Zheng Hui


2024

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Enhancing Pre-Trained Generative Language Models with Question Attended Span Extraction on Machine Reading Comprehension
Lin Ai | Zheng Hui | Zizhou Liu | Julia Hirschberg
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Defending Against Social Engineering Attacks in the Age of LLMs
Lin Ai | Tharindu Sandaruwan Kumarage | Amrita Bhattacharjee | Zizhou Liu | Zheng Hui | Michael S. Davinroy | James Cook | Laura Cassani | Kirill Trapeznikov | Matthias Kirchner | Arslan Basharat | Anthony Hoogs | Joshua Garland | Huan Liu | Julia Hirschberg
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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ToxiCraft: A Novel Framework for Synthetic Generation of Harmful Information
Zheng Hui | Zhaoxiao Guo | Hang Zhao | Juanyong Duan | Congrui Huang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024

In different NLP tasks, detecting harmful content is crucial for online environments, especially with the growing influence of social media. However, previous research has two main issues: 1) a lack of data in low-resource settings, and 2) inconsistent definitions and criteria for judging harmful content, requiring classification models to be robust to spurious features and diverse. We propose Toxicraft, a novel framework for synthesizing datasets of harmful information to address these weaknesses. With only a small amount of seed data, our framework can generate a wide variety of synthetic, yet remarkably realistic, examples of toxic information. Experimentation across various datasets showcases a notable enhancement in detection model robustness and adaptability, surpassing or close to the gold labels.