Eric Wong


2023

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Comparing Styles across Languages
Shreya Havaldar | Matthew Pressimone | Eric Wong | Lyle Ungar
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Understanding how styles differ across languages is advantageous for training both humans and computers to generate culturally appropriate text. We introduce an explanation framework to extract stylistic differences from multilingual LMs and compare styles across languages. Our framework (1) generates comprehensive style lexica in any language and (2) consolidates feature importances from LMs into comparable lexical categories. We apply this framework to compare politeness, creating the first holistic multilingual politeness dataset and exploring how politeness varies across four languages. Our approach enables an effective evaluation of how distinct linguistic categories contribute to stylistic variations and provides interpretable insights into how people communicate differently around the world.

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Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Qing Lyu | Shreya Havaldar | Adam Stein | Li Zhang | Delip Rao | Eric Wong | Marianna Apidianaki | Chris Callison-Burch
Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)