EMNLP 2024

2,910 papers

Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories

Suhong Moon, Marwa Abdulhai, Minwoo Kang, Joseph Suh, Widyadewi Soedarmadji

Not All Contexts Are Equal: Teaching LLMs Credibility-aware Generation

Ruotong Pan, Boxi Cao, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Jia Zheng

Adaptation Odyssey in LLMs: Why Does Additional Pretraining Sometimes Fail to Improve?

Fırat Öncel, Matthias Bethge, Beyza Ermis, Mirco Ravanelli, Cem Subakan

Jump Starting Bandits with LLM-Generated Prior Knowledge

Parand A. Alamdari, Yanshuai Cao, Kevin H. Wilson

Towards Enhancing Coherence in Extractive Summarization: Dataset and Experiments with LLMs

Mihir Parmar, Hanieh Deilamsalehy, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Ryan A. Rossi

Perceptions to Beliefs: Exploring Precursory Inferences for Theory of Mind in Large Language Models

Chani Jung, Dongkwan Kim, Jiho Jin, Jiseon Kim, Yeon Seonwoo

Unsupervised Discrete Representations of American Sign Language

Artem Abzaliev, Rada Mihalcea

MIPD: Exploring Manipulation and Intention In a Novel Corpus of Polish Disinformation

Arkadiusz Modzelewski, Giovanni Da San Martino, Pavel Savov, Magdalena Anna Wilczyńska, Adam Wierzbicki

Error Analysis of Multilingual Language Models in Machine Translation: A Case Study of English-Amharic Translation

Hizkiel Mitiku Alemayehu, Hamada M Zahera, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Threshold-driven Pruning with Segmented Maximum Term Weights for Approximate Cluster-based Sparse Retrieval

Yifan Qiao, Parker Carlson, Shanxiu He, Yingrui Yang, Tao Yang

Grounding Language in Multi-Perspective Referential Communication

Zineng Tang, Lingjun Mao, Alane Suhr

Delving into Qualitative Implications of Synthetic Data for Hate Speech Detection

Camilla Casula, Sebastiano Vecellio Salto, Alan Ramponi, Sara Tonelli

Evaluating Short-Term Temporal Fluctuations of Social Biases in Social Media Data and Masked Language Models

Yi Zhou, Danushka Bollegala, Jose Camacho-Collados

Evaluating Diversity in Automatic Poetry Generation

Yanran Chen, Hannes Gröner, Sina Zarrieß, Steffen Eger

Pron vs Prompt: Can Large Language Models already Challenge a World-Class Fiction Author at Creative Text Writing?

Guillermo Marco, Julio Gonzalo, M.Teresa Mateo-Girona, Ramón Del Castillo Santos

TempoFormer: A Transformer for Temporally-aware Representations in Change Detection

Talia Tseriotou, Adam Tsakalidis, Maria Liakata

The Generation Gap: Exploring Age Bias in the Value Systems of Large Language Models

Siyang Liu, Trisha Maturi, Bowen Yi, Siqi Shen, Rada Mihalcea

Scope-enhanced Compositional Semantic Parsing for DRT

Xiulin Yang, Jonas Groschwitz, Alexander Koller, Johan Bos

IntCoOp: Interpretability-Aware Vision-Language Prompt Tuning

Soumya Suvra Ghosal, Samyadeep Basu, Soheil Feizi, Dinesh Manocha

DISCERN: Decoding Systematic Errors in Natural Language for Text Classifiers

Rakesh R Menon, Shashank Srivastava

Adaptable Moral Stances of Large Language Models on Sexist Content: Implications for Society and Gender Discourse

Rongchen Guo, Isar Nejadgholi, Hillary Dawkins, Kathleen C. Fraser, Svetlana Kiritchenko

Discovering Biases in Information Retrieval Models Using Relevance Thesaurus as Global Explanation

Youngwoo Kim, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan

Factuality of Large Language Models: A Survey

Yuxia Wang, Minghan Wang, Muhammad Arslan Manzoor, Fei Liu, Georgi Nenkov Georgiev

A Fast and Sound Tagging Method for Discontinuous Named-Entity Recognition

Caio Corro

Video-Text Prompting for Weakly Supervised Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding

Heng Zhao, Zhao Yinjie, Bihan Wen, Yew-Soon Ong, Joey Tianyi Zhou

Re-Evaluating Evaluation for Multilingual Summarization

Jessica Zosa Forde, Ruochen Zhang, Lintang Sutawika, Alham Fikri Aji, Samuel Cahyawijaya

