Associate Research Fellow/Professor  |  Ma, Wei-Yun       Publications   1. Hsun-Yu Kuo, Yin-Hsiang Liao, Yu-Chieh Chao, Wei-Yun Ma, Pu-Jen Cheng, "Not All LLM-Generated Data Are Equal: Rethinking Data Weighting in Text Classification," to appear in The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR Spotlight),. 2. Yu-Xiang Lin, Wei-Yun Ma, "Generating Attractive and Authentic Copywriting from Customer Reviews," NAACL 2024, June 2024. 3. Nai-Chi Yang, Wei-Yun Ma, Pu-Jen Cheng, "Plug-in Language Model: Controlling Text Generation with a Simple Regression Model," NAACL 2024, June 2024. 4. Chia-Wen Lu, Ching-Wen Yang, Wei-Yun Ma, "Automatic Construction of a Chinese Review Dataset for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction via Iterative Weak Supervision," LREC-COLING 2024, May 2024. 5. Chin-Tung Lin, Wei-Yun Ma, "HanTrans: An Empirical Study on Cross-Era Transferability of Chinese Pre-trained Language Model," ROCLING, November 2022. 6. Yu-Ming Hsieh, Yueh-Yin Shih, Wei-Yun Ma, "Converting the Sinica Treebank of Mandarin Chinese to Universal Dependencies," LREC Workshop on LAW, June 2022. 7. Yin-Hsiang Liao and Wei-Yun Ma, "Conversational AI for Positive-sum Retailing under Falsehood Control," ACL Workshop on ConvAI, May 2022. 8. Jhih-Wei Chen, Tsu-Jui Fu, Chen-Kang Lee, Wei-Yun Ma, "H-FND: Hierarchical False-Negative Denoising for Distant Supervision Relation Extraction," Annual Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics 2021, ACL, August 2021. 9. Hung-Ting Chen, Yu-Chieh Chao, Ta-Hsuan Chao, Wei-Yun Ma, "Predict and Use Latent Patterns for Short-Text Conversation," AAAI Workshop on DEEP-DIAL, February 2021. ::: 10. Cheng-Hsun Hsueh, Wei-Yun Ma, "Semantic Guidance of Dialogue Generation with Reinforcement Learning," SigDial, ACL, July 2020. ::: 11. Mu Yang, Chi-Yen Chen, Yi-Hui Lee, Qian-Hui Zeng, Wei-Yun Ma, "Headword-Oriented Entity Linking: A New Entity Linking Task with Dataset and Baseline," LREC, May 2020. ::: 12. Peng-Hsuan Li, Tsan-Yu Yang, Wei-Yun Ma, "CA-EHN: Commonsense Analogy from E-HowNet," LREC, May 2020. ::: 13. Peng-Hsuan Li, Tsu-Jui Fu, Wei-Yun Ma, "Why Attention? Analyze BiLSTM Deficiency and Its Remedies in the Case of NER," the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020), February 2020. ::: 14. Lifeng Jin, Linfeng Song, Yue Zhang, Kun Xu, Wei-Yun Ma, Dong Yu, "Relation Extraction Exploiting Full Dependency Forests," the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020), February 2020. ::: 15. Tsu-Hui Fu, Peng-Hsuan Li, Wei-Yun Ma, "GraphRel: Modeling Text as Relational Graphs for Joint Entity and Relation Extraction," International Conference on ACL, July 2019. ::: 16. Hsin-Pei Lee, Jhih-Sheng Fan, Wei-Yun Ma, "iComposer: An Automatic Songwriting System for Chinese Popular Music," International Conference on NAACL Demo Track, June 2019. ::: 17. Jhih-Sheng Fan, Mu Yang, Peng-Hsuan Li, Wei-Yun Ma, "HWE: Word Embedding with Heterogeneous Features," IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, January 2019. ::: 18. Tsu-Hui Fu, Wei-Yun Ma, "Speed Reading: Learning to Read ForBackward via Shuttle," International Conference on EMNLP, October 2018. ::: 19. Chi-Yen Chen, Wei-Yun Ma, "Word Embedding Evaluation Datasets and Wikipedia Title Embedding for Chinese," LREC, May 2018. ::: 20. Wei-Yun Ma and Yueh-Yin Shih, "Extended HowNet 2.0 – An Entity-Relation Common-Sense Representation Model," LREC, May 2018. ::: 21. Shu-Ling Huang, Keh-Jiann Chen, Wei-Yun Ma, Su-Chu Lin, Yu-Ming Hsieh, "Semantic Relation Identification for Consecutive Predicative Constituents in Chinese," Lingua Sinica, volume 3, number 9, pages 1-31, December 2017, DOI 10.1186/s40655-017-0028-1 ::: 22. Chi-Yen Chen, Wei-Yun Ma, "Embedding Wikipedia Title Based on Its Wikipedia Text and Categories," International Conference on Asian Language Processing, December 2017, (received Best Paper, Top1 out of 96 accepted papers) ::: 23. Yu-Sheng Li, Chien-Hui Tseng, Chian-Yun Huang, Wei-Yun Ma, "Guess What: A Question Answering Game via On-demand Knowledge Validation," International Conference on IJCNLP Demo Track, November 2017. ::: 24. Peng-Hsuan Li, Wei-Yun Ma, Hsin-Yang Wang, "CKIP Valence-Arousal Predictor for the DSAP Shared Task," International Conference on IJCNLP Shared Tasks, November 2017, (Top 1 on arousal scores and Top 3 on total scores out of 13 international teams) ::: 25. Peng-Hsuan Li, Ruo-Ping Dong, Yu-SiangWang, Ju-Chieh Chou, Wei-Yun Ma, "Leveraging Linguistic Structures for Named Entity Recognition with Bidirectional Recursive Neural Networks," International Conference on EMNLP, September 2017. ::: 26. Hsin-Yang Wang, Wei-Yun Ma, "Integrating Semantic Knowledge into Lexical Embeddings Based on Information Content Measurement," International Conference on EACL, April 2017. ::: 27. Peng-Yu Chen, Yi-Hui Lee, Yueh-Han Wu, Wei-Yun Ma, "IExM: Information Extraction System for Movies," WWW 2017 Demo Track (receive Best Demo - Special Mention Award), April 2017. ::: 28. Jheng-Long Wu, Wei-Yun Ma, "A Deep Learning Framework for Coreference Resolution Based on Convolutional Neural Network," IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, January 2017. ::: 29. Yu-Ming Hsieh, Wei-Yun Ma, "N-best Parse Rescoring Based on Dependency-Based Word Embeddings," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, volume 21, number 2, pages 19-34, December 2016. ::: 30. Su-Chu Lin, Wei-Yun Ma and Yueh-Ying Shih, "A Unified Representation of Attributes and Their Semantic Composition," International Conference on Asian Language Processing, November 2016. ::: 31. Hsin-Yang Wang, Wei-Yun Ma, "CKIP Valence-Arousal Predictor for IALP 2016 Shared Task," International Conference on Asian Language Processing Shared Tasks(Top 1 out of 22 international teams on Valence of IALP 2016 Sentiment Task), November 2016. ::: 32. Yu-Ming Hsieh, Wei-Yun Ma, "N-best Parse Rescoring Based on Dependency-Based Word Embeddings," Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing, October 2016. 33. Shen-Yun Miao, Su-Chu Lin, Wei-Yun Ma, Keh-Yih Su, "Building a Corpus for Developing the Chinese Elementary School Math Word Problem Solver," Proceedings of ROCLING 2016, October 2016. ::: 34. Yi-Chung Lin, Chao-Chun Liang, Kuang-Yi Hsu, Chien-Tsung Huang, Shen-Yun Miao, Wei-Yun Ma, Lun-Wei Ku, Churn-Jung Liau, Keh-Yih Su, "Designing a Tag-Based Statistical Math Word Problem Solver with Reasoning and Explanation," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, volume 20, number 2, pages 1-26, December 2015. ::: 35. Wei-Yun Ma and Kathleen McKeown, "System Combination for Machine Translation through Paraphrasing," Proceedings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), September 2015. ::: 36. Chu-Ren Huang, Jia-Fei Hong, Wei-Yun Ma, Petr Šimon, "From Corpus to Grammar: Automatic Extraction of Grammatical Relations from Annotated Corpus," Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series, volume 25, pages 192-221, July 2015. ::: 37. Shu-Ling Huang, Su-Chu Lin, Wei-Yun Ma, Keh-Jiann Chen, "Semantic Roles and Semantic Role Labeling," CKIP techreport 15-01, 2015. ::: 38. Wei-Yun Ma, Yun-Cheng Ju, Xiaodong He, and Li Deng, "Language Model Adaptation through Shared Linear Transformations," number MSR-TR-2014-90, Microsoft Research techreport, 2014. ::: 