wet Lab Protocols.

Jeniya Tabassum, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, 2020

Code and Named Entity Recognition in StackOverflow.

Jeniya Tabassum, Mounica Maddela, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020

Generalizing Natural Language Analysis through Span-relation Representations.

Zhengbao Jiang, Wei Xu, Jun Araki, Graham Neubig

Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020

Neural CRF Model for Sentence Alignment in Text Simplification.

Chao Jiang, Mounica Maddela, Wuwei Lan, Yang Zhong, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020

Discourse Level Factors for Sentence Deletion in Text Simplification.

Yang Zhong, Chao Jiang, Wei Xu, Junyi Jessy Li

Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020

2019

Multi-task Pairwise Neural Ranking for Hashtag Segmentation.

Mounica Maddela, Wei Xu, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro

Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019

2018

Character-Based Neural Networks for Sentence Pair Modeling.

Wuwei Lan, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2018

An Annotated Corpus for Machine Reading of Instructions in Wet Lab Protocols.

Chaitanya Kulkarni, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Raghu Machiraju

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2018

A Word-Complexity Lexicon and A Neural Readability Ranking Model for Lexical Simplification.

Mounica Maddela, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Brussels, Belgium, October 31, 2018

Neural Network Models for Paraphrase Identification, Semantic Textual Similarity, Natural Language Inference, and Question Answering.

Wuwei Lan, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2018

2017

A Continuously Growing Dataset of Sentential Paraphrases.

Wuwei Lan, Siyu Qiu, Hua He, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2017

2016

Optimizing Statistical Machine Translation for Text Simplification.

Wei Xu, Courtney Napoles, Ellie Pavlick, Quanze Chen, Chris Callison-Burch

Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2016

A Minimally Supervised Method for Recognizing and Normalizing Time Expressions in Twitter.

Jeniya Tabassum, Alan Ritter, Wei Xu

CoRR, 2016

TweeTime : A Minimally Supervised Method for Recognizing and Normalizing Time Expressions in Twitter.

Jeniya Tabassum, Alan Ritter, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2016

Results of the WNUT16 Named Entity Recognition Shared Task.

Benjamin Strauss, Bethany Toma, Alan Ritter, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, 2016

Discovering User Attribute Stylistic Differences via Paraphrasing.

Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Wei Xu, Lyle H. Ungar

Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016

2015

Problems in Current Text Simplification Research: New Data Can Help.

Wei Xu, Chris Callison-Burch, Courtney Napoles

Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2015

SemEval-2015 Task 1: Paraphrase and Semantic Similarity in Twitter (PIT).

Wei Xu, Chris Callison-Burch, Bill Dolan

Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2015

Cost Optimization in Crowdsourcing Translation: Low cost translations made even cheaper.

Mingkun Gao, Wei Xu, Chris Callison-Burch

Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2015, The 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Denver, Colorado, USA, May 31, 2015

Shared Tasks of the 2015 Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text: Twitter Lexical Normalization and Named Entity Recognition.

Timothy Baldwin, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Bo Han, Young-Bum Kim, Alan Ritter, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, 2015

2014

Data-driven Approaches for Paraphrasing across Language Variations.

Wei Xu

PhD thesis, 2014

Extracting Lexically Divergent Paraphrases from Twitter.

Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Chris Callison-Burch, William B. Dolan, Yangfeng Ji

Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2014

Poetry of the Crowd: A Human Computation Algorithm to Convert Prose into Rhyming Verse.

Quanze Chen, Chenyang Lei, Wei Xu, Ellie Pavlick, Chris Callison-Burch

Proceedings of the Seconf AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2014

Infusion of Labeled Data into Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction.

Maria Pershina, Bonan Min, Wei Xu, Ralph Grishman

Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014

2013

Filling Knowledge Base Gaps for Distant Supervision of Relation Extraction.

Wei Xu, Raphael Hoffmann, Le Zhao, Ralph Grishman

Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013

Gathering and Generating Paraphrases from Twitter with Application to Normalization.

Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Ralph Grishman

Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora, 2013

2012

Paraphrasing for Style.

Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Bill Dolan, Ralph Grishman, Colin Cherry

Proceedings of the COLING 2012, 2012

2011

New York University 2011 System for KBP Slot Filling.

Ang Sun, Ralph Grishman, Wei Xu, Bonan Min

Proceedings of the Fourth Text Analysis Conference, 2011

Passage Retrieval for Information Extraction using Distant Supervision.

Wei Xu, Ralph Grishman, Le Zhao

Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2011

Exploiting Syntactic and Distributional Information for Spelling Correction with Web-Scale N-gram Models.

Wei Xu, Joel R. Tetreault, Martin Chodorow, Ralph Grishman, Le Zhao

Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2011

2009

Automatic Recognition of Logical Relations for English, Chinese and Japanese in the GLARF Framework.

Adam Meyers, Michiko Kosaka, Nianwen Xue, Heng Ji, Ang Sun, Shasha Liao, Wei Xu

Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions, 2009

Transducing Logical Relations from Automatic and Manual GLARF.

Adam Meyers, Michiko Kosaka, Heng Ji, Nianwen Xue, Mary P. Harper, Ang Sun, Wei Xu, Shasha Liao

Proceedings of the Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop, 2009

Who, What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task.

Kristen Parton, Kathleen R. McKeown, Bob Coyne, Mona T. Diab, Ralph Grishman, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Mary P. Harper, Heng Ji, Wei-Yun Ma, Adam Meyers, Sara Stolbach, Ang Sun, Gökhan Tür, Wei Xu, Sibel Yaman

Proceedings of the ACL 2009, 2009

2007

Using Non-Local Features to Improve Named Entity Recognition Recall.

Xinnian Mao, Wei Xu, Yuan Dong, Saike He, Haila Wang

Proceedings of the 21st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 2007

2006

Building Document Graphs for Multiple News Articles Summarization: An Event-Based Approach.

Wei Xu, Chunfa Yuan, Wenjie Li, Mingli Wu, Kam-Fai Wong

Proceedings of the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Beyond the Orient: The Research Challenges Ahead, 2006

Deriving Event Relevance from the Ontology Constructed with Formal Concept Analysis.

Wei Xu, Wenjie Li, Mingli Wu, Wei Li, Chunfa Yuan

Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2006

Extractive Summarization using Inter- and Intra- Event Relevance.

Wenjie Li, Mingli Wu, Qin Lu, Wei Xu, Chunfa Yuan

Proceedings of the ACL 2006, 2006