Papers by Burcu Karagol Ayan
Which Linguist Invented the Lightbulb? Presupposition Verification for Question-Answering (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing Question-Answering (QA) datasets contain unanswerable questions . however, their treatment in QA systems remains primitive . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that provides answers based on presupposition failure over oracle behavior of existing QA systems. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system provides responses based on presupposition failure over oracle behavior of existing QA systems. |
Text Classification with Few Examples using Controlled Generalization (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | Current training data for text classification is limited, resulting in limited generalization capacity. |
| Approach: | They propose a feed-forward network that can generalize from unlabeled parsed corpora to produce task-specific semantic vectors. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach is especially effective in low-data scenarios compared to state-of-the-art methods. |
ImageInWords: Unlocking Hyper-Detailed Image Descriptions (2024.emnlp-main)
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Roopal Garg, Andrea Burns, Burcu Karagol Ayan, Yonatan Bitton, Ceslee Montgomery, Yasumasa Onoe, Andrew Bunner, Ranjay Krishna, Jason Baldridge, Radu Soricut
| Challenge: | generating accurate hyper-detailed image descriptions is challenging for vision-language models trained on web-scraped image-text. |
| Approach: | They propose a data-centric framework for generating hyper-detailed image descriptions using web-scraped image-text. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves on human evaluations on the data, even with only 9k samples. |