A novel estimator of mutual information for learning to disentangle textual representations

P Colombo, C Clavel, P Piantanida - arxiv preprint arxiv:2105.02685, 2021 - arxiv.org
Learning disentangled representations of textual data is essential for many natural language
tasks such as fair classification, style transfer and sentence generation, among others. The …

Hierarchical pre-training for sequence labelling in spoken dialog

E Chapuis, P Colombo, M Manica, M Labeau… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Sequence labelling tasks like Dialog Act and Emotion/Sentiment identification are a key
component of spoken dialog systems. In this work, we propose a new approach to learn …

Learning disentangled textual representations via statistical measures of similarity

P Colombo, G Staerman, N Noiry… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
When working with textual data, a natural application of disentangled representations is fair
classification where the goal is to make predictions without being biased (or influenced) by …

Automatic text evaluation through the lens of Wasserstein barycenters

P Colombo, G Staerman, C Clavel… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
A new metric\texttt {BaryScore} to evaluate text generation based on deep contextualized
embeddings eg, BERT, Roberta, ELMo) is introduced. This metric is motivated by a new …

Infolm: A new metric to evaluate summarization & data2text generation

PJA Colombo, C Clavel, P Piantanida - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Assessing the quality of natural language generation (NLG) systems through human
annotation is very expensive. Additionally, human annotation campaigns are time …

A unified target-oriented sequence-to-sequence model for emotion-cause pair extraction

Z Cheng, Z Jiang, Y Yin, N Li… - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emotion-cause pair extraction is a recently proposed task that aims at extracting all potential
clause-level pairs of emotion and cause in text. To solve this task, researchers first proposed …

What are the best systems? new perspectives on nlp benchmarking

P Colombo, N Noiry, E Irurozki… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract In Machine Learning, a benchmark refers to an ensemble of datasets associated
with one or multiple metrics together with a way to aggregate different systems …

Muscles in Time: Learning to Understand Human Motion In-Depth by Simulating Muscle Activations

D Schneider, S Reiß, M Kugler… - Advances in …, 2025 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Exploring the intricate dynamics between muscular and skeletal structures is pivotal for
understanding human motion. This domain presents substantial challenges, primarily …

A theory-driven deep learning method for voice chat–based customer response prediction

G Chen, S **ao, C Zhang… - Information Systems …, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
As artificial intelligence and digitalization technologies are flourishing real-time, online
interaction–based commercial modes, exploiting customers' purchase intention implied in …

Speaker turn modeling for dialogue act classification

Z He, L Tavabi, K Lerman, M Soleymani - arxiv preprint arxiv:2109.05056, 2021 - arxiv.org
Dialogue Act (DA) classification is the task of classifying utterances with respect to the
function they serve in a dialogue. Existing approaches to DA classification model utterances …