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Selected Publications

(Full publication list at Semantic Scholar or Google Scholar)

2022

• Adapting Pretrained Text-to-Text Models for Long Text Sequences
  Wenhan Xiong, Anchit Gupta, Shubham Toshniwal, Yashar Mehdad, Wen-tau Yih
  Arxiv Preprint, [pdf] [code]

• Bridging the Training-Inference Gap for Dense Phrase Retrieval
  Gyuwan Kim, Jinhyuk Lee, Barlas Oguz, Wenhan Xiong, Yizhe Zhang, Yashar Mehdad, William Yang Wang
  EMNLP 2022 Findings, [pdf]

• Scrolls: Standardized comparison over long language sequences
  Uri Shaham, Elad Segal, Maor Ivgi, Avia Efrat, Ori Yoran, Adi Haviv, Ankit Gupta, Wenhan Xiong, Mor Geva, Jonathan Berant, Omer Levy
  EMNLP 2022, [pdf]

• Boosted Dense Retriever
  Patrick Lewis, Barlas Oğuz, Wenhan Xiong, Fabio Petroni, Wen-tau Yih, Sebastian Riedel
  NAACL 2022, [pdf]

• Simple Local Attentions Remain Competitive for Long-Context Tasks
  Wenhan Xiong, Barlas Oğuz, Anchit Gupta, Xilun Chen, Diana Liskovich, Omer Levy, Wen-tau Yih, Yashar Mehdad
  NAACL 2022, [pdf]

2021

• Open-domain question-answering for COVID-19 and other emergent domains
  Sharon Levy, Kevin Mo, Wenhan Xiong, William Yang Wang
  EMNLP 2021 Demo , [pdf]

• Zero-shot Fact Verification by Claim Generation
  Liangming Pan, Wenhu Chen, Wenhan Xiong, Min-Yen Kan, William Yang Wang
  ACL-IJCNLP 2021, [pdf]

• Unsupervised multi-hop question answering by question generation
  Liangming Pan, Wenhu Chen, Wenhan Xiong, Min-Yen Kan, William Yang Wang
  NAACL 2021, [pdf]

• "Progressively pretrained dense corpus index for open-domain question answering"
  Wenhan Xiong, Hong Wang, William Yang Wang
  EACL 2021 , [pdf]

• Answering Complex Open-Domain Questions with Multi-Hop Dense Retrieval
  Wenhan Xiong^*, Xiang Lorraine Li^*, Srini Iyer, Jingfei Du, Patrick Lewis, William Yang Wang, Yashar Mehdad, Wen-tau Yih, Sebastian Riedel, Douwe Kiela, Barlas Oğuz
  ICLR 2021, [code] [pdf]

2020 and before

• Hybridqa: A dataset of multi-hop question answering over tabular and textual data
  Wenhu Chen, Hanwen Zha, Zhiyu Chen, Wenhan Xiong, Hong Wang, William Wang
  EMNLP 2020 Findings, [pdf]

• Pretrained Encyclopedia: Weakly Supervised Knowledge-Pretrained Language Model
  Wenhan Xiong, Jingfe Du, William Yang Wang and Veselin Stoyanov
  ICLR 2020, [pdf]

• Improving Question Answering over Incomplete KBs with Knowledge-Aware Reader
  Wenhan Xiong, Mo Yu, Shiyu Chang, Xiaoxiao Guo and William Yang Wang
  ACL 2019, short oral PDF. [code] [pdf]

• TWEETQA: A Social Media Focused Question Answering Dataset
  Wenhan Xiong, Jiawei Wu, Vivek Kulkarni, Mo Yu, Shiyu Chang, Xiaoxiao Guo and William Yang Wang
  ACL 2019. [pdf]

• Self-supervised learning for contextualized extractive summarization
  Hong Wang, Xin Wang, Wenhan Xiong, Mo Yu, Shiyu Chang, Xiaoxiao Guo and William Yang Wang
  ACL 2019. [pdf]

• Imposing Label-Relational Inductive Bias for Extremely Fine-Grained Entity Typing
  Wenhan Xiong, Jiawei Wu, Deren Lei, Mo Yu, Shiyu Chang, Xiaoxiao Guo and William Yang Wang
  NAACL 2019. [pdf]

• Sentence Embedding Alignment for Lifelong Relation Extraction
  Hong Wang, Wenhan Xiong, Mo Yu, Xiaoxiao Guo, Shiyu Chang and William Yang Wang
  NAACL 2019. [pdf]

• Variational Knowledge Graph Reasoning
  Wenhu Chen, Wenhan Xiong, Xifeng Yan and William Yang Wang
  NAACL 2018. [pdf]

• One-Shot Relational Learning for Knowledge Graphs
  Wenhan Xiong, Mo Yu, Shiyu Chang, Xiaoxiao Guo and William Yang Wang
  EMNLP 2018. [code] [pdf]

• Look before you leap: Bridging model-free and model-based reinforcement learning for planned-ahead vision-and-language navigation
  Xin Wang^*, Wenhan Xiong^*, Hongmin Wang and William Yang Wang
  ECCV 2018. [pdf]

• "DeepPath: A Reinforcement Learning Method for Knowledge Graph Reasoning"
  Wenhan Xiong, Thien Hoang and William Yang Wang
  EMNLP 2017, long oral [code] [pdf] [slides]