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Bonan Min

Principal Scientist, Amazon AWS AI Labs

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  1. Bonan Min, Hayley Ross, Elior Sulem, Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Thien Huu Nguyen, Oscar Sainz, Eneko Agirre, Ilana Heinz, Dan Roth. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing via Large Pre-Trained Language Models: A Survey. ACM Computing Surveys 56 (2), 1-40.
  2. Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Franck Dernoncourt, Bonan Min, Thien Nguyen. Generating Labeled Data for Relation Extraction: A Meta Learning Approach with Joint GPT-2 Training. In Findings of ACL 2023.
  3. Alexander Hanbo Li, Mingyue Shang, Evangelia Spiliopoulou, Jie Ma, Patrick Ng, Zhiguo Wang, Bonan Min, William Wang, Kathleen McKeown, Vittorio Castelli, Dan Roth, Bing Xiang. Few-Shot Data-to-Text Generation via Unified Representation and Multi-Source Learning. In Proceedings of ACL 2023.
  4. Jin Zhao, Nianwen Xue, Bonan Min. Cross-Document Event Coreference Resolution: Instruct Humans or Instruct GPT?. In Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) 2023.
  5. John Hungerford, Yee Seng Chan, Jessica MacBride, Benjamin Gyori, Andrew Lee Zupon, Zheng Tang, Egoitz Laparra, Haoling Qiu, Bonan Min, Yan Zverev, Caitlin Hilverman, Max Thomas, Walter Andrews, Keith Alcock, Zeyu Zhang, Michael Reynolds, Mihai Surdeanu, Steven Bethard, Rebecca Sharp. Taxonomy Builder: a Data-driven and User-centric Tool for Streamlining Taxonomy Construction. To appear at the 2nd HCI + NLP Workshop at NAACL-HLT 2022
  6. Minh Van Nguyen, Bonan Min, Franck Dernoncourt, Thien Nguyen. Learning Cross-Task Dependencies for Joint Extraction of Entities, Events, Event Arguments, and Relations. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2022.
  7. Nghia Ngo, Bonan Min, Thien Nguyen. Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Joint Information Extraction. In Findings of EMNLP 2022.
  8. Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Franck Dernoncourt, Bonan Min, Thien Huu Nguyen. Generating Complement Data for Aspect Term Extraction with GPT-2. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Deep Learning for Low-Resource Natural Language Processing at NAACL-HLT 2022.
    9. Minh Van Nguyen, Nghia Trung Ngo, Bonan Min, Thien Huu Nguyen. FAMIE: A Fast Active Learning Framework for Multilingual Information Extraction. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2022 (Demonstrations).
  9. Oscar Sainz, Haoling Qiu, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Eneko Agirre, Bonan Min. ZS4IE: A toolkit for Zero-Shot Information Extraction with simple Verbalizations. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2022 (Demonstrations).
  10. Oscar Sainz, Itziar Gonzalez-Dios, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Bonan Min, Eneko Agirre. Textual Entailment for Event Argument Extraction: Zero- and Few-Shot with Multi-Source Learning. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2022 (Findings).
  11. Jiarui Yao, Nianwen Xue, Bonan Min. Modal Dependency Parsing via Language Model Priming. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2022
  12. Minh Van Nguyen, Bonan Min, Franck Dernoncourt, and Thien Huu Nguyen. Joint Extraction of Entities, Relations, and Events via Modeling Inter-Instance and Inter-Label Dependencies. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2022
  13. Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Minh Van Nguyen, Franck Dernoncourt, Bonan Min, Thien Huu Nguyen. Document-Level Event Argument Extraction via Optimal Transport. In Proceedings of ACL 2022 (Findings).
  14. Bonan Min. Exploring Pre-Trained Transformers and Bilingual Transfer Learning for Arabic Coreference Resolution. To appear in Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC) at EMNLP, 2021.
  15. Milod Kazerounian, Jeffrey S. Foster, Bonan Min. SimTyper: Sound Type Inference for Ruby using Type Equality Prediction. In Prooceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, Volume 5 (OOPSLA). October 2021.
  16. Bonan Min, Benjamin Rozonoyer, Haoling Qiu, Alexander Zamanian, Nianwen Xue and Jessica MacBride. ExcavatorCovid: Extracting Events and Relations from Text Corpora for Temporal and Causal Analysis for COVID-19. To appear at EMNLP 2021 (demonstration).
