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20242026
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5 papers

cs.IR2026

DRAMA: Domain Retrieval using Adaptive Module Allocation

Pranav Kasela, Marco Braga, Ophir Frieder +3

Neural models are increasingly used in Web-scale Information Retrieval (IR). However, relying on these models introduces substantial computational and energy requirements, leading…

cs.CL2026

DIETA: A Decoder-only transformer-based model for Italian-English machine TrAnslation

Pranav Kasela, Marco Braga, Alessandro Ghiotto +3

In this paper, we present DIETA, a small, decoder-only Transformer model with 0.5 billion parameters, specifically designed and trained for Italian-English machine translation. We…

cs.CL2025

Investigating Large Language Models' Linguistic Abilities for Text Preprocessing

Marco Braga, Gian Carlo Milanese, Gabriella Pasi

Text preprocessing is a fundamental component of Natural Language Processing, involving techniques such as stopword removal, stemming, and lemmatization to prepare text as input fo…

cs.IR2025

Investigating Task Arithmetic for Zero-Shot Information Retrieval

Marco Braga, Pranav Kasela, Alessandro Raganato +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive zero-shot performance across a variety of Natural Language Processing tasks, including document re-ranking. However, their effect…

cs.IR2024

Synthetic Data Generation with Large Language Models for Personalized Community Question Answering

Marco Braga, Pranav Kasela, Alessandro Raganato +1

Personalization in Information Retrieval (IR) is a topic studied by the research community since a long time. However, there is still a lack of datasets to conduct large-scale eval…