The Illusion of Competence: Evaluating the Effect of Explanations on Users’ Mental Models of Visual Question Answering Systems

Judith Sieker, Simeon Junker, Ronja Utescher, Nazia Attari, Heiko Wersing

Sequential API Function Calling Using GraphQL Schema

Avirup Saha, Lakshmi Mandal, Balaji Ganesan, Sambit Ghosh, Renuka Sindhgatta

CoCoST: Automatic Complex Code Generation with Online Searching and Correctness Testing

Xinyi He, Jiaru Zou, Yun Lin, Mengyu Zhou, Shi Han

GPT vs RETRO: Exploring the Intersection of Retrieval and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

Aleksander Ficek, Jiaqi Zeng, Oleksii Kuchaiev

Investigating the Role of Instruction Variety and Task Difficulty in Robotic Manipulation Tasks

Amit Parekh, Nikolas Vitsakis, Alessandro Suglia, Ioannis Konstas

An Empirical Analysis of the Writing Styles of Persona-Assigned LLMs

Manuj Malik, Jing Jiang, Kian Ming A. Chai

Mitigating the Impact of Reference Quality on Evaluation of Summarization Systems with Reference-Free Metrics

Théo Gigant, Camille Guinaudeau, Marc Decombas, Frederic Dufaux

CaT-Bench: Benchmarking Language Model Understanding of Causal and Temporal Dependencies in Plans

Yash Kumar Lal, Vanya Cohen, Nathanael Chambers, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Ray Mooney

VerifyMatch: A Semi-Supervised Learning Paradigm for Natural Language Inference with Confidence-Aware MixUp

Seo Yeon Park, Cornelia Caragea

Altogether: Image Captioning via Re-aligning Alt-text

Hu Xu, Po-Yao Huang, Xiaoqing Tan, Ching-Feng Yeh, Jacob Kahn

DEM: Distribution Edited Model for Training with Mixed Data Distributions

Dhananjay Ram, Aditya Rawal, Momchil Hardalov, Nikolaos Pappas, Sheng Zha

DataNarrative: Automated Data-Driven Storytelling with Visualizations and Texts

Mohammed Saidul Islam, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Md Rizwan Parvez, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty

Multimodal Self-Instruct: Synthetic Abstract Image and Visual Reasoning Instruction Using Language Model

Wenqi Zhang, Zhenglin Cheng, Yuanyu He, Mengna Wang, Yongliang Shen

SynthesizRR: Generating Diverse Datasets with Retrieval Augmentation

Abhishek Divekar, Greg Durrett

BLSP-Emo: Towards Empathetic Large Speech-Language Models

Chen Wang, Minpeng Liao, Zhongqiang Huang, Junhong Wu, Chengqing Zong

Emotion Granularity from Text: An Aggregate-Level Indicator of Mental Health

Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, Daniela Teodorescu, Mallory J Feldman, Kristen Lindquist, Saif M. Mohammad

ShadowLLM: Predictor-based Contextual Sparsity for Large Language Models

Yash Akhauri, Ahmed F. AbouElhamayed, Jordan Dotzel, Zhiru Zhang, Alexander M. Rush

Comparing a BERT Classifier and a GPT classifier for Detecting Connective Language Across Multiple Social Media

Josephine Lukito, Bin Chen, Gina M. Masullo, Natalie Jomini Stroud

DetoxLLM: A Framework for Detoxification with Explanations

Md Tawkat Islam Khondaker, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

Exploring Intra and Inter-language Consistency in Embeddings with ICA

Rongzhi Li, Takeru Matsuda, Hitomi Yanaka

A Two-Step Approach for Data-Efficient French Pronunciation Learning

Hoyeon Lee, Hyeeun Jang, Jonghwan Kim, Jaemin Kim

FoodieQA: A Multimodal Dataset for Fine-Grained Understanding of Chinese Food Culture

Wenyan Li, Crystina Zhang, Jiaang Li, Qiwei Peng, Raphael Tang

Preserving Multi-Modal Capabilities of Pre-trained VLMs for Improving Vision-Linguistic Compositionality

Youngtaek Oh, Jae Won Cho, Dong-Jin Kim, In So Kweon, Junmo Kim

GRIZAL: Generative Prior-guided Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization

