Publications

A More Accessible Web with Natural Language Interface
Xiang Deng,
In International Web for All Conference (W4A), 2023
[Paper]

Don’t Generate, Discriminate: A Proposal for Grounding Language Models to Real-World Environments
Yu Gu, Xiang Deng, Yu Su,
In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023
[Paper]

What Do LLMs Know about Financial Markets? A Case Study on Reddit Market Sentiment Analysis
Xiang Deng, Vasilisa Bashlovkina, Feng Han, Simon Baumgartner, Michael Bendersky,
In The ACM Web Conference (WWW), Poster, 2023
[Paper]

Towards Understanding Chain-of-Thought Prompting: An Empirical Study of What Matters
Boshi Wang, Sewon Min, Xiang Deng, Jiaming Shen, You Wu, Luke Zettlemoyer, Huan Sun,
In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023
[Paper]

Shepherd Pre-trained Language Models to Develop a Train of Thought: An Iterative Prompting Approach
Boshi Wang, Xiang Deng, Huan Sun,
In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022
[Paper] [Bib]

DOM-LM: Learning Generalizable Representations for HTML Documents
Xiang Deng, Prashant Shiralkar, Colin Lockard, Binxuan Huang, Huan Sun,
In arXiv Preprint, 2022
[Paper] [Bib]

Bootstrapping a User-Centered Task-Oriented Dialogue System
Shijie Chen, Ziru Chen, Xiang Deng, Ashley Lewis, Lingbo Mo, Samuel Stevens, Zhen Wang, Xiang Yue, Tianshu Zhang, Yu Su, Huan Sun,
In Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge, 2022
Ranked 3rd place in the inaugural Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge
[Paper] [Bib]

Structure-Grounded Pretraining for Text-to-SQL
Xiang Deng, Ahmed Awadallah, Christopher Meek, Oleksandr Polozov, Huan Sun, Matthew Richardson,
In Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT), 2021
[Paper] [Data] [Bib]

ReasonBERT: Pre-trained to Reason with Distant Supervision
Xiang Deng, Yu Su, Alyssa Lees, You Wu, Cong Yu, Huan Sun,
In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2021
[Paper] [Code] [Data] [Bib]

TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning
Xiang Deng, Huan Sun, Alyssa Lees, You Wu, Cong Yu,
In the VLDB Endowment, 2020
2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
[Paper] [Code] [Bib]

Leveraging 2-hop Distant Supervision from Table Entity Pairs for Relation Extraction
Xiang Deng, Huan Sun,
In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2019
[Paper] [Code] [Bib]

Easy-to-Hard: Leveraging Simple Questions for Complex Question Generation
Jie Zhao, Xiang Deng, Huan Sun,
In arXiv Preprint, 2019
[Paper] [Bib]

Automatic Table completion using Knowledge Base
Bortik Bandyopadhyay, Xiang Deng, Goonmeet Bajaj, Huan Sun, Srinivasan Parthasarathy,
In arXiv Preprint, 2019
[Paper] [Bib]