| Apr 25, 2024 | Today, I have defended my dissertation on Automated Factoid Question Answering and Fact-Checking in Natural Language (thesis here). The thesis was also awarded by Dean’s award! |
| Mar 13, 2024 | We released BUT-FIT/csmpt7b, the first Czech-only 7b LLM, together with most of it’s training corpus and checkpoints. We also released BUT-FIT/CSTinyLlama-1.2B to complement our BUT-FIT model family. |
| Oct 31, 2023 | We released an open-source 1.5b BUT-FIT/Czech-GPT-2-XL-133k czech language model checkpoint. This is an intermediate result of our ongoing work on SEMANT project here at BUT. |
| May 2, 2023 | Our work on Claim-Dissector: An Interpretable Fact-Checking System with Joint Re-ranking and Veracity Prediction was accepted to Findings of ACL 2023! |
| Apr 26, 2023 | Today, I gave an invited talk at Masaryk University in Introduction to Information Retrieval course!. The talk’s theme was Question Answering and Beyond. |
| Sep 9, 2022 | Together with colleagues at IDIAP, we participated in 3rd shared task of CASE22@EMNLP. We achieved close 2nd place in subtask2! Check out our preprints for subtask 1 and subtask 2. |
| Jul 29, 2022 | Finally, our work on Claim-Dissector: An Interpretable Fact-Checking System with Joint Re-ranking and Veracity Prediction is available at arXiv! |
| Jul 12, 2022 | Today, I was giving a talk at Cambridge, UK about our upcoming work on “Claim-Dissector: An Interpretable Fact-Checking System with Joint Re-ranking and Veracity Prediction”. Preprint coming soon! |
| Nov 10, 2021 | Our work comparing different probability modelling assumptions in span prediction for extractive QA got Honorable mention at MRQA@EMNLP’21 workshop! |
| Sep 13, 2021 | Our work devoted to rigorous comparison of independent vs joint start/end probability modelling assumptions in span prediction for extractive QA got accepted into MRQA@EMNLP’21. The pre-print & code is here. |
| Sep 9, 2021 | Expanded version of our work on combining the generative and extractive readers in QA (R2-D2) got accepted into Findings of EMNLP’21. The final paper & code is here. Our demo is available at r2d2.fit.vutbr.cz. |
| Jul 1, 2021 | Our technical report from NeurIPS 2020 Competition EfficientQA was accepted to PMLR and is now online! |
| Feb 21, 2021 | We have released the R2-D2 open-domain QA system preprint - the novel SOTA on NQ-open. |