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most citedA Decade of Knowledge Graphs in Natural Language Processing: A Survey

20 citations · 43 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.CL2026

When Do Explanations Help In-Context Learning? A Comparative Study of Natural Language Explanation Types and Faithfulness

Mahdi Dhaini, Adam Dejl, Juraj Vladika +3

Natural language explanations (NLEs) are increasingly used as inputs, for example, as few-shot rationales that influence model behavior in in-context learning (ICL). However, it re…

cs.CL2025

Facts Fade Fast: Evaluating Memorization of Outdated Medical Knowledge in Large Language Models

Juraj Vladika, Mahdi Dhaini, Florian Matthes

The growing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) show significant potential to enhance healthcare by assisting medical researchers and physicians. However, their reliance o…

cs.CL2025

FActBench: A Benchmark for Fine-grained Automatic Evaluation of LLM-Generated Text in the Medical Domain

Anum Afzal, Juraj Vladika, Florian Matthes

Large Language Models tend to struggle when dealing with specialized domains. While all aspects of evaluation hold importance, factuality is the most critical one. Similarly, relia…

cs.CL2025

MedSEBA: Synthesizing Evidence-Based Answers Grounded in Evolving Medical Literature

Juraj Vladika, Florian Matthes

In the digital age, people often turn to the Internet in search of medical advice and recommendations. With the increasing volume of online content, it has become difficult to dist…

cs.CL2025

Can LLM-Generated Textual Explanations Enhance Model Classification Performance? An Empirical Study

Mahdi Dhaini, Juraj Vladika, Ege Erdogan +2

In the rapidly evolving field of Explainable Natural Language Processing (NLP), textual explanations, i.e., human-like rationales, are pivotal for explaining model predictions and…

cs.CL2025

Correcting Hallucinations in News Summaries: Exploration of Self-Correcting LLM Methods with External Knowledge

Juraj Vladika, Ihsan Soydemir, Florian Matthes

While large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities to generate coherent text, they suffer from the issue of hallucinations -- factually inaccurate statements. Am…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Improving Reliability and Explainability of Medical Question Answering through Atomic Fact Checking in Retrieval-Augmented LLMs

Juraj Vladika, Annika Domres, Mai Nguyen +10

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit extensive medical knowledge but are prone to hallucinations and inaccurate citations, which pose a challenge to their clinical adoption and reg…

cs.CL2025

Step-by-Step Fact Verification System for Medical Claims with Explainable Reasoning

Juraj Vladika, Ivana Hacajová, Florian Matthes

Fact verification (FV) aims to assess the veracity of a claim based on relevant evidence. The traditional approach for automated FV includes a three-part pipeline relying on short…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

On the Influence of Context Size and Model Choice in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Juraj Vladika, Florian Matthes

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as an approach to augment large language models (LLMs) by reducing their reliance on static knowledge and improving answer factuali…

cs.CL2025

Lexical Substitution is not Synonym Substitution: On the Importance of Producing Contextually Relevant Word Substitutes

Juraj Vladika, Stephen Meisenbacher, Florian Matthes

Lexical Substitution is the task of replacing a single word in a sentence with a similar one. This should ideally be one that is not necessarily only synonymous, but also fits well…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Adapter-based Approaches to Knowledge-enhanced Language Models -- A Survey

Alexander Fichtl, Juraj Vladika, Georg Groh

Knowledge-enhanced language models (KELMs) have emerged as promising tools to bridge the gap between large-scale language models and domain-specific knowledge. KELMs can achieve hi…

cs.AI2024

Towards Optimizing a Retrieval Augmented Generation using Large Language Model on Academic Data

Anum Afzal, Juraj Vladika, Gentrit Fazlija +2

Given the growing trend of many organizations integrating Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) into their operations, we assess RAG on domain-specific data and test state-of-the-ar…

cs.CL2024

Enhancing Answer Attribution for Faithful Text Generation with Large Language Models

Juraj Vladika, Luca Mülln, Florian Matthes

The increasing popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) in recent years has changed the way users interact with and pose questions to AI-based conversational systems. An essentia…

cs.CL2024

DP-MLM: Differentially Private Text Rewriting Using Masked Language Models

Stephen Meisenbacher, Maulik Chevli, Juraj Vladika +1

The task of text privatization using Differential Privacy has recently taken the form of , in which an input text is obfuscated via the use of generative (…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

MedREQAL: Examining Medical Knowledge Recall of Large Language Models via Question Answering

Juraj Vladika, Phillip Schneider, Florian Matthes

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated an impressive ability to encode knowledge during pre-training on large text corpora. They can leverage this knowledg…

cs.CL2024

Towards A Structured Overview of Use Cases for Natural Language Processing in the Legal Domain: A German Perspective

Juraj Vladika, Stephen Meisenbacher, Martina Preis +2

In recent years, the field of Legal Tech has risen in prevalence, as the Natural Language Processing (NLP) and legal disciplines have combined forces to digitalize legal processes.…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Improving Health Question Answering with Reliable and Time-Aware Evidence Retrieval

Juraj Vladika, Florian Matthes

In today's digital world, seeking answers to health questions on the Internet is a common practice. However, existing question answering (QA) systems often rely on using pre-select…

cs.CL2024

Enterprise Use Cases Combining Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language Processing

Phillip Schneider, Tim Schopf, Juraj Vladika +1

Knowledge management is a critical challenge for enterprises in today's digital world, as the volume and complexity of data being generated and collected continue to grow incessant…

cs.CL2024

Comparing Knowledge Sources for Open-Domain Scientific Claim Verification

Juraj Vladika, Florian Matthes

The increasing rate at which scientific knowledge is discovered and health claims shared online has highlighted the importance of developing efficient fact-checking systems for sci…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Diversifying Knowledge Enhancement of Biomedical Language Models using Adapter Modules and Knowledge Graphs

Juraj Vladika, Alexander Fichtl, Florian Matthes

Recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) owe their success to pre-training language models on large amounts of unstructured data. Still, there is an increasing effort t…

cs.CL2023

HealthFC: Verifying Health Claims with Evidence-Based Medical Fact-Checking

Juraj Vladika, Phillip Schneider, Florian Matthes

In the digital age, seeking health advice on the Internet has become a common practice. At the same time, determining the trustworthiness of online medical content is increasingly…

cs.CL2023★ 13 cited

Challenges in Domain-Specific Abstractive Summarization and How to Overcome them

Anum Afzal, Juraj Vladika, Daniel Braun +1

Large Language Models work quite well with general-purpose data and many tasks in Natural Language Processing. However, they show several limitations when used for a task such as d…

cs.CL2023

Scientific Fact-Checking: A Survey of Resources and Approaches

Juraj Vladika, Florian Matthes

The task of fact-checking deals with assessing the veracity of factual claims based on credible evidence and background knowledge. In particular, scientific fact-checking is the va…

cs.CL2023

Sebis at SemEval-2023 Task 7: A Joint System for Natural Language Inference and Evidence Retrieval from Clinical Trial Reports

Juraj Vladika, Florian Matthes

With the increasing number of clinical trial reports generated every day, it is becoming hard to keep up with novel discoveries that inform evidence-based healthcare recommendation…