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most citedQuery Resolution for Conversational Search with Limited Supervision

111 citations · 184 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL2026

Does task decomposition improve automatic NLG evaluation?

Sebastian Steindl, Nikos Voskarides, Alberto Gasparin +1

The LLM-as-a-judge (LLMaJ) framework has emerged as a promising solution for cheap, reproducible, reference-free Natural Language Generation (NLG) evaluation. Prior work seeks to i…

cs.CL2026

Post-hoc Alignment of LLM-judges to Human Judgment Distribution

Sebastian Steindl, Nikos Voskarides, Alberto Gasparin +1

The LLM-as-a-judge (LLMaJ) framework offers a cost-effective and reproducible solution for automatic evaluation. However, current evaluation practices typically compare LLMaJ judgm…

cs.CL2022

Performance-Efficiency Trade-Offs in Adapting Language Models to Text Classification Tasks

Laura Aina, Nikos Voskarides, Roi Blanco

Pre-trained language models (LMs) obtain state-of-the-art performance when adapted to text classification tasks. However, when using such models in real-world applications, efficie…

cs.CL2021★ 6 cited

News Article Retrieval in Context for Event-centric Narrative Creation

Nikos Voskarides, Edgar Meij, Sabrina Sauer +1

Writers such as journalists often use automatic tools to find relevant content to include in their narratives. In this paper, we focus on supporting writers in the news domain to d…

cs.IR2021

Combining Lexical and Dense Retrieval for Computationally Efficient Multi-hop Question Answering

Georgios Sidiropoulos, Nikos Voskarides, Svitlana Vakulenko +1

In simple open-domain question answering (QA), dense retrieval has become one of the standard approaches for retrieving the relevant passages to infer an answer. Recently, dense re…

cs.IR2021

Leveraging Query Resolution and Reading Comprehension for Conversational Passage Retrieval

Svitlana Vakulenko, Nikos Voskarides, Zhucheng Tu +1

This paper describes the participation of UvA.ILPS group at the TREC CAsT 2020 track. Our passage retrieval pipeline consists of (i) an initial retrieval module that uses BM25, and…

cs.IR2021★ 1 cited

Supporting search engines with knowledge and context

Nikos Voskarides

Search engines leverage knowledge to improve information access. In order to effectively leverage knowledge, search engines should account for context, i.e., information about the…

cs.IR2021

MICROS: Mixed-Initiative ConveRsatiOnal Systems Workshop

Ida Mele, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Mohammad Aliannejadi +1

The 1st edition of the workshop on Mixed-Initiative ConveRsatiOnal Systems (MICROS@ECIR2021) aims at investigating and collecting novel ideas and contributions in the field of conv…

cs.IR2021★ 2 cited

A Comparison of Question Rewriting Methods for Conversational Passage Retrieval

Svitlana Vakulenko, Nikos Voskarides, Zhucheng Tu +1

Conversational passage retrieval relies on question rewriting to modify the original question so that it no longer depends on the conversation history. Several methods for question…

cs.IR2020★ 46 cited

Analysing the Effect of Clarifying Questions on Document Ranking in Conversational Search

Antonios Minas Krasakis, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nikos Voskarides +1

Recent research on conversational search highlights the importance of mixed-initiative in conversations. To enable mixed-initiative, the system should be able to ask clarifying que…

cs.CL2020

Knowledge Graph Simple Question Answering for Unseen Domains

Georgios Sidiropoulos, Nikos Voskarides, Evangelos Kanoulas

Knowledge graph simple question answering (KGSQA), in its standard form, does not take into account that human-curated question answering training data only cover a small subset of…

cs.IR2020★ 111 cited

Query Resolution for Conversational Search with Limited Supervision

Nikos Voskarides, Dan Li, Pengjie Ren +2

In this work we focus on multi-turn passage retrieval as a crucial component of conversational search. One of the key challenges in multi-turn passage retrieval comes from the fact…

cs.IR2018★ 18 cited

Weakly-supervised Contextualization of Knowledge Graph Facts

Nikos Voskarides, Edgar Meij, Ridho Reinanda +5

Knowledge graphs (KGs) model facts about the world, they consist of nodes (entities such as companies and people) that are connected by edges (relations such as founderOf). Facts e…