Publications

Natural language processing

C. Malon and X. Zhu. “Self-Consistent Decoding for More Factual Open Responses.” ArXiv 2403.00696, 2024. (link).

C. Malon. “Automatically Evaluating Opinion Prevalence in Opinion Summarization.” To appear at The 6th Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP, KDD 2023.

H. Widjaja, K. Gashteovski, W. Ben Rim, P. Liu, C. Malon, D. Ruffinelli, C. Lawrence, and G. Neubig. “KGxBoard: Explainable and Interactive Leaderboard for Evaluation of Knowledge Graph Completion Models.” Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, EMNLP 2022. (link).

H. Kobayashi and C. Malon. “Analyzing Coreference and Bridging in Product Reviews.” Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora, and Coreference, COLING 2022. (link, dataset).

C. Malon, K. Li, and E. Kruus. “Fast Few-shot Debugging for NLU Test Suites.” Proceedings of Deep Learning Inside Out (DeeLIO 2022): The 3rd Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Integration for Deep Learning Architectures, ACL 2022, 79-86. (link).

B. Liu, C. Malon, L. Xue, and E. Kruus. “Improving Neural Network Robustness through Neighborhood Preserving Layers.” Image and Vision Compution: Special Issue on Learning with Manifolds in Computer Vision, 123:104669, 1-9, 2022. (link, preprint).

C. Malon. “Team Papelo at FEVEROUS: Multi-hop Evidence Pursuit.” Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER), EMNLP 2021, 40-49. (link).

Z. Shi, H. Liu, M. Min, C. Malon, L. Li, and X. Zhu. “Retrieval, Analogy, and Composition: A framework for Compositional Generalization in Image Captioning.” Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EMNLP 2021, 1990-2000. (link).

C. Malon. “Overcoming Poor Word Embeddings with Word Definitions.” Proceedings of *SEM 2021: The Tenth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, ACL 2021, 288-293. (link, dataset).

C. Malon and B. Bai. “Generating Followup Questions for Interpretable Multi-hop Question Answering.” ArXiv 2002.12344, 2020. (link).

P. Cheng, M. Min, D. Shen, C. Malon, Y. Zhang, Y. Li, and L. Carin. “Improving Disentangled Text Representation Learning with Information-Theoretic Guidance.” Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2020, 7530-7541 (link).

J. Kim, C. Malon, and A. Kadav. “Teaching Syntax by Adversarial Distraction.” Proceedings of the First Workshop on Fact Extraction and Verification, EMNLP 2018, 79-84 (link).

C. Malon. “Team Papelo: Transformer Networks at FEVER.” Proceedings of the First Workshop on Fact Extraction and Verification, EMNLP 2018, 109-113 (link).

C. Malon and B. Bai. “Answer Extraction by Recursive Parse Tree Descent.” Proceedings of the Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality, ACL 2013, 110-118 (link, preprint, dataset).

P.-F. Laquerre and C. Malon. “NECLA at the Medical Natural Language Processing Pilot Task (MedNLP). ” Proceedings of the 10th NTCIR Conference, 2013 (link).

C. Malon, B. Bai, and K. S. Hasan. “Slot-Filling by Substring Extraction at TAC KBP 2012 (Team Papelo). ” NIST Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2012 (preprint).

Digital pathology

C. Malon and E. Cosatto. “Classification of Mitotic Figures with Convolutional Neural Networks and Seeded Blob Features.” J. Pathology Informatics 4 (9) (2013) (link)

E. Cosatto, P.-F. Laquerre, C. Malon, H. P. Graf, A. Saito, T. Kiyuna, A. Marugame, and K. Kamijo. “Automated gastric cancer diagnosis on H&E-stained sections; training a classifier on a large scale with multiple instance machine learning.” Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging, Digital Pathology 8676 (2013) (link, preprint).

C. Malon, E. Brachtel, E. Cosatto, H. P. Graf, A. Kurata, M. Kuroda, J. S. Meyer, and A. Saito. “Mitotic figure recognition: Agreement among pathologists and computerized detector.” Analytical Cellular Pathology 35 (2) (2012) (link, preprint).

M. Ogura, A. Saito, H.P. Graf, E. Cosatto, C. Malon, A. Marugame, T. Kiyuna, Y. Yamashita, and M. Fukumoto. “The e-Pathologist Cancer Diagnosis Assistance System for Gastric Biopsy Tissues (abstract).” Analytical Cellular Pathology 34 (4) (2011) (link).

C. Malon and E. Cosatto. “Dynamic radial contour extraction by splitting homogeneous areas. ” Computer Analysis of Image and Patterns, LNCS 6854 (2011), (link).

C. Malon, M. Miller, H. C. Burger, E. Cosatto, and H. P. Graf. “Identifying Histological Elements with Convolutional Neural Networks.” ACM CSTST 2008 Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging, 450--456 (link, preprint).

Optical character recognition

C. Malon, S. Uchida, and M. Suzuki. “Mathematical Symbol Recognition with Support Vector Machines.” Pattern Recognition Letters 29 (9), 1326-1332 (link, preprint).

C. Malon, S. Uchida, and M. Suzuki. “Separation of Touching Characters Using DP Matching.” IEICE Pattern Recognition and Machine Understanding, Okayama 2007, PRMU 2006-237, 13-18 (link).

Combinatorics, Probability, and Computing

C. Malon and I. Pak. “Percolation on Finite Cayley Graphs.” Combinatorics, Probability, and Computing 15 (2006), 571-588 (link, preprint).

D. Goldberg, M. Bern, and C. Malon. “A Global Approach to Automatic Solution of Jigsaw Puzzles.” Computational Geometry 28 (2004), 165-174. (link, preprint).

P. Dreyer, C. Malon, and J. Nesetril. “Universal H-Colorable Graphs Without a Given Configuration.” Discrete Mathematics 250 (2002), 245-252. (link, preprint).

Representation theory

C. Malon. “The p-adic Local Langlands Conjecture.” Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005 (link) Advisor: David Vogan.