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most citedHiStruct+: Improving Extractive Text Summarization with Hierarchical Structure Information

34 citations · 67 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CL2025★ 3 cited

Entity Linking using LLMs for Automated Product Carbon Footprint Estimation

Steffen Castle, Julian Moreno Schneider, Leonhard Hennig +1

Growing concerns about climate change and sustainability are driving manufacturers to take significant steps toward reducing their carbon footprints. For these manufacturers, a fir…

cs.CL2024

Reward Modeling with Weak Supervision for Language Models

Ben Hauptvogel, Malte Ostendorff, Georg Rehm +1

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have led to their increased application across various tasks, with reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) being a cru…

cs.CL2024

Data Processing for the OpenGPT-X Model Family

Nicolo' Brandizzi, Hammam Abdelwahab, Anirban Bhowmick +19

This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the data preparation pipeline developed for the OpenGPT-X project, a large-scale initiative aimed at creating open and high-performa…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Teuken-7B-Base & Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs

Mehdi Ali, Michael Fromm, Klaudia Thellmann +38

We present two multilingual LLMs, Teuken 7B-base and Teuken 7B-instruct, designed to embrace Europe's linguistic diversity by supporting all 24 official languages of the European U…

cs.CL2024

Symmetric Dot-Product Attention for Efficient Training of BERT Language Models

Martin Courtois, Malte Ostendorff, Leonhard Hennig +1

Initially introduced as a machine translation model, the Transformer architecture has now become the foundation for modern deep learning architecture, with applications in a wide r…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Investigating Gender Bias in Turkish Language Models

Orhun Mersin Caglidil, Malte Ostendorff, Georg Rehm

Language models are trained mostly on Web data, which often contains social stereotypes and biases that the models can inherit. This has potentially negative consequences, as model…

cs.CL2023★ 15 cited

Efficient Language Model Training through Cross-Lingual and Progressive Transfer Learning

Malte Ostendorff, Georg Rehm

Most Transformer language models are primarily pretrained on English text, limiting their use for other languages. As the model sizes grow, the performance gap between English and…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

User Experience Design for Automatic Credibility Assessment of News Content About COVID-19

Konstantin Schulz, Jens Rauenbusch, Jan Fillies +3

The increasingly rapid spread of information about COVID-19 on the web calls for automatic measures of quality assurance. In that context, we check the credibility of news content…

cs.IR2022

Specialized Document Embeddings for Aspect-based Similarity of Research Papers

Malte Ostendorff, Till Blume, Terry Ruas +2

Document embeddings and similarity measures underpin content-based recommender systems, whereby a document is commonly represented as a single generic embedding. However, similarit…

cs.CL2022★ 34 cited

HiStruct+: Improving Extractive Text Summarization with Hierarchical Structure Information

Qian Ruan, Malte Ostendorff, Georg Rehm

Transformer-based language models usually treat texts as linear sequences. However, most texts also have an inherent hierarchical structure, i.e., parts of a text can be identified…

cs.CL2022★ 10 cited

Neighborhood Contrastive Learning for Scientific Document Representations with Citation Embeddings

Malte Ostendorff, Nils Rethmeier, Isabelle Augenstein +2

Learning scientific document representations can be substantially improved through contrastive learning objectives, where the challenge lies in creating positive and negative train…

cs.CL2021

Evaluating Document Representations for Content-based Legal Literature Recommendations

Malte Ostendorff, Elliott Ash, Terry Ruas +3

Recommender systems assist legal professionals in finding relevant literature for supporting their case. Despite its importance for the profession, legal applications do not reflec…