Olga Vechtomova

92 papers A* 5A 7B 3C 3Misc 1Journal 42Unranked 27
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 — conf
A Guide To Effectively Leveraging LLMs for Low-Resource Text Summarization: Data Augmentation and Semi-supervised Approaches.
NAACL (Findings)
Gaurav Sahu, Olga Vechtomova, Issam H. Laradji
2025 C conf
Balancing Indeterminacy and Structure: Neural Text Generation for Artistic Inspiration.
EvoMUSART
Olga Vechtomova, Gaurav Sahu
2025 J jnl
Between Predictability and Randomness: Seeking Artistic Inspiration from AI Generative Models.
CoRR
Olga Vechtomova
2025 J jnl
Extracting Information About Publication Venues Using Citation-Informed Transformers.
CoRR
Brian D. Zimmerman, Joshua Folkins, Olga Vechtomova
2025 C conf
Future Sight: Fine-Tuning Language Models for Dynamic Story Generation.
EvoMUSART
Brian D. Zimmerman, Gaurav Sahu, Olga Vechtomova
2025 J jnl
No Stupid Questions: An Analysis of Question Query Generation for Citation Recommendation.
CoRR
Brian D. Zimmerman, Julien Aubert-Béduchaud, Florian Boudin, Akiko Aizawa, Olga Vechtomova
2025 J jnl
Reimagining Dance: Real-time Music Co-creation between Dancers and AI.
CoRR
Olga Vechtomova, Jeff Bos
2024 J jnl
Computational Modeling of Artistic Inspiration: A Framework for Predicting Aesthetic Preferences in Lyrical Lines Using Linguistic and Stylistic Features.
CoRR
Gaurav Sahu, Olga Vechtomova
2023 J jnl
Enchancing Semi-Supervised Learning for Extractive Summarization with an LLM-based pseudolabeler.
CoRR
Gaurav Sahu, Olga Vechtomova, Issam H. Laradji
2023 — conf
LyricJam Sonic: A Generative System for Real-Time Composition and Musical Improvisation.
EvoMUSART@EvoStar
Olga Vechtomova, Gaurav Sahu
2023 A* conf
PromptMix: A Class Boundary Augmentation Method for Large Language Model Distillation.
EMNLP
Gaurav Sahu, Olga Vechtomova, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Issam H. Laradji
2023 J jnl
PromptMix: A Class Boundary Augmentation Method for Large Language Model Distillation.
CoRR
Gaurav Sahu, Olga Vechtomova, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Issam H. Laradji
2022 J jnl
Deep Learning for Text Style Transfer: A Survey.
Comput. Linguistics
Di Jin, Zhijing Jin, Zhiting Hu, Olga Vechtomova, Rada Mihalcea
2022 J jnl
Future Sight: Dynamic Story Generation with Large Pretrained Language Models.
CoRR
Brian D. Zimmerman, Gaurav Sahu, Olga Vechtomova
2022 J jnl
LyricJam Sonic: A Generative System for Real-Time Composition and Musical Improvisation.
CoRR
Olga Vechtomova, Gaurav Sahu
2021 A conf
Adaptive Fusion Techniques for Multimodal Data.
EACL
Gaurav Sahu, Olga Vechtomova
2021 C conf
LyricJam: A System for Generating Lyrics for Live Instrumental Music.
ICCC
Olga Vechtomova, Gaurav Sahu, Dhruv Kumar
2021 J jnl
LyricJam: A system for generating lyrics for live instrumental music.
CoRR
Olga Vechtomova, Gaurav Sahu, Dhruv Kumar
2021 A conf
Polarized-VAE: Proximity Based Disentangled Representation Learning for Text Generation.
EACL
Vikash Balasubramanian, Ivan Kobyzev, Hareesh Bahuleyan, Ilya Shapiro, Olga Vechtomova
2021 J jnl
Towards A Multi-agent System for Online Hate Speech Detection.
CoRR
Gaurav Sahu, Robin Cohen, Olga Vechtomova
2021 — conf
Wasserstein Autoencoders with Mixture of Gaussian Priors for Stylized Text Generation.
