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cs.CL2026

PluraMath: Extending Mathematical Reasoning Evaluation Beyond High-Resource Languages

Daryna Dementieva, Nikolay Babakov, Kathy Hämmerl +14

Mathematical reasoning has become a central task for evaluating and tuning reasoning Large Language Models (LLMs), yet existing benchmarks remain heavily biased toward high-resourc…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating Text Style Transfer: A Nine-Language Benchmark for Text Detoxification

Vitaly Protasov, Nikolay Babakov, Daryna Dementieva +1

Despite notable advances in large language models (LLMs), reliable evaluation of text generation tasks such as text style transfer (TST) remains an open challenge. Existing researc…

cs.CL2025

EmoBench-UA: A Benchmark Dataset for Emotion Detection in Ukrainian

Daryna Dementieva, Nikolay Babakov, Alexander Fraser

While Ukrainian NLP has seen progress in many texts processing tasks, emotion classification remains an underexplored area with no publicly available benchmark to date. In this wor…

cs.CL2025

BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin +45

People worldwide use language in subtle and complex ways to express emotions. Although emotion recognition--an umbrella term for several NLP tasks--impacts various applications wit…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Multilingual and Explainable Text Detoxification with Parallel Corpora

Daryna Dementieva, Nikolay Babakov, Amit Ronen +11

Even with various regulations in place across countries and social media platforms (Government of India, 2021; European Parliament and Council of the European Union, 2022, digital…

cs.AI2024

Explaining Bayesian Networks in Natural Language using Factor Arguments. Evaluation in the medical domain

Jaime Sