Bill Yuchen Lin - Semantic Scholar

Publications
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Multi-channel BiLSTM-CRF Model for Emerging Named Entity Recognition in Social Media

Bill Yuchen Lin, Frank F. Xu, Zhiyi Luo, Kenny Q. Zhu
NUT@EMNLP
2017

In this paper, we present our multichannel neural architecture for recognizing emerging named entity in social media messages, which we applied in the Novel and Emerging Named Entity Recognition… (More)

Automatic Extraction of Commonsense LocatedNear Knowledge

Frank F. Xu, Bill Yuchen Lin, Kenny Q. Zhu
ACL
2018

LocatedNear relation is a kind of commonsense knowledge describing two physical objects that are typically found near each other in real life. In this paper, we study how to automatically extract… (More)

Neural Adaptation Layers for Cross-domain Named Entity Recognition

Recent research efforts have shown that neural architectures can be effective in conventional information extraction tasks such as named entity recognition, yielding state-of-the-art results on… (More)

ExtRA: Extracting Prominent Review Aspects from Customer Feedback

Zhiyi Luo, Shanshan Huang, Frank F. Xu, Bill Yuchen Lin, Hanyuan Shi, Kenny Q. Zhu
EMNLP
2018

Many existing systems for analyzing and summarizing customer reviews about products or service are based on a number of prominent review aspects. Conventionally, the prominent review aspects of a… (More)

KagNet: Knowledge-Aware Graph Networks for Commonsense Reasoning

Bill Yuchen Lin, Xinyue Chen, Jamin Chen, Xiang Ren
ArXiv
2019

Commonsense reasoning aims to empower machines with the human ability to make presumptions about ordinary situations in our daily life. In this paper, we propose a textual inference framework for… (More)

AlpacaTag: An Active Learning-based Crowd Annotation Framework for Sequence Tagging

Bill Yuchen Lin, Dong-ho Lee, Frank F. Xu, Ouyu Lan, Xiang Ren
ACL
2019

§ Active Intelligent Recommendation Dynamically suggesting annotations and actively sampling the most informative unlabeled instances. § Annotation Consolidation Enhancing inter-annotator agreement… (More)

Cross-region traffic prediction for China on OpenStreetMap

Frank F. Xu, Bill Yuchen Lin, Qi Lu, Yifei Huang, Kenny Q. Zhu
IWCTS@SIGSPATIAL
2016

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, open-source and popular mapping service. However, due to various reasons, it doesn't offer live traffic information or traffic prediction for China. This paper presents… (More)

KagNet: Learning to Answer Commonsense Questions with Knowledge-Aware Graph Networks

Bill Yuchen Lin, Xinyue Chen, Jamin Chen, Xiang Ren
IJCNLP
2019

CommonGen: A Constrained Text Generation Dataset Towards Generative Commonsense Reasoning

Bill Yuchen Lin, Ming Shen, Yu Xing, Pei Zhou, Xiang Ren
2019

Rational humans can generate sentences that cover a certain set of concepts, while describing natural and common scenes. For example, given {apple(noun), tree(noun), pick(verb)}, humans can easily… (More)

Mining Cross-Cultural Differences and Similarities in Social Media

Bill Yuchen Lin, Frank F. Xu, Kenny Q. Zhu, Seung-won Hwang
ACL
2018

#Nanjing says no to #Nagoya# This small Japan, is really irritating. What is this? We Chinese people are tolerant of good and evil, and you? People do things, and the gods are watching. Japanese, be… (More)