Idan Szpektor

According to our database, Idan Szpektor authored at least 74 papers between 2004 and 2024.

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2024

Unpacking Tokenization: Evaluating Text Compression and its Correlation with Model Performance.

Omer Goldman, Avi Caciularu, Matan Eyal, Kris Cao, Idan Szpektor, Reut Tsarfaty

CoRR, 2024

Multilingual Instruction Tuning With Just a Pinch of Multilinguality.

Uri Shaham, Jonathan Herzig, Roee Aharoni, Idan Szpektor, Reut Tsarfaty, Matan Eyal

CoRR, 2024

2023

Mismatch Quest: Visual and Textual Feedback for Image-Text Misalignment.

Brian Gordon, Yonatan Bitton, Yonatan Shafir, Roopal Garg, Xi Chen, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, Idan Szpektor

CoRR, 2023

VideoCon: Robust Video-Language Alignment via Contrast Captions.

Hritik Bansal, Yonatan Bitton, Idan Szpektor, Kai-Wei Chang, Aditya Grover

CoRR, 2023

Transferring Visual Attributes from Natural Language to Verified Image Generation.

Rodrigo Valerio, João Bordalo, Michal Yarom, Yonatan Bitton, Idan Szpektor, João Magalhães

CoRR, 2023

What You See is What You Read? Improving Text-Image Alignment Evaluation.

Michal Yarom, Yonatan Bitton, Soravit Changpinyo, Roee Aharoni, Jonathan Herzig, Oran Lang, Eran Ofek, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

TrueTeacher: Learning Factual Consistency Evaluation with Large Language Models.

Zorik Gekhman, Jonathan Herzig, Roee Aharoni, Chen Elkind, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

MaXM: Towards Multilingual Visual Question Answering.

Soravit Changpinyo, Linting Xue, Michal Yarom, Ashish V. Thapliyal, Idan Szpektor, Julien Amelot, Xi Chen, Radu Soricut

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023

Sentence Retrieval for Open-Ended Dialogue Using Dual Contextual Modeling.

Itay Harel, Hagai Taitelbaum, Idan Szpektor, Oren Kurland

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2023

Factually Consistent Summarization via Reinforcement Learning with Textual Entailment Feedback.

Paul Roit, Johan Ferret, Lior Shani, Roee Aharoni, Geoffrey Cideron, Robert Dadashi, Matthieu Geist, Sertan Girgin, Léonard Hussenot, Orgad Keller, Nikola Momchev, Sabela Ramos Garea, Piotr Stanczyk, Nino Vieillard, Olivier Bachem, Gal Elidan, Avinatan Hassidim, Olivier Pietquin, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

DisentQA: Disentangling Parametric and Contextual Knowledge with Counterfactual Question Answering.

Ella Neeman, Roee Aharoni, Or Honovich, Leshem Choshen, Idan Szpektor, Omri Abend

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Hebrew NLP.

Matan Eyal, Hila Noga, Roee Aharoni, Idan Szpektor, Reut Tsarfaty

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023

2022

Towards Multi-Lingual Visual Question Answering.

Soravit Changpinyo, Linting Xue, Idan Szpektor, Ashish V. Thapliyal, Julien Amelot, Xi Chen, Radu Soricut

CoRR, 2022

Dynamic Planning in Open-Ended Dialogue using Reinforcement Learning.

Deborah Cohen, Moonkyung Ryu, Yinlam Chow, Orgad Keller, Ido Greenberg, Avinatan Hassidim, Michael Fink, Yossi Matias, Idan Szpektor, Craig Boutilier, Gal Elidan

CoRR, 2022

On the Robustness of Dialogue History Representation in Conversational Question Answering: A Comprehensive Study and a New Prompt-based Method.

Zorik Gekhman, Nadav Oved, Orgad Keller, Idan Szpektor, Roi Reichart

CoRR, 2022

A Dataset for Sentence Retrieval for Open-Ended Dialogues.

Itay Harel, Hagai Taitelbaum, Idan Szpektor, Oren Kurland

Proceedings of the SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11, 2022

TRUE: Re-evaluating Factual Consistency Evaluation.

Or Honovich, Roee Aharoni, Jonathan Herzig, Hagai Taitelbaum, Doron Kukliansky, Vered Cohen, Thomas Scialom, Idan Szpektor, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022

All You May Need for VQA are Image Captions.

Soravit Changpinyo, Doron Kukliansky, Idan Szpektor, Xi Chen, Nan Ding, Radu Soricut

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022

2021

Q²: Evaluating Factual Consistency in Knowledge-Grounded Dialogues via Question Generation and Question Answering.

Or Honovich, Leshem Choshen, Roee Aharoni, Ella Neeman, Idan Szpektor, Omri Abend

CoRR, 2021

$Q^2$: Evaluating Factual Consistency in Knowledge-Grounded Dialogues via Question Generation and Question Answering.

Or Honovich, Leshem Choshen, Roee Aharoni, Ella Neeman, Idan Szpektor, Omri Abend

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

What's the Best Place for an AI Conference, Vancouver or _______: Why Completing Comparative Questions is Difficult.

