Search Results for author: Iain Mackie

Found 14 papers, 6 papers with code

GRILLBot: A multi-modal conversational agent for complex real-world tasks

no code implementations SIGDIAL (ACL) 2022 Carlos Gemmell, Federico Rossetto, Iain Mackie, Paul Owoicho, Sophie Fischer, Jeff Dalton

We present GRILLBot, an open-source multi-modal task-oriented voice assistant to help users perform complex tasks, focusing on the domains of cooking and home improvement.

Management Navigate +1

Open Assistant Toolkit -- version 2

1 code implementation1 Mar 2024 Sophie Fischer, Federico Rossetto, Carlos Gemmell, Andrew Ramsay, Iain Mackie, Philip Zubel, Niklas Tecklenburg, Jeffrey Dalton

We present the second version of the Open Assistant Toolkit (OAT-v2), an open-source task-oriented conversational system for composing generative neural models.

Code Generation Response Generation +1

DREQ: Document Re-Ranking Using Entity-based Query Understanding

1 code implementation11 Jan 2024 Shubham Chatterjee, Iain Mackie, Jeff Dalton

While entity-oriented neural IR models have advanced significantly, they often overlook a key nuance: the varying degrees of influence individual entities within a document have on its overall relevance.

Re-Ranking

Adaptive Latent Entity Expansion for Document Retrieval

no code implementations29 Jun 2023 Iain Mackie, Shubham Chatterjee, Sean MacAvaney, Jeffrey Dalton

First, we demonstrate that applying a strong neural re-ranker before sparse or dense PRF can improve the retrieval effectiveness by 5-8%.

Re-Ranking Retrieval

GRM: Generative Relevance Modeling Using Relevance-Aware Sample Estimation for Document Retrieval

no code implementations16 Jun 2023 Iain Mackie, Ivan Sekulic, Shubham Chatterjee, Jeffrey Dalton, Fabio Crestani

Recent studies show that Generative Relevance Feedback (GRF), using text generated by Large Language Models (LLMs), can enhance the effectiveness of query expansion.

Document Ranking Retrieval

Generative and Pseudo-Relevant Feedback for Sparse, Dense and Learned Sparse Retrieval

no code implementations12 May 2023 Iain Mackie, Shubham Chatterjee, Jeffrey Dalton

Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) is a classical approach to address lexical mismatch by enriching the query using first-pass retrieval.

Document Ranking Retrieval

Generative Relevance Feedback with Large Language Models

no code implementations25 Apr 2023 Iain Mackie, Shubham Chatterjee, Jeffrey Dalton

Current query expansion models use pseudo-relevance feedback to improve first-pass retrieval effectiveness; however, this fails when the initial results are not relevant.

Language Modelling Retrieval

DocuT5: Seq2seq SQL Generation with Table Documentation

no code implementations11 Nov 2022 Elena Soare, Iain Mackie, Jeffrey Dalton

We perform experiments on the Spider family of datasets that contain complex questions that are cross-domain and multi-table.

Domain Generalization Language Modelling +1

Query-Specific Knowledge Graphs for Complex Finance Topics

no code implementations8 Nov 2022 Iain Mackie, Jeffrey Dalton

This workshop paper discusses automating the construction of query-specific document and entity knowledge graphs (KGs) for complex research topics.

Document Ranking Knowledge Graphs +1

GRILLBot: An Assistant for Real-World Tasks with Neural Semantic Parsing and Graph-Based Representations

no code implementations31 Aug 2022 Carlos Gemmell, Iain Mackie, Paul Owoicho, Federico Rossetto, Sophie Fischer, Jeffrey Dalton

GRILLBot is the winning system in the 2022 Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge, moving towards the next generation of multimodal task assistants.

Semantic Parsing

VILT: Video Instructions Linking for Complex Tasks

2 code implementations23 Aug 2022 Sophie Fischer, Carlos Gemmell, Iain Mackie, Jeffrey Dalton

This work addresses challenges in developing conversational assistants that support rich multimodal video interactions to accomplish real-world tasks interactively.

Retrieval

CODEC: Complex Document and Entity Collection

2 code implementations9 May 2022 Iain Mackie, Paul Owoicho, Carlos Gemmell, Sophie Fischer, Sean MacAvaney, Jeffrey Dalton

We also show that the manual query reformulations significantly improve document ranking and entity ranking performance.

Document Ranking Re-Ranking +1

How Deep is your Learning: the DL-HARD Annotated Deep Learning Dataset

1 code implementation17 May 2021 Iain Mackie, Jeffery Dalton, Andrew Yates

Deep Learning Hard (DL-HARD) is a new annotated dataset designed to more effectively evaluate neural ranking models on complex topics.

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