Publications

On the Effect of Isotropy on VAE Representations of Text

Published in Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022

Oral Presentation. A short paper studies the effect of injecting isotropy into the representation of VAEs.

Recommended citation: Lan Zhang, Wray Buntine, and Ehsan Shareghi. 2022. On the Effect of Isotropy on VAE Representations of Text. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 694–701, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-short.78

Unsupervised Representation Disentanglement of Text: An Evaluation on Synthetic Datasets

Published in Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP), 2021

Poster. A long paper studies disentanglement for text.

Recommended citation: Lan Zhang, Victor Prokhorov, and Ehsan Shareghi. 2021. Unsupervised Representation Disentanglement of Text: An Evaluation on Synthetic Datasets. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2021), pages 128–140, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2021.repl4nlp-1.14