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cs.CL2025

MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark

Kenneth Enevoldsen, Isaac Chung, Imene Kerboua +83

Text embeddings are typically evaluated on a limited set of tasks, which are constrained by language, domain, and task diversity. To address these limitations and provide a more co…

cs.CL2024

Aurora-M: Open Source Continual Pre-training for Multilingual Language and Code

Taishi Nakamura, Mayank Mishra, Simone Tedeschi +42

Pretrained language models are an integral part of AI applications, but their high computational cost for training limits accessibility. Initiatives such as Bloom and StarCoder aim…

cs.CL2025

Truth or Mirage? Towards End-to-End Factuality Evaluation with LLM-Oasis

Alessandro Scirè, Andrei Stefan Bejgu, Simone Tedeschi +3

After the introduction of Large Language Models (LLMs), there have been substantial improvements in the performance of Natural Language Generation (NLG) tasks, including Text Summa…

cs.CL2024

ALERT: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Assessing Large Language Models' Safety through Red Teaming

Simone Tedeschi, Felix Friedrich, Patrick Schramowski +4

When building Large Language Models (LLMs), it is paramount to bear safety in mind and protect them with guardrails. Indeed, LLMs should never generate content promoting or normali…

cs.CL2023

RED: a Filtered and Multilingual Relation Extraction Dataset

Pere-Lluís Huguet Cabot, Simone Tedeschi, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo +1

Relation Extraction (RE) is a task that identifies relationships between entities in a text, enabling the acquisition of relational facts and bridging the gap between natural langu…

cs.CL2023

What's the Meaning of Superhuman Performance in Today's NLU?

Simone Tedeschi, Johan Bos, Thierry Declerck +9

In the last five years, there has been a significant focus in Natural Language Processing (NLP) on developing larger Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) and introducing benchmarks su…

cs.CL2025

LLMs Lost in Translation: M-ALERT uncovers Cross-Linguistic Safety Inconsistencies

Felix Friedrich, Simone Tedeschi, Patrick Schramowski +5

Building safe Large Language Models (LLMs) across multiple languages is essential in ensuring both safe access and linguistic diversity. To this end, we conduct a large-scale, comp…

cs.CL2022

EUREKA: EUphemism Recognition Enhanced through Knn-based methods and Augmentation

Sedrick Scott Keh, Rohit K. Bharadwaj, Emmy Liu +3

We introduce EUREKA, an ensemble-based approach for performing automatic euphemism detection. We (1) identify and correct potentially mislabelled rows in the dataset, (2) curate an…

cs.CL2022

Focusing on Context is NICE: Improving Overshadowed Entity Disambiguation

Vera Provatorova, Simone Tedeschi, Svitlana Vakulenko +2

Entity disambiguation (ED) is the task of mapping an ambiguous entity mention to the corresponding entry in a structured knowledge base. Previous research showed that entity oversh…