About me
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Xiaoou Wang, founder of the website AIPrototypes, follow me on Google Scholar and Medium :)

NLP researcher particularly interested in:

1. Computational argumentation: namely Argument Mining and Argument Generation, including also Counter-argument Generation and their applications to the fight against online dis/misinformation
2. Advanced error type classification via Grammatical Error Correction (GEC, especially transformer-based Neural machine translation (NMT) approaches)
3. Advanced evaluation of students' written production
  • [nlp/ml] Automated Essay Scoring (AES based on error analysis)
  • [nlp/ml/dl] Similarity-based evaluation with Gold Standard
  • [dl] Identification of argumentative elements without Gold Standard
4. Creating benchmark datasets in tasks related to commonsense reasoning and developing robust evaluation protocols
5. In a broad sense, promoting/democratizing trustworthy, interpretable and socially beneficial Artificiel Intelligence

Publications

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2023

Argument and Counter-Argument Generation: A Critical Survey

International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (pp. 500-510). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland
Xiaoou Wang, Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata
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This version of the contribution has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35320-8_37. Use of this Accepted Version is subject to the publisher’s Accepted Manuscript terms of use https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/policies/accepted-manuscript-terms

2022

Investigating associative, switchable and negatable Winograd items on renewed French data sets
29e conférence sur le Traitement automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN), 2022
Xiaoou Wang, Olga Seminck, Pascal Amsili
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Is Attention Explanation? An Introduction to the Debate
ACL main conference, 2022
Adrien Bibal, Rémi Cardon, David Alfter, Rodrigo Wilkens, Xiaoou Wang, Thomas François, Patrick Watrin
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L’Attention est-elle de l’Explication ? Une Introduction au Débat
29e conférence sur le Traitement automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN), 2022
Adrien Bibal, Rémi Cardon, David Alfter, Rodrigo Wilkens, Xiaoou Wang, Thomas François, Patrick Watrin
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FABRA: French Aggregator-Based Readability Assessment toolkit
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2022
Rodrigo Wilkens, David Alfter, Xiaoou Wang, Alice Pintard, Anaïs Tack, Kevin Yancey, Thomas François
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MWE for Essay Scoring English as a Foreign Language
2nd Workshop on Tools and Resources for REAding DIfficulties (READI), LREC, 2022
Rodrigo Wilkens, Daiane Seibert, Xiaoou Wang and Thomas François
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2021

Textual similarity measurement for automatic evaluation of students' answers
Actes de la 28e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles.
Atelier DÉfi Fouille de Textes (DEFT) (pp. 63-71)
Xiaoou Wang, Xingyu Liu, Yimei Yue
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