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Apr 22, 2024 This thursday, I will defend my dissertation on Automated Factoid Question Answering and Fact-Checking in Natural Language (preview here).
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.