Francis Ferraro
39 papers · 2012–2026 · 11 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences
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large language model
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event extraction
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Papers
Experiments or Outcomes? Probing Scientific Feasibility in Large Language Models
ACL 2026
Beyond Math: Stories as a Testbed for Memorization-Constrained Reasoning in LLMs
EACL 2026
Q2E: Query-to-Event Decomposition for Zero-Shot Multilingual Text-to-Video Retrieval
AACL 2025
Do LLMs Adhere to Label Definitions? Examining Their Receptivity to External Label Definitions
EMNLP 2025
TAG–EQA: Text–And–Graph for Event Question Answering via Structured Prompting Strategies
EMNLP 2025
CoRE: Condition-based Reasoning for Identifying Outcome Variance in Complex Events
ACL 2025
ADAPTIVE IE: Investigating the Complementarity of Human-AI Collaboration to Adaptively Extract Information on-the-fly
COLING 2025
Q2E: Query-to-Event Decomposition for Zero-Shot Multilingual Text-to-Video Retrieval
IJCNLP 2025
If We May De-Presuppose: Robustly Verifying Claims through Presupposition-Free Question Decomposition
EMNLP 2025
SAGA: A Participant-specific Examination of Story Alternatives and Goal Applicability for a Deeper Understanding of Complex Events
ACL 2024
PropBank-Powered Data Creation: Utilizing Sense-Role Labelling to Generate Disaster Scenario Data
COLING 2024
WellDunn: On the Robustness and Explainability of Language Models and Large Language Models in Identifying Wellness Dimensions
EMNLP 2024
MUMOSA, Interactive Dashboard for MUlti-MOdal Situation Awareness
EMNLP 2024
Semantically-informed Hierarchical Event Modeling
ACL 2023
RevUp: Revise and Update Information Bottleneck for Event Representation
EACL 2023
Neural Bregman Divergences for Distance Learning
ICLR 2023
SAGEViz: SchemA GEneration and Visualization
EMNLP 2023
Jointly Identifying and Fixing Inconsistent Readings from Information Extraction Systems
ACL 2022
A General Framework for Auditing Differentially Private Machine Learning
NIPS 2022
POQue: Asking Participant-specific Outcome Questions for a Deeper Understanding of Complex Events
EMNLP 2022
Bridging the Gap: Using Deep Acoustic Representations to Learn Grounded Language from Percepts and Raw Speech
AAAI 2022
Locality Preserving Loss: Neighbors that Live together, Align together
EACL 2021
Learning a Reversible Embedding Mapping using Bi-Directional Manifold Alignment
IJCNLP 2021
Event Representation with Sequential, Semi-Supervised Discrete Variables
NAACL 2021
Learning a Reversible Embedding Mapping using Bi-Directional Manifold Alignment
ACL 2021
On the Complementary Nature of Knowledge Graph Embedding, Fine Grain Entity Types, and Language Modeling
EMNLP 2020
CASIE: Extracting Cybersecurity Event Information from Text
AAAI 2020
A Discrete Variational Recurrent Topic Model without the Reparametrization Trick
NIPS 2020
¿Es un plátano? Exploring the Application of a Physically Grounded Language Acquisition System to Spanish
NAACL 2019
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Storytelling
ACL 2019
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Storytelling
NAACL 2018
Team UMBC-FEVER : Claim verification using Semantic Lexical Resources
EMNLP 2018
UMBC at SemEval-2018 Task 8: Understanding Text about Malware
SEMEVAL 2018
Visual Storytelling
NAACL 2016
A Survey of Current Datasets for Vision and Language Research
EMNLP 2015
Script Induction as Language Modeling
EMNLP 2015
Topic Identification and Discovery on Text and Speech
EMNLP 2015
A Concrete Chinese NLP Pipeline
NAACL 2015
Toward Tree Substitution Grammars with Latent Annotations
NAACL 2012