Publications

Journal Publications:

Edwin Simpson, Yang Gao, Iryna Gurevych

Interactive Text Ranking with Bayesian Optimization: A Case Study on Community QA and Summarization

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2020

Yang Gao, Christian M. Meyer, Iryna Gurevych

Preference-based Interactive Multi-Document Summarisation

Information Retrieval Journal, Springer, Nov 2019 (github project)

Regis Riveret, Pietro Baroni, Yang Gao, Antonino Rotolo, Giovanni Sartor

A Probabilistic Argumentation Framework for Reinforcement Learning Agents

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Springer, Mar 2019

Wei Wang, Hao Wang, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Chen Zhang, Yang Gao

Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation via Fredholm Integral based Kernel Methods

Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, Jan 2019

Regis Riveret, Pietro Baroni, Yang Gao, Antonino Rotolo, Giovanni Sartor

A Labelling Framework for Probabilistic Argumentation

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Springer, May 2018

Wei Wang, Hao Wang, Chen Zhang, Yang Gao

Cross-Domain Metric and Multiple Kernel Learning Based on Information Theory

Neural Computation, MIT Press, Mar 2018

Wei Wang, Chen Zhang, Hao Wang, Yang Gao, Yuanman Zheng

A Cognition Graph Approach for Insights Generation from Event Sequences

Cluster Computing, Springer US, Jun 2017

Conference Publications:

Piyawat Lertvittayakumjorn, Ivan Petej, Yang Gao, Yamuna Krishnamurthy, Anna Van Der Gaag, Robert Jago, Kostas Stathis

Supporting Complaints Investigation for Nursing and Midwifery Regulatory Agencies

Proceedings of 2021 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2021 Demo)

Yang Gao, Wei Zhao, Steffen Eger

SUPERT: Towards New Frontiers in Unsupervised Evaluation Metrics for Multi-Document Summarization

Proceedings of 2020 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020) (github project)

Wei Zhao, Goran Glavaš, Maxime Peyrard, Yang Gao, Robert West, Steffen Eger

On the Limitations of Cross-lingual Encoders as Exposed by Reference-Free Machine Translation Evaluation

Proceedings of 2020 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020) (github project)

Wei Zhao, Maxime Peyrard, Fei Liu, Yang Gao, Christian M. Meyer, Steffen Eger

MoverScore: Text Generation Evaluating with Contextualized Embeddings and Earth Mover Distance

Proceedings of 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2019) (github project)

Florian Böhm, Yang Gao, Christian M. Meyer, Ori Shapira, Ido Dagan, Iryna Gurevych

Better Rewards Yield Better Summaries: Learning to Summarise Without References

Proceedings of 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2019) (github project)

Yang Gao, Christian M. Meyer, Mohsen Mesgar, Iryna Gurevych

Reward Learning for Efficient Reinforcement Learning in Extractive Document Summarisation

Proceedings of 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019) (github project)

Yang Gao, Steffen Eger, Ilia Kuznetsov, Iryna Gurevych, Yusuke Miyao

Does My Rebuttal Matter? Insights from a Major NLP Conference

Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2019) (github project)

Ori Shapira, David Gabay, Yang Gao, Hadar Ronen, Ramakanth Pasunuru, Mohit Bansal, Yael Amsterdamer, Ido Dagan

Crowdsourcing Lightweight Pyramids for Manual Summary Evaluation

Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2019) (github project)

Yang Gao, Christian M. Meyer, Iryna Gurevych

APRIL: Interactively Learning to Summarise by Combining Active Preference Learning and Reinforcement Learning

Proceedings of 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018) (github project)

Wei Wang, Hao Wang, Chen Zhang, Yang Gao

Fredholm Multiple Kernel Learning for Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation

Proceedings of 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2017)

Haijing Liu, Yang Gao, Pin Lv, Mengxue Li, Shiqiang Geng, Minglan Li, Hao Wang

Using Argument-based Features to Predict and Analyse Review Helpfulness

Proceedings of 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2017)

Yang Gao, Hao Wang, Chen Zhang, Wei Wang

Reinforcement Learning Based Argument Component Detection

arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.06239

Minglan Li, Yang Gao, Hui Wen, Yang Du, Haijing Liu, Hao Wang

Joint RNN Model for Argument Component Boundary Detection

Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2017)

Mengxue Li, Shiqiang Geng, Yang Gao, Shuhua Peng, Haijing Liu, Hao Wang

Crowdsourcing Argumentation Structures in Chinese Hotel Reviews

Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2017)

Yang Gao, Francesca Toni, Hao Wang, Fanjiang Xu

Argumentation based Multi-Agent Decision Making with Privacy Preserved

Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016)

Lucas Carstens, Xiuyi Fan, Yang Gao, Francesca Toni

An overview of Argumentation Frameworks for Decision Support

Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (GKR 2015)

Yang Gao, Francesca Toni

Potential Based Reward Shaping for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

Proceedings of 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015)

Yang Gao, Francesca Toni

Argumentation Accelerated Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems

Proceedings of 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2014)

Yang Gao, Francesca Toni

Argumentation-Based Reinforcement Learning for RoboCup Soccer Takeaway

Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2014)

Yang Gao, Francesca Toni

Compact State Representation for Tree-Structured RL

2013 Reinforcement Learning competition (runner-up in Invasive Plant competition)

Yang Gao, Francesca Toni

Argumentation Accelerated Reinforcement Learning for RoboCup Keepaway-Takeaway

Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation, LNCS Volume 8306, 2014, pp 79-94 (TAFA 2013)

Yang Gao

A Reinforcement Learning Based Strategy for the Double-Game Prisoner’s Dilemma,

Proceedings of the first International Conference on Agreement Technologies (AT 2012)

Yang Gao, Francesca Toni, Robert Craven

Argumentation-Based Reinforcement Learning for RoboCup Soccer Keepaway,

Proceedings of 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2012)

Yang Gao, Francesca Toni, Robert Craven

Argumentation-Based Reinforcement Learning for RoboCup Keepaway (extended abstract)

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA12)