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Yashar Mehdad

51 papers · 2009–2025 · 11 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐝 Cross-Pollinator (13) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (16) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (7) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (88) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🌍 Conference Polyglot (11) 🧬 Topic Evolution πŸ‘₯ Mega-Team (21) πŸ† Keyword Champion (3) 🀝 Dynamic Duo (12) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (144) ❓ The Questioner (3) ⚑ Prolific Year (9) πŸ’Ž Century Club (51) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (6)

Conferences

EMNLP (14) NAACL (12) ACL (10) IJCNLP (4) SEMEVAL (4) ICLR (2) AISTATS (1) COLING (1) CVPR (1) EACL (1) NIPS (1)

Top co-authors

Barlas Oguz (12) Haoran Li (11) Xilun Chen (9) Sonal Gupta (8) Matteo Negri (8) Scott Yih (7) Dragomir Radev (6) Srinivasan Iyer (5) Asish Ghoshal (5) Anchit Gupta (5)

Keywords

question answering (8) abstractive summarization (6) dense retrieval (5) large language model (5) text summarization (4) semantic parsing (4) named entity recognition (3) customer support (3) knowledge distillation (3) contrastive learning (3) task-oriented dialogue (2) transfer learning (2) domain adaptation (2) representation learning (2) model quantization (2) intent classification (2) text generation (2) few-shot learning (2) data augmentation (2) zero-shot learning (2)

Papers

LLM-Friendly Knowledge Representation for Customer Support COLING 2025
Agent-in-the-Loop: A Data Flywheel for Continuous Improvement in LLM-based Customer Support EMNLP 2025
Incremental Summarization for Customer Support via Progressive Note-Taking and Agent Feedback EMNLP 2025
Effective Long-Context Scaling of Foundation Models NAACL 2024
LLM-QAT: Data-Free Quantization Aware Training for Large Language Models ACL 2024
CITADEL: Conditional Token Interaction via Dynamic Lexical Routing for Efficient and Effective Multi-Vector Retrieval ACL 2023
How to Train Your Dragon: Diverse Augmentation Towards Generalizable Dense Retrieval EMNLP 2023
Adapting Pretrained Text-to-Text Models for Long Text Sequences EMNLP 2023
Hierarchical Video-Moment Retrieval and Step-Captioning CVPR 2023
BiT: Robustly Binarized Multi-distilled Transformer NIPS 2022
Investigating Crowdsourcing Protocols for Evaluating the Factual Consistency of Summaries NAACL 2022
Simple Local Attentions Remain Competitive for Long-Context Tasks NAACL 2022
CONFIT: Toward Faithful Dialogue Summarization with Linguistically-Informed Contrastive Fine-tuning NAACL 2022
Salient Phrase Aware Dense Retrieval: Can a Dense Retriever Imitate a Sparse One? EMNLP 2022
UniK-QA: Unified Representations of Structured and Unstructured Knowledge for Open-Domain Question Answering NAACL 2022
Bridging the Training-Inference Gap for Dense Phrase Retrieval EMNLP 2022
STRUDEL: Structured Dialogue Summarization for Dialogue Comprehension EMNLP 2022
Domain-matched Pre-training Tasks for Dense Retrieval NAACL 2022
Improving Zero and Few-Shot Abstractive Summarization with Intermediate Fine-tuning and Data Augmentation NAACL 2021
ConvoSumm: Conversation Summarization Benchmark and Improved Abstractive Summarization with Argument Mining IJCNLP 2021
Do Explanations Help Users Detect Errors in Open-Domain QA? An Evaluation of Spoken vs. Visual Explanations IJCNLP 2021
Syntax-augmented Multilingual BERT for Cross-lingual Transfer ACL 2021
ConvoSumm: Conversation Summarization Benchmark and Improved Abstractive Summarization with Argument Mining ACL 2021
Do Explanations Help Users Detect Errors in Open-Domain QA? An Evaluation of Spoken vs. Visual Explanations ACL 2021
Towards Understanding the Behaviors of Optimal Deep Active Learning Algorithms AISTATS 2021
MTOP: A Comprehensive Multilingual Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing Benchmark EACL 2021
RECONSIDER: Improved Re-Ranking using Span-Focused Cross-Attention for Open Domain Question Answering NAACL 2021
FiD-Ex: Improving Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Extractive Rationale Generation EMNLP 2021
EASE: Extractive-Abstractive Summarization End-to-End using the Information Bottleneck Principle EMNLP 2021
Learning Better Structured Representations Using Low-rank Adaptive Label Smoothing ICLR 2021
Answering Complex Open-Domain Questions with Multi-Hop Dense Retrieval ICLR 2021
Syntax-augmented Multilingual BERT for Cross-lingual Transfer IJCNLP 2021
Efficient One-Pass End-to-End Entity Linking for Questions EMNLP 2020
Conversational Semantic Parsing EMNLP 2020
Low-Resource Domain Adaptation for Compositional Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing EMNLP 2020
A Low-Rank Approximation Approach to Learning Joint Embeddings of News Stories and Images for Timeline Summarization NAACL 2016
Abstractive Summarization of Product Reviews Using Discourse Structure EMNLP 2014
Abstractive Summarization of Spoken and Written Conversations Based on Phrasal Queries ACL 2014
Semeval-2013 Task 8: Cross-lingual Textual Entailment for Content Synchronization SEMEVAL 2013
Towards Topic Labeling with Phrase Entailment and Aggregation NAACL 2013
Combining Intra- and Multi-sentential Rhetorical Parsing for Document-level Discourse Analysis ACL 2013
FBK: Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment Without Translation SEMEVAL 2012
Detecting Semantic Equivalence and Information Disparity in Cross-lingual Documents ACL 2012
Semeval-2012 Task 8: Cross-lingual Textual Entailment for Content Synchronization SEMEVAL 2012
FBK: Machine Translation Evaluation and Word Similarity metrics for Semantic Textual Similarity SEMEVAL 2012
Using Bilingual Parallel Corpora for Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment ACL 2011
Divide and Conquer: Crowdsourcing the Creation of Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment Corpora EMNLP 2011
Towards Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment NAACL 2010
Syntactic/Semantic Structures for Textual Entailment Recognition NAACL 2010
Automatic Cost Estimation for Tree Edit Distance Using Particle Swarm Optimization IJCNLP 2009
Automatic Cost Estimation for Tree Edit Distance Using Particle Swarm Optimization ACL 2009