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20202025
most citedEvaluating Generative Ad Hoc Information Retrieval

44 citations · 63 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.IR2025

On Synthesizing Data for Context Attribution in Question Answering

Gorjan Radevski, Kiril Gashteovski, Shahbaz Syed +11

Question Answering (QA) accounts for a significant portion of LLM usage "in the wild". However, LLMs sometimes produce false or misleading responses, also known as "hallucinations"…

cs.CL2024

TL;DR Progress: Multi-faceted Literature Exploration in Text Summarization

Shahbaz Syed, Khalid Al-Khatib, Martin Potthast

This paper presents TL;DR Progress, a new tool for exploring the literature on neural text summarization. It organizes 514~papers based on a comprehensive annotation scheme for tex…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Citance-Contextualized Summarization of Scientific Papers

Shahbaz Syed, Ahmad Dawar Hakimi, Khalid Al-Khatib +1

Current approaches to automatic summarization of scientific papers generate informative summaries in the form of abstracts. However, abstracts are not intended to show the relation…

cs.CL2023

Indicative Summarization of Long Discussions

Shahbaz Syed, Dominik Schwabe, Khalid Al-Khatib +1

Online forums encourage the exchange and discussion of different stances on many topics. Not only do they provide an opportunity to present one's own arguments, but may also gather…

cs.IR2023★ 44 cited

Evaluating Generative Ad Hoc Information Retrieval

Lukas Gienapp, Harrisen Scells, Niklas Deckers +9

Recent advances in large language models have enabled the development of viable generative retrieval systems. Instead of a traditional document ranking, generative retrieval system…

cs.CL2023

Modeling Appropriate Language in Argumentation

Timon Ziegenbein, Shahbaz Syed, Felix Lange +2

Online discussion moderators must make ad-hoc decisions about whether the contributions of discussion participants are appropriate or should be removed to maintain civility. Existi…

cs.CL2022

Summary Workbench: Unifying Application and Evaluation of Text Summarization Models

Shahbaz Syed, Dominik Schwabe, Martin Potthast

This paper presents Summary Workbench, a new tool for developing and evaluating text summarization models. New models and evaluation measures can be easily integrated as Docker-bas…

cs.CL2021

Key Point Analysis via Contrastive Learning and Extractive Argument Summarization

Milad Alshomary, Timon Gurcke, Shahbaz Syed +5

Key point analysis is the task of extracting a set of concise and high-level statements from a given collection of arguments, representing the gist of these arguments. This paper p…

cs.CL2021

Summary Explorer: Visualizing the State of the Art in Text Summarization

Shahbaz Syed, Tariq Yousef, Khalid Al-Khatib +2

This paper introduces Summary Explorer, a new tool to support the manual inspection of text summarization systems by compiling the outputs of 55~state-of-the-art single document su…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Generating Informative Conclusions for Argumentative Texts

Shahbaz Syed, Khalid Al-Khatib, Milad Alshomary +2

The purpose of an argumentative text is to support a certain conclusion. Yet, they are often omitted, expecting readers to infer them rather. While appropriate when reading an indi…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Argument Undermining: Counter-Argument Generation by Attacking Weak Premises

Milad Alshomary, Shahbaz Syed, Arkajit Dhar +2

Text generation has received a lot of attention in computational argumentation research as of recent. A particularly challenging task is the generation of counter-arguments. So far…

cs.IR2020★ 14 cited

Abstractive Snippet Generation

Wei-Fan Chen, Shahbaz Syed, Benno Stein +2

An abstractive snippet is an originally created piece of text to summarize a web page on a search engine results page. Compared to the conventional extractive snippets, which are g…