News Archive
2024
10/2024 I gave an invited talk “The AI-Augmented Scientist: Building Computational Models for Effective Knowledge Synthesis and Dissemination” at CLASP (The Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability), University of Gothenburg on October 23rd.
10/2024 Starting in November, I will be joining IT:U - Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria as a founding professor for NLP.
09/2024: Our paper “WikiContradict: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Real-World Knowledge Conflicts from Wikipedia” has been accepted at the NeurIPS 2024 dataset and benchmark track.
09/2024: Two papers have been accepted at EMNLP 2024 Main Conference and Findings.
09/2024 I will serve as a senior area chair at NAACL 2025.
09/2024 Our paper about Holmes has been accepted at TACL 2024 and will be presented at EMNLP 2024.
09/2024 I will give an invited talk “WikiContradict: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Real-World Knowledge Conflicts from Wikipedia” at the Monthly Wikimedia Research Showcase on September 18th. The talk will be streamed live on YouTube and also archived for later viewing on the Wikimedia Foundation’s YouTube channel.
09/2024 I will give an invited talk “Fact-checking Misrepresented Science and Evaluating LLMs on Real-world Knowledge Conflicts” at the Second IBM AI Research Master-class Workshop in Trinity College Dublin on September 6th.
08/2024 I gave a keynote talk “Reconstructing Fallacies in Misrepresented Science and Argument Mining in the Wild” at the 11th Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining 2024).
07/2024 A paper accepted at at the ACL 2024 Student Research Workshop. The paper is based on a master thesis project that I co-supervised with Prof. Anya Belz at Dublin City University for their first NLP master program on 2023/2024.
06/2024 I will serve as an area chair at COLING 2025.
06/2024 A paper accepted at ACL 2024 workshop on teaching NLP: I wrote a short paper describing a course shared task that we organized at the Foundations of Language Technology (FoLT) course in 2023/2024 at the Technical University of Darmstadt. The shared task focuses on evaluating the output of LLMs in generating harmful answers to health-related clinical questions.
06/2024 I gave an invited talk and participated a panel discussion at the 1st International Conference on Robust Argumentation Machines (RATIO24).
05/2024 Three long papers have been accepted at ACL 2024 Main Conference.
05/2024 We have released a massive meta-evaluation benchmark called Holmes to evaluate internal embeddings for more than 50 LLMs across 200 datasets, covering a wide range of linguistic competences.
04/2024 I will give an invited talk at the “Anaphora and Predictability” workshop at Pompeu Fabra University.
03/2024 I will serve as a senior area chair at EMNLP 2024.
03/2024 Our paper, “On the Role of Summary Content Units in Text Summarization Evaluation”, has been accepted at the NAACL 2024 Main Conference! The paper is based on an idea from the GEM human evaluation work group, and all experiments were conducted by the four exceptional student researchers whom Juri and I co-mentored in a software project from the course “Data Analysis Software Project for Natural Language” that I taught at TU Darmstadt in 2022/2023. Kudos to all co-authors!
02/2024 I will serve as an area chair at ACL 2024.
01/2024 Our paper on probing the gap between in- and cross-topic generalization of pre-trained language models has been accepted at EACL 2024 Findings.
2023
12/2023 I attended the panel discussion at ArgMining 2023.
10/2023 I’m looking for a PhD student on AI-assisted Scientific Evidence Synthesis, co-supervised by me at IBM Research and Prof. Anya Belz from Dublin City University. The PhD candidate will be employed by IBM Research Ireland for the duration of the PhD study. Apply using this link if you are interested in the position.
10/2023 I gave an invited talk “Building Computational Models to Understand Scholarly Documents for Supporting Scientific Knowledge Discovery and Communication” at the IBM AI Research Masterclass workshop in Trinity College Dublin.
10/2023 Three long papers have been accepted at EMNLP 2023 Main Conference.
10/2023 I will serve as an area chair and visa chair at EACL 2024.
09/2023 I will serve as a senior area chair at NAACL 2024.
09/2023 I will serve as an area chair at LREC-COLING 2024.
07/2023 I will give an invited talk “Bridging Resolution: A Journey Towards Modelling Referential Discourse Entities” at CODI 2023.
06/2023 I will serve as a senior area chair at EMNLP 2023.
05/2023 I will serve as an area chair at IJCNLP-AACL 2023, INLG 2023 and SIGDIAL 2023.
05/2023 Four long papers accepted at ACL2023 Main Conference. Kudos to my students and collaborators!
04/2023 I visited UKP Lab and had great discussions with the brilliant students from the lab.
01/2023 I gave a short talk at IBM Neuro-Symbolic AI Workshop.
2022
12/2022 I will serve as an area chair at ACL 2023.
10/2022 I gave a talk at Dagstuhl Seminar - Towards a Unified Model of Scholarly Argumentation.