  17. Minh Van Nguyen, Tuan Ngo Nguyen, Bonan Min and Thien Huu Nguyen. Crosslingual Transfer Learning for Relation and Event Extraction via Word Category and Class Alignments. To appear at EMNLP 2021.
  18. Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Minh Van Nguyen, Nghia Ngo Trung, Bonan Min and Thien Huu Nguyen. Modeling Document-Level Context for Event Detection via Important Context Selection. To appear at EMNLP 2021.
  19. Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Minh Van Nguyen, Bonan Min and Thien Huu Nguyen. Augmenting Open-Domain Event Detection with Synthetic Data from GPT-2. In Proceedings of ECML PKDD 2021.
  20. Jiarui Yao, Haoling Qiu, Jin Zhao, Bonan Min and Nianwen Xue. Factuality Assessment as Modal Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2021.
  21. Hemanth Kandula and Bonan Min. Improving Cross-Lingual Sentiment Analysis via Conditional Language Adversarial Nets. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Research in Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP) at NAACL 2021.
  22. Panagiotis Lymperopoulos, Haoling Qiu, Bonan Min. Concept Wikification for COVID-19. In Proceedings of the Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 at EMNLP 2020.
  23. Wenlin Yao, Zeyu Dai, Maitreyi Ramaswamy, Bonan Min and Ruihong Huang. Weakly Supervised Subevent Knowledge Acquisition. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2020.
  24. Jiarui Yao, Haoling Qiu, Bonan Min and Nianwen Xue. Annotating Temporal Dependency Graphs via Crowdsourcing. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2020.
  25. Hayley Ross, Jonathon Cai, and Bonan Min. Exploring Contextualized Neural Language Models for Temporal Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2020.
  26. Bonan Min, Yee Seng Chan, Lingjun Zhao. Towards Few-Shot Event Mention Retrieval: An Evaluation Framework and A Siamese Network Approach. In Proceedings of LREC 2020.
  27. Bonan Min, Manaj Srivastava, Haoling Qiu, Prasannakumar Muthukumar and Joshua Fasching. LearnIt: On-Demand Rapid Customization for Event-Event Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of AAAI 2020 (demonstration).
  28. Bonan Min, Yee Seng Chan, Haoling Qiu and Joshua Fasching. Towards Machine Reading for Interventions from Humanitarian-Assistance Program Literature . In Proceedings of EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019.
  29. Bonan Min and Xiaoxi Zhao. Measure Country-Level Socio-Economic Indicators with Streaming News: An Empirical Study. In Proceedings of EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019.
  30. Yee Seng Chan, Joshua Fasching, Haoling Qiu, Bonan Min. Rapid Customization for Event Extraction. In Proceedings of ACL 2019 (demonstration).
  31. Lisheng Fu, Bonan Min, Thien Huu Nguyen and Ralph Grishman. A Case Study on Learning a Unified Encoder of Relations. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT) at EMNLP 2018.
  32. Bonan Min, Marjorie Freedman and Ryan Gabbard. One Sense Per Document: Improve Name Finding in the Wild with Document-wide Context. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Knowledge Base Construction, Reasoning and Mining at WSDM 2018.
  33. Bonan Min, Marjorie Freedman, Roger Bock and Ralph Weischedel. When ACE met KBP: End-to-End Evaluation of Knowledge Base Population with Component-level Annotation. In Proceedings of LREC 2018.
  34. Lisheng Fu, Thien Huu Nguyen, Bonan Min and Ralph Grishman. Domain Adaptation for Relation Extraction with Domain Adversarial Neural Network. In Proceedings of IJCNLP 2017.
  35. Bonan Min*, Zhuolin Jiang*, Marjorie Freedman and Ralph Weischedel. Learning Transferable Representation for Bilingual Relation Extraction via Convolutional Neural Networks. In Proceedings of IJCNLP 2017 (*: equal contribution).
  36. Bonan Min, Marjorie Freedman and Talya Meltzer. Probabilistic Inference for Cold Start Knowledge Base Population with Prior World Knowledge. In Proceedings of EACL 2017.
  37. Manaj Srivastava, David Trupiano, David Akodes, Ilana Heintz, Hannah Provenza, Bonan Min, Jay DeYoung, Lance A Ramshaw, Roger Bock. Adept Automatic Knowledge Discovery System for Cold Start Knowledge Base Population. In Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2017.
