no code implementations • 27 May 2022 • Julia Kiseleva, Alexey Skrynnik, Artem Zholus, Shrestha Mohanty, Negar Arabzadeh, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Milagro Teruel, Ziming Li, Mikhail Burtsev, Maartje ter Hoeve, Zoya Volovikova, Aleksandr Panov, Yuxuan Sun, Kavya Srinet, Arthur Szlam, Ahmed Awadallah
Starting from a very young age, humans acquire new skills and learn how to solve new tasks either by imitating the behavior of others or by following provided natural language instructions.
no code implementations • 5 May 2022 • Negar Arabzadeh, Ali Ahmadvand, Julia Kiseleva, Yang Liu, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Ming Zhong, Milad Shokouhi
The recent increase in the volume of online meetings necessitates automated tools for managing and organizing the material, especially when an attendee has missed the discussion and needs assistance in quickly exploring it.
no code implementations • 2 May 2022 • Ali Ahmadvand, Negar Arabzadeh, Julia Kiseleva, Patricio Figueroa Sanz, Xin Deng, Sujay Jauhar, Michael Gamon, Eugene Agichtein, Ned Friend, Aniruddha
Current interactive systems with natural language interface lack an ability to understand a complex information-seeking request which expresses several implicit constraints at once, and there is no prior information about user preferences, e. g., "find hiking trails around San Francisco which are accessible with toddlers and have beautiful scenery in summer", where output is a list of possible suggestions for users to start their exploration.
no code implementations • 22 Sep 2021 • Negar Arabzadeh, Xinyi Yan, Charles L. A. Clarke
These hybrid retrievers leverage low-cost, exact-matching based sparse retrievers along with dense retrievers to bridge the semantic gaps between query and documents.
1 code implementation • 31 Aug 2021 • Negar Arabzadeh, Alexandra Vtyurina, Xinyi Yan, Charles L. A. Clarke
To test this observation, we employed crowdsourced workers to make preference judgments between the top item returned by a modern neural ranking stack and a judged relevant item.