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most citedAn Analysis of Mixed Initiative and Collaboration in Information-Seeking Dialogues

12 citations · 42 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.CL2022

Focusing on Context is NICE: Improving Overshadowed Entity Disambiguation

Vera Provatorova, Simone Tedeschi, Svitlana Vakulenko +2

Entity disambiguation (ED) is the task of mapping an ambiguous entity mention to the corresponding entry in a structured knowledge base. Previous research showed that entity oversh…

cs.CL20223 cited

On the Impact of Speech Recognition Errors in Passage Retrieval for Spoken Question Answering

Georgios Sidiropoulos, Svitlana Vakulenko, Evangelos Kanoulas

Interacting with a speech interface to query a Question Answering (QA) system is becoming increasingly popular. Typically, QA systems rely on passage retrieval to select candidate…

cs.CL202210 cited

A Simple Contrastive Learning Objective for Alleviating Neural Text Degeneration

Shaojie Jiang, Ruqing Zhang, Svitlana Vakulenko +1

The cross-entropy objective has proved to be an all-purpose training objective for autoregressive language models (LMs). However, without considering the penalization of problemati…

cs.IR20221 cited

Extending CLIP for Category-to-image Retrieval in E-commerce

Mariya Hendriksen, Maurits Bleeker, Svitlana Vakulenko +3

E-commerce provides rich multimodal data that is barely leveraged in practice. One aspect of this data is a category tree that is being used in search and recommendation. However,…

cs.CL2021

VerbCL: A Dataset of Verbatim Quotes for Highlight Extraction in Case Law

Julien Rossi, Svitlana Vakulenko, Evangelos Kanoulas

Citing legal opinions is a key part of legal argumentation, an expert task that requires retrieval, extraction and summarization of information from court decisions. The identifica…

cs.IR2021

Combining Lexical and Dense Retrieval for Computationally Efficient Multi-hop Question Answering

Georgios Sidiropoulos, Nikos Voskarides, Svitlana Vakulenko +1

In simple open-domain question answering (QA), dense retrieval has become one of the standard approaches for retrieving the relevant passages to infer an answer. Recently, dense re…