no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Ivano Lauriola, Kevin Small, Alessandro Moschitti
Question Answering (QA) systems aim to return correct and concise answers in response to user questions.
no code implementations • COLING 2022 • Revanth Gangi Reddy, Sai Chetan Chinthakindi, Yi R. Fung, Kevin Small, Heng Ji
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in claim detection as an important building block for misinformation detection.
no code implementations • 23 Sep 2024 • Nirmal Roy, Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Rexhina Blloshmi, Kevin Small
In this work, we propose a method for enabling LLMs to decide when to retrieve in RAG settings given a conversational context.
no code implementations • 2 Apr 2024 • Zixuan Zhang, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Kevin Small, Tong Zhang, Heng Ji
In addition, it is still unclear how well an OpenQA model can transfer to completely new knowledge domains.
no code implementations • 16 Feb 2024 • Chenkai Sun, Ke Yang, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Yi R. Fung, Hou Pong Chan, Kevin Small, ChengXiang Zhai, Heng Ji
The increasing demand for personalized interactions with large language models (LLMs) calls for methodologies capable of accurately and efficiently identifying user opinions and preferences.
1 code implementation • 24 Oct 2023 • Adithya Pratapa, Kevin Small, Markus Dreyer
Generating concise summaries of news events is a challenging natural language processing task.
1 code implementation • 2 Dec 2022 • Revanth Gangi Reddy, Heba Elfardy, Hou Pong Chan, Kevin Small, Heng Ji
A primary objective of news articles is to establish the factual record for an event, frequently achieved by conveying both the details of the specified event (i. e., the 5 Ws; Who, What, Where, When and Why regarding the event) and how people reacted to it (i. e., reported statements).
no code implementations • 24 May 2022 • Aidan San, Yuan Zhuang, Jan Bakus, Colin Lockard, David Ciemiewicz, Sandeep Atluri, Yangfeng Ji, Kevin Small, Heba Elfardy
Recently, neural models have been leveraged to significantly improve the performance of information extraction from semi-structured websites.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2022 • Wenxuan Zhou, Qiang Ning, Heba Elfardy, Kevin Small, Muhao Chen
Current question answering (QA) systems primarily consider the single-answer scenario, where each question is assumed to be paired with one correct answer.
2 code implementations • 16 Dec 2021 • Revanth Gangi Reddy, Sai Chetan, Zhenhailong Wang, Yi R. Fung, Kathryn Conger, Ahmed Elsayed, Martha Palmer, Preslav Nakov, Eduard Hovy, Kevin Small, Heng Ji
In this work, we present NewsClaims, a new benchmark for attribute-aware claim detection in the news domain.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2021 • Li Zhou, Kevin Small, Yong Zhang, Sandeep Atluri
Motivated by suggested question generation in conversational news recommendation systems, we propose a model for generating question-answer pairs (QA pairs) with self-contained, summary-centric questions and length-constrained, article-summarizing answers.
no code implementations • ACL (dialdoc) 2021 • Xusen Yin, Li Zhou, Kevin Small, Jonathan May
Our model shows SOTA performance of SQ generation on the NQ dataset (20. 1 BLEU-4).
no code implementations • 16 Aug 2020 • Li Zhou, Kevin Small
In this paper, we propose a novel adversarial inverse reinforcement learning algorithm to learn a language-conditioned policy and reward function.
1 code implementation • ACL 2020 • Ashutosh Baheti, Alan Ritter, Kevin Small
In this work, we propose a method for situating QA responses within a SEQ2SEQ NLG approach to generate fluent grammatical answer responses while maintaining correctness.
2 code implementations • 7 Nov 2019 • Li Zhou, Kevin Small
Multi-domain dialogue state tracking (DST) is a critical component for conversational AI systems.
Ranked #9 on
Multi-domain Dialogue State Tracking
on MULTIWOZ 2.0
no code implementations • 30 Nov 2018 • Yuheng Bu, Kevin Small
While recommendation systems generally observe user behavior passively, there has been an increased interest in directly querying users to learn their specific preferences.
no code implementations • 7 Dec 2017 • Li Zhou, Kevin Small, Oleg Rokhlenko, Charles Elkan
Learning a goal-oriented dialog policy is generally performed offline with supervised learning algorithms or online with reinforcement learning (RL).