Yashar Mehdad

LLM-Friendly Knowledge Representation for Customer Support COLING 2025 Agent-in-the-Loop: A Data Flywheel for Continuous Improvement in LLM-based Customer Support EMNLP 2025 Incremental Summarization for Customer Support via Progressive Note-Taking and Agent Feedback EMNLP 2025 Effective Long-Context Scaling of Foundation Models NAACL 2024 LLM-QAT: Data-Free Quantization Aware Training for Large Language Models ACL 2024 CITADEL: Conditional Token Interaction via Dynamic Lexical Routing for Efficient and Effective Multi-Vector Retrieval ACL 2023 How to Train Your Dragon: Diverse Augmentation Towards Generalizable Dense Retrieval EMNLP 2023 Adapting Pretrained Text-to-Text Models for Long Text Sequences EMNLP 2023 Hierarchical Video-Moment Retrieval and Step-Captioning CVPR 2023 BiT: Robustly Binarized Multi-distilled Transformer NIPS 2022 Investigating Crowdsourcing Protocols for Evaluating the Factual Consistency of Summaries NAACL 2022 Simple Local Attentions Remain Competitive for Long-Context Tasks NAACL 2022 CONFIT: Toward Faithful Dialogue Summarization with Linguistically-Informed Contrastive Fine-tuning NAACL 2022 Salient Phrase Aware Dense Retrieval: Can a Dense Retriever Imitate a Sparse One? EMNLP 2022 UniK-QA: Unified Representations of Structured and Unstructured Knowledge for Open-Domain Question Answering NAACL 2022 Bridging the Training-Inference Gap for Dense Phrase Retrieval EMNLP 2022 STRUDEL: Structured Dialogue Summarization for Dialogue Comprehension EMNLP 2022 Domain-matched Pre-training Tasks for Dense Retrieval NAACL 2022 Improving Zero and Few-Shot Abstractive Summarization with Intermediate Fine-tuning and Data Augmentation NAACL 2021 ConvoSumm: Conversation Summarization Benchmark and Improved Abstractive Summarization with Argument Mining IJCNLP 2021 Do Explanations Help Users Detect Errors in Open-Domain QA? An Evaluation of Spoken vs. Visual Explanations IJCNLP 2021 Syntax-augmented Multilingual BERT for Cross-lingual Transfer ACL 2021 ConvoSumm: Conversation Summarization Benchmark and Improved Abstractive Summarization with Argument Mining ACL 2021 Do Explanations Help Users Detect Errors in Open-Domain QA? An Evaluation of Spoken vs. Visual Explanations ACL 2021 Towards Understanding the Behaviors of Optimal Deep Active Learning Algorithms AISTATS 2021 MTOP: A Comprehensive Multilingual Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing Benchmark EACL 2021 RECONSIDER: Improved Re-Ranking using Span-Focused Cross-Attention for Open Domain Question Answering NAACL 2021 FiD-Ex: Improving Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Extractive Rationale Generation EMNLP 2021 EASE: Extractive-Abstractive Summarization End-to-End using the Information Bottleneck Principle EMNLP 2021 Learning Better Structured Representations Using Low-rank Adaptive Label Smoothing ICLR 2021 Answering Complex Open-Domain Questions with Multi-Hop Dense Retrieval ICLR 2021 Syntax-augmented Multilingual BERT for Cross-lingual Transfer IJCNLP 2021 Efficient One-Pass End-to-End Entity Linking for Questions EMNLP 2020 Conversational Semantic Parsing EMNLP 2020 Low-Resource Domain Adaptation for Compositional Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing EMNLP 2020 A Low-Rank Approximation Approach to Learning Joint Embeddings of News Stories and Images for Timeline Summarization NAACL 2016 Abstractive Summarization of Product Reviews Using Discourse Structure EMNLP 2014 Abstractive Summarization of Spoken and Written Conversations Based on Phrasal Queries ACL 2014 Semeval-2013 Task 8: Cross-lingual Textual Entailment for Content Synchronization SEMEVAL 2013 Towards Topic Labeling with Phrase Entailment and Aggregation NAACL 2013 Combining Intra- and Multi-sentential Rhetorical Parsing for Document-level Discourse Analysis ACL 2013 FBK: Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment Without Translation SEMEVAL 2012 Detecting Semantic Equivalence and Information Disparity in Cross-lingual Documents ACL 2012 Semeval-2012 Task 8: Cross-lingual Textual Entailment for Content Synchronization SEMEVAL 2012 FBK: Machine Translation Evaluation and Word Similarity metrics for Semantic Textual Similarity SEMEVAL 2012 Using Bilingual Parallel Corpora for Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment ACL 2011 Divide and Conquer: Crowdsourcing the Creation of Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment Corpora EMNLP 2011 Towards Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment NAACL 2010 Syntactic/Semantic Structures for Textual Entailment Recognition NAACL 2010 Automatic Cost Estimation for Tree Edit Distance Using Particle Swarm Optimization IJCNLP 2009 Automatic Cost Estimation for Tree Edit Distance Using Particle Swarm Optimization ACL 2009