Reinald Kim Amplayo

Research Scientist
Google DeepMind, London
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About Me

I am a research scientist at Google DeepMind based in London. Prior to this, I was a PhD Student in the School of Informatics at University of Edinburgh, under the supervision of Mirella Lapata. I was fortunate to be awarded a Google PhD Fellowship. I also have worked with Seung-won Hwang at Yonsei University, Peter J. Liu in Google Brain, and Sang-Woo Lee at NAVER AI Lab.

My research interests lie on the intersection of machine learning and natural language processing, mainly on long-form text generation with large language models. I am interested in the use of intermediate steps usually in the form of content plans that help LLMs generate long texts that are well-structured and coherent.

News

• Jul 2023: I will be presenting our paper on query refinement prompts at ACL 2023, Toronto, Canada. See you there!
• Jul 2023: My co-author Mirella will be presenting our TACL paper on text blueprints at ACL 2023, Toronto, Canada.
• May 2023: I presented our paper on SMART evaluation metric at ICLR 2023, Kigali, Rwanda.
• May 2023: My co-author Fantine presented our demo paper on text blueprints at EACL 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
• Apr 2023: I am now part of Google DeepMind.

Professional Service

• Area Chair: xACL, EMNLP
• Reviewer: xACL, EMNLP, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS
• Mentor: ACL SRW, AACL SRW

Recent Selected Publications

Please refer to my Google Scholar profile for the full list of publications.

2023

• Conditional Generation with a Question-Answering Blueprint.
  Shashi Narayan, Joshua Maynez, Reinald Kim Amplayo, Kuzman Ganchev, Annie Louis, Fantine Huot, Anders Sandholm, Dipanjan Das, Mirella Lapata
  TACL 2023.
  [PDF]
• Query Refinement Prompts for Closed-Book Long-Form Question Answering.
  Reinald Kim Amplayo, Kellie Webster, Michael Collins, Dipanjan Das, Shashi Narayan
  ACL 2023.
  [PDF]
• SMART: Sentences as Basic Units for Text Evaluation.
  Reinald Kim Amplayo, Peter J. Liu, Yao Zhao, Shashi Narayan
  ICLR 2023.
  [PDF]

2022

• Beyond Opinion Mining: Summarizing Opinions of Customer Reviews.
  Reinald Kim Amplayo, Arthur Brazinskas, Yoshi Suhara, Xiaolan Wang, Bing Liu.
  SIGIR 2022.
  [PDF]
• Attribute Injection for Pretrained Language Models: A New Benchmark and an Efficient Method.
  Reinald Kim Amplayo, Kang Min Yoo, Sang-Woo Lee
  COLING 2022.
  [PDF]
• Modularized Transfer Learning with Multiple Knowledge Graphs for Zero-shot Commonsense Reasoning.
  Yu Jin Kim, Beong-woo Kwak, Youngwook Kim, Reinald Kim Amplayo, Seung-won Hwang, Jinyoung Yeo
  NAACL 2022.
  [PDF]

2021

• Aspect-Controllable Opinion Summarization.
  Reinald Kim Amplayo, Stefanos Angelidis, and Mirella Lapata.
  EMNLP 2021.
  [PDF] [Code/Data] [Reviews]
• Informative and Controllable Opinion Summarization.
  Reinald Kim Amplayo and Mirella Lapata.
  EACL 2021.
  [PDF] [Code/Data] [Reviews]
• Unsupervised Opinion Summarization with Content Planning.
  Reinald Kim Amplayo, Stefanos Angelidis, and Mirella Lapata.
  AAAI 2021.
  [PDF] [Code/Data] [Reviews]

2020

• Extractive Opinion Summarization in Quantized Transformer Spaces.
  Stefanos Angelidis, Reinald Kim Amplayo, Yoshihiko Suhara, Xiaolan Wang, and Mirella Lapata.
  TACL 2020.
  [PDF] [Code/Data] [Reviews]
• Retrieval-Augmented and Controllable Review Generation.
  Jihyuk Kim, Seungtaek Choi, Reinald Kim Amplayo, and Seung-won Hwang.
  COLING 2020.
  [PDF] [Reviews]
• Heads-up! Unsupervised Constituency Parsing via Self-Attention Heads.
  Bowen Li, Taeuk Kim, Reinald Kim Amplayo, and Frank Keller.
  AACL 2020.
  [PDF] [Reviews]
• Unsupervised Opinion Summarization with Noising and Denoising.
  Reinald Kim Amplayo and Mirella Lapata.
  ACL 2020.
  [PDF] [Code/Data] [Reviews]

Awards & Scholarships

• Google PhD Fellowship from Google
• Best Student Paper Runnerup at ACML 2018
• ACL Walker Fund for ACL 2018 from ACL
• Principal's Career Development Scholarship - School of Informatics from the University of Edinburgh
• Edinburgh Global Research Scholarship from the University of Edinburgh
• Google Travel Grant for ICDM 2017 from Google
• Korean Government Scholarship Program from NIIED