10/2022 One paper accepted at EMNLP 2022!
09/2022 I gave an invited talk at Dublin City University NLP Seminar.
09/2022 The paper “GEMv2: Multilingual NLG Benchmarking in a Single Line of Code” got accepted to EMNLP 2022 demo track! Our document2slides dataset is integrated into GEMv2 and can be easily accessed at: GEM-SciDuet.
08/2022 One paper accepted at COLING 2022!
05/2022 I will give a lecture on anaphora and coreference resolution at LT Bridge Summer School.
04/2022 I will serve as a senior area chair at EMNLP 2022.
04/2022 One paper accepted at the first workshop on Learning with Natural Language Supervision (co-located with ACL 2022).
03/2022 I will serve as a meta-reviewer at SIGDIAL 2022.
02/2022 Happy moment of being an advisor: Three papers accepted at ACL 2022 Main Conference!
01/2022 I will serve as an area chair for INLG 2022.
2021
09/2021 One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2021. Kudos to my great colleagues!
08/2021 Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2021 Finding.
08/2021 I will serve as a meta-reviewer at AAAI 2022.
07/2021 Happy to join the career panel discussion at the HITS online Alumini meeting!
05/2021 Two papers accepted at ACL 2021 and its Findings. Kudos to my collaborators and interns!
04/2021 My colleagues and I are organizing a shared task on argument summarization (Quantitative Summarization – Key Point Analysis) at the ArgMining 2021 workshop (co-located with EMNLP 2021). Please consider participating!
03/2021 On March 17th, Project Debater published a paper at Nature which describes the whole system: “An autonomous debating system”. Proud to be part of the team!
03/2021 The proud moment of being an advisor: Two papers accepted at NAACL 2021!
02/2021 I was invited to participate in a panel discussion about “Medical Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Future: What Should We Know?” at MMII Annual Conference 2021.
01/2021 Together with my colleagues, I have a paper “TDMSci: A Specialized Corpus for Scientific Literature Entity Tagging of Tasks Datasets and Metrics” accepted at EACL 2021.
01/2021 I will serve as a standing reviewer of Computational Linguistics (CL) journal.
2020
12/2020 Two workshops I’m co-organizing (ArgMining 2021 and SustaiNLP 2021) accepted at EMNLP 2021.
12/2020 I gave an invited talk “Constructing Leaderboards from Scientific Literature” at Technical University of Darmstadt UKP.
11/2020 I gave a talk “Project Debater: From Lab Research to Product” at Ireland WaiTALK: Path to Entrepreneurship.
10/2020 I have a paper “Fine-grained Information Status Classification Using Discourse Context-Aware BERT” accepted at COLING 2020.
09/2020 I will give an invited talk “Argument Retrieval in Project Debater” at CLEF 2020 Touché workshop.
08/2020 I will serve as an area chair at EACL 2021.
07/2020 I received 2020 WoC “Technical Innovation in Industry” award.
04/2020 I will serve in the standing review committee of TACL.
04/2020 I have a paper “Bridging Anaphora Resolution as Question Answering” accepted at ACL 2020.
03/2020 I release the code for bridging anaphora resolution using bridging embeddings which described in the paper “A deterministic algorithm for bridging anaphora resolution”
2019
11/2019 We have two papers related to argumentation mining accepted at AAAI 2020. The first one “Corpus wide argument mining - a working solution” is from the debater project claim/evidence detection team. The second one is titled “End-to-End Argumentation Knowledge Graph Construction”. This paper is from an intern project that I was leading from last winter till this spring. The first author Khalid Al Khatib received IBM PhD scholarship and did an internship with us. Code and dataset described in the paper will be available soon.
- 07/2019 We release the datasets and the code for extracting tuples of task, dataset, metric, score from NLP papers
- 05/2019 Our long paper “Identification of Tasks, Datasets, Evaluation Metrics, and Numeric Scores for Scientific Leaderboards Construction” got accepted at ACL 2019.
2018
11/2018 I’ll attend EMNLP 2018 and present the paper “A deterministic algorithm for bridging anaphora resolution”.
10/2018 I gave an invited colloquium talk “Computational Argumentation: A personal Journey” at ICL, Heidelberg University.
10/2018 I gave a tutorial about Anaphora Resolution at DRL AI Seminar.
06/2018 I presented the paper “Enhanced Word Representations for Bridging Anaphora Resolution” at NAACL 2018. The new word embedding resource can be downloanded from here.
03/2018 The article “Unrestricted Bridging Resolution” with Michael Strube and Katja Markert got accepted by Computational Linguistics.
2017
10/2017 I gave a talk “Information Status: Tasks, Datasets and Models” at Dublin NLP meetup.
09/2017 The datasets used in the paper “Argument Relation Classification Using a Joint Inference Model” can be downloaded from here.