Avishai Zagoury, Einat Minkov, Idan Szpektor, William W. Cohen

Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021

2020

Customization scenarios for de-identification of clinical notes.

Tzvika Hartman, Michael D. Howell, Jeff Dean, Shlomo Hoory, Ronit Slyper, Itay Laish, Oren Gilon, Danny Vainstein, Greg Corrado, Katherine Chou, Ming Jack Po, Jutta Williams, Scott Ellis, Gavin Bee, Avinatan Hassidim, Rony Amira, Genady Beryozkin, Idan Szpektor, Yossi Matias

BMC Medical Informatics Decis. Mak., 2020

Dynamic Composition for Conversational Domain Exploration.

Idan Szpektor, Deborah Cohen, Gal Elidan, Michael Fink, Avinatan Hassidim, Orgad Keller, Sayali Kulkarni, Eran Ofek, Sagie Pudinsky, Asaf Revach, Shimi Salant, Yossi Matias

Proceedings of the WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-24, 2020, 2020

Semantically Driven Sentence Fusion: Modeling and Evaluation.

Eyal Ben-David, Orgad Keller, Eric Malmi, Idan Szpektor, Roi Reichart

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, 2020

2019

A Joint Named-Entity Recognizer for Heterogeneous Tag-setsUsing a Tag Hierarchy.

Genady Beryozkin, Yoel Drori, Oren Gilon, Tzvika Hartman, Idan Szpektor

CoRR, 2019

DiscoFuse: A Large-Scale Dataset for Discourse-Based Sentence Fusion.

Mor Geva, Eric Malmi, Idan Szpektor, Jonathan Berant

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2019

Audio De-identification - a New Entity Recognition Task.

Ido Cohn, Itay Laish, Genady Beryozkin, Gang Li, Izhak Shafran, Idan Szpektor, Tzvika Hartman, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2019

A Joint Named-Entity Recognizer for Heterogeneous Tag-sets Using a Tag Hierarchy.

Genady Beryozkin, Yoel Drori, Oren Gilon, Tzvika Hartman, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019

2018

Care to Share?: Learning to Rank Personal Photos for Public Sharing.

Ido Guy, Alexander Nus, Dan Pelleg, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2018

2016

The Yahoo Query Treebank, V. 1.0.

Yuval Pinter, Roi Reichart, Idan Szpektor

CoRR, 2016

Identifying Web Queries with Question Intent.

Gilad Tsur, Yuval Pinter, Idan Szpektor, David Carmel

Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2016

That's Not My Question: Learning to Weight Unmatched Terms in CQA Vertical Search.

Boaz Petersil, Avihai Mejer, Idan Szpektor, Koby Crammer

Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

Novelty based Ranking of Human Answers for Community Questions.

Adi Omari, David Carmel, Oleg Rokhlenko, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

SIGIR 2016 Workshop WebQA II: Web Question Answering Beyond Factoids.

Alessandro Moschitti, Lluís Màrquez, Preslav Nakov, Eugene Agichtein, Charles L. A. Clarke, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

Syntactic Parsing of Web Queries with Question Intent.

Yuval Pinter, Roi Reichart, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2016, 2016

Supporting Human Answers for Advice-Seeking Questions in CQA Sites.

Liora Braunstain, Oren Kurland, David Carmel, Idan Szpektor, Anna Shtok

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2016

When the Crowd is Not Enough: Improving User Experience with Social Media through Automatic Quality Analysis.

Dan Pelleg, Oleg Rokhlenko, Idan Szpektor, Eugene Agichtein, Ido Guy

Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, 2016

2015

Unsupervised acquisition of entailment relations from the Web.

Idan Szpektor, Hristo Tanev, Ido Dagan, Bonaventura Coppola, Milen Kouylekov

Nat. Lang. Eng., 2015

Web Question Answering: Beyond Factoids: SIGIR 2015 Workshop.

Eugene Agichtein, David Carmel, Charles L. A. Clarke, Praveen K. Paritosh, Dan Pelleg, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2015

2014

Probabilistic Modeling of Joint-context in Distributional Similarity.

Oren Melamud, Ido Dagan, Jacob Goldberger, Idan Szpektor, Deniz Yuret

Proceedings of the Eighteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2014

Improving Term Weighting for Community Question Answering Search Using Syntactic Analysis.

David Carmel, Avihai Mejer, Yuval Pinter, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2014

Benchmarking Applied Semantic Inference: The PASCAL Recognising Textual Entailment Challenges.

Roy Bar-Haim, Ido Dagan, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the Language, Culture, Computation. Computing - Theory and Technology, 2014

2013

Introduction to special section on paraphrasing.

Haifeng Wang, Bill Dolan, Idan Szpektor, Shiqi Zhao

ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol., 2013

When relevance is not enough: promoting diversity and freshnessin personalized question recommendation.

Idan Szpektor, Yoelle Maarek, Dan Pelleg

Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference, 2013

From query to question in one click: suggesting synthetic questions to searchers.

Gideon Dror, Yoelle Maarek, Avihai Mejer, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference, 2013

Will My Question Be Answered? Predicting "Question Answerability" in Community Question-Answering Sites.

