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20192023
most citedFrustratingly Easy Natural Question Answering

15 citations · 47 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.DB2023

Open Government Data Corpus for Table Search

Michael Glass, Sugato Bagchi, Oktie Hassanzadeh +2

Increasing amounts of structured data can provide value for research and business if the relevant data can be located. Often the data is in a data lake without a consistent schema,…

cs.CL2023

Retrieval-Based Transformer for Table Augmentation

Michael Glass, Xueqing Wu, Ankita Rajaram Naik +2

Data preparation, also called data wrangling, is considered one of the most expensive and time-consuming steps when performing analytics or building machine learning models. Prepar…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Re2G: Retrieve, Rerank, Generate

Michael Glass, Gaetano Rossiello, Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury +3

As demonstrated by GPT-3 and T5, transformers grow in capability as parameter spaces become larger and larger. However, for tasks that require a large amount of knowledge, non-para…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

KGI: An Integrated Framework for Knowledge Intensive Language Tasks

Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, Michael Glass, Gaetano Rossiello +2

In this paper, we present a system to showcase the capabilities of the latest state-of-the-art retrieval augmented generation models trained on knowledge-intensive language tasks,…

cs.CL2022★ 8 cited

End-to-End Table Question Answering via Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Feifei Pan, Mustafa Canim, Michael Glass +2

Most existing end-to-end Table Question Answering (Table QA) models consist of a two-stage framework with a retriever to select relevant table candidates from a corpus and a reader…

cs.CL2022★ 12 cited

Applying a Generic Sequence-to-Sequence Model for Simple and Effective Keyphrase Generation

Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, Gaetano Rossiello, Michael Glass +2

In recent years, a number of keyphrase generation (KPG) approaches were proposed consisting of complex model architectures, dedicated training paradigms and decoding strategies. In…

cs.CL2021

Robust Retrieval Augmented Generation for Zero-shot Slot Filling

Michael Glass, Gaetano Rossiello, Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury +1

Automatically inducing high quality knowledge graphs from a given collection of documents still remains a challenging problem in AI. One way to make headway for this problem is thr…

cs.CL2021

AIT-QA: Question Answering Dataset over Complex Tables in the Airline Industry

Yannis Katsis, Saneem Chemmengath, Vishwajeet Kumar +8

Recent advances in transformers have enabled Table Question Answering (Table QA) systems to achieve high accuracy and SOTA results on open domain datasets like WikiTableQuestions a…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

CLTR: An End-to-End, Transformer-Based System for Cell Level Table Retrieval and Table Question Answering

Feifei Pan, Mustafa Canim, Michael Glass +2

We present the first end-to-end, transformer-based table question answering (QA) system that takes natural language questions and massive table corpus as inputs to retrieve the mos…

cs.AI2021★ 1 cited

Capturing Row and Column Semantics in Transformer Based Question Answering over Tables

Michael Glass, Mustafa Canim, Alfio Gliozzo +7

Transformer based architectures are recently used for the task of answering questions over tables. In order to improve the accuracy on this task, specialized pre-training technique…

cs.AI2021★ 1 cited

Zero-shot Slot Filling with DPR and RAG

Michael Glass, Gaetano Rossiello, Alfio Gliozzo

The ability to automatically extract Knowledge Graphs (KG) from a given collection of documents is a long-standing problem in Artificial Intelligence. One way to assess this capabi…

cs.CL2019★ 15 cited

Frustratingly Easy Natural Question Answering

Lin Pan, Rishav Chakravarti, Anthony Ferritto +5

Existing literature on Question Answering (QA) mostly focuses on algorithmic novelty, data augmentation, or increasingly large pre-trained language models like XLNet and RoBERTa. A…

cs.CL2019

Populating Web Scale Knowledge Graphs using Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction and Validation

Sarthak Dash, Michael R. Glass, Alfio Gliozzo +1

In this paper, we propose a fully automated system to extend knowledge graphs using external information from web-scale corpora. The designed system leverages a deep learning based…

cs.CL2019

Span Selection Pre-training for Question Answering

Michael Glass, Alfio Gliozzo, Rishav Chakravarti +5

BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) and related pre-trained Transformers have provided large gains across many language understanding tasks, achieving a…

cs.CL2019★ 7 cited

CFO: A Framework for Building Production NLP Systems

Rishav Chakravarti, Cezar Pendus, Andrzej Sakrajda +8

This paper introduces a novel orchestration framework, called CFO (COMPUTATION FLOW ORCHESTRATOR), for building, experimenting with, and deploying interactive NLP (Natural Language…