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Benjamin Van Durme

199 papers · 2008–2026 · 15 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (11) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (15) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (12) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge πŸƒ Academic Marathon (17) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (26) 🏠 Conference Loyalist (52) 🌟 Keyword Trendsetter Combo (11) 🀝 Dynamic Duo (18) 🌱 Topic Pioneer πŸ† Keyword Champion πŸ† Grand Slam πŸ‘₯ Mega-Team (27) πŸ”¬ Deep Specialist (21) 🧬 Topic Evolution πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (18) ❓ The Questioner (14) πŸš€ Conference Pioneer πŸ’Ž Century Club (196) ⚑ Prolific Year (16) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (50) πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter

Conferences

ACL (53) EMNLP (52) NAACL (31) EACL (16) IJCNLP (13) AAAI (7) ICLR (7) NIPS (5) COLING (3) CVPR (3) IJCAI (3) CONLL (2) ICML (2) ICCV (1) SEMEVAL (1)

Top co-authors

Patrick Xia (18) Aaron Steven White (17) Chris Callison-Burch (16) Tongfei Chen (16) Mark Dredze (15) Yunmo Chen (15) Jason Eisner (13) Daniel Khashabi (13) Elias Stengel-Eskin (13) Nathaniel Weir (12)

Research topics

Understanding (1) Statistics (1)

Keywords

large language model (20) semantic parsing (17) natural language inference (11) transfer learning (10) language model (9) named entity recognition (9) machine translation (8) coreference resolution (8) zero-shot learning (8) information extraction (8) information retrieval (8) natural language understanding (6) few-shot learning (6) textual entailment (6) neural network (6) semantic role labeling (6) in-context learning (6) semantic analysis (5) question answering (5) multimodal learning (5)

