Search Results for author: Besnik Fetahu

Found 22 papers, 2 papers with code

Citation Needed: A Taxonomy and Algorithmic Assessment of Wikipedia's Verifiability

1 code implementation28 Feb 2019 Miriam Redi, Besnik Fetahu, Jonathan Morgan, Dario Taraborelli

In this paper, we aim to provide an empirical characterization of the reasons why and how Wikipedia cites external sources to comply with its own verifiability guidelines.

Fact Checking

Approaches for Enriching and Improving Textual Knowledge Bases

no code implementations20 Apr 2018 Besnik Fetahu

Even in cases where citations are provided, there are no explicit indicators for the span of a citation for a given piece of text.

Sentence

Fine Grained Citation Span for References in Wikipedia

no code implementations EMNLP 2017 Besnik Fetahu, Katja Markert, Avishek Anand

For a Wikipedia article, determining the \emph{citation span} of a citation, i. e. what content is covered by a citation, is important as it helps decide for which content citations are still missing.

Finding News Citations for Wikipedia

no code implementations30 Mar 2017 Besnik Fetahu, Katja Markert, Wolfgang Nejdl, Avishek Anand

An important editing policy in Wikipedia is to provide citations for added statements in Wikipedia pages, where statements can be arbitrary pieces of text, ranging from a sentence to a paragraph.

Sentence

Automated News Suggestions for Populating Wikipedia Entity Pages

no code implementations30 Mar 2017 Besnik Fetahu, Katja Markert, Avishek Anand

We propose a two-stage supervised approach for suggesting news articles to entity pages for a given state of Wikipedia.

Neural Based Statement Classification for Biased Language

no code implementations14 Nov 2018 Christoph Hube, Besnik Fetahu

Biased language is introduced through the presence of inflammatory words or phrases, or statements that may be incorrect or one-sided, thus violating such consensus.

Classification General Classification

FAE: A Fairness-Aware Ensemble Framework

no code implementations3 Feb 2020 Vasileios Iosifidis, Besnik Fetahu, Eirini Ntoutsi

In the post-processing step, we tackle the problem of class overlapping by shifting the decision boundary in the direction of fairness.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Decision Making +1

SemEval-2022 Task 11: Multilingual Complex Named Entity Recognition (MultiCoNER)

no code implementations SemEval (NAACL) 2022 Shervin Malmasi, Anjie Fang, Besnik Fetahu, Sudipta Kar, Oleg Rokhlenko

Divided into 13 tracks, the task focused on methods to identify complex named entities (like names of movies, products and groups) in 11 languages in both monolingual and multi-lingual scenarios.

named-entity-recognition Named Entity Recognition +1

MultiCoNER: A Large-scale Multilingual dataset for Complex Named Entity Recognition

no code implementations COLING 2022 Shervin Malmasi, Anjie Fang, Besnik Fetahu, Sudipta Kar, Oleg Rokhlenko

We present MultiCoNER, a large multilingual dataset for Named Entity Recognition that covers 3 domains (Wiki sentences, questions, and search queries) across 11 languages, as well as multilingual and code-mixing subsets.

Machine Translation named-entity-recognition +3

Reinforced Question Rewriting for Conversational Question Answering

no code implementations27 Oct 2022 Zhiyu Chen, Jie Zhao, Anjie Fang, Besnik Fetahu, Oleg Rokhlenko, Shervin Malmasi

Furthermore, human evaluation shows that our method can generate more accurate and detailed rewrites when compared to human annotations.

Question Rewriting Retrieval

Generate-then-Retrieve: Intent-Aware FAQ Retrieval in Product Search

no code implementations6 Jun 2023 Zhiyu Chen, Jason Choi, Besnik Fetahu, Oleg Rokhlenko, Shervin Malmasi

We propose an intent-aware FAQ retrieval system consisting of (1) an intent classifier that predicts when a user's information need can be answered by an FAQ; (2) a reformulation model that rewrites a query into a natural question.

Retrieval

MultiCoNER v2: a Large Multilingual dataset for Fine-grained and Noisy Named Entity Recognition

no code implementations20 Oct 2023 Besnik Fetahu, Zhiyu Chen, Sudipta Kar, Oleg Rokhlenko, Shervin Malmasi

We present MULTICONER V2, a dataset for fine-grained Named Entity Recognition covering 33 entity classes across 12 languages, in both monolingual and multilingual settings.

named-entity-recognition Named Entity Recognition +2

Follow-on Question Suggestion via Voice Hints for Voice Assistants

no code implementations25 Oct 2023 Besnik Fetahu, Pedro Faustini, Giuseppe Castellucci, Anjie Fang, Oleg Rokhlenko, Shervin Malmasi

Using a new dataset of 6681 input questions and human written hints, we evaluated the models with automatic metrics and human evaluation.

Instant Answering in E-Commerce Buyer-Seller Messaging using Message-to-Question Reformulation

no code implementations18 Jan 2024 Besnik Fetahu, Tejas Mehta, Qun Song, Nikhita Vedula, Oleg Rokhlenko, Shervin Malmasi

E-commerce customers frequently seek detailed product information for purchase decisions, commonly contacting sellers directly with extended queries.

Question Answering

Identifying Shopping Intent in Product QA for Proactive Recommendations

no code implementations9 Apr 2024 Besnik Fetahu, Nachshon Cohen, Elad Haramaty, Liane Lewin-Eytan, Oleg Rokhlenko, Shervin Malmasi

We focus on the domain of e-commerce, namely in identifying Shopping Product Questions (SPQs), where the user asking a product-related question may have an underlying shopping need.

Friction Question Answering

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