Search Results for author: Vaishali Pal

Found 6 papers, 6 papers with code

MultiTabQA: Generating Tabular Answers for Multi-Table Question Answering

1 code implementation22 May 2023 Vaishali Pal, Andrew Yates, Evangelos Kanoulas, Maarten de Rijke

Recent advances in tabular question answering (QA) with large language models are constrained in their coverage and only answer questions over a single table.

Question Answering

Parameter-Efficient Sparse Retrievers and Rerankers using Adapters

1 code implementation23 Mar 2023 Vaishali Pal, Carlos Lassance, Hervé Déjean, Stéphane Clinchant

While previous studies have only experimented with dense retriever or in a cross lingual retrieval scenario, in this paper we aim to complete the picture on the use of adapters in IR.

Domain Adaptation Information Retrieval +3

Parameter-Efficient Abstractive Question Answering over Tables or Text

1 code implementation dialdoc (ACL) 2022 Vaishali Pal, Evangelos Kanoulas, Maarten de Rijke

In this work, we study parameter-efficient abstractive QA in encoder-decoder models over structured tabular data and unstructured textual data using only 1. 5% additional parameters for each modality.

abstractive question answering Decoder +1

ConfNet2Seq: Full Length Answer Generation from Spoken Questions

1 code implementation9 Jun 2020 Vaishali Pal, Manish Shrivastava, Laurent Besacier

This is the first attempt towards generating full-length natural answers from a graph input(confusion network) to the best of our knowledge.

Answer Generation Sentence +1

Modeling ASR Ambiguity for Dialogue State Tracking Using Word Confusion Networks

1 code implementation3 Feb 2020 Vaishali Pal, Fabien Guillot, Manish Shrivastava, Jean-Michel Renders, Laurent Besacier

Spoken dialogue systems typically use a list of top-N ASR hypotheses for inferring the semantic meaning and tracking the state of the dialogue.

Dialogue State Tracking Spoken Dialogue Systems

Answering Naturally: Factoid to Full length Answer Generation

1 code implementation WS 2019 Vaishali Pal, Manish Shrivastava, Irshad Bhat

A reading comprehension system extracts a span of text, comprising of named entities, dates, small phrases, etc., which serve as the answer to a given question.

Answer Generation Question Answering +2

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