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Marzieh Saeidi

5 accepted papers

2023

RQUGE: Reference-Free Metric for Evaluating Question Generation by Answering the Question

ACL 2023findings

Existing metrics for evaluating the quality of automatically generated questions such as BLEU, ROUGE, BERTScore, and BLEURT compare the reference and predicted questions, providing a high score when there is a considerable lexical overlap or semantic similarity between the candidate and the referenc…

2023

TimelineQA: A Benchmark for Question Answering over Timelines

ACL 2023findings

Lifelogs are descriptions of experiences that a person had during their life. Lifelogs are created by fusing data from the multitude of digital services, such as online photos, maps, shopping and content streaming services. Question answering over lifelogs can offer personal assistants a critical re…

2022

Prompt-free and Efficient Few-shot Learning with Language Models

ACL 2022long

Current methods for few-shot fine-tuning of pretrained masked language models (PLMs) require carefully engineered prompts and verbalizers for each new task to convert examples into a cloze-format that the PLM can score. In this work, we propose Perfect, a simple and efficient method for few-shot fin…

2021

Database reasoning over text

ACL 2021long

Neural models have shown impressive performance gains in answering queries from natural language text. However, existing works are unable to support database queries, such as “List/Count all female athletes who were born in 20th century”, which require reasoning over sets of relevant facts with oper…