William Thorne

3 papers · 2024–2025 · 2 venues · across top CS/AI venues

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Achievements

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🌍 Conference Polyglot · Bronze 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge · Silver 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (11)

Venues

EMNLP (2) COLING (1)

Top co-authors

Chenghua Lin (2) Ambrose Robinson (2) Xingyi Song (1) Yida Mu (1) Tyler Loakman (1) Carolina Scarton (1) Ben P. Wu (1) Bohua Peng (1) Nikolaos Aletras (1) Kalina Bontcheva (1)

Research topics

Natural Language Processing (3) Artificial Intelligence (2) Machine Learning (2) Applications (2) Core AI (2) Learning Types (2) Reinforcement Learning (1) Application Areas (1) Methods (1) Resources & Methods (1) Understanding (1)

Keywords

large language model (2) semantic analysis (1) question generation (1) machine reading comprehension (1) reinforcement learning from human feedback (1) zero-shot classification (1) dataset generation (1) cultural heritage (1) computational social science (1) prompt complexity (1) joke explanation (1) synthetic preference (1) synthetic preference data (1) cultural heritage dataset (1) zero-shot learning (1) humour understanding (1)

Papers

Comparing Apples to Oranges: A Dataset & Analysis of LLM Humour Understanding from Traditional Puns to Topical Jokes EMNLP 2025 Increasing the Difficulty of Automatically Generated Questions via Reinforcement Learning with Synthetic Preference for Cost-Effective Cultural Heritage Dataset Generation EMNLP 2024 Navigating Prompt Complexity for Zero-Shot Classification: A Study of Large Language Models in Computational Social Science COLING 2024