Malihe Alikhani

Dialogue is the Plan: From Interface to Joint Action in Agentic AI ACL 2026 OPeRA: A Dataset of Observation, Persona, Rationale, and Action for Evaluating LLMs on Human Online Shopping Behavior Simulation ACL 2026 Accounting for Sycophancy in Language Model Uncertainty Estimation NAACL 2025 Adaptive Platt Scaling with Causal Interpretations for Self-Reflective Language Model Uncertainty Estimates EMNLP 2025 An Active Learning Framework for Inclusive Generation by Large Language Models COLING 2025 Contextual ASR Error Handling with LLMs Augmentation for Goal-Oriented Conversational AI COLING 2025 Evaluating Theory of (an uncertain) Mind: Predicting the Uncertain Beliefs of Others from Conversational Cues ACL 2025 How to Align Multiple Signed Language Corpora for Better Sign-to-Sign Translations? NAACL 2025 Identifying & Interactively Refining Ambiguous User Goals for Data Visualization Code Generation EMNLP 2025 Measuring Bias and Agreement in Large Language Model Presupposition Judgments ACL 2025 SignAlignLM: Integrating Multimodal Sign Language Processing into Large Language Models ACL 2025 Active Learning for Robust and Representative LLM Generation in Safety-Critical Scenarios EMNLP 2024 Combining Discourse Coherence with Large Language Models for More Inclusive, Equitable, and Robust Task-Oriented Dialogue COLING 2024 Deal, or no deal (or who knows)? Forecasting Uncertainty in Conversations using Large Language Models ACL 2024 Eliciting Uncertainty in Chain-of-Thought to Mitigate Bias against Forecasting Harmful User Behaviors EMNLP 2024 Generating Signed Language Instructions in Large-Scale Dialogue Systems NAACL 2024 HumBEL: A Human-in-the-Loop Approach for Evaluating Demographic Factors of Language Models in Human-Machine Conversations EACL 2024 Seeing Eye-to-Eye: Cross-Modal Coherence Relations Inform Eye-gaze Patterns During Comprehension & Production COLING 2024 Studying and Mitigating Biases in Sign Language Understanding Models EMNLP 2024 D-CALM: A Dynamic Clustering-based Active Learning Approach for Mitigating Bias ACL 2023 DisCGen: A Framework for Discourse-Informed Counterspeech Generation IJCNLP 2023 Findings of the Second WMT Shared Task on Sign Language Translation (WMT-SLT23) EMNLP 2023 How people talk about each other: Modeling Generalized Intergroup Bias and Emotion EACL 2023 Including Facial Expressions in Contextual Embeddings for Sign Language Generation ACL 2023 Learning to Generate Equitable Text in Dialogue from Biased Training Data ACL 2023 MedNgage: A Dataset for Understanding Engagement in Patient-Nurse Conversations ACL 2023 Multilingual Content Moderation: A Case Study on Reddit EACL 2023 PANCETTA: Phoneme Aware Neural Completion to Elicit Tongue Twisters Automatically EACL 2023 Practical Tools from Domain Adaptation for Designing Inclusive, Equitable, and Robust Generative AI IJCNLP 2023 SODA: Million-scale Dialogue Distillation with Social Commonsense Contextualization EMNLP 2023 APPDIA: A Discourse-aware Transformer-based Style Transfer Model for Offensive Social Media Conversations COLING 2022 Cross-Modal Coherence for Text-to-Image Retrieval AAAI 2022 Including Signed Languages in Natural Language Processing (Extended Abstract) IJCAI 2022 LEATHER: A Framework for Learning to Generate Human-like Text in Dialogue AACL 2022 Modeling Intensification for Sign Language Generation: A Computational Approach ACL 2022 NAREOR: The Narrative Reordering Problem AAAI 2022 PAC-Bayesian domain adaptation bounds for multiclass learners UAI 2022 PINEAPPLE: Personifying INanimate Entities by Acquiring Parallel Personification Data for Learning Enhanced Generation COLING 2022 Political Ideology and Polarization: A Multi-dimensional Approach NAACL 2022 Retrieve, Caption, Generate: Visual Grounding for Enhancing Commonsense in Text Generation Models AAAI 2022 The Change that Matters in Discourse Parsing: Estimating the Impact of Domain Shift on Parser Error ACL 2022 The Role of Context and Uncertainty in Shallow Discourse Parsing COLING 2022 COSMic: A Coherence-Aware Generation Metric for Image Descriptions EMNLP 2021 Entheos: A Multimodal Dataset for Studying Enthusiasm ACL 2021 Including Signed Languages in Natural Language Processing ACL 2021 Signed Coreference Resolution EMNLP 2021 Achieving Common Ground in Multi-modal Dialogue ACL 2020 Aspectuality Across Genre: A Distributional Semantics Approach COLING 2020 Combining Cognitive Modeling and Reinforcement Learning for Clarification in Dialogue COLING 2020 Cross-modal Coherence Modeling for Caption Generation ACL 2020 That and There: Judging the Intent of Pointing Actions with Robotic Arms AAAI 2020 “Caption” as a Coherence Relation: Evidence and Implications NAACL 2019 CITE: A Corpus of Image-Text Discourse Relations NAACL 2019 Arrows are the Verbs of Diagrams COLING 2018