Publications (Google Scholar Profile)

2023

  • What would Harry say? Building Dialogue Agents for Characters in a Story. [PDF], [Code], [Dataset]
    Nuo Chen, Yan Wang, Haiyun Jiang, Deng Cai, Yuhan Li, Ziyang Chen, Jia Li.
    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023).
  • Orca: A Few-shot Benchmark for Chinese Conversational Machine Reading Comprehension. [PDF], [Code], [Dataset]
    Nuo Chen, Hongguang Li, Junqing He, Yinan Bao, Xinshi Lin, Qi Yang, Jianfeng Liu, Ruyi Gan, Jiaxing Zhang, Baoyuan Wang, Jia Li.
    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023 (findings)) .
  • Natural Response Generation for Chinese Reading Comprehension. [PDF], [Code], [Dataset]
    Nuo Chen, Hongguang Li, Yinan Bao, Baoyuan Wang, Jia Li.
    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023 (findings)) .
  • Alleviating Over-smoothing for Unsupervised Sentence Representation [PDF][Code]
    Nuo Chen, Linjun Shou, Ming Gong, Jian Pei, Cao Bowen, Daxin Jiang, Li Jia.
    Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023).
  • Structural Contrastive Pretraining for Cross-Lingual Comprehension
    Nuo Chen, Linjun Shou, Song Tengtao, Ming Gong, Jian Pei, Daxin Jiang, Li Jia.
    Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023 (findings)).
  • FiTs: Fine-grained Two-stage Training for Knowledge Base Question Answering [PDF][Code]
    Qichen YE, Bowen Cao, Nuo Chen, Weiyuan Xu, Yuexian Zou.
    AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023).
  • Human Mobility Modeling During the COVID-19 Pandemic via Deep Graph Diffusion Infomax
    Yang Liu, Yu Rong, Zhuoning Guo, Nuo Chen, Tingyang Xu, Fugee Tsung, Jia Li.
    AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023).
  • A Transformer-based Threshold-Free Framework for Multi-Intent NLU (Oral
    Lisong Chen, Nuo Chen, Yuexian Zou.

2022

(*=equal contribution)

  • Bridging the gap between language models and multilingual sequence labeling [[PDF]]
    Nuo Chen, Linjun Shou, Ming Gong, Jian Pei, Daxin Jiang.
    Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2022).
  • End-to-end Spoken Conversational Question Answering: Task, Dataset and Model [PDF]
    Chenyu You*, Nuo Chen*, Fenglin Liu, Xian Wu, shen Ge, Yuexian Zou.
    Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2022 (findings)).
  • From Good to Best: Two-Stage Training for Cross-Lingual Machine Reading Comprehension [PDF] [Poster]
    Nuo Chen, Linjun Shou, Ming Gog, Jian Pei, Daxin Jiang.
    AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022).

2021

  • Self-supervised Contrastive Learning for End-to-end Spoken Question Answering [PDF]
    Chenyu You*, Nuo Chen*, Yuexian Zou.
    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021(findings)).
  • Text Anchor Based Metric Learning for Small-footprint Keyword Spotting
    Li Wang, Rongzhi Gu, Nuo Chen, Yuexian Zou.
    Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2021).
  • Contextualized Attention-based Knowledge Transfer for Spoken Conversational Question Answering [PDF]
    Chenyu You*, Nuo Chen*, Yuexian Zou.
    Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2021).
  • Self-supervised Dialogue Learning for Spoken Conversational Question Answering [PDF]
    Nuo Chen, Chenyu You,Yuexian Zou.
    Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2021).
  • Multi-Modal Residual Knowledge Distillation for Spoken Question Answering ([PDF]) 
    Chenyu You*, Nuo Chen*, Yuexian Zou.
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021)
  • Knowledge Distillation for improved accuracy in Spoken Question Answering [PDF] 
    Chenyu You*, Nuo Chen*, Yuexian Zou.
    International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing(ICASSP 2021)
  • Adaptive Bi-directional Attention: Exploring Multi-Granularity Representations for Machine Reading Comprehension [PDF] 
    Nuo Chen, Fenglin Liu, Peilin Zhou, Yuexian Zou.
    International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing(ICASSP 2021)

Preprint

  • Automatic Prosody Annotation with Pre-Trained Text-Speech Model [Code][Demo].2022
  • Predicting COVID-19 Spread via Deep Graph Diffusion Infomax.2022
  • A Transformer-based Threshold-Free Framework for Multi-Intent NLU.2022