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Vageesh Kumar Saxena

4 accepted papers

2025

ColBERT-XM: A Modular Multi-Vector Representation Model for Zero-Shot Multilingual Information Retrieval

COLING 2025main

State-of-the-art neural retrievers predominantly focus on high-resource languages like English, which impedes their adoption in retrieval scenarios involving other languages. Current approaches circumvent the lack of high-quality labeled data in non-English languages by leveraging multilingual pretr…

2025

MATCHED: Multimodal Authorship-Attribution To Combat Human Trafficking in Escort-Advertisement Data

ACL 2025finding

Human trafficking (HT) remains a critical issue, with traffickers increasingly leveraging online escort advertisements to advertise victims anonymously. Existing detection methods, including text-based Authorship Attribution (AA), overlook the multimodal nature of these ads, which combine text and i…

2023

IDTraffickers: An Authorship Attribution Dataset to link and connect Potential Human-Trafficking Operations on Text Escort Advertisements

EMNLP 2023long main

Human trafficking (HT) is a pervasive global issue affecting vulnerable individuals, violating their fundamental human rights. Investigations reveal that a significant number of HT cases are associated with online advertisements (ads), particularly in escort markets. Consequently, identifying and co…

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2020

TX-Ray: Quantifying and Explaining Model-Knowledge Transfer in (Un-)Supervised NLP

UAI 2020poster

While state-of-the-art NLP explainability (XAI) methods focus on explaining per-sample decisions in supervised end or probing tasks, this is insufficient to explain and quantify model knowledge transfer during (un-)supervised training. Thus, for TX-Ray, we modify the established computer vision expl…