39. Wei-Yun Ma and Kathleen McKeown, "Using a Supertagged Dependency Model to Select a Good Translation in System Combination," Proceedings of NAACL-HLT, July 2013. ::: 40. Wei-Yun Ma and Kathleen McKeown, "Detecting and Correcting Syntactic Errors in Machine Translation Using Feature-Based Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, volume 17, number 4, pages 1-14, December 2012. ::: 41. Wei-Yun Ma and Kathleen McKeown, "Detecting and Correcting Syntactic Errors in Machine Translation Using Feature-Based Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars," Proceedings of Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing, October 2012. ::: 42. Wei-Yun Ma and Kathleen McKeown, "Phrase-level System Combination for Machine Translation Based on Target-to-Target Decoding," Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, September 2012. ::: 43. Wei-Yun Ma and Kathleen McKeown, "System Combination for Machine Translation Based on Text-to-Text Generation," Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIII, August 2011. ::: 44. Kristen Parton, Wei-Yun Ma, Kathleen McKeown, and James Allan,, chapter "Using Query Time Information to Improve Multilingual Search and Response Generation," Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation: DARPA Global Autonomous Language Exploitation, Joseph Olive, Caitlin Christianson and John McCary, editors, pages 691-697, Springer, 2011. 45. Wei-Yun Ma and Kathleen McKeown, "Where's the Verb Correcting Machine Translation During Question Answering," Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP, July 2009. ::: 46. Kristen Parton, Kathleen R. McKeown, Bob Coyne, Mona T. Diab, Ralph Grishman, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Mary Harper, Heng Ji, Wei-Yun Ma, Adam Meyers, Sara Stolbach, Ang Sun, Gokhan Tur, Wei Xu and Sibel Yaman, "Who, What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task," Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP, July 2009. ::: 47. Wei-Yun Ma and Chu-Ren Huang, "中文動詞名物化判斷的統計式模型設計," Proceedings of Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing, October 2006. ::: 48. Chu-Ren Huang, Wei-Yun Ma, Yi-Ching Wu, and Chih-Ming Chiu, "Knowledge-Rich Approach to Automatic Grammatical Information Acquisition:Enriching Chinese Sketch Engine with a Lexical Grammar," Proceedings of the 20th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, September 2006. ::: 49. Jia-Fei Hong, Chu-Ren Huang, and Wei-Yun Ma, "語料庫為本的兩岸對應詞彙發掘," Proceedings of the seventh Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, August 2006. ::: 50. Wei-Yun Ma and Chu-Ren Huang, "Uniform and Effective Tagging of a Heterogeneous Giga-word Corpus," Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, July 2006. ::: 51. Wei-Yun Ma and Keh-Jiann Chen, "Design of CKIP Chinese Word Segmentation System," International Journal of Asian Language Processing, volume 14, number 3, pages 235-249, May 2004. ::: 52. Wei-Yun Ma and Keh-Jiann Chen, "Introduction to CKIP Chinese Word Segmentation System for the First International Chinese Word Segmentation Bakeoff," Proceedings of the second SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, July 2003. ::: 53. Wei-Yun Ma and Keh-Jiann Chen, "A Bottom-up Merging Algorithm for Chinese Unknown Word Extraction," Proceedings of the second SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, July 2003. ::: 54. Keh-Jiann Chen and Wei-Yun Ma, "Unknown Word Extraction for Chinese Documents," Proceedings of COLING, August 2002. ::: 55. Wei-Yun Ma and Chen Keh-Jiann, "中文語料庫構建及管理系統設計," Proceedings of Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing, October 2001. :::