TDS
Amirpasha Ghabussi, Lili Mou, Olga Vechtomova
2020 B conf
Adversarial Learning on the Latent Space for Diverse Dialog Generation.
COLING
Kashif Khan, Gaurav Sahu, Vikash Balasubramanian, Lili Mou, Olga Vechtomova
2020 J jnl
Deep Learning for Text Style Transfer: A Survey.
CoRR
Di Jin, Zhijing Jin, Zhiting Hu, Olga Vechtomova, Rada Mihalcea
2020 A* conf
Discrete Optimization for Unsupervised Sentence Summarization with Word-Level Extraction.
ACL
Raphael Schumann, Lili Mou, Yao Lu, Olga Vechtomova, Katja Markert
2020 J jnl
Discrete Optimization for Unsupervised Sentence Summarization with Word-Level Extraction.
CoRR
Raphael Schumann, Lili Mou, Yao Lu, Olga Vechtomova, Katja Markert
2020 J jnl
Generation of lyrics lines conditioned on music audio clips.
CoRR
Olga Vechtomova, Gaurav Sahu, Dhruv Kumar
2020 A* conf
Iterative Edit-Based Unsupervised Sentence Simplification.
ACL
Dhruv Kumar, Lili Mou, Lukasz Golab, Olga Vechtomova
2020 J jnl
Iterative Edit-Based Unsupervised Sentence Simplification.
CoRR
Dhruv Kumar, Lili Mou, Lukasz Golab, Olga Vechtomova
2020 J jnl
Polarized-VAE: Proximity Based Disentangled Representation Learning for Text Generation.
CoRR
Vikash Balasubramanian, Ivan Kobyzev, Hareesh Bahuleyan, Ilya Shapiro, Olga Vechtomova
2020 — conf
Stylized Text Generation: Approaches and Applications.
ACL (tutorial)
Lili Mou, Olga Vechtomova
2019 J jnl
Conditional Response Generation Using Variational Alignment.
CoRR
Kashif Khan, Gaurav Sahu, Vikash Balasubramanian, Lili Mou, Olga Vechtomova
2019 — conf
Disentangled Representation Learning for Non-Parallel Text Style Transfer.
ACL (1)
Vineet John, Lili Mou, Hareesh Bahuleyan, Olga Vechtomova
2019 J jnl
Distilling Task-Specific Knowledge from BERT into Simple Neural Networks.
CoRR
Raphael Tang, Yao Lu, Linqing Liu, Lili Mou, Olga Vechtomova, Jimmy Lin
2019 J jnl
Dynamic Fusion for Multimodal Data.
CoRR
Gaurav Sahu, Olga Vechtomova
2019 — conf
Generating Sentences from Disentangled Syntactic and Semantic Spaces.
ACL (1)
Yu Bao, Hao Zhou, Shujian Huang, Lei Li, Lili Mou, Olga Vechtomova, Xin-Yu Dai, Jiajun Chen
2019 J jnl
Generating Sentences from Disentangled Syntactic and Semantic Spaces.
CoRR
Yu Bao, Hao Zhou, Shujian Huang, Lei Li, Lili Mou, Olga Vechtomova, Xinyu Dai, Jiajun Chen
2019 — conf
Stochastic Wasserstein Autoencoder for Probabilistic Sentence Generation.
NAACL-HLT (1)
Hareesh Bahuleyan, Lili Mou, Hao Zhou, Olga Vechtomova
2019 J jnl
Stylized Text Generation Using Wasserstein Autoencoders with a Mixture of Gaussian Prior.
CoRR
Amirpasha Ghabussi, Lili Mou, Olga Vechtomova
2018 J jnl
Disentangled Representation Learning for Text Style Transfer.
CoRR
Vineet John, Lili Mou, Hareesh Bahuleyan, Olga Vechtomova
2018 J jnl
Generating lyrics with variational autoencoder and multi-modal artist embeddings.
CoRR
Olga Vechtomova, Hareesh Bahuleyan, Amirpasha Ghabussi, Vineet John
2018 J jnl
Probabilistic Natural Language Generation with Wasserstein Autoencoders.
CoRR
Hareesh Bahuleyan, Lili Mou, Kartik Vamaraju, Hao Zhou, Olga Vechtomova
2018 — ch.