Onkar Kishor Susladkar, Gayatri Sudhir Deshmukh, Vandan Gorade, Sparsh Mittal

Unsupervised Extraction of Dialogue Policies from Conversations

Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar, Traian Rebedea, Christopher Parisien

TV-TREES: Multimodal Entailment Trees for Neuro-Symbolic Video Reasoning

Kate Sanders, Nathaniel Weir, Benjamin Van Durme

Prove Your Point!: Bringing Proof-Enhancement Principles to Argumentative Essay Generation

Ruiyu Xiao, Lei Wu, Yuhang Gou, Weinan Zhang, Ting Liu

Efficient Unseen Language Adaptation for Multilingual Pre-Trained Language Models

Po-Heng Chen, Yun-Nung Chen

Link, Synthesize, Retrieve: Universal Document Linking for Zero-Shot Information Retrieval

Dae Yon Hwang, Bilal Taha, Harshit Pande, Yaroslav Nechaev

Getting The Most Out of Your Training Data: Exploring Unsupervised Tasks for Morphological Inflection

Abhishek Purushothama, Adam Wiemerslage, Katharina von der Wense

Argument Relation Classification through Discourse Markers and Adversarial Training

Michele Luca Contalbo, Francesco Guerra, Matteo Paganelli

Generation with Dynamic Vocabulary

Yanting Liu, Tao Ji, Changzhi Sun, Yuanbin Wu, Xiaoling Wang

Towards Faithful Knowledge Graph Explanation Through Deep Alignment in Commonsense Question Answering

Weihe Zhai, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Bingquan Liu, Chengjie Sun, Yalong Zhao

Fool Me Once? Contrasting Textual and Visual Explanations in a Clinical Decision-Support Setting

Maxime Kayser, Bayar Menzat, Cornelius Emde, Bogdan Bercean, Alex Novak

NeuroTrialNER: An Annotated Corpus for Neurological Diseases and Therapies in Clinical Trial Registries

Simona Emilova Doneva, Tilia Ellendorff, Beate Sick, Jean-Philippe Goldman, Amelia Elaine Cannon

Are Data Augmentation Methods in Named Entity Recognition Applicable for Uncertainty Estimation?

Wataru Hashimoto, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Taro Watanabe

Model-based Preference Optimization in Abstractive Summarization without Human Feedback

Jaepill Choi, Kyubyung Chae, Jiwoo Song, Yohan Jo, Taesup Kim

Surprise! Uniform Information Density Isn’t the Whole Story: Predicting Surprisal Contours in Long-form Discourse

Eleftheria Tsipidi, Franz Nowak, Ryan Cotterell, Ethan Wilcox, Mario Giulianelli

Collective Critics for Creative Story Generation

Minwook Bae, Hyounghun Kim

Fuse to Forget: Bias Reduction and Selective Memorization through Model Fusion

Kerem Zaman, Leshem Choshen, Shashank Srivastava

Evaluating Large Language Models along Dimensions of Language Variation: A Systematik Invesdigatiom uv Cross-lingual Generalization

Niyati Bafna, Kenton Murray, David Yarowsky

Transformers are Multi-State RNNs

Matanel Oren, Michael Hassid, Nir Yarden, Yossi Adi, Roy Schwartz

The Emergence of Compositional Languages in Multi-entity Referential Games: from Image to Graph Representations

Daniel Akkerman, Phong Le, Raquel G. Alhama

Semantics and Sentiment: Cross-lingual Variations in Emoji Use

Giulio Zhou, Sydelle de Souza, Ella Markham, Oghenetekevwe Kwakpovwe, Sumin Zhao

DocCGen: Document-based Controlled Code Generation

Sameer Pimparkhede, Mehant Kammakomati, Srikanth G. Tamilselvam, Prince Kumar, Ashok Pon Kumar

Semformer: Transformer Language Models with Semantic Planning

Yongjing Yin, Junran Ding, Kai Song, Yue Zhang

CHESS: Optimizing LLM Inference via Channel-Wise Thresholding and Selective Sparsification

Junhui He, Shangyu Wu, Weidong Wen, Chun Jason Xue, Qingan Li

Recurrent Alignment with Hard Attention for Hierarchical Text Rating

Chenxi Lin, Ren Jiayu, Guoxiu He, Zhuoren Jiang, Haiyan Yu

Instruction Matters: A Simple yet Effective Task Selection for Optimized Instruction Tuning of Specific Tasks

