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Architectural Knowledge Management (AKM) involves the organized handling of information related to architectural decisions and design within a project or organization. An essential artefact of AKM is the Architecture Decision Records (ADR), which documents key design decisions. ADRs are documents that capture decision context, decision made and various aspects related to a design decision, thereby promoting transparency, collaboration, and understanding. Despite their benefits, ADR adoption in software development has been slow due to challenges like time constraints and inconsistent uptake. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) may help bridge this adoption gap by facilitating ADR generation. However, the effectiveness of LLM for ADR generation or understanding is something that has not been explored. To this end, in this work, we perform an exploratory study which aims to investigate the feasibility of using LLM for the generation of ADRs given the decision context. In our exploratory study, we utilize GPT and T5-based models with 0-shot, few-shot, and fine-tuning approaches to generate the Decision of an ADR given its Context. Our results indicate that in a 0-shot setting, state-of-the-art models such as GPT-4 generate relevant and accurate Design Decisions, although they fall short of human-level performance. Additionally, we observe that more cost-effective models like GPT-3.5 can achieve similar outcomes in a few-shot setting, and smaller models such as Flan-T5 can yield comparable results after fine-tuning. To conclude, this exploratory study suggests that LLM can generate Design Decisions, but further research is required to attain human-level generation and establish standardized widespread adoption.

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This paper describes our approach for SemEval- 2024 Task 9: BRAINTEASER: A Novel Task Defying Common Sense. The BRAIN- TEASER task comprises multiple-choice Ques- tion Answering designed to evaluate the mod- els’ lateral thinking capabilities. It consists of Sentence Puzzle and Word Puzzle subtasks that require models to defy default common- sense associations and exhibit unconventional thinking. We propose a unique strategy to im- prove the performance of pre-trained language models, notably the Gemini 1.0 Pro Model, in both subtasks. We employ static and dy- namic few-shot prompting techniques and in- troduce a model-generated reasoning strategy that utilizes the LLM’s reasoning capabilities to improve performance. Our approach demon- strated significant improvements, showing that it performed better than the baseline models by a considerable margin but fell short of per- forming as well as the human annotators, thus highlighting the efficacy of the proposed strate- gies. We have made our code open-sourced for the replicability of our methods.

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Knowledge graphs (KGs) have been playing a crucial role in leveraging informa- tion on web for several downstream tasks, making it vital to construct and maintain them. Despite previous efforts in populating KGs, these methods typically do not focus on analyzing entity-specific content exclusively but rely on a fixed collection of documents. We define an approach to populate such KGs by utilizing entity-specific content on the web, for generating entity embeddings to establish entity-category interconnections. We empirically prove our ap- proach’s effectiveness, by utilizing it for a downstream task of Notability detection, associated with one of the most popular and important Knowledge Graphs - Wikipedia platform. To mod- erate the content uploaded to Wikipedia, “Notability” guidelines are defined by its editors to identify named entities that warrant their article on Wikipedia. So far notability is enforced by humans, which makes scalability an issue, and there has been no significant work on automat- ing this process. In this paper, we define a multipronged category-agnostic approach based on web-based entity features and their text-based salience encodings, to construct entity embed- dings for determining an entity’s notability. We distinguish entities based on their categories and utilize neural networks to perform classification. For validation, we utilize accuracy and prediction confidence on popular Wikipedia pages. Our system outperforms machine learning- based classifier approaches and handcrafted entity salience detection algorithms, by achieving performance accuracy of around 88%. Our system provides an efficient and scalable alterna- tive to manual decision-making about the importance of a topic, which could be extended to other such KG-based tasks

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Wikipedia is a highly essential platform because of its informative, dynamic, and easily accessible nature. To identify topics/titles warranting their own Wikipedia article, editors of Wikipedia defined “Notability” guidelines. So far notability is enforced by humans, which makes scalability an issue. There has been no significant work on Notability determination for titles with complex category dependencies. We design a mechanism to identify such titles. We construct a dataset with 9k such titles and propose a category-agnostic approach utilizing Graph neural networks, for their notability determination. Our system outperforms machine learning-based, transformer-based classifiers and entity salience methods. It provides a scalable alternative to manual decision-making about notability.

