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Towards improving open-box hallucination detection in large language models (LLMs). (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SURESH, M., ALJUNDI, R., NKISI-ORJI, I. and WIRATUNGA, N. 2024. Towards improving open-box hallucination detection in large language models (LLMs). In Martin, K., Salimi, P. and Wijayasekara, V. (eds.) 2024. SICSA REALLM workshop 2024: proceedings of the SICSA (Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance) REALLM (Reasoning, explanation and applications of large language models) workshop (SICSA REALLM workshop 2024), 17 October 2024, Aberdeen, UK. CEUR workshop proceedings, 3822. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], pages 1-10. Available from: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3822/paper1.pdf

Due to the increasing availability of Large Language Models (LLMs) through both proprietary and open-sourced releases of models, the adoption of LLMs across applications has drastically increased making them commonplace in day-to-day lives. Yet, the... Read More about Towards improving open-box hallucination detection in large language models (LLMs)..

Dual-task dialogue understanding. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ANWAR, S., WIRATUNGA, N. and SNAITH, M. 2024. Dual-task dialogue understanding. In Martin, K., Salimi, P. and Wijayasekara, V. (eds.) 2024. SICSA REALLM workshop 2024: proceedings of the SICSA (Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance) REALLM (Reasoning, explanation and applications of large language models) workshop (SICSA REALLM workshop 2024), 17 October 2024, Aberdeen, UK. CEUR workshop proceedings, 3822. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], pages 40-46. Available from: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3822/short5.pdf

In dialogue systems, utterances do not occur in isolation. One conversation might involve interactions between several speakers. It's crucial to determine the intentions behind utterances in multi-party conversations when more than two interlocutors... Read More about Dual-task dialogue understanding..

SCaLe-QA: Sri Lankan case law embeddings for legal QA. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
JAYAWARDENA, L., WIRATUNGA, N., ABEYRATNE, R., MARTIN, K., NKISI-ORJI, I. and WEERASINGHE, R. 2024. SCaLe-QU: Sri Lankan case law embeddings for legal QA. In Martin, K., Salimi, P. and Wijayasekara, V. (eds.) 2024. SICSA REALLM workshop 2024: proceedings of the SICSA (Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance) REALLM (Reasoning, explanation and applications of large language models) workshop (SICSA REALLM workshop 2024), 17 October 2024, Aberdeen, UK. CEUR workshop proceedings, 3822. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], pages 47-55. Available from: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3822/short6.pdf

SCaLe-QA is a foundational system developed for Sri Lankan Legal Question Answering (LQA) by leveraging domain-specific embeddings derived from Supreme Court cases. The system is tailored to capture the unique linguistic and structural characteristic... Read More about SCaLe-QA: Sri Lankan case law embeddings for legal QA..

Extended results for: enhancing abstract screening classification in evidence-based medicine: incorporating domain knowledge into pre-trained models. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
OFORI-BOATENG, R., ACEVES-MARTINS, M., WIRATUNGA, N. and MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. 2024. Extended results for: enhancing abstract screening classification in evidence-based medicine: incorporating domain knowledge into pre-trained models. In Martin, K., Salimi, P. and Wijayasekara, V. (eds.). Proceedings of the 2024 SICSA (Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance) REALLM (Reasoning, explanation and applications of large language models) workshop (SICSA REALLM workshop 2024), 17 October 2024, Aberdeen, UK. CEUR workshop proceedings, 3822Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], pages 11-18. Available from: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3822/short1.pdf

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a foundational element in medical research, playing a crucial role in shaping healthcare policies and clinical decision-making. However, the rigorous processes required for EBM, particularly during the abstract screen... Read More about Extended results for: enhancing abstract screening classification in evidence-based medicine: incorporating domain knowledge into pre-trained models..

iSee: advancing multi-shot explainable AI using case-based recommendations. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
WIJEKOON, A., WIRATUNGA, N., CORSAR, D., MARTIN, K., NKISI-ORJI, I., PALIHAWADANA, C., CARO-MARTÍNEZ, M., DÍAZ-AGUDO, B., BRIDGE, D. and LIRET, A. 2024. iSee: advancing multi-shot explainable AI using case-based recommendations. In Endriss, U., Melo, F.S., Bach, K., et al. (eds.) ECAI 2024: proceedings of the 27th European conference on artificial intelligence, co-located with the 13th conference on Prestigious applications of intelligent systems (PAIS 2024), 19–24 October 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications, 392. Amsterdam: IOS Press [online], pages 4626-4633. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA241057

Explainable AI (XAI) can greatly enhance user trust and satisfaction in AI-assisted decision-making processes. Recent findings suggest that a single explainer may not meet the diverse needs of multiple users in an AI system; indeed, even individual u... Read More about iSee: advancing multi-shot explainable AI using case-based recommendations..