Changho Lee, Janghoon Han, Seonghyeon Ye, Stanley Jungkyu Choi, Honglak Lee

Who is better at math, Jenny or Jingzhen? Uncovering Stereotypes in Large Language Models

Zara Siddique, Liam Turner, Luis Espinosa-Anke

Jailbreaking LLMs with Arabic Transliteration and Arabizi

Mansour Al Ghanim, Saleh Almohaimeed, Mengxin Zheng, Yan Solihin, Qian Lou

Enhanced Hallucination Detection in Neural Machine Translation through Simple Detector Aggregation

Anas Himmi, Guillaume Staerman, Marine Picot, Pierre Colombo, Nuno M Guerreiro

On the Proper Treatment of Tokenization in Psycholinguistics

Mario Giulianelli, Luca Malagutti, Juan Luis Gastaldi, Brian DuSell, Tim Vieira

Annotator-Centric Active Learning for Subjective NLP Tasks

Michiel Van Der Meer, Neele Falk, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Enrico Liscio

PALM: Few-Shot Prompt Learning for Audio Language Models

Asif Hanif, Maha Tufail Agro, Mohammad Areeb Qazi, Hanan Aldarmaki

D3CODE: Disentangling Disagreements in Data across Cultures on Offensiveness Detection and Evaluation

Aida Davani, Mark Díaz, Dylan Baker, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran

GOME: Grounding-based Metaphor Binding With Conceptual Elaboration For Figurative Language Illustration

Linhao Zhang, Jintao Liu, Li Jin, Hao Wang, Kaiwen Wei

A Simple and Effective L_2 Norm-Based Strategy for KV Cache Compression

Alessio Devoto, Yu Zhao, Simone Scardapane, Pasquale Minervini

CasiMedicos-Arg: A Medical Question Answering Dataset Annotated with Explanatory Argumentative Structures

Ekaterina Sviridova, Anar Yeginbergen, Ainara Estarrona, Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata

LLMEdgeRefine: Enhancing Text Clustering with LLM-Based Boundary Point Refinement

Zijin Feng, Luyang Lin, Lingzhi Wang, Hong Cheng, Kam-Fai Wong

Language models and brains align due to more than next-word prediction and word-level information

Gabriele Merlin, Mariya Toneva

Generate-on-Graph: Treat LLM as both Agent and KG for Incomplete Knowledge Graph Question Answering

Yao Xu, Shizhu He, Jiabei Chen, Zihao Wang, Yangqiu Song

GuardBench: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Guardrail Models

Elias Bassani, Ignacio Sanchez

A linguistically-motivated evaluation methodology for unraveling model’s abilities in reading comprehension tasks

Elie Antoine, Frédéric Béchet, Geraldine Damnati, Philippe Langlais

How to Compute the Probability of a Word

Tiago Pimentel, Clara Meister

Please note that I’m just an AI: Analysis of Behavior Patterns of LLMs in (Non-)offensive Speech Identification

Esra Dönmez, Thang Vu, Agnieszka Faleńska

ToolPlanner: A Tool Augmented LLM for Multi Granularity Instructions with Path Planning and Feedback

Qinzhuo Wu, Wei Liu, Jian Luan, Bin Wang

Simultaneous Masking, Not Prompting Optimization: A Paradigm Shift in Fine-tuning LLMs for Simultaneous Translation

Matthew Raffel, Victor Agostinelli, Lizhong Chen

Investigating and Mitigating Object Hallucinations in Pretrained Vision-Language (CLIP) Models

Yufang Liu, Tao Ji, Changzhi Sun, Yuanbin Wu, Aimin Zhou

HiFT: A Hierarchical Full Parameter Fine-Tuning Strategy

Yongkang Liu, Yiqun Zhang, Qian Li, Tong Liu, Shi Feng

User Inference Attacks on Large Language Models

Nikhil Kandpal, Krishna Pillutla, Alina Oprea, Peter Kairouz, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo

PairDistill: Pairwise Relevance Distillation for Dense Retrieval

Chao-Wei Huang, Yun-Nung Chen

On the Universal Truthfulness Hyperplane Inside LLMs

Junteng Liu, shiqi chen, Yu Cheng, Junxian He

NoiseBench: Benchmarking the Impact of Real Label Noise on Named Entity Recognition

Elena Merdjanovska, Ansar Aynetdinov, Alan Akbik