Nigel Collier

Failure Modes in Multi-Hop QA: The Weakest Link Effect and the Recognition Bottleneck ACL 2026 LoVeC: Reinforcement Learning for Better Verbalized Confidence in Long-Form Generation ACL 2026 Privacy-R1: Privacy-Aware Multi-LLM Agent Collaboration via Reinforcement Learning ACL 2026 Value of Information: A Framework for Human–Agent Communication ACL 2026 500xCompressor: Generalized Prompt Compression for Large Language Models ACL 2025 Aligning with Logic: Measuring, Evaluating and Improving Logical Preference Consistency in Large Language Models ICML 2025 All Roads Lead to Rome: Graph-Based Confidence Estimation for Large Language Model Reasoning EMNLP 2025 Atomic Calibration of LLMs in Long-Form Generations IJCNLP 2025 Conformity in Large Language Models ACL 2025 iNews: A Multimodal Dataset for Modeling Personalized Affective Responses to News ACL 2025 LoGU: Long-form Generation with Uncertainty Expressions ACL 2025 Prompt Compression for Large Language Models: A Survey NAACL 2025 ReasonGraph: Visualization of Reasoning Methods and Extended Inference Paths ACL 2025 The Power of Simplicity in LLM-Based Event Forecasting ACL 2025 Time to Revisit Exact Match EMNLP 2025 UNCLE: Benchmarking Uncertainty Expressions in Long-Form Generation EMNLP 2025 When Personalization Meets Reality: A Multi-Faceted Analysis of Personalized Preference Learning EMNLP 2025 BAND: Biomedical Alert News Dataset AAAI 2024 Can LLM be a Personalized Judge? EMNLP 2024 Can We Instruct LLMs to Compensate for Position Bias? EMNLP 2024 Fairer Preferences Elicit Improved Human-Aligned Large Language Model Judgments EMNLP 2024 LUQ: Long-text Uncertainty Quantification for LLMs EMNLP 2024 PiVe: Prompting with Iterative Verification Improving Graph-based Generative Capability of LLMs ACL 2024 Quantifying the Persona Effect in LLM Simulations ACL 2024 TOAD: Task-Oriented Automatic Dialogs with Diverse Response Styles ACL 2024 TopViewRS: Vision-Language Models as Top-View Spatial Reasoners EMNLP 2024 Unlocking Structure Measuring: Introducing PDD, an Automatic Metric for Positional Discourse Coherence NAACL 2024 Biomedical Named Entity Recognition via Dictionary-based Synonym Generalization EMNLP 2023 COFFEE: A Contrastive Oracle-Free Framework for Event Extraction ACL 2023 DePlot: One-shot visual language reasoning by plot-to-table translation ACL 2023 MatCha: Enhancing Visual Language Pretraining with Math Reasoning and Chart Derendering ACL 2023 On the Effectiveness of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning AAAI 2023 POSQA: Probe the World Models of LLMs with Size Comparisons EMNLP 2023 Probing Cross-Lingual Lexical Knowledge from Multilingual Sentence Encoders EACL 2023 Repetition In Repetition Out: Towards Understanding Neural Text Degeneration from the Data Perspective NeurIPS 2023 A Contrastive Framework for Neural Text Generation NeurIPS 2022 Do ever larger octopi still amplify reporting biases? Evidence from judgments of typical colour AACL 2022 How to tackle an emerging topic? Combining strong and weak labels for Covid news NER AACL 2022 Improving Word Translation via Two-Stage Contrastive Learning ACL 2022 Incorporating Stock Market Signals for Twitter Stance Detection ACL 2022 Plug-and-Play Recipe Generation with Content Planning EMNLP 2022 Prix-LM: Pretraining for Multilingual Knowledge Base Construction ACL 2022 Rewire-then-Probe: A Contrastive Recipe for Probing Biomedical Knowledge of Pre-trained Language Models ACL 2022 TaCL: Improving BERT Pre-training with Token-aware Contrastive Learning NAACL 2022 Adversarial Training for News Stance Detection: Leveraging Signals from a Multi-Genre Corpus. EACL 2021 Dialogue Response Selection with Hierarchical Curriculum Learning ACL 2021 Fast, Effective, and Self-Supervised: Transforming Masked Language Models into Universal