Papers

Language Models and Logic Programs for Trustworthy Tax Reasoning AAAI 2026
Bonsai: Interpretable Tree-Adaptive Grounded Reasoning AAAI 2026
Can LLMs Identify Tax Abuse? AAAI 2026
Jailbreak Distillation: Renewable Safety Benchmarking EMNLP 2025
Generative Adapter: Contextualizing Language Models in Parameters with A Single Forward Pass ICLR 2025
Is That Your Final Answer? Test-Time Scaling Improves Selective Question Answering ACL 2025
RATIONALYST: Pre-training Process-Supervision for Improving Reasoning ACL 2025
SELF-[IN]CORRECT: LLMs Struggle with Discriminating Self-Generated Responses AAAI 2025
From Models to Microtheories: Distilling a Model's Topical Knowledge for Grounded Question-Answering ICLR 2025
Promptriever: Instruction-Trained Retrievers Can Be Prompted Like Language Models ICLR 2025
Controllable Safety Alignment: Inference-Time Adaptation to Diverse Safety Requirements ICLR 2025
CLERC: A Dataset for U. S. Legal Case Retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Analysis Generation NAACL 2025
MICE for CATs: Model-Internal Confidence Estimation for Calibrating Agents with Tools NAACL 2025
FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow Instructions NAACL 2025
Verifiable by Design: Aligning Language Models to Quote from Pre-Training Data NAACL 2025
TurkingBench: A Challenge Benchmark for Web Agents NAACL 2025
DnDScore: Decontextualization and Decomposition for Factuality Verification in Long-Form Text Generation EMNLP 2025
Certified Mitigation of Worst-Case LLM Copyright Infringement EMNLP 2025
CLAIMCHECK: How Grounded are LLM Critiques of Scientific Papers? EMNLP 2025
Multi-Field Adaptive Retrieval ICLR 2025
Video-ColBERT: Contextualized Late Interaction for Text-to-Video Retrieval CVPR 2025
MultiVENT 2.0: A Massive Multilingual Benchmark for Event-Centric Video Retrieval CVPR 2025
WorldAPIs: The World Is Worth How Many APIs? A Thought Experiment AAAI 2025
Streaming Sequence Transduction through Dynamic Compression ACL 2025
ADAPTIVE IE: Investigating the Complementarity of Human-AI Collaboration to Adaptively Extract Information on-the-fly COLING 2025
Core: Robust Factual Precision with Informative Sub-Claim Identification ACL 2025
LLM Agents for Coordinating Multi-User Information Gathering ACL 2025
Zero and Few-shot Semantic Parsing with Ambiguous Inputs ICLR 2024
A Closer Look at Claim Decomposition NAACL 2024
Interpreting User Requests in the Context of Natural Language Standing Instructions NAACL 2024
Narrowing the Gap between Zero- and Few-shot Machine Translation by Matching Styles NAACL 2024
FAMuS: Frames Across Multiple Sources NAACL 2024
SemStamp: A Semantic Watermark with Paraphrastic Robustness for Text Generation NAACL 2024
Natural Language Decomposition and Interpretation of Complex Utterances IJCAI 2024
NELLIE: A Neuro-Symbolic Inference Engine for Grounded, Compositional, and Explainable Reasoning IJCAI 2024
RORA: Robust Free-Text Rationale Evaluation ACL 2024
Dodo: Dynamic Contextual Compression for Decoder-only LMs ACL 2024
LLMs in the Imaginarium: Tool Learning through Simulated Trial and Error ACL 2024
LLM-Rubric: A Multidimensional, Calibrated Approach to Automated Evaluation of Natural Language Texts ACL 2024
Do Androids Know They’re Only Dreaming of Electric Sheep? ACL 2024
Contrastive Preference Optimization: Pushing the Boundaries of LLM Performance in Machine Translation ICML 2024
MultiMUC: Multilingual Template Filling on MUC-4 EACL 2024
NevIR: Negation in Neural Information Retrieval EACL 2024
β€œAccording to . . . ”: Prompting Language Models Improves Quoting from Pre-Training Data EACL 2024
Localization vs. Semantics: Visual Representations in Unimodal and Multimodal Models EACL 2024
Defending Against Disinformation Attacks in Open-Domain Question Answering EACL 2024
When do Generative Query and Document Expansions Fail? A Comprehensive Study Across Methods, Retrievers, and Datasets EACL 2024
Gaps or Hallucinations? Scrutinizing Machine-Generated Legal Analysis for Fine-grained Text Evaluations EMNLP 2024
BLT: Can Large Language Models Handle Basic Legal Text? EMNLP 2024
Grounding Partially-Defined Events in Multimodal Data EMNLP 2024
TV-TREES: Multimodal Entailment Trees for Neuro-Symbolic Video Reasoning EMNLP 2024
Enhancing Systematic Decompositional Natural Language Inference Using Informal Logic EMNLP 2024
Ontologically Faithful Generation of Non-Player Character Dialogues EMNLP 2024
Language-to-Code Translation with a Single Labeled Example EMNLP 2024
Learning to Retrieve Iteratively for In-Context Learning EMNLP 2024
Did You Mean...? Confidence-based Trade-offs in Semantic Parsing EMNLP 2023
Connecting Symbolic Statutory Reasoning with Legal Information Extraction EMNLP 2023
InstructExcel: A Benchmark for Natural Language Instruction in Excel EMNLP 2023
A Unified View of Evaluation Metrics for Structured Prediction EMNLP 2023
When Do Decompositions Help for Machine Reading? EMNLP 2023
BenchCLAMP: A Benchmark for Evaluating Language Models on Syntactic and Semantic Parsing NIPS 2023
