Benjamin Searle

- The problem is one of content. The misconception is that without deep content, design is reduced to pure style, a bag of dubious tricks. In graphic-design circles, form-follows-function is reconfigured as form-follows-content. If content is the source of form, always preceding it and imbuing it with meaning, form without content (as if that were ... See more

- Leveraging Document and Corpus Structure-  Scaling to Multiple Languages]

Pre-trained language models (LM), by contrast, are capable of directly generating prose that may be responsive to an information need, but at present they are *dilettantes* rather than domain experts – they do not have a true understanding of the world, they are prone to hallucinating, and crucially they are incapable of justifying their utterances... See more

The very fact that ranking is a critical component of this paradigm is a symptom of the retrieval system providing users a selection of potential answers, which induces a rather significant cognitive burden on the user. The desire to return answers instead of ranked lists of results was one of the motivating factors for developing question answerin... See more

If all of these research ambitions were to come to fruition, the resulting system would be a very early version of the system that we envisioned in the introduction. That is, the resulting system would be able to provide domain expert answers to a wide range of information needs in a way that neither modern IR systems, question answering systems, o... See more