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Everyday life of Contemporary Family: Practices and Risks in Conditions of Changing Society (Kharkiv case) by Sokurianska, Liudmyla, Vakulenko, Svitlana

“…The article is based on the results of an empirical sociological study commissioned by the Department of Family, Youth and Sports of Kharkiv City Council and…”
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Aspect-Based Extraction and Analysis of Affective Knowledge from Social Media Streams by Weichselbraun, Albert, Gindl, Stefan, Fischer, Fabian, Vakulenko, Svitlana, Scharl, Arno

“…Extracting and analyzing affective knowledge from social media in a structured manner is a challenging task. Decision makers require insights into the public…”
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Reverse-engineering conference rankings: what does it take to make a reputable conference? by Küngas, Peep, Karus, Siim, Vakulenko, Svitlana, Dumas, Marlon, Parra, Cristhian, Casati, Fabio

“…In recent years, several national and community-driven conference rankings have been compiled. These rankings are often taken as indicators of reputation and…”
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Knowledge-based Conversational Search by Vakulenko, Svitlana

“…Conversational interfaces that allow for intuitive and comprehensive access to digitally stored information remain an ambitious goal. In this thesis, we lay…”
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On the Impact of Speech Recognition Errors in Passage Retrieval for Spoken Question Answering by Sidiropoulos, Georgios, Vakulenko, Svitlana, Kanoulas, Evangelos

“…Interacting with a speech interface to query a Question Answering (QA) system is becoming increasingly popular. Typically, QA systems rely on passage retrieval…”
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SCAI-QReCC Shared Task on Conversational Question Answering by Vakulenko, Svitlana, Kiesel, Johannes, Fröbe, Maik

“…Search-Oriented Conversational AI (SCAI) is an established venue that regularly puts a spotlight upon the recent work advancing the field of conversational…”
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VerbCL: A Dataset of Verbatim Quotes for Highlight Extraction in Case Law by Rossi, Julien, Vakulenko, Svitlana, Kanoulas, Evangelos

“…Citing legal opinions is a key part of legal argumentation, an expert task that requires retrieval, extraction and summarization of information from court…”
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Retrieving Contextual Information for Long-Form Question Answering using Weak Supervision by Christmann, Philipp, Vakulenko, Svitlana, Sorodoc, Ionut Teodor, Byrne, Bill, de Gispert, Adrià

“…Long-form question answering (LFQA) aims at generating in-depth answers to end-user questions, providing relevant information beyond the direct answer…”
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Scene-centric vs. Object-centric Image-Text Cross-modal Retrieval: A Reproducibility Study by Hendriksen, Mariya, Vakulenko, Svitlana, Kuiper, Ernst, de Rijke, Maarten

“…Most approaches to cross-modal retrieval (CMR) focus either on object-centric datasets, meaning that each document depicts or describes a single object, or on…”
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A Large-Scale Analysis of Mixed Initiative in Information-Seeking Dialogues for Conversational Search by Vakulenko, Svitlana, Kanoulas, Evangelos, de Rijke, Maarten

“…Conversational search is a relatively young area of research that aims at automating an information-seeking dialogue. In this paper we help to position it with…”
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Beyond Relevant Documents: A Knowledge-Intensive Approach for Query-Focused Summarization using Large Language Models by Zhang, Weijia, Huang, Jia-Hong, Vakulenko, Svitlana, Xu, Yumo, Rajapakse, Thilina, Kanoulas, Evangelos

“…Query-focused summarization (QFS) is a fundamental task in natural language processing with broad applications, including search engines and report generation…”
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Focusing on Context is NICE: Improving Overshadowed Entity Disambiguation by Provatorova, Vera, Tedeschi, Simone, Vakulenko, Svitlana, Navigli, Roberto, Kanoulas, Evangelos

“…Entity disambiguation (ED) is the task of mapping an ambiguous entity mention to the corresponding entry in a structured knowledge base. Previous research…”
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Conversational Browsing by Vakulenko, Svitlana, Savenkov, Vadim, de Rijke, Maarten

“…How can we better understand the mechanisms behind multi-turn information seeking dialogues? How can we use these insights to design a dialogue system that…”
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A Simple Contrastive Learning Objective for Alleviating Neural Text Degeneration by Jiang, Shaojie, Zhang, Ruqing, Vakulenko, Svitlana, de Rijke, Maarten

“…The cross-entropy objective has proved to be an all-purpose training objective for autoregressive language models (LMs). However, without considering the…”
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TableQA: Question Answering on Tabular Data by Vakulenko, Svitlana, Savenkov, Vadim

“…Tabular data is difficult to analyze and to search through, yielding for new tools and interfaces that would allow even non tech-savvy users to gain insights…”
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An Analysis of Mixed Initiative and Collaboration in Information-Seeking Dialogues by Vakulenko, Svitlana, Kanoulas, Evangelos, de Rijke, Maarten

“…The ability to engage in mixed-initiative interaction is one of the core requirements for a conversational search system. How to achieve this is poorly…”
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Tackling Query-Focused Summarization as A Knowledge-Intensive Task: A Pilot Study by Zhang, Weijia, Vakulenko, Svitlana, Rajapakse, Thilina, Xu, Yumo, Kanoulas, Evangelos

“…Query-focused summarization (QFS) requires generating a summary given a query using a set of relevant documents. However, such relevant documents should be…”
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Robustness Evaluation of Entity Disambiguation Using Prior Probes:the Case of Entity Overshadowing by Provatorova, Vera, Vakulenko, Svitlana, Bhargav, Samarth, Kanoulas, Evangelos

“…Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2021) 10501-10510 Entity disambiguation (ED) is the last step of entity…”
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Combining Lexical and Dense Retrieval for Computationally Efficient Multi-hop Question Answering by Sidiropoulos, Georgios, Voskarides, Nikos, Vakulenko, Svitlana, Kanoulas, Evangelos

“…In simple open-domain question answering (QA), dense retrieval has become one of the standard approaches for retrieving the relevant passages to infer an…”
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Open Data Chatbot by Keyner, Sophia, Savenkov, Vadim, Vakulenko, Svitlana

“…The Semantic Web - 16th International Conference, ESWC 2019, Portoroz, Slovenia, June 2-6, 2019 Recently, chatbots received an increased attention from…”
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