Papers by Minyoung Kim

5 papers
When Should Dense Retrievers Be Updated in Evolving Corpora? Detecting Out-of-Distribution Corpora Using GradNormIR (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Dense retrievers encode text into embeddings to retrieve relevant documents . however, real-world corpora evolve, resulting in degraded retrieval performance . identifying when a dense retriever requires an update is critical for robust retrieval systems .
Approach: They propose a task of predicting whether a corpus is out-of-distribution (OOD) relative to a dense retriever before indexing.
Outcome: The proposed method detects whether a corpus is out-of-distribution (OOD) relative to a dense retriever before indexing.
BPM_MT: Enhanced Backchannel Prediction Model using Multi-Task Learning (2021.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Backchannel (BC) is a short and quick reaction signal of a listener to a speaker's utterances.
Approach: They propose a model that utilizes lexical information in utterances to enhance backchannel (BC) prediction.
Outcome: The proposed model showed 14.24% performance improvement compared to baseline in the four BC categories: continuer, understanding, empathic response, and No BC.
ReSCORE: Label-free Iterative Retriever Training for Multi-hop Question Answering with Relevance-Consistency Supervision (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Multi-hop question answering requires reasoning across multiple documents to answer complex questions.
Approach: They propose a method for training dense retrievers for multi-hop question answering . they leverage large language models to measure document-question relevance with answer consistency . their results lead to state-of-the-art Exact Match and F1 scores for MHQA .
Outcome: Evaluated on three MHQA benchmarks, the proposed method improves retrieval performance . it leads to state-of-the-art Exact Match and F1 scores for the proposed technique .
A Model of Cross-Lingual Knowledge-Grounded Response Generation for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems (2021.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing studies on open-domain dialogue systems that allow free topics are challenging . however, non-English dialogue systems suffer from reproducing the performance of English dialogue systems .
Approach: They propose to use English knowledge to improve the performance of open-domain dialogue systems . they construct a Korean-English T5 language model and develop a knowledge-grounded Korean dialogue model .
Outcome: The proposed model improves even when only English knowledge is given . the model is built with a pre-trained language model and a knowledge-grounded Korean dialogue model .

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