Gideon Dror, Yoelle Maarek, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2013

Generating Synthetic Comparable Questions for News Articles.

Oleg Rokhlenko, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013

Using Lexical Expansion to Learn Inference Rules from Sparse Data.

Oren Melamud, Ido Dagan, Jacob Goldberger, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013

A Two Level Model for Context Sensitive Inference Rules.

Oren Melamud, Jonathan Berant, Ido Dagan, Jacob Goldberger, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013

2012

Learning from the past: answering new questions with past answers.

Anna Shtok, Gideon Dror, Yoelle Maarek, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the 21st World Wide Web Conference 2012, 2012

Churn prediction in new users of Yahoo! answers.

Gideon Dror, Dan Pelleg, Oleg Rokhlenko, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the 21st World Wide Web Conference, 2012

When web search fails, searchers become askers: understanding the transition.

Qiaoling Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Gideon Dror, Yoelle Maarek, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012

Learning Verb Inference Rules from Linguistically-Motivated Evidence.

Hila Weisman, Jonathan Berant, Idan Szpektor, Ido Dagan

Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, 2012

2011

Improving recommendation for long-tail queries via templates.

Idan Szpektor, Aristides Gionis, Yoelle Maarek

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2011

Predicting web searcher satisfaction with existing community-based answers.

Qiaoling Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Gideon Dror, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yoelle Maarek, Dan Pelleg, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2011

I want to answer; who has a question?: Yahoo! answers recommender system.

Gideon Dror, Yehuda Koren, Yoelle Maarek, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2011

Classification-based Contextual Preferences.

Shachar Mirkin, Ido Dagan, Lili Kotlerman, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the Workshop on Textual Entailment, 2011

2010

Directional distributional similarity for lexical inference.

Lili Kotlerman, Ido Dagan, Idan Szpektor, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet

Nat. Lang. Eng., 2010

Textual Entailment.

Mark Sammons, Idan Szpektor, V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran

Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, June 1, 2010, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2010

Generating Entailment Rules from FrameNet.

Roni Ben Aharon, Idan Szpektor, Ido Dagan

Proceedings of the ACL 2010, 2010

2009

Addressing Discourse and Document Structure in the RTE Search Task.

Shachar Mirkin, Roy Bar-Haim, Ido Dagan, Eyal Shnarch, Asher Stern, Idan Szpektor, Jonathan Berant

Proceedings of the Second Text Analysis Conference, 2009

Augmenting WordNet-based Inference with Argument Mapping.

Idan Szpektor, Ido Dagan

Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Applied Textual Inference, 2009

Source-Language Entailment Modeling for Translating Unknown Terms.

Shachar Mirkin, Lucia Specia, Nicola Cancedda, Ido Dagan, Marc Dymetman, Idan Szpektor

Proceedings of the ACL 2009, 2009

Directional Distributional Similarity for Lexical Expansion.

Lili Kotlerman, Ido Dagan, Idan Szpektor, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet

Proceedings of the ACL 2009, 2009

2008

Efficient Semantic Deduction and Approximate Matching over Compact Parse Forests.

Roy Bar-Haim, Ido Dagan, Shachar Mirkin, Eyal Shnarch, Idan Szpektor, Jonathan Berant, Iddo Greental

Proceedings of the First Text Analysis Conference, 2008

Learning Entailment Rules for Unary Templates.

Idan Szpektor, Ido Dagan

Proceedings of the COLING 2008, 2008

Natural Language as the Basis for Meaning Representation and Inference.

Ido Dagan, Roy Bar-Haim, Idan Szpektor, Iddo Greental, Eyal Shnarch

Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2008

Contextual Preferences.

Idan Szpektor, Ido Dagan, Roy Bar-Haim, Jacob Goldberger

Proceedings of the ACL 2008, 2008

2007

Cross Lingual and Semantic Retrieval for Cultural Heritage Appreciation.

Idan Szpektor, Ido Dagan, Alon Lavie, Danny Shacham, Shuly Wintner

Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data, 2007

Instance-based Evaluation of Entailment Rule Acquisition.

Idan Szpektor, Eyal Shnarch, Ido Dagan

Proceedings of the ACL 2007, 2007

Semantic Inference at the Lexical-Syntactic Level for Textual Entailment Recognition.

Roy Bar-Haim, Ido Dagan, Iddo Greental, Idan Szpektor, Moshe Friedman

Proceedings of the ACL-PASCAL@ACL 2007 Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing, 2007

2006

Investigating a Generic Paraphrase-Based Approach for Relation Extraction.

Lorenza Romano, Milen Kouylekov, Idan Szpektor, Ido Dagan, Alberto Lavelli

Proceedings of the EACL 2006, 2006

2005

Definition and Analysis of Intermediate Entailment Levels.

Roy Bar-Haim, Idan Szpektor, Oren Glickman

Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Empirical Modeling of Semantic Equivalence and Entailment@ACL 2005, 2005

2004

Scaling Web-based Acquisition of Entailment Relations.

Idan Szpektor, Hristo Tanev, Ido Dagan, Bonaventura Coppola

Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , 2004