Building personalised XAI experiences through iSee: a case-based reasoning-driven platform. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
CARO-MARTÍNEZ, M., LIRET, A., DÍAZ-AGUDO, B., RECIO-GARCÍA, J.A., DARIAS, J., WIRATUNGA, N., WIJEKOON, A., MARTIN, K., NKISI-ORJI, I., CORSAR, D., PALIHAWADANA, C., PIRIE, C., BRIDGE, D., PRADEEP, P. and FLEISCH, B. 2024. Building personalised XAI experiences through iSee: a case-based reasoning-driven platform. In Longo, L., Liu, W. and Montavon, G. (eds.) xAI-2024: LB/D/DC: joint proceedings of the xAI 2024 late-breaking work, demos and doctoral consortium, co-located with the 2nd World conference on eXplainable artificial intelligence (xAI 2024), 17-19 July 2024, Valletta, Malta. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], 3793, pages 313-320. Available from: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3793/paper_40.pdf

Nowadays, eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is well-known as an important field in Computer Science due to the necessity of understanding the increasing complexity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems or algorithms. This is the reason why... Read More about Building personalised XAI experiences through iSee: a case-based reasoning-driven platform..

Enhancing abstract screening classification in evidence-based medicine: incorporating domain knowledge into pre-trained models. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
OFORI-BOATENG, R., ACEVES-MARTINS, M., WIRANTUGA, N. and MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. 2024. Enhancing abstract screening classification in evidence-based medicine: incorporating domain knowledge into pre-trained models. In Finkelstein, J., Moskovitch, R. and Parimbelli, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the 22nd Artificial intelligence in medicine international conference 2024 (AIME 2024), 9-12 July 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Lecture notes in computer science, 14844. Cham: Springer [online], part I, pages 261-272. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66538-7_26

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) represents a cornerstone in medical research, guiding policy and decision-making. However, the robust steps involved in EBM, particularly in the abstract screening stage, present significant challenges to researchers. Nu... Read More about Enhancing abstract screening classification in evidence-based medicine: incorporating domain knowledge into pre-trained models..

A zero-shot monolingual dual stage information retrieval system for Spanish biomedical systematic literature reviews. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
OFORI-BOATENG, R., ACEVES-MARTINS, M., WIRATUNGA, N. and MORENO-GARCIA, C. 2024. A zero-shot monolingual dual stage information retrieval system for Spanish biomedical systematic literature reviews. In Duh, K., Gomez, H. and Bethard, S. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2024 North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference (NAACL 2024): human language technologies, 16-21 June 2024, Mexico City, Mexico. Stroudsburg, PA: ACL [online], volume 1: long papers, pages 3725-3736. Available from: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-long.206

Systematic Reviews (SRs) are foundational in healthcare for synthesising evidence to inform clinical practices. Traditionally skewed towards English-language databases, SRs often exclude significant research in other languages, leading to potential b... Read More about A zero-shot monolingual dual stage information retrieval system for Spanish biomedical systematic literature reviews..

CBR-RAG: case-based reasoning for retrieval augmented generation in LLMs for legal question answering. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
WIRATUNGA, N., ABEYRATNE, R., JAYAWARDENA, L., MARTIN, K., MASSIE, S., NKISI-ORJI, I., WEERASINGHE, R., LIRET, A. and FLEISCH, B. 2024. CBR-RAG: case-based reasoning for retrieval augmented generation in LLMs for legal question answering. In Recio-Garcia, J.A., Orozco-del-Castillo, M.G. and Bridge, D (eds.) Case-based reasoning research and development: proceedings of the 32nd International conference of case-based reasoning research and development 2024 (ICCBR 2024), 1-4 July 2024, Merida, Mexico. Lecture notes in computer science, 14775. Cham: Springer [online], pages 445-460. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63646-2_29

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances Large Language Model (LLM) output by providing prior knowledge as context to input. This is beneficial for knowledge-intensive and expert reliant tasks, including legal question-answering, which require e... Read More about CBR-RAG: case-based reasoning for retrieval augmented generation in LLMs for legal question answering..

Mitigating gradient inversion attacks in federated learning with frequency transformation. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
PALIHAWADANA, C., WIRATUNGA, N., KALUTARAGE, H. and WIJEKOON, A. 2024. Mitigating gradient inversion attacks in federated learning with frequency transformation. In Katsikas, S. et al. (eds.) Computer security: revised selected papers from the proceedings of the International workshops of the 28th European symposium on research in computer security (ESORICS 2023 International Workshops), 25-29 September 2023, The Hague, Netherlands. Lecture notes in computer science, 14399. Cham: Springer [online], part II, pages 750-760. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54129-2_44

Centralised machine learning approaches have raised concerns regarding the privacy of client data. To address this issue, privacy-preserving techniques such as Federated Learning (FL) have emerged, where only updated gradients are communicated instea... Read More about Mitigating gradient inversion attacks in federated learning with frequency transformation..