Benjamin Van Durme

Literature review tables are essential for summarizing and comparing collections of scientific papers. In this paper, we study automatic generation of such tables from a pool of papers to satisfy a user’s information need. Building on recent work (Newman et al., 2024), we move beyond oracle setti...

We introduce the task of grounded article generation with the goal of creating a Wikipedia-style article from multiple diverse videos about real-world events—from natural disasters to political elections—where all the information in the article is supported by video evidence. Videos are intuitive...

Wikipedia is a critical resource for modern NLP, serving as a rich repository of up-to-date and citation-backed information on a wide variety of subjects. The reliability of Wikipedia—its groundedness in its cited sources—is vital to this purpose. This work analyzes both how grounded Wikipedia is...

We study efficient multi-vector retrieval for late interaction in any modality. Late interaction has emerged as a dominant paradigm for information retrieval across modalities, but its computation and storage costs grow linearly with document length, making it costly for multimodal corpora. To ad...

We wish to measure the information coverage of an ad hoc retrieval algorithm, that is, how much of the range of available relevant information is covered by the search results.Information coverage is a central aspect for retrieval, especially when the retrieval system is integrated with generativ...