MultiVENT: Multilingual Videos of Events and Aligned Natural Text NIPS 2023
Iterative Document-level Information Extraction via Imitation Learning EACL 2023
The NLP Task Effectiveness of Long-Range Transformers EACL 2023
Super-CLEVR: A Virtual Benchmark To Diagnose Domain Robustness in Visual Reasoning CVPR 2023
Evaluating Paraphrastic Robustness in Textual Entailment Models ACL 2023
Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? Rephrasing and Analyzing Ambiguous Questions in VQA ACL 2023
Condensing Multilingual Knowledge with Lightweight Language-Specific Modules EMNLP 2023
Data Portraits: Recording Foundation Model Training Data NIPS 2023
Nugget: Neural Agglomerative Embeddings of Text ICML 2023
The Effect of Alignment Correction on Cross-Lingual Annotation Projection ACL 2023
Calibrating Zero-shot Cross-lingual (Un-)structured Predictions EMNLP 2022
When More Data Hurts: A Troubling Quirk in Developing Broad-Coverage Natural Language Understanding Systems EMNLP 2022
The Curious Case of Control EMNLP 2022
Adapting Coreference Resolution Models through Active Learning ACL 2022
Ambiguous Images With Human Judgments for Robust Visual Event Classification NIPS 2022
Online Neural Coreference Resolution with Rollback COLING 2022
Pretrained Models for Multilingual Federated Learning NAACL 2022
Automatic Document Selection for Efficient Encoder Pretraining EMNLP 2022
Visual Commonsense in Pretrained Unimodal and Multimodal Models NAACL 2022
Few-Shot Semantic Parsing with Language Models Trained on Code NAACL 2022
Improved Induction of Narrative Chains via Cross-Document Relations NAACL 2022
Craft an Iron Sword: Dynamically Generating Interactive Game Characters by Prompting Large Language Models Tuned on Code NAACL 2022
An Empirical Study on Finding Spans EMNLP 2022
Zero-shot Cross-lingual Transfer is Under-specified Optimization ACL 2022
Addressing Resource and Privacy Constraints in Semantic Parsing Through Data Augmentation ACL 2022
Guided K-best Selection for Semantic Parsing Annotation ACL 2022
BERT, mBERT, or BiBERT? A Study on Contextualized Embeddings for Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2021
Constrained Language Models Yield Few-Shot Semantic Parsers EMNLP 2021
Factoring Statutory Reasoning as Language Understanding Challenges IJCNLP 2021
InFillmore: Frame-Guided Language Generation with Bidirectional Context IJCNLP 2021
Human-Model Divergence in the Handling of Vagueness IJCNLP 2021
LOME: Large Ontology Multilingual Extraction EACL 2021
Gradual Fine-Tuning for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation EACL 2021
Calibrating Concepts and Operations: Towards Symbolic Reasoning on Real Images ICCV 2021
Factoring Statutory Reasoning as Language Understanding Challenges ACL 2021
InFillmore: Frame-Guided Language Generation with Bidirectional Context ACL 2021
Human-Model Divergence in the Handling of Vagueness ACL 2021
Everything Is All It Takes: A Multipronged Strategy for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Information Extraction EMNLP 2021
Moving on from OntoNotes: Coreference Resolution Model Transfer EMNLP 2021
Uncertain Natural Language Inference ACL 2020
Script Induction as Association Rule Mining ACL 2020
COD3S: Diverse Generation with Discrete Semantic Signatures EMNLP 2020
Guided Generation of Cause and Effect IJCAI 2020
Reading the Manual: Event Extraction as Definition Comprehension EMNLP 2020
Temporal Reasoning in Natural Language Inference EMNLP 2020
Incremental Neural Coreference Resolution in Constant Memory EMNLP 2020
Causal Inference of Script Knowledge EMNLP 2020
Which *BERT? A Survey Organizing Contextualized Encoders EMNLP 2020
Interactive Refinement of Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings EMNLP 2020
CopyNext: Explicit Span Copying and Alignment in Sequence to Sequence Models EMNLP 2020
Joint Modeling of Arguments for Event Understanding EMNLP 2020
Multi-Sentence Argument Linking ACL 2020
Universal Decompositional Semantic Parsing ACL 2020
Hierarchical Entity Typing via Multi-level Learning to Rank ACL 2020
A Discriminative Neural Model for Cross-Lingual Word Alignment EMNLP 2019
PARABANK: Monolingual Bitext Generation and Sentential Paraphrasing via Lexically-Constrained Neural Machine Translation AAAI 2019
Predicting the Argumenthood of English Prepositional Phrases AAAI 2019
AMR Parsing as Sequence-to-Graph Transduction ACL 2019
Don’t Take the Premise for Granted: Mitigating Artifacts in Natural Language Inference ACL 2019
Fine-Grained Temporal Relation Extraction ACL 2019
Can You Tell Me How to Get Past Sesame Street? Sentence-Level Pretraining Beyond Language Modeling ACL 2019
Learning to Rank for Plausible Plausibility ACL 2019
Large-Scale, Diverse, Paraphrastic Bitexts via Sampling and Clustering CONLL 2019
Broad-Coverage Semantic Parsing as Transduction EMNLP 2019
Bag-of-Words Transfer: Non-Contextual Techniques for Multi-Task Learning EMNLP 2019
What do you learn from context? Probing for sentence structure in contextualized word representations ICLR 2019
