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Satya Almasian

3 accepted papers

2025

Tradutor: Building a Variety Specific Translation Model

AAAI 2025technical

Language models have become foundational to many widely used systems. However, these seemingly advantageous models are double-edged swords. While they excel in tasks related to resource-rich languages like English, they often lose the fine nuances of language forms, dialects, and varieties that are…

2024

Numbers Matter! Bringing Quantity-awareness to Retrieval Systems

EMNLP 2024finding

Quantitative information plays a crucial role in understanding and interpreting the content of documents. Many user queries contain quantities and cannot be resolved without understanding their semantics, e.g., “car that costs less than $10k”. Yet, modern search engines apply the same ranking mechan…