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most citedBeyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

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cs.CL2025

Help Me Write a Story: Evaluating LLMs' Ability to Generate Writing Feedback

Hannah Rashkin, Elizabeth Clark, Fantine Huot +1

Can LLMs provide support to creative writers by giving meaningful writing feedback? In this paper, we explore the challenges and limitations of model-generated writing feedback by…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

Evaluating LLMs for Targeted Concept Simplification for Domain-Specific Texts

Sumit Asthana, Hannah Rashkin, Elizabeth Clark +2

One useful application of NLP models is to support people in reading complex text from unfamiliar domains (e.g., scientific articles). Simplifying the entire text makes it understa…

cs.CL2024

DoubleDipper: Improving Long-Context LLMs via Context Recycling

Arie Cattan, Alon Jacovi, Alex Fabrikant +8

Despite recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), their performance on tasks involving long contexts remains sub-optimal. In this work, we propose DoubleDipper, a novel…

cs.CL2024

Investigating Content Planning for Navigating Trade-offs in Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue

Kushal Chawla, Hannah Rashkin, Gaurav Singh Tomar +1

Knowledge-grounded dialogue generation is a challenging task because it requires satisfying two fundamental yet often competing constraints: being responsive in a manner that is sp…

cs.CL2022★ 565 cited

Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

Aarohi Srivastava, Abhinav Rastogi, Abhishek Rao +448

Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new capabil…

cs.CL2021★ 34 cited

Measuring Attribution in Natural Language Generation Models

Hannah Rashkin, Vitaly Nikolaev, Matthew Lamm +7

With recent improvements in natural language generation (NLG) models for various applications, it has become imperative to have the means to identify and evaluate whether NLG outpu…

cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

CONQRR: Conversational Query Rewriting for Retrieval with Reinforcement Learning

Zeqiu Wu, Yi Luan, Hannah Rashkin +4

Compared to standard retrieval tasks, passage retrieval for conversational question answering (CQA) poses new challenges in understanding the current user question, as each questio…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Increasing Faithfulness in Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue with Controllable Features

Hannah Rashkin, David Reitter, Gaurav Singh Tomar +1

Knowledge-grounded dialogue systems are intended to convey information that is based on evidence provided in a given source text. We discuss the challenges of training a generative…

cs.CL2021★ 5 cited

Evaluating Attribution in Dialogue Systems: The BEGIN Benchmark

Nouha Dziri, Hannah Rashkin, Tal Linzen +1

Knowledge-grounded dialogue systems powered by large language models often generate responses that, while fluent, are not attributable to a relevant source of information. Progress…

cs.CL2020★ 3 cited

PowerTransformer: Unsupervised Controllable Revision for Biased Language Correction

Xinyao Ma, Maarten Sap, Hannah Rashkin +1

Unconscious biases continue to be prevalent in modern text and media, calling for algorithms that can assist writers with bias correction. For example, a female character in a stor…

cs.CL2020★ 44 cited

PlotMachines: Outline-Conditioned Generation with Dynamic Plot State Tracking

Hannah Rashkin, Asli Celikyilmaz, Yejin Choi +1

We propose the task of outline-conditioned story generation: given an outline as a set of phrases that describe key characters and events to appear in a story, the task is to gener…

cs.CL2019★ 33 cited

Abductive Commonsense Reasoning

Chandra Bhagavatula, Ronan Le Bras, Chaitanya Malaviya +6

Abductive reasoning is inference to the most plausible explanation. For example, if Jenny finds her house in a mess when she returns from work, and remembers that she left a window…

cs.CL2019★ 24 cited

COMET: Commonsense Transformers for Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction

Antoine Bosselut, Hannah Rashkin, Maarten Sap +3

We present the first comprehensive study on automatic knowledge base construction for two prevalent commonsense knowledge graphs: ATOMIC (Sap et al., 2019) and ConceptNet (Speer et…

cs.CL2019★ 90 cited

Defending Against Neural Fake News

Rowan Zellers, Ari Holtzman, Hannah Rashkin +4

Recent progress in natural language generation has raised dual-use concerns. While applications like summarization and translation are positive, the underlying technology also migh…

cs.CL2018★ 6 cited

Towards Empathetic Open-domain Conversation Models: a New Benchmark and Dataset

Hannah Rashkin, Eric Michael Smith, Margaret Li +1

One challenge for dialogue agents is recognizing feelings in the conversation partner and replying accordingly, a key communicative skill. While it is straightforward for humans to…

cs.CL2018

Modeling Naive Psychology of Characters in Simple Commonsense Stories

Hannah Rashkin, Antoine Bosselut, Maarten Sap +2

Understanding a narrative requires reading between the lines and reasoning about the unspoken but obvious implications about events and people's mental states - a capability that i…

cs.CL2018

Event2Mind: Commonsense Inference on Events, Intents, and Reactions

Hannah Rashkin, Maarten Sap, Emily Allaway +2

We investigate a new commonsense inference task: given an event described in a short free-form text ("X drinks coffee in the morning"), a system reasons about the likely intents ("…

cs.CL2015

Connotation Frames: A Data-Driven Investigation

Hannah Rashkin, Sameer Singh, Yejin Choi

Through a particular choice of a predicate (e.g., "x violated y"), a writer can subtly connote a range of implied sentiments and presupposed facts about the entities x and y: (1) w…