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Robert West

38 papers · 2013–2026 · 12 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🌈 Renaissance Researcher (8) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (12) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (12) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (12) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (74) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🀝 Dynamic Duo (14) πŸ† Keyword Champion πŸ† Grand Slam 🧬 Topic Evolution πŸ’Ž Century Club (36) πŸš€ Conference Pioneer ⚑ Prolific Year (5) πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (181) ❓ The Questioner (4) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (8)

Conferences

EMNLP (13) ACL (8) NAACL (3) AAAI (2) EACL (2) ICLR (2) IJCAI (2) IJCNLP (2) AACL (1) CONLL (1) ICML (1) NIPS (1)

Top co-authors

Maxime Peyrard (15) Martin Josifoski (7) Niklas Stoehr (4) Giovanni Monea (4) Debjit Paul (4) Chris Wendler (4) Akhil Arora (4) Ryan Cotterell (4) Veniamin Veselovsky (4) Wei Zhao (3)

Research topics

Privacy (1)

Keywords

large language model (7) language model (6) information extraction (5) knowledge base (3) representation learning (3) transformer model (3) humor detection (3) conflict analysis (2) retrieval-augmented generation (2) multilingual language model (2) unsupervised learning (2) statistical testing (2) synthetic data generation (2) constrained decoding (2) bradley-terry model (2) named entity recognition (2) zero-shot learning (2) data augmentation (2) causal inference (2) semantic representation (2)

Papers

Interactive Evaluation of Large Language Models for Multi-Requirement Software Engineering Tasks AAAI 2026
Tandem Training for Language Models EACL 2026
Separating Tongue from Thought: Activation Patching Reveals Language-Agnostic Concept Representations in Transformers ACL 2025
GRAD: Generative Retrieval-Aligned Demonstration Sampler for Efficient Few-Shot Reasoning EMNLP 2025
A Logical Fallacy-Informed Framework for Argument Generation NAACL 2025
Combining Constrained and Unconstrained Decoding via Boosting: BoostCD and Its Application to Information Extraction EMNLP 2025
Controllable Context Sensitivity and the Knob Behind It ICLR 2025
Fleet of Agents: Coordinated Problem Solving with Large Language Models ICML 2025
Entity Insertion in Multilingual Linked Corpora: The Case of Wikipedia EMNLP 2024
A Glitch in the Matrix? Locating and Detecting Language Model Grounding with Fakepedia ACL 2024
Do Llamas Work in English? On the Latent Language of Multilingual Transformers ACL 2024
Sketch-Guided Constrained Decoding for Boosting Blackbox Large Language Models without Logit Access ACL 2024
Getting Serious about Humor: Crafting Humor Datasets with Unfunny Large Language Models ACL 2024
REFINER: Reasoning Feedback on Intermediate Representations EACL 2024
Activation Scaling for Steering and Interpreting Language Models EMNLP 2024
Can Language Models Recognize Convincing Arguments? EMNLP 2024
Self-Recognition in Language Models EMNLP 2024
Making Reasoning Matter: Measuring and Improving Faithfulness of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning EMNLP 2024
Evaluating Language Model Agency Through Negotiations ICLR 2024
The Glass Ceiling of Automatic Evaluation in Natural Language Generation IJCNLP 2023
The Glass Ceiling of Automatic Evaluation in Natural Language Generation AACL 2023
Exploiting Asymmetry for Synthetic Training Data Generation: SynthIE and the Case of Information Extraction EMNLP 2023
An Ordinal Latent Variable Model of Conflict Intensity ACL 2023
Grammar-Constrained Decoding for Structured NLP Tasks without Finetuning EMNLP 2023
GenIE: Generative Information Extraction NAACL 2022
Strong Heuristics for Named Entity Linking NAACL 2022
Invariant Language Modeling EMNLP 2022
Better than Average: Paired Evaluation of NLP systems ACL 2021
A Ladder of Causal Distances IJCAI 2021
Laughing Heads: Can Transformers Detect What Makes a Sentence Funny? IJCAI 2021
Better than Average: Paired Evaluation of NLP systems IJCNLP 2021
Classifying Dyads for Militarized Conflict Analysis EMNLP 2021
Low-Rank Subspaces for Unsupervised Entity Linking EMNLP 2021
KLearn: Background Knowledge Inference from Summarization Data EMNLP 2020
On the Limitations of Cross-lingual Encoders as Exposed by Reference-Free Machine Translation Evaluation ACL 2020
Reverse-Engineering Satire, or β€œPaper on Computational Humor Accepted despite Making Serious Advances” AAAI 2019
Churn Intent Detection in Multilingual Chatbot Conversations and Social Media CONLL 2018
Compressive Feature Learning NIPS 2013