Query Expansion for Information Retrieval.
Encyclopedia of Database Systems (2nd ed.)
Olga Vechtomova
2018 — ch.
Relevance Feedback for Text Retrieval.
Encyclopedia of Database Systems (2nd ed.)
Olga Vechtomova
2018 B conf
Variational Attention for Sequence-to-Sequence Models.
COLING
Hareesh Bahuleyan, Lili Mou, Olga Vechtomova, Pascal Poupart
2017 J jnl
Disambiguating context-dependent polarity of words: An information retrieval approach.
Inf. Process. Manag.
Olga Vechtomova
2017 J jnl
Sentiment Analysis on Financial News Headlines using Training Dataset Augmentation.
CoRR
Vineet John, Olga Vechtomova
2017 — conf
UW-FinSent at SemEval-2017 Task 5: Sentiment Analysis on Financial News Headlines using Training Dataset Augmentation.
SemEval@ACL
Vineet John, Olga Vechtomova
2017 — conf
UWat-Emote at EmoInt-2017: Emotion Intensity Detection using Affect Clues, Sentiment Polarity and Word Embeddings.
WASSA@EMNLP
Vineet John, Olga Vechtomova
2017 — conf
UWaterloo at SemEval-2017 Task 7: Locating the Pun Using Syntactic Characteristics and Corpus-based Metrics.
SemEval@ACL
Olga Vechtomova
2017 — conf
UWaterloo at SemEval-2017 Task 8: Detecting Stance towards Rumours with Topic Independent Features.
SemEval@ACL
Hareesh Bahuleyan, Olga Vechtomova
2017 J jnl
Variational Attention for Sequence-to-Sequence Models.
CoRR
Hareesh Bahuleyan, Lili Mou, Olga Vechtomova, Pascal Poupart
2016 J jnl
Discovering aspects of online consumer reviews.
J. Inf. Sci.
Kaheer Suleman, Olga Vechtomova
2016 B conf
Knowledge Graphs versus Hierarchies: An Analysis of User Behaviours and Perspectives in Information Seeking.
CHIIR
Bahareh Sarrafzadeh, Alexandra Vtyurina, Edward Lank, Olga Vechtomova
2016 A conf
Optimizing Nugget Annotations with Active Learning.
CIKM
Gaurav Baruah, Haotian Zhang, Rakesh Guttikonda, Jimmy Lin, Mark D. Smucker, Olga Vechtomova
2016 — conf
UWaterloo at SemEval-2016 Task 5: Minimally Supervised Approaches to Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis.
SemEval@NAACL-HLT
Olga Vechtomova, Anni He
2014 J jnl
A method for automatic extraction of multiword units representing business aspects from user reviews.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
Olga Vechtomova
2014 A conf
An Information Retrieval-Based Approach to Determining Contextual Opinion Polarity of Words.
ECIR
Olga Vechtomova, Kaheer Suleman, Jack Thomas
2014 — conf
Combining document retrieval with knowledge graphs for exploratory search.
IIiX
Bahareh Sarrafzadeh, Olga Vechtomova
2014 — conf
Exploring knowledge graphs for exploratory search.
IIiX
Bahareh Sarrafzadeh, Olga Vechtomova, Vlado Jokic
2013 — conf
University of Waterloo at the TREC 2013 Temporal Summarization Track.
TREC
Gaurav Baruah, Rakesh Guttikonda, Adam Roegiest, Olga Vechtomova
2012 J jnl
A domain-independent approach to finding related entities.
Inf. Process. Manag.
Olga Vechtomova, Stephen E. Robertson
2010 J jnl
Facet-based opinion retrieval from blogs.
Inf. Process. Manag.
Olga Vechtomova
2010 — conf
Related Entity Finding: University of Waterloo at TREC 2010 Entity Track.
TREC
Olga Vechtomova
2010 — conf
University of Waterloo at TREC 2010: Legal Interactive.
TREC
Mark D. Smucker, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, Olga Vechtomova
2009 Misc conf
An Effectiveness Measure for Ambiguous and Underspecified Queries.
ICTIR
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Olga Vechtomova
2009 J jnl
Articulating complex information needs using query templates.
