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20202026
most citedParameter-Efficient Abstractive Question Answering over Tables or Text

12 citations · 26 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.IR2026

Overview of the TREC 2025 Million Large Language Models track

Evangelos Kanoulas, Panagiotis Eustratiadis, Jamie Callan +5

Agentic AI envisions ecosystems of intelligent agents collaboratively solving complex tasks with minimal human intervention. In such ecosystems, each agent possesses specialized ex…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

Agent-centric Information Access

Evangelos Kanoulas, Panagiotis Eustratiadis, Yongkang Li +5

As large language models (LLMs) become more specialized, we envision a future where millions of expert LLMs exist, each trained on proprietary data and excelling in specific domain…

cs.CL2024

Table Question Answering for Low-resourced Indic Languages

Vaishali Pal, Evangelos Kanoulas, Andrew Yates +1

TableQA is the task of answering questions over tables of structured information, returning individual cells or tables as output. TableQA research has focused primarily on high-res…

cs.CL2024

QFMTS: Generating Query-Focused Summaries over Multi-Table Inputs

Weijia Zhang, Vaishali Pal, Jia-Hong Huang +2

Table summarization is a crucial task aimed at condensing information from tabular data into concise and comprehensible textual summaries. However, existing approaches often fall s…

cs.CL2023★ 8 cited

MultiTabQA: Generating Tabular Answers for Multi-Table Question Answering

Vaishali Pal, Andrew Yates, Evangelos Kanoulas +1

Recent advances in tabular question answering (QA) with large language models are constrained in their coverage and only answer questions over a single table. However, real-world q…

cs.IR2023

Parameter-Efficient Sparse Retrievers and Rerankers using Adapters

Vaishali Pal, Carlos Lassance, Hervé Déjean +1

Parameter-Efficient transfer learning with Adapters have been studied in Natural Language Processing (NLP) as an alternative to full fine-tuning. Adapters are memory-efficient and…

cs.CL2022★ 12 cited

Parameter-Efficient Abstractive Question Answering over Tables or Text

Vaishali Pal, Evangelos Kanoulas, Maarten de Rijke

A long-term ambition of information seeking QA systems is to reason over multi-modal contexts and generate natural answers to user queries. Today, memory intensive pre-trained lang…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

ConfNet2Seq: Full Length Answer Generation from Spoken Questions

Vaishali Pal, Manish Shrivastava, Laurent Besacier

Conversational and task-oriented dialogue systems aim to interact with the user using natural responses through multi-modal interfaces, such as text or speech. These desired respon…

cs.CL2020★ 4 cited

Modeling ASR Ambiguity for Dialogue State Tracking Using Word Confusion Networks

Vaishali Pal, Fabien Guillot, Manish Shrivastava +2

Spoken dialogue systems typically use a list of top-N ASR hypotheses for inferring the semantic meaning and tracking the state of the dialogue. However ASR graphs, such as confusio…