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most citedChallenges in Domain-Specific Abstractive Summarization and How to Overcome them

13 citations · 23 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.CL2026

Not All Fallbacks Are Failures: Understanding and Recovering from Fallbacks in Mobile Voice Assistants

Phillip Schneider, Alexandre Mercier, Joshua Oehms +2

Robust understanding of user input is a core requirement for voice assistants deployed in real-world environments. In practice, these systems encounter heterogeneous fallback situa…

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Facts Fade Fast: Evaluating Memorization of Outdated Medical Knowledge in Large Language Models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

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.AI2025

CarMem: Enhancing Long-Term Memory in LLM Voice Assistants through Category-Bounding

Johannes Kirmayr, Lukas Stappen, Phillip Schneider +2

In today's assistant landscape, personalisation enhances interactions, fosters long-term relationships, and deepens engagement. However, many systems struggle with retaining user p…

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

Efficient Few-shot Learning for Multi-label Classification of Scientific Documents with Many Classes

Tim Schopf, Alexander Blatzheim, Nektarios Machner +1

Scientific document classification is a critical task and often involves many classes. However, collecting human-labeled data for many classes is expensive and usually leads to lab…

cs.CL2024

Conversational Exploratory Search of Scholarly Publications Using Knowledge Graphs

Phillip Schneider, Florian Matthes

Traditional search methods primarily depend on string matches, while semantic search targets concept-based matches by recognizing underlying intents and contextual meanings of sear…

cs.CL2024

Bridging Information Gaps in Dialogues With Grounded Exchanges Using Knowledge Graphs

Phillip Schneider, Nektarios Machner, Kristiina Jokinen +1

Knowledge models are fundamental to dialogue systems for enabling conversational interactions, which require handling domain-specific knowledge. Ensuring effective communication in…

cs.CL2024

NLP-KG: A System for Exploratory Search of Scientific Literature in Natural Language Processing

Tim Schopf, Florian Matthes

Scientific literature searches are often exploratory, whereby users are not yet familiar with a particular field or concept but are interested in learning more about it. However, e…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Engineering Conversational Search Systems: A Review of Applications, Architectures, and Functional Components

Phillip Schneider, Wessel Poelman, Michael Rovatsos +1

Conversational search systems enable information retrieval via natural language interactions, with the goal of maximizing users' information gain over multiple dialogue turns. The…

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★ 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.CL2024★ 1 cited

A Comparative Analysis of Conversational Large Language Models in Knowledge-Based Text Generation

Phillip Schneider, Manuel Klettner, Elena Simperl +1

Generating natural language text from graph-structured data is essential for conversational information seeking. Semantic triples derived from knowledge graphs can serve as a valua…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Evaluating Large Language Models in Semantic Parsing for Conversational Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs

Phillip Schneider, Manuel Klettner, Kristiina Jokinen +2

Conversational question answering systems often rely on semantic parsing to enable interactive information retrieval, which involves the generation of structured database queries f…

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.DL2023

A Knowledge Graph Approach for Exploratory Search in Research Institutions

Tim Schopf, Nektarios Machner, Florian Matthes

Over the past decades, research institutions have grown increasingly and consequently also their research output. This poses a significant challenge for researchers seeking to unde…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

From Data to Dialogue: Leveraging the Structure of Knowledge Graphs for Conversational Exploratory Search

Phillip Schneider, Nils Rehtanz, Kristiina Jokinen +1

Exploratory search is an open-ended information retrieval process that aims at discovering knowledge about a topic or domain rather than searching for a specific answer or piece of…

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…