Papers by Saloni Potdar
Towards Cross-Cultural Machine Translation with Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Multilingual Knowledge Graphs (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | XC-Translate is a large-scale, manually-created benchmark for machine translation . current systems struggle to translate texts containing entity names, but KG-MT outperforms state-of-the-art approaches . |
| Approach: | They propose a method to integrate multilingual knowledge into a neural machine translation model . XC-Translate is the first large-scale, manually-created benchmark for machine translation . they propose KG-MT to integrate cultural-related references into MT models . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches by a large margin compared to NLLB-200 and GPT-4 . the proposed method is based on a multilingual knowledge graph and dense retrieval mechanism . |
Multilingual BERT Post-Pretraining Alignment (2021.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent work improves on the success of monolingual pretrained language models by adding cross-lingual tasks that always involve English. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to align multilingual contextual embeddings as a post-pretraining step for improved cross-lingual transferability of pretrained language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms XLM-R_Base on translation-train tasks while using less parallel data and fewer parameters. |
Extracting Multiple-Relations in One-Pass with Pre-Trained Transformers (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to extract multiple relations from a paragraph require multiple passes over the paragraph. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to extract multiple relations from a paragraph by encoding the paragraph only once. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach can perform state-of-the-art on the benchmark ACE 2005. |
Benchmarking Commercial Intent Detection Services with Practice-Driven Evaluations (2021.naacl-industry)
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| Challenge: | Intent detection models require large amounts of labeled data to achieve high accuracy, and in practical scenarios it is more common to find small, unbalanced, and noisy datasets. |
| Approach: | They benchmark intent detection methods on a variety of datasets and found that Watson Assistant's model outperforms other commercial solutions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms pretrained language models on a variety of datasets while requiring only a fraction of computational resources and training data. |
Out-of-Domain Detection for Low-Resource Text Classification Tasks (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for OOD detection and ID classification tasks require massive amounts of ID labeled data and no OOD labeles. |
| Approach: | They propose to use OOD-resistant Prototypical Network to detect OOD cases with limited in-domain (ID) training data to solve this task. |
| Outcome: | The proposed solution outperforms state-of-the-art methods in zero-shot OOD detection task while maintaining a competitive performance on ID classification task. |
Leveraging the Power of Large Language Models in Entity Linking via Adaptive Routing and Targeted Reasoning (2025.emnlp-industry)
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Yajie Li, Albert Galimov, Mitra Datta Ganapaneni, Pujitha Thejaswi, De Meng, Priyanshu Kumar, Saloni Potdar
| Challenge: | Entity Linking (EL) relies on large labeled datasets and extensive fine-tuning . lexical ambiguity, knowledge-intensive cases and low-context mentions are some of the challenges. |
| Approach: | Entity Linking (EL) relies on large annotated datasets and extensive fine-tuning . authors propose a pipeline that integrates candidate generation, context-based scoring, adaptive routing, and selective reasoning . |
| Outcome: | ARTER outperforms ReFinED and LLM-based pipelines on standard benchmarks . it performs twice as efficiently on 5 out of 6 datasets and doubles the number of tokens compared to pipelines using LLM . |
KG-TRICK: Unifying Textual and Relational Information Completion of Knowledge for Multilingual Knowledge Graphs (2025.coling-main)
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Zelin Zhou, Simone Conia, Daniel Lee, Min Li, Shenglei Huang, Umar Farooq Minhas, Saloni Potdar, Henry Xiao, Yunyao Li
| Challenge: | Existing studies have shown that combining information from KGs in different languages aids knowledge Graph Completion and Knowledge Graph Enhancement. |
| Approach: | They propose a sequence-to-sequence framework that unifies tasks of textual and relational information completion for multilingual knowledge graphs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework unifies tasks of KGC and KGE into a single framework. |
Fast and Light-Weight Answer Text Retrieval in Dialogue Systems (2022.naacl-industry)
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| Challenge: | a recent study shows that text retrieval can be used to find information relevant to user requests. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a corpus of text to search for relevant responses to user requests . they compare this approach to other methods that use intent detection . |
| Outcome: | a new approach can be used to search through a corpus of text to find relevant responses to user requests. |
Do Large Language Models have an English Accent? Evaluating and Improving the Naturalness of Multilingual LLMs (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Current Large Language Models (LLMs) are predominantly designed with English as the primary language, but many are still English-dominated. |
| Approach: | They propose to use automatic corpus-level metrics to assess lexical and syntactic naturalness of LLMs in a multilingual context. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves naturalness of LLMs in target languages without compromising performance on general-purpose benchmarks. |
Narrative Question Answering with Cutting-Edge Open-Domain QA Techniques: A Comprehensive Study (2021.tacl-1)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in open-domain question answering (ODQA) have led to human-level performance on many datasets. |
| Approach: | They provide a comprehensive and quantitative analysis about the difficulty of book QA . they compare the results of their research with extensive ODQA experiments . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models on event-oriented questions on the NarrativeQA dataset. |
Over-Searching in Search-Augmented Large Language Models (2026.eacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Search-augmented large language models (LLMs) excel at knowledge-intensive tasks by integrating external retrieval. |
| Approach: | They conduct a systematic evaluation of over-searching across multiple dimensions including query types, model categories, retrieval conditions, and multi-turn conversations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves answer accuracy on answerable queries but harms abstention on unanswerable ones . |
mRAKL: Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge Graph Construction for Low-Resourced Languages (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Knowledge Graphs are structured multirelational graphs that store factual knowledge. |
| Approach: | They introduce a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (mRAKL) based system to perform mKGC. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves over a no-context setting with an idealized retrieval system. |
Distinguish Sense from Nonsense: Out-of-Scope Detection for Virtual Assistants (2022.emnlp-industry)
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| Challenge: | Out of Scope (OOS) detection is a problem with chatbots that cannot make sense of a query . a real-world solution to this problem is to identify out-of-domain queries . |
| Approach: | They propose a simple yet effective OOS detection method that outperforms standard methods . they propose analyzing data from an enterprise virtual assistant platform to test the method . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms standard OOS detection methods in a real-world deployment of virtual assistants. |
Context-Aware Conversation Thread Detection in Multi-Party Chat (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | In multi-party chat, it is common for multiple conversations to occur concurrently . a new model that automatically disentangles conversation threads is proposed . |
| Approach: | They propose a Context-Aware Thread Detection model that automatically disentangles conversation threads in chat logs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models on four real-world chat logs. |
ConvKGYarn: Spinning Configurable and Scalable Conversational Knowledge Graph QA Datasets with Large Language Models (2024.emnlp-industry)
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Ronak Pradeep, Daniel Lee, Ali Mousavi, Jeffrey Pound, Yisi Sang, Jimmy Lin, Ihab Ilyas, Saloni Potdar, Mostafa Arefiyan, Yunyao Li
| Challenge: | Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are a powerful tool for capturing structured representations of the world. |
| Approach: | They propose a scalable method for generating up-to-date and configurable conversational KGQA datasets that adheres to human interaction configurations and operates at a significantly larger scale. |
| Outcome: | Qualitative psychometric analyses show that ConvKGYarn produces high-quality data comparable to popular conversational KGQA datasets across various metrics. |
Entity Disambiguation via Fusion Entity Decoding (2024.naacl-long)
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Junxiong Wang, Ali Mousavi, Omar Attia, Ronak Pradeep, Saloni Potdar, Alexander Rush, Umar Farooq Minhas, Yunyao Li
| Challenge: | Existing generative approaches demonstrate improved accuracy compared to classification approaches under the standardized ZELDA benchmark. |
| Approach: | They propose an encoder-decoder model to disambiguate entities with more detailed entity descriptions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing classification models on the ZELDA benchmark and on retrieval/reader frameworks. |
AGRaME: Any-Granularity Ranking with Multi-Vector Embeddings (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing ranking algorithms restrict granularity to full passages or require a specific dense index for each desired level of granules. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-vector ranking approach that leverages multi-vctor embeddings to rank at varying levels of granularity while maintaining encoding at a single (coarser) level of grail. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method surpasses prompt-driven citation generation by incorporating proposition-level ranking to post-hoc citation addition. |
Diverse Few-Shot Text Classification with Multiple Metrics (N18-1)
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Mo Yu, Xiaoxiao Guo, Jinfeng Yi, Shiyu Chang, Saloni Potdar, Yu Cheng, Gerald Tesauro, Haoyu Wang, Bowen Zhou
| Challenge: | Existing methods for few-shot learning are insufficient to capture task variations in natural language domains. |
| Approach: | They propose an adaptive metric learning approach that automatically determines the best weighted combination from a set of metrics obtained from meta-training tasks for a newly seen few-shot task. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method performs favorably against state-of-the-art few shot learning algorithms on real-world sentiment analysis and dialog intent classification datasets. |