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20202025
most citedRevisiting the Open-Domain Question Answering Pipeline

3 citations · 5 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CL2025

Detecting Corpus-Level Knowledge Inconsistencies in Wikipedia with Large Language Models

Sina J. Semnani, Jirayu Burapacheep, Arpandeep Khatua +3

Wikipedia is the largest open knowledge corpus, widely used worldwide and serving as a key resource for training large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RA…

cs.CL2025

CHURRO: Making History Readable with an Open-Weight Large Vision-Language Model for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost Historical Text Recognition

Sina J. Semnani, Han Zhang, Xinyan He +2

Accurate text recognition for historical documents can greatly advance the study and preservation of cultural heritage. Existing vision-language models (VLMs), however, are designe…

cs.CL2025

LEMONADE: A Large Multilingual Expert-Annotated Abstractive Event Dataset for the Real World

Sina J. Semnani, Pingyue Zhang, Wanyue Zhai +6

This paper presents LEMONADE, a large-scale conflict event dataset comprising 39,786 events across 20 languages and 171 countries, with extensive coverage of region-specific entiti…

cs.CL2024

Into the Unknown Unknowns: Engaged Human Learning through Participation in Language Model Agent Conversations

Yucheng Jiang, Yijia Shao, Dekun Ma +2

While language model (LM)-powered chatbots and generative search engines excel at answering concrete queries, discovering information in the terrain of unknown unknowns remains cha…

cs.CL2024

SPINACH: SPARQL-Based Information Navigation for Challenging Real-World Questions

Shicheng Liu, Sina J. Semnani, Harold Triedman +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to significant improvements in the Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) task. However, datasets used in KBQA studies do not capture the tr…

cs.CL2024

Zero-shot Persuasive Chatbots with LLM-Generated Strategies and Information Retrieval

Kazuaki Furumai, Roberto Legaspi, Julio Vizcarra +6

Persuasion plays a pivotal role in a wide range of applications from health intervention to the promotion of social good. Persuasive chatbots employed responsibly for social good c…