  38. Bonan Min and Marjorie Freedman. BBN's 2016 System for Cold Start Knowledge Base Population. In Proceedings of the Text Annalysis Conference (TAC), November 2016.
  39. Bonan Min, Marjorie Freedman and Constantine Lignos. BBN’s 2015 System for Cold Start Knowledge Base Population. In Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC), November 2015.
  40. Bonan Min and Marjorie Freedman. BBN System for Cold Start Knowledge Base Population. In Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC), November 2014.
  41. Maria Pershina, Bonan Min, Wei Xu and Ralph Grishman. Infusion of Labeled Data into Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of ACL 2014.
  42. Bonan Min, Ralph Grishman, Li Wan, Chang Wang and David Gondek. Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction with an Incomplete Knowledge Base. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2013.
  43. Bonan Min, Xiang Li, Ralph Grishman and Ang Sun. New York University 2012 System for KBP Slot Filling. In Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2012.
  44. Bonan Min, Shuming Shi, Ralph Grishman and Chin-Yew Lin. Towards Large-Scale Unsupervised Relation Extraction from the Web. In International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), Volume 8 Issue 3, 2012.
  45. Bonan Min, Shuming Shi, Ralph Grishman and Chin-Yew Lin. Ensemble Semantics for Large-scale Unsupervised Relation Extraction . In Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL 2012. (also appear earlier as Microsoft Technique Report MSR-TR-2012-51, May 2012).
  46. Bonan Min and Ralph Grishman. Challenges in the TAC-KBP Slot Filling task . In Proceedings of LREC 2012.
  47. Bonan Min and Ralph Grishman. Compensating for Annotation Errors in Training a Relation Extractor. In Proceedings of EACL 2012.
  48. Ang Sun, Ralph Grishman, Wei Xu, Bonan Min. New York University 2011 System for KBP Slot Filling. In Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC), November 2011.
  49. Bonan Min and Ralph Grishman. Fine-Grained Entity Set Refinement With User Feedback. In Proceedings of RANLP workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition, September 2011
  50. Ralph Grishman and Bonan Min. New York University KBP Slot-Filling System. In Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC), November 2010.
  51. Nguyen Tran, Bonan Min, Jinyang Li, and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. Sybil resilient online content rating. In Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2009.
  52. Haiyong Xie, Bonan Min, and Yafei Dai. SODA: Towards a Framework for Self Optimization via Demand Adaptation in Peer-to-Peer Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing 2009, September 2009.
  53. Mingzhong Xiao, Xiaoxiao Hou, and Bonan Min. A Practical Scheme for Content Filter in P2P File Sharing System. Computer Engineering (Chinese), 18, 2008.
  54. Mingzhong Xiao, Jiacong Wang, and Bonan Min. Matrix Bloom Filter on Dynamic Set. Application Research of Computers (Chinese), 7, 2008.
  55. Bonan Min. Peer-Assisted Traffic Optimization for P2P Networks. Outstanding Master's Thesis. Peking University. 2008
  56. Bonan Min, Mingzhong Xiao, Qinyuan Feng, Jiacong Wang, Jing Jiang. A simple, universal and scalable approach to migrate applications to hybrid network using ALG. In Proceedings of International Workshop on NGI and P2P Systems (INPS), 2006.
  57. Jiacong Wang, Mingzhong Xiao, Jing Jiang, and Bonan Min. i-DBF: an Improved Bloom Filter Representation Method on Dynamic Set. In Proceedings of International Workshop on NGI and P2P Systems (INPS), 2006.
  58. XIAO Ming-zhong, MIN Bo-nan, WANG Jia-chong, DAI Ya-fei. Practical Hashing Function for URLs Set. MINI-MICRO SYSTEMS, 2006 Vol.27 No.3 P.538-541 (In Chinese)

Technical Report

  1. Bonan Min, Nguyen Tran, Jinyang Li, and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. Routepourri: Defensive BGP Route Selection. New York University CS Department. 2009.

Patents

  1. Bonan Min, Rabih Zbib, Zhongqiang Huang. Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval and Information Extraction. US Patent 11,531,824
  2. Bonan Min, Yee Seng Chan, Ilana Heintz. Linguistically Rich Cross-Lingual Text Event Embeddings. US Patent 11,227,128

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Last Updated:  Nov 20th, 2020