I am a PhD student at EPFL NLP Group, working with Prof. Antoine Bosselut. I am generally interested in knowledge intensive natural language understanding and generation, especially knowledge enhanced large language models, multimodality, and their downstream applications such as conversational and narrative systems.

Previously, I was a research assistant in the CoAI Group at Tsinghua University, working with Prof. Minlie Huang. I was also an intern working with Prof. Zhou Yu. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Information Science and Technology at Tsinghua University, with my diploma thesis advisor Prof. Zhijian Ou.

Efficient Tool Use with Chain-of-Abstraction Reasoning
Silin Gao, Jane Dwivedi-Yu, Ping Yu, Xiaoqing Ellen Tan, Ramakanth Pasunuru, Olga Golovneva, Koustuv Sinha, Asli Celikyilmaz, Antoine Bosselut, Tianlu Wang
arXiv preprint
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DiffuCOMET: Contextual Commonsense Knowledge Diffusion
Silin Gao, Mete Ismayilzada, Mengjie Zhao, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji, Antoine Bosselut
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024)
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PeaCoK: Persona Commonsense Knowledge for Consistent and Engaging Narratives
Silin Gao, Beatriz Borges, Soyoung Oh, Deniz Bayazit, Saya Kanno, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji, Antoine Bosselut
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023)
Outstanding Paper Award
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ComFact: A Benchmark for Linking Contextual Commonsense Knowledge
Silin Gao, Jena D. Hwang, Saya Kanno, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji, Antoine Bosselut
Findings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022)
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End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog Modeling with Semi-Structured Knowledge Management
Silin Gao, Ryuichi Takanobu, Antoine Bosselut, Minlie Huang
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP)
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HyKnow: End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog Modeling with Hybrid Knowledge Management
Silin Gao, Ryuichi Takanobu, Wei Peng, Qun Liu, Minlie Huang
Findings of the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021)
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Paraphrase Augmented Task-Oriented Dialog Generation
Silin Gao, Yichi Zhang, Zhijian Ou, Zhou Yu
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020)
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Integrating Discrete and Neural Features Via Mixed-Feature Trans-Dimensional Random Field Language Models
Silin Gao, Zhijian Ou, Wei Yang, Huifang Xu
2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
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