Lexical and Sentence Encoders EMNLP 2021 Few-Shot Table-to-Text Generation with Prototype Memory EMNLP 2021 Integrating Transformers and Knowledge Graphs for Twitter Stance Detection EMNLP 2021 Keep the Primary, Rewrite the Secondary: A Two-Stage Approach for Paraphrase Generation ACL 2021 Learning Domain-Specialised Representations for Cross-Lingual Biomedical Entity Linking ACL 2021 Learning Sparse Sentence Encoding without Supervision: An Exploration of Sparsity in Variational Autoencoders ACL 2021 MirrorWiC: On Eliciting Word-in-Context Representations from Pretrained Language Models CoNLL 2021 Mixture-of-Partitions: Infusing Large Biomedical Knowledge Graphs into BERT EMNLP 2021 Non-Autoregressive Text Generation with Pre-trained Language Models EACL 2021 Plan-then-Generate: Controlled Data-to-Text Generation via Planning EMNLP 2021 Self-Alignment Pretraining for Biomedical Entity Representations NAACL 2021 Synthetic Examples Improve Cross-Target Generalization: A Study on Stance Detection on a Twitter corpus. EACL 2021 Visually Grounded Reasoning across Languages and Cultures EMNLP 2021 Visual Pivoting for (Unsupervised) Entity Alignment AAAI 2021 COMETA: A Corpus for Medical Entity Linking in the Social Media EMNLP 2020 STANDER: An Expert-Annotated Dataset for News Stance Detection and Evidence Retrieval EMNLP 2020 Will-They-Won’t-They: A Very Large Dataset for Stance Detection on Twitter ACL 2020 A Richer-but-Smarter Shortest Dependency Path with Attentive Augmentation for Relation Extraction NAACL 2019 BioReddit: Word Embeddings for User-Generated Biomedical NLP EMNLP 2019 Generating Knowledge Graph Paths from Textual Definitions using Sequence-to-Sequence Models NAACL 2019 On the Importance of the Kullback-Leibler Divergence Term in Variational Autoencoders for Text Generation EMNLP 2019 Unseen Word Representation by Aligning Heterogeneous Lexical Semantic Spaces AAAI 2019 Card-660: Cambridge Rare Word Dataset - a Reliable Benchmark for Infrequent Word Representation Models EMNLP 2018 Large-scale Exploration of Neural Relation Classification Architectures EMNLP 2018 Mapping Text to Knowledge Graph Entities using Multi-Sense LSTMs EMNLP 2018 Towards Automatic Fake News Detection: Cross-Level Stance Detection in News Articles EMNLP 2018 Which Melbourne? Augmenting Geocoding with Maps ACL 2018 Inducing Embeddings for Rare and Unseen Words by Leveraging Lexical Resources EACL 2017 SemEval-2017 Task 2: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Semantic Word Similarity SemEval 2017 Towards a Seamless Integration of Word Senses into Downstream NLP Applications ACL 2017 Vancouver Welcomes You! Minimalist Location Metonymy Resolution ACL 2017 De-Conflated Semantic Representations EMNLP 2016 Normalising Medical Concepts in Social Media Texts by Learning Semantic Representation ACL 2016 Adapting Phrase-based Machine Translation to Normalise Medical Terms in Social Media Messages EMNLP 2015 Discriminating Rhetorical Analogies in Social Media EACL 2014 A Hybrid Approach to Finding Phenotype Candidates in Genetic Texts COLING 2012 On-line Trend Analysis with Topic Models: #twitter Trends Detection Topic Model Online COLING 2012 An ontology-driven system for detecting global health events COLING 2010 Global Health Monitor - A Web-based System for Detecting and Mapping Infectious Diseases IJCNLP 2008 The Choice of Features for Classification of Verbs in Biomedical Texts COLING 2008 Automatic Classification of Verbs in Biomedical Texts ACL 2006 Incorporating topic information into semantic analysis models ACL 2004 Sentiment Analysis using Support Vector Machines with Diverse Information Sources EMNLP 2004 Use of Support Vector Machines in Extended Named Entity Recognition CoNLL 2002 Extracting the Names of Genes and Gene Products with a Hidden Markov Model COLING 2000