Patrick Huber
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I am a third year Ph.D. candidate in the NLP Lab at the University of British Columbia.
I am interested in innovative applications of machine learning methods and algorithms, focusing on designing and implementing computational models that enable automated systems to better understand natural language.
Publications
2022
- Predicting Above-Sentence Discourse Structure using Distant Supervision from Topic SegmentationHuber, Patrick and Xing, Linzi and Carenini, Giuseppe[PDF]
2021
- Unsupervised Learning of Discourse Structures using a Tree AutoencoderHuber, Patrick and Carenini, Giuseppe[PDF]
- Predicting Discourse Trees from Transformer-based Neural SummarizersXiao, Wen and Huber, Patrick and Carenini, Giuseppe[PDF]
- W-RST: Towards a Weighted RST-style Discourse FrameworkHuber, Patrick and Xiao, Wen and Carenini, GiuseppeProceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)[PDF]
- CCQA: A New Web-Scale Question Answering Dataset for Model Pre-TrainingHuber, Patrick and Aghajanyan, Armen and Oğuz, Barlas and Okhonko, Dmytro and Yih, Wen-tau and Gupta, Sonal and Chen, Xilun[PDF]
2020
- Do We Really Need That Many Parameters In Transformer For Extractive Summarization? Discourse Can Help!Xiao, Wen and Huber, Patrick and Carenini, GiuseppeProceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI)[PDF]
- MEGA RST Discourse Treebanks with Structure and Nuclearity from Scalable Distant Sentiment SupervisionHuber, Patrick and Carenini, GiuseppeProceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)[PDF]
- From Sentiment Annotations to Sentiment Prediction through Discourse AugmentationHuber, Patrick and Carenini, GiuseppeThe 28th International Conference on Computational Linguisics (COLING)[PDF]
- Unleashing the Power of Neural Discourse Parsers - A Context and Structure Aware Approach Using Large Scale PretrainingGuz, Grigorii and Huber, Patrick and Carenini, GiuseppeThe 28th International Conference on Computational Linguisics (COLING)[PDF]
2019
- Predicting Discourse Structure using Distant Supervision from SentimentHuber, Patrick and Carenini, GiuseppeProceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)[PDF]
2018
- Automated Evaluation of Out-of-Context ErrorsHuber, Patrick and Niehues, Jan and Waibel, AlexProceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)[PDF]