Percy Liang

2 paper cards in the Research library · 2017–2018

Percy Liang wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 2017–2018, most of them on Machine translation; often with Robin Jia, He He, Juncen Li.

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Papers

Delete, Retrieve, Generate: A Simple Approach to Sentiment and Style Transfer (2018)
The paper transfers an attribute such as sentiment or style without parallel data. It assumes that a sentence's attribute shows up as a few distinctive phrases, such as a comparative phrase for a negative review. The method has three steps. Delete: score each n-gram by how much more often it appears in one attribute…
Adversarial Examples for Evaluating Reading Comprehension Systems (2017)
To test whether SQuAD readers understand or only match words, the authors add one distracting sentence to the paragraph that shares many words with the question but does not answer it.

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