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One crucial aspect of content organization is the creation of article outlines, which summarize the primary topics and subtopics covered in an article in a structured manner. This paper introduces a solution called XOutlineGen, which generates cross-lingual outlines for encyclopedic texts from reference articles. XOutlineGen uses the XWikiRef dataset, which consists of encyclopedic texts generated from reference articles and section titles. The dataset is enhanced with two new languages and three new domains, resulting in ∼92K articles. Our pipeline employs this dataset to train a two-step generation model, which takes the article title and set of references as inputs and produces the article outline.

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Multiple business scenarios require an automated generation of descriptive human-readable long text from structured input data, where the source is typically a high-resource language and the target is a low or medium resource language. We define the Cross-Lingual Fact to Long Text Generation (XFLT) as a novel natural language generation (NLG) task that involves generating descriptive and human-readable long text in a target language from structured input data (such as fact triples) in a source language. XFLT is challenging because of (a) hallucinatory nature of the state-of-the-art NLG models, (b) lack of good quality training data, and (c) lack of a suitable cross-lingual NLG metric. Unfortunately previous work focuses on different related problem settings (cross-lingual facts to short text or monolingual graph to text) and has made no efforts to handle hallucinations. In this paper, we contribute a novel dataset, XLALIGN with over 64,000 paragraphs across 12 different languages, and English facts. We propose a novel solution to the XFLT task which addresses these challenges by training multilingual Transformer-based encoder-decoder models with coverage prompts and grounded decoding. Further, it improves on the XFLT quality by defining task-specific reward functions and training on them using reinforcement learning. On XLALIGN, we compare this novel solution with several strong baselines using a new metric, cross-lingual PARENT. We also make our code and data publicly available

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Lack of diverse perspectives causes neutrality bias in Wikipedia content leading to millions of worldwide readers getting exposed by potentially inaccurate information. Hence, neutrality bias detection and mitigation is a critical problem. Although previous studies have proposed effective solutions for English, no work exists for Indian languages. First, we contribute two large datasets, mWIKIBIAS and mWNC, covering 8 languages, for the bias detection and mitigation tasks respectively. Next, we investigate the effectiveness of popular multilingual Transformer-based models for the two tasks by modeling detection as a binary classification problem and mitigation as a style transfer problem. We make the code and data publicly available.

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Subjective bias in Wikipedia textual data is a significant problem and affects millions of readers worldwide. Though some monolingual work has been done in classifying and debiasing biased text in resource-rich languages, the low-resource languages with large numbers of speakers remain unattended. We present an approach for the dual problems of multilingual bias detection and its mitigation with a thorough analysis. In this work, we establish competitive baselines on our preliminary approach, which includes classification-based modelling for bias detection on a multilingual dataset curated from existing monolingual sources. For the problem of bias mitigation, we follow the style transfer paradigm and model using transformer-based seq2seq architectures. We also discuss several approaches for further improvement in both problems as a part of our ongoing work.

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The paper presents a novel approach for automated cross-lingual fact-checking that extracts and verifies information from Wikipedia using references. The problem involves determining whether a factoid in an article is supported or needs additional citations based on the provided references, with granularity at the fact level. We introduce a cross-lingual manually annotated dataset for fact extraction and verification and an entirely automated pipeline for the task. The proposed solution operates entirely in a cross-lingual setting, where the article text and the references can be in any language. The pipeline integrates several natural language processing techniques to extract the relevant facts from the input sources. The extracted facts are then verified against the references, leveraging the semantic relationships between the facts and the reference sources. Experimental evaluation on a large-scale dataset demonstrates the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach in handling cross-lingual fact-checking tasks. We make our code and data publicly available.