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8 papers

cs.CL2025

Detecting Corpus-Level Knowledge Inconsistencies in Wikipedia with Large Language Models

Sina J. Semnani, Jirayu Burapacheep, Arpandeep Khatua +3

Wikipedia is the largest open knowledge corpus, widely used worldwide and serving as a key resource for training large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RA…

cs.CL2025

CHURRO: Making History Readable with an Open-Weight Large Vision-Language Model for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost Historical Text Recognition

Sina J. Semnani, Han Zhang, Xinyan He +2

Accurate text recognition for historical documents can greatly advance the study and preservation of cultural heritage. Existing vision-language models (VLMs), however, are designe…

cs.CL2025

LEMONADE: A Large Multilingual Expert-Annotated Abstractive Event Dataset for the Real World

Sina J. Semnani, Pingyue Zhang, Wanyue Zhai +6

This paper presents LEMONADE, a large-scale conflict event dataset comprising 39,786 events across 20 languages and 171 countries, with extensive coverage of region-specific entiti…

cs.CL2024

Zero-shot Persuasive Chatbots with LLM-Generated Strategies and Information Retrieval

Kazuaki Furumai, Roberto Legaspi, Julio Vizcarra +6

Persuasion plays a pivotal role in a wide range of applications from health intervention to the promotion of social good. Persuasive chatbots employed responsibly for social good c…

cs.CL2024

SPINACH: SPARQL-Based Information Navigation for Challenging Real-World Questions

Shicheng Liu, Sina J. Semnani, Harold Triedman +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to significant improvements in the Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) task. However, datasets used in KBQA studies do not capture the tr…

cs.CL2024

Into the Unknown Unknowns: Engaged Human Learning through Participation in Language Model Agent Conversations

Yucheng Jiang, Yijia Shao, Dekun Ma +2

While language model (LM)-powered chatbots and generative search engines excel at answering concrete queries, discovering information in the terrain of unknown unknowns remains cha…