Papers with Wikipedia documents
Meet The Truth: Leverage Objective Facts and Subjective Views for Interpretable Rumor Detection (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing rumor detection methods provide detection labels while ignoring their explanation. |
| Approach: | a novel model is proposed to automatically classify rumors using Wikipedia documents . the model combines objective facts and subjective views to verify rumours . |
| Outcome: | a new model outperforms existing models on real-world Twitter datasets . the proposed model combines objective facts and subjective views to verify rumor . |
A Novel Framework Based on Medical Concept Driven Attention for Explainable Medical Code Prediction via External Knowledge (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to predict medical codes from clinical notes lack interpretability due to lengthy and noisy clinical notes. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework based on medical concept driven attention to integrate external knowledge for explainable medical code prediction from clinical notes. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on a benchmark dataset showing that it is more accurate than existing methods. |
MAVEN: A Massive General Domain Event Detection Dataset (2020.emnlp-main)
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Xiaozhi Wang, Ziqi Wang, Xu Han, Wangyi Jiang, Rong Han, Zhiyuan Liu, Juanzi Li, Peng Li, Yankai Lin, Jie Zhou
| Challenge: | Existing datasets exhibit data scarcity and limited coverage of general-domain events. |
| Approach: | They present a MAssive eVENt detection dataset which contains 4,480 Wikipedia documents and 168 event types. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset shows that existing methods cannot achieve promising results on the small datasets. |
Generating Information-Seeking Conversations from Unlabeled Documents (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | a novel framework for conversational question answering from unlabeled documents has been proposed . a large-scale dataset of synthetic conversations is available for use in real-world applications . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for conversational question answering from unlabeled documents . they propose 'SimSeek' framework that simulates conversation from unlabelled documents based on two scenarios . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on a recent CQA benchmark, QuAC. |
MUSIED: A Benchmark for Event Detection from Multi-Source Heterogeneous Informal Texts (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent efforts to classify unstructured texts into specific types have been limited in practical scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Chinese text conversations and phone conversations to expand event detection to the scenarios involving informal and heterogeneous texts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset is based on user reviews, text conversations, and phone conversations in a leading e-commerce platform for food service. |
Multilingual Retrieval Augmented Generation for Culturally-Sensitive Tasks: A Benchmark for Cross-lingual Robustness (2025.findings-acl)
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Bryan Li, Fiona Luo, Samar Haider, Adwait Agashe, Siyu Li, Runqi Liu, Miranda Muqing Miao, Shriya Ramakrishnan, Yuan Yuan, Chris Callison-Burch
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to retrieval-augmented generated (RAG) can be useful in multilingual settings, but they also introduce biases in the retrieved documents. |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset of territorial disputes paired with retrieved Wikipedia documents in 49 languages to evaluate cross-lingual robustness. |
| Outcome: | The proposed paradigm helps mitigate hallucinations of large language models (LLMs). |
NUT-RC: Noisy User-generated Text-oriented Reading Comprehension (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing RC models focus on extractive or generative, but ignore integration of them. |
| Approach: | They propose a noisy user-generated text-oriented RC model that integrates extractive and generative RC models by a multi-task learning mechanism and an answer selection module. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models on Twitter. |
EX-FEVER: A Dataset for Multi-hop Explainable Fact Verification (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on fact verification lack a high-quality dataset for explainability . existing systems lack evidence retrieval and veracity prediction, limiting the ability to verify a claim . |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset for multi-hop explainable fact verification that summarises and modifies Wikipedia documents. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset aims to improve the accuracy of multi-hop explainable fact verification systems. |
Synthetic Multimodal Question Generation (2024.findings-emnlp)
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Ian Wu, Sravan Jayanthi, Vijay Viswanathan, Simon Rosenberg, Sina Pakazad, Tongshuang Wu, Graham Neubig
| Challenge: | Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation (MMRAG) is a powerful approach to question-answering over multimodal documents. |
| Approach: | They propose a synthetic data generation framework that leverages interplay between a retriever, large language model and large multimodal model to generate question and answer pairs directly from multimodal documents. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework generates question and answer pairs from 1024 questions over Wikipedia documents and evaluates state-of-the-art models using it. |
QUEST: A Retrieval Dataset of Entity-Seeking Queries with Implicit Set Operations (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | People express information needs with multiple preferences or constraints . modern retrieval systems struggle on such queries, a study finds . |
| Approach: | They construct a dataset of 3357 queries that map to a set of Wikipedia entities . they use crowd-sourced data to match constraints with evidence in documents . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset challenges models to match constraints mentioned in queries with evidence in documents and correctly perform various set operations. |
Stance Detection on Social Media with Background Knowledge (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies of stance detection focus on learning stance information about specific targets from context, but in real-world scenarios, we usually have a certain understanding of a target when we express our stance on it. |
| Approach: | They propose to take the background knowledge of the target into account for better stance detection by categorizing it into episodic and discourse knowledge categories and a heuristic retrieval algorithm based on the topic to retrieve the Wikipedia documents relevant to the sample. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art on four benchmark datasets showing that the proposed framework is able to detect stances in-target and zero-shot scenarios. |