J. Inf. Sci.
Olga Vechtomova, Hao Zhang
2009 — ch.
Query Expansion for Information Retrieval.
Encyclopedia of Database Systems
Olga Vechtomova
2009 — ch.
Relevance Feedback for Text Retrieval.
Encyclopedia of Database Systems
Olga Vechtomova
2008 A conf
Improving Complex Interactive Question Answering with Wikipedia Anchor Text.
ECIR
Ian MacKinnon, Olga Vechtomova
2008 J jnl
Lexical cohesion and term proximity in document ranking.
Inf. Process. Manag.
Olga Vechtomova, Murat Karamuftuoglu
2008 A* conf
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation.
SIGIR
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. Cormack, Olga Vechtomova, Azin Ashkan, Stefan Büttcher, Ian MacKinnon
2008 — conf
University of Waterloo at TREC 2008 Blog Track.
TREC
Olga Vechtomova
2007 A conf
Ad Hoc Retrieval of Documents with Topical Opinion.
ECIR
Jason Skomorowski, Olga Vechtomova
2007 — conf
Complex Interactive Question Answering Enhanced with Wikipedia.
TREC
Ian MacKinnon, Olga Vechtomova
2007 — conf
Enterprise Search: Identifying Relevant Sentences and Using Them for Query Expansion.
TREC
Maheedhar Kolla, Olga Vechtomova
2007 J jnl
Query expansion with terms selected using lexical cohesion analysis of documents.
Inf. Process. Manag.
Olga Vechtomova, Murat Karamuftuoglu
2007 A* conf
Retrieval of discussions from enterprise mailing lists.
SIGIR
Maheedhar Kolla, Olga Vechtomova
2007 — conf
Using Subjective Adjectives in Opinion Retrieval from Blogs.
TREC
Olga Vechtomova
2006 J jnl
A study of the effect of term proximity on query expansion.
J. Inf. Sci.
Olga Vechtomova, Ying Wang
2006 J jnl
Elicitation and use of relevance feedback information.
Inf. Process. Manag.
Olga Vechtomova, Murat Karamuftuoglu
2006 — conf
Identifying Relationships Between Entities in Text for Complex Interactive Question Answering Task.
TREC
Olga Vechtomova, Murat Karamuftuoglu
2006 — conf
In Enterprise Search: Methods to Identify Argumentative Discussions and to Find Topical Experts.
TREC
Maheedhar Kolla, Olga Vechtomova
2006 J jnl
Noun phrases in interactive query expansion and document ranking.
Inf. Retr.
Olga Vechtomova
2006 J jnl
On document relevance and lexical cohesion between query terms.
Inf. Process. Manag.
Olga Vechtomova, Murat Karamuftuoglu, Stephen E. Robertson
2005 — conf
Experiments for HARD and Enterprise Tracks.
TREC
Olga Vechtomova, Maheedhar Kolla, Murat Karamuftuoglu
2005 J jnl
Report on the ACM International Workshop on Methodologies and Evaluation of Lexical Cohesion Techniques in Real-World Applications (ELECTRA 2005) held at SIGIR 2005.
SIGIR Forum
Olga Vechtomova, Rosie Jones, Gaël Dias
2005 A conf
The Role of Multi-word Units in Interactive Information Retrieval.
ECIR
Olga Vechtomova
2004 — conf
Approaches to High Accuracy Retrieval: Phrase-Based Search Experiments in the HARD Track.
TREC
Olga Vechtomova, Murat Karamuftuoglu
2004 — conf
Comparison of two interactive search refinement techniques.
HLT-NAACL
Olga Vechtomova, Murat Karamuftuoglu
2003 — conf
Interactive Search Refinement Techniques for HARD Tasks.
TREC
Olga Vechtomova, Eric Lam, Murat Karamuftuoglu
2003 J jnl
Query Expansion with Long-Span Collocates.
Inf. Retr.
Olga Vechtomova, Stephen E. Robertson, Susan Jones
2002 J jnl
A tool for comparative evaluation in an interactive environment.
J. Inf. Sci.
Susan Jones, Olga Vechtomova, Stephen Robertson