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Tackling Query-Focused Summarization as A Knowledge-Intensive Task: A Pilot Study
Weijia Zhang, Svitlana Vakulenko, Thilina Rajapakse +2
Query-focused summarization (QFS) requires generating a summary given a query using a set of relevant documents. However, such relevant documents should be annotated manually and t…
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…
Robustness Evaluation of Entity Disambiguation Using Prior Probes:the Case of Entity Overshadowing
Vera Provatorova, Svitlana Vakulenko, Samarth Bhargav +1
Entity disambiguation (ED) is the last step of entity linking (EL), when candidate entities are reranked according to the context they appear in. All datasets for training and eval…
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…
A Large-Scale Analysis of Mixed Initiative in Information-Seeking Dialogues for Conversational Search
Svitlana Vakulenko, Evangelos Kanoulas, Maarten de Rijke
Conversational search is a relatively young area of research that aims at automating an information-seeking dialogue. In this paper we help to position it with respect to other res…
Leveraging Query Resolution and Reading Comprehension for Conversational Passage Retrieval
Svitlana Vakulenko, Nikos Voskarides, Zhucheng Tu +1
This paper describes the participation of UvA.ILPS group at the TREC CAsT 2020 track. Our passage retrieval pipeline consists of (i) an initial retrieval module that uses BM25, and…
A Comparison of Question Rewriting Methods for Conversational Passage Retrieval
Svitlana Vakulenko, Nikos Voskarides, Zhucheng Tu +1
Conversational passage retrieval relies on question rewriting to modify the original question so that it no longer depends on the conversation history. Several methods for question…