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Shahbaz Syed

6 accepted papers

2025

On Synthesizing Data for Context Attribution in Question Answering

ACL 2025long

Question Answering (QA) accounts for a significant portion of LLM usage in the wild”. However, LLMs sometimes produce false or misleading responses, also known as hallucinations”. Therefore, grounding the generated answers in contextually provided information—i.e., providing evidence for the generat…

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2023

Citance-Contextualized Summarization of Scientific Papers

EMNLP 2023long findings

Current approaches to automatic summarization of scientific papers generate informative summaries in the form of abstracts. However, abstracts are not intended to show the relationship between a paper and the references cited in it. We propose a new contextualized summarization approach that can gen…

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2023

Indicative Summarization of Long Discussions

EMNLP 2023long main

Online forums encourage the exchange and discussion of different stances on many topics. Not only do they provide an opportunity to present one's own arguments, but may also gather a broad cross-section of others' arguments. However, the resulting long discussions are difficult to overview. This pap…

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2023

Modeling Appropriate Language in Argumentation

ACL 2023long

Online discussion moderators must make ad-hoc decisions about whether the contributions of discussion participants are appropriate or should be removed to maintain civility. Existing research on offensive language and the resulting tools cover only one aspect among many involved in such decisions. T…

2021

Summary Explorer: Visualizing the State of the Art in Text Summarization

EMNLP 2021system demonstrations

This paper introduces Summary Explorer, a new tool to support the manual inspection of text summarization systems by compiling the outputs of 55 state-of-the-art single document summarization approaches on three benchmark datasets, and visually exploring them during a qualitative assessment. The und…

2020

News Editorials: Towards Summarizing Long Argumentative Texts

COLING 2020main

The automatic summarization of argumentative texts has hardly been explored. This paper takes a further step in this direction, targeting news editorials, i.e., opinionated articles with a well-defined argumentation structure. With Webis-EditorialSum-2020, we present a corpus of 1330 carefully curat…

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