5 papers
Barriers to Universal Reasoning With Transformers (And How to Overcome Them)
Oliver Kraus, Yash Sarrof, Yuekun Yao +2
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) has been shown to empirically improve Transformers' performance, and theoretically increase their expressivity to Turing completeness. However, whether Trans…
Evaluating Large Language Models for Cross-Lingual Retrieval
Longfei Zuo, Pingjun Hong, Oliver Kraus +2
Multi-stage information retrieval (IR) has become a widely-adopted paradigm in search. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have been extensively evaluated as second-stage reranking…
References Matter: Investigating the Impact of Reference Set Variation on Summarization Evaluation
Silvia Casola, Yang Janet Liu, Siyao Peng +3
Human language production exhibits remarkable richness and variation, reflecting diverse communication styles and intents. However, this variation is often overlooked in summarizat…
Cross-Dialect Information Retrieval: Information Access in Low-Resource and High-Variance Languages
Robert Litschko, Oliver Kraus, Verena Blaschke +1
A large amount of local and culture-specific knowledge (e.g., people, traditions, food) can only be found in documents written in dialects. While there has been extensive research…
Sign Language Sense Disambiguation
Jana Grimm, Miriam Winkler, Oliver Kraus +1
This project explores methods to enhance sign language translation of German sign language, specifically focusing on disambiguation of homonyms. Sign language is ambiguous and unde…