A Discriminative Neural Model for Cross-Lingual Word Alignment IJCNLP 2019
Broad-Coverage Semantic Parsing as Transduction IJCNLP 2019
Improved Lexically Constrained Decoding for Translation and Monolingual Rewriting NAACL 2019
Neural-Davidsonian Semantic Proto-role Labeling EMNLP 2018
Lexicosyntactic Inference in Neural Models EMNLP 2018
Multilingual Anchoring: Interactive Topic Modeling and Alignment Across Languages NIPS 2018
Collecting Diverse Natural Language Inference Problems for Sentence Representation Evaluation EMNLP 2018
On the Evaluation of Semantic Phenomena in Neural Machine Translation Using Natural Language Inference NAACL 2018
Gender Bias in Coreference Resolution NAACL 2018
Neural Models of Factuality NAACL 2018
Efficient Online Scalar Annotation with Bounded Support ACL 2018
Cross-lingual Decompositional Semantic Parsing EMNLP 2018
The Semantic Proto-Role Linking Model EACL 2017
MT/IE: Cross-lingual Open Information Extraction with Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Models EACL 2017
Pocket Knowledge Base Population ACL 2017
Efficient, Compositional, Order-sensitive n-gram Embeddings EACL 2017
Selective Decoding for Cross-lingual Open Information Extraction IJCNLP 2017
Inference is Everything: Recasting Semantic Resources into a Unified Evaluation Framework IJCNLP 2017
Grammatical Error Correction with Neural Reinforcement Learning IJCNLP 2017
CADET: Computer Assisted Discovery Extraction and Translation IJCNLP 2017
Bayesian Modeling of Lexical Resources for Low-Resource Settings ACL 2017
Error-repair Dependency Parsing for Ungrammatical Texts ACL 2017
Discriminative Information Retrieval for Question Answering Sentence Selection EACL 2017
Explaining and Generalizing Skip-Gram through Exponential Family Principal Component Analysis EACL 2017
Semantic Role Labeling EMNLP 2017
Universal Decompositional Semantics on Universal Dependencies EMNLP 2016
Fluency detection on communication networks EMNLP 2016
Adding Semantics to Data-Driven Paraphrasing ACL 2015
Topic Identification and Discovery on Text and Speech EMNLP 2015
Script Induction as Language Modeling EMNLP 2015
Adding Semantics to Data-Driven Paraphrasing IJCNLP 2015
Domain-Specific Paraphrase Extraction IJCNLP 2015
FrameNet+: Fast Paraphrastic Tripling of FrameNet IJCNLP 2015
PPDB 2.0: Better paraphrase ranking, fine-grained entailment relations, word embeddings, and style classification IJCNLP 2015
PPDB 2.0: Better paraphrase ranking, fine-grained entailment relations, word embeddings, and style classification ACL 2015
Predicate Argument Alignment using a Global Coherence Model NAACL 2015
Multiview LSA: Representation Learning via Generalized CCA NAACL 2015
A Concrete Chinese NLP Pipeline NAACL 2015
Social Media Predictive Analytics NAACL 2015
FrameNet+: Fast Paraphrastic Tripling of FrameNet ACL 2015
Domain-Specific Paraphrase Extraction ACL 2015
Particle Filter Rejuvenation and Latent Dirichlet Allocation ACL 2014
I’m a Belieber: Social Roles via Self-identification and Conceptual Attributes ACL 2014
Biases in Predicting the Human Language Model ACL 2014
Low-Resource Semantic Role Labeling ACL 2014
Inferring User Political Preferences from Streaming Communications ACL 2014
Information Extraction over Structured Data: Question Answering with Freebase ACL 2014
Exponential Reservoir Sampling for Streaming Language Models ACL 2014
Answer Extraction as Sequence Tagging with Tree Edit Distance NAACL 2013
Automatic Coupling of Answer Extraction and Information Retrieval ACL 2013
Broadly Improving User Classification via Communication-Based Name and Location Clustering on Twitter NAACL 2013
A Lightweight and High Performance Monolingual Word Aligner ACL 2013
Open Domain Targeted Sentiment EMNLP 2013
Semi-Markov Phrase-Based Monolingual Alignment EMNLP 2013
Using Conceptual Class Attributes to Characterize Social Media Users ACL 2013
PARMA: A Predicate Argument Aligner ACL 2013
PPDB: The Paraphrase Database NAACL 2013
Expectations of Word Sense in Parallel Corpora NAACL 2012
Monolingual Distributional Similarity for Text-to-Text Generation SEMEVAL 2012
Streaming Analysis of Discourse Participants EMNLP 2012
Streaming Analysis of Discourse Participants CONLL 2012
Toward Tree Substitution Grammars with Latent Annotations NAACL 2012
Space Efficiencies in Discourse Modeling via Conditional Random Sampling NAACL 2012
Shared Components Topic Models NAACL 2012
Efficient Online Locality Sensitive Hashing via Reservoir Counting ACL 2011
Learning Sentential Paraphrases from Bilingual Parallel Corpora for Text-to-Text Generation EMNLP 2011
Online Generation of Locality Sensitive Hash Signatures ACL 2010
Deriving Generalized Knowledge from Corpora Using WordNet Abstraction EACL 2009
Building a Semantic Lexicon of English Nouns via Bootstrapping NAACL 2009
Mining Parenthetical Translations from the Web by Word Alignment ACL 2008
Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Open-Domain Classes and Class Attributes from Web Documents and Query Logs ACL 2008
Class-Driven Attribute Extraction COLING 2008