Publications

Encode Once and Decode in Parallel: Efficient Transformer Decoding
Bo-Ru Lu, Nikita Haduong, Chien-Yu Lin, Hao Cheng, Noah A. Smith, Mari Ostendorf.
Preprint. 2024.
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Does Collaborative Human-LM Dialogue Generation Help Information Extraction from Human Dialogues?
Bo-Ru Lu*, Nikita Haduong*, Chia-Hsuan Lee, Zeqiu Wu, Hao Cheng, Paul Koester, Jean Utke, Tao Yu, Noah A. Smith, Mari Ostendorf.
*Equal contribution.
Preprint. 2023.
[project page] [paper] [code] [data] [interface] [bibtex]

Unsupervised Learning of Hierarchical Conversation Structure
Bo-Ru Lu, Yushi Hu, Hao Cheng, Noah A. Smith, Mari Ostendorf.
In Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022.
[paper] [code] [bibtex]

DialKi: Knowledge Identification in Conversational Systems through Dialogue-Document Contextualization
Zeqiu Wu*, Bo-Ru Lu*, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Mari Ostendorf.
*Equal contribution.
In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2021.
[paper] [poster] [code] [bibtex]

A Multi-Passage Knowledge Selector for Information-Seeking Dialogues
Zeqiu Wu*, Bo-Ru Lu*, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Mari Ostendorf.
*Equal contribution.
In Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP Workshop on Document-grounded Dialogue and Conversational Question Answering (DialDoc), 2021. (non-archival system description paper)
1st prize of DialDoc Shared Task subtask 1.
[paper]

Order-Preserving Abstractive Summarization for Spoken Content Based on Connectionist Temporal Classification
Bo-Ru Lu, Frank Shyu, Yun-Nung Chen, Hung-yi Lee, Lin-shan Lee.
In Proceedings of the Conference on the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), 2017.
[paper] [bibtex]