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01/12/2023
Scene-centric vs. Object-centric Image-Text Cross-modal Retrieval: A Reproducibility Study
Most approaches to cross-modal retrieval (CMR) focus either on object-ce...
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10/12/2022
Focusing on Context is NICE: Improving Overshadowed Entity Disambiguation
Entity disambiguation (ED) is the task of mapping an ambiguous entity me...
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09/26/2022
On the Impact of Speech Recognition Errors in Passage Retrieval for Spoken Question Answering
Interacting with a speech interface to query a Question Answering (QA) s...
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08/05/2022
Low-Resource Dense Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering: A Comprehensive Survey
Dense retrieval (DR) approaches based on powerful pre-trained language m...
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05/05/2022
A Simple Contrastive Learning Objective for Alleviating Neural Text Degeneration
The cross-entropy objective has proved to be an all-purpose training obj...
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01/26/2022
SCAI-QReCC Shared Task on Conversational Question Answering
Search-Oriented Conversational AI (SCAI) is an established venue that re...
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12/21/2021
Extending CLIP for Category-to-image Retrieval in E-commerce
E-commerce provides rich multimodal data that is barely leveraged in pra...
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12/14/2021
Scaling Up Query-Focused Summarization to Meet Open-Domain Question Answering
Query-focused summarization (QFS) requires generating a textual summary ...
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08/24/2021
Robustness Evaluation of Entity Disambiguation Using Prior Probes:the Case of Entity Overshadowing
Entity disambiguation (ED) is the last step of entity linking (EL), when...
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08/23/2021
VerbCL: A Dataset of Verbatim Quotes for Highlight Extraction in Case Law
Citing legal opinions is a key part of legal argumentation, an expert ta...
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06/15/2021
Analysing Dense Passage Retrieval for Multi-hop Question Answering
We analyse the performance of passage retrieval models in the presence o...
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04/14/2021
A Large-Scale Analysis of Mixed Initiative in Information-Seeking Dialogues for Conversational Search
Conversational search is a relatively young area of research that aims a...
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02/17/2021
Leveraging Query Resolution and Reading Comprehension for Conversational Passage Retrieval
This paper describes the participation of UvA.ILPS group at the TREC CAs...
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01/19/2021
A Comparison of Question Rewriting Methods for Conversational Passage Retrieval
Conversational passage retrieval relies on question rewriting to modify ...
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12/07/2020
Conversational Browsing
How can we better understand the mechanisms behind multi-turn informatio...
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10/13/2020
A Wrong Answer or a Wrong Question? An Intricate Relationship between Question Reformulation and Answer Selection in Conversational Question Answering
The dependency between an adequate question formulation and correct answ...
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10/10/2020
Open-Domain Question Answering Goes Conversational via Question Rewriting
We introduce a new dataset for Question Rewriting in Conversational Cont...
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05/25/2020
An Analysis of Mixed Initiative and Collaboration in Information-Seeking Dialogues
The ability to engage in mixed-initiative interaction is one of the core...
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04/30/2020
Question Rewriting for Conversational Question Answering
Conversational question answering (QA) requires answers conditioned on t...
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01/19/2020
Common Conversational Community Prototype: Scholarly Conversational Assistant
This paper discusses the potential for creating academic resources (tool...
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12/14/2019
Knowledge-based Conversational Search
Conversational interfaces that allow for intuitive and comprehensive acc...
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09/09/2019
Open Data Chatbot
Recently, chatbots received an increased attention from industry and div...
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08/19/2019
Message Passing for Complex Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs
Question answering over knowledge graphs (KGQA) has evolved from simple ...
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12/27/2018
QRFA: A Data-Driven Model of Information-Seeking Dialogues
Understanding the structure of interaction processes helps us to improve...
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06/17/2018
Measuring Semantic Coherence of a Conversation
Conversational systems have become increasingly popular as a way for hum...
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09/15/2017
Conversational Exploratory Search via Interactive Storytelling
Conversational interfaces are likely to become more efficient, intuitive...
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03/15/2017