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Incorporating specific knowledge into large language models via retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a widespread technique that fuels many of today's industry AI applications. A fundamental problem is to assess if the context retrieved…

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Sequence-to-sequence models have lead to significant progress in keyphrase generation, but it remains unknown whether they are reliable enough to be beneficial for document retrieval. This study provides empirical evidence that such models…

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Neural language model-based approaches to automated story generation suffer from two important limitations. First, language model-based story generators generally do not work toward a given goal or ending. Second, they often lose coherence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Louis Castricato , Spencer Frazier , Jonathan Balloch , Nitya Tarakad , Mark Riedl

Machine comprehension question answering, which finds an answer to the question given a passage, involves high-level reasoning processes of understanding and tracking the relevant contents across various semantic units such as words,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Minjeong Kim , David Keetae Park , Hyungjong Noh , Yeonsoo Lee , Jaegul Choo

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) refer to the most common inquiries about specific content. They serve as content comprehension aids by simplifying topics and enhancing understanding through succinct presentation of information. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Sahil Kale , Gautam Khaire , Jay Patankar

In this work, we focus on the task of Automatic Question Generation (AQG) where given a passage and an answer the task is to generate the corresponding question. It is desired that the generated question should be (i) grammatically correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Preksha Nema , Akash Kumar Mohankumar , Mitesh M. Khapra , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan , Balaraman Ravindran

Query-document relevance prediction is a critical problem in Information Retrieval systems. This problem has increasingly been tackled using (pretrained) transformer-based models which are finetuned using large collections of labeled data.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Aditi Chaudhary , Karthik Raman , Krishna Srinivasan , Kazuma Hashimoto , Mike Bendersky , Marc Najork

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems rely on retrieval models for identifying relevant contexts and answer generation models for utilizing those contexts. However, retrievers exhibit imperfect recall and precision, limiting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jerry Huang , Siddarth Madala , Risham Sidhu , Cheng Niu , Hao Peng , Julia Hockenmaier , Tong Zhang

We present a neural model for question generation from knowledge base triples in a "Zero-Shot" setup, that is generating questions for triples containing predicates, subject types or object types that were not seen at training time. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Hady Elsahar , Christophe Gravier , Frederique Laforest

Fact-based dialogue generation is a task of generating a human-like response based on both dialogue context and factual texts. Various methods were proposed to focus on generating informative words that contain facts effectively. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Ryota Tanaka , Akinobu Lee

In this survey, we present a detailed examination of the advancements in Neural Question Generation (NQG), a field leveraging neural network techniques to generate relevant questions from diverse inputs like knowledge bases, texts, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Shasha Guo , Lizi Liao , Cuiping Li , Tat-Seng Chua

Existing dialog datasets contain a sequence of utterances and responses without any explicit background knowledge associated with them. This has resulted in the development of models which treat conversation as a sequence-to-sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Nikita Moghe , Siddhartha Arora , Suman Banerjee , Mitesh M. Khapra

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) aims to generate more reliable and accurate responses, by augmenting large language models (LLMs) with the external vast and dynamic knowledge. Most previous work focuses on using RAG for single-round…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Linhao Ye , Zhikai Lei , Jianghao Yin , Qin Chen , Jie Zhou , Liang He

This paper explores the task of answer-aware questions generation. Based on the attention-based pointer generator model, we propose to incorporate an auxiliary task of language modeling to help question generation in a hierarchical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Wenjie Zhou , Minghua Zhang , Yunfang Wu

Paraphrase generation has been widely used in various downstream tasks. Most tasks benefit mainly from high quality paraphrases, namely those that are semantically similar to, yet linguistically diverse from, the original sentence.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Elron Bandel , Ranit Aharonov , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer , Ilya Shnayderman , Noam Slonim , Liat Ein-Dor

Few-shot table-to-text generation is a task of composing fluent and faithful sentences to convey table content using limited data. Despite many efforts having been made towards generating impressive fluent sentences by fine-tuning powerful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Wenting Zhao , Ye Liu , Yao Wan , Philip S. Yu

Powerful generative models have led to recent progress in question generation (QG). However, it is difficult to measure advances in QG research since there are no standardized resources that allow a uniform comparison among approaches. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Asahi Ushio , Fernando Alva-Manchego , Jose Camacho-Collados

How do language models use information provided as context when generating a response? Can we infer whether a particular generated statement is actually grounded in the context, a misinterpretation, or fabricated? To help answer these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Benjamin Cohen-Wang , Harshay Shah , Kristian Georgiev , Aleksander Madry

In the realm of education, student evaluation holds equal significance to imparting knowledge. To be evaluated, students usually need to go through text-based academic assessment methods. Instructors need to make a diverse set of questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Md. Alvee Ehsan , A. S. M Mehedi Hasan , Kefaya Benta Shahnoor , Syeda Sumaiya Tasneem

Sequence generation models for dialogue are known to have several problems: they tend to produce short, generic sentences that are uninformative and unengaging. Retrieval models on the other hand can surface interesting responses, but are…

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