Papers by Sohee Yoon

5 papers
Exploring the Practicality of Generative Retrieval on Dynamic Corpora (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: a lack of comprehensive comparison between GR and Dual Encoders in IR systems is limiting . GR is more adaptable to evolving knowledge (4–11%), robust in learning knowledge with temporal information, and efficient in terms of inference FLOPs (x2), indexing time (x6) and storage footprint (x4)
Approach: They propose to use autoregressive language models to perform information retrieval (IR) their results highlight the potential of GR for future use in practical IR systems .
Outcome: The proposed model is more adaptable to evolving knowledge (4–11%), robust in learning knowledge with temporal information, efficient inference FLOPs (x2), indexing time (x6), and storage footprint (x4) compared to the most common model, Dual Encoder (DE).
Single Ground Truth Is Not Enough: Adding Flexibility to Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Evaluation (2025.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a challenging task of extracting sentiments along with their corresponding aspects and opinion terms from text.
Approach: They propose a pipeline that expands existing evaluation sets by adding alternative valid terms for aspect and opinion.
Outcome: The proposed evaluation set uncovers the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in ABSA tasks, which is concealed by the single-answer GT sets.
TelBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Telco-Specific Large Language Models (2024.emnlp-industry)

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Challenge: a growing demand for Large Language Models (LLMs) is requiring specialized models to augment customer service agents' skills.
Approach: They propose a methodology for developing a specialized Telecommunications LLM . they use a dataset to evaluate customer service expertise in the telecommunications domain .
Outcome: The proposed model improves the efficiency of customer service agents and reduces response times.
TelAgentBench: A Multi-faceted Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-based Agents in Telecommunications (2025.emnlp-industry)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming powerful agentic systems . generic benchmarks fail to assess realistic, non-English performance .
Approach: They propose to evaluate five core agentic capabilities: Reasoning, Planning, Action (tool-use), Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Instruction Following.
Outcome: The evaluations reveal significant performance disparities between models that employ explicit reasoning and those that do not.
Knowledge Unlearning for Mitigating Privacy Risks in Language Models (2023.acl-long)

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Challenge: Recent work shows that an adversary can extract training data from Pretrained Language Models including Personally Identifiable Information (PII) such as names, phone numbers, and email addresses.
Approach: They propose to use knowledge unlearning to reduce privacy risks for LMs by performing gradient ascent on target token sequences instead of trying to unlearn all the data at once.
Outcome: The proposed method can give a stronger empirical privacy guarantee in scenarios where the data vulnerable to extraction attacks are known a priori while being much more efficient and robust.

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