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20242026
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6 papers

cs.CL2026

Can LLMs Take Retrieved Information with a Grain of Salt?

Behzad Shayegh, Mohamed Osama Ahmed, Fred Tung +1

Large language models have demonstrated impressive retrieval-augmented capabilities. However, a crucial area remains underexplored: their ability to appropriately adapt responses t…

cs.CL2025

Feeding Two Birds or Favoring One? Adequacy-Fluency Tradeoffs in Evaluation and Meta-Evaluation of Machine Translation

Behzad Shayegh, Jan-Thorsten Peter, David Vilar +4

We investigate the tradeoff between adequacy and fluency in machine translation. We show the severity of this tradeoff at the evaluation level and analyze where popular metrics fal…

cs.CL2025

Error Diversity Matters: An Error-Resistant Ensemble Method for Unsupervised Dependency Parsing

Behzad Shayegh, Hobie H. -B. Lee, Xiaodan Zhu +2

We address unsupervised dependency parsing by building an ensemble of diverse existing models through post hoc aggregation of their output dependency parse structures. We observe t…

cs.CL2025

EBBS: An Ensemble with Bi-Level Beam Search for Zero-Shot Machine Translation

Yuqiao Wen, Behzad Shayegh, Chenyang Huang +2

The ability of zero-shot translation emerges when we train a multilingual model with certain translation directions; the model can then directly translate in unseen directions. Alt…

cs.CL2024

Tree-Averaging Algorithms for Ensemble-Based Unsupervised Discontinuous Constituency Parsing

Behzad Shayegh, Yuqiao Wen, Lili Mou

We address unsupervised discontinuous constituency parsing, where we observe a high variance in the performance of the only previous model in the literature. We propose to build an…

cs.CL2024

Ensemble Distillation for Unsupervised Constituency Parsing

Behzad Shayegh, Yanshuai Cao, Xiaodan Zhu +2

We investigate the unsupervised constituency parsing task, which organizes words and phrases of a sentence into a hierarchical structure without using linguistically annotated data…