Papers by Minji Seo
Query Variant Detection Using Retriever as Environment (2025.naacl-industry)
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| Challenge: | Identifying query variants is nontrivial as highly similar query pairs may fail to differ in word form, order, or phrasing despite sharing the same intent. |
| Approach: | They propose to use retrieval as an environment feedback to capture semantic equivalence . experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves query variant detection across diverse scenarios. |
Debiasing Event Understanding for Visual Commonsense Tasks (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | a recent study shows that object-based event understanding is purely likelihood-based, leading to incorrect event prediction. |
| Approach: | They propose to mitigate object-based event understanding by optimizing aggregation with association-based prediction. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves visual commonsense reasoning tasks by combining do-calculus with association-based prediction. |
Retrieval-augmented Video Encoding for Instructional Captioning (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Instructional videos provide a detailed multimodal context of each procedure in instruction. key-object degeneracy is a problem for machine systems, causing incorrect captions. |
| Approach: | They propose a retrieval-based framework to augment the model representations in the presence of key-object degeneracy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can be extended over baselines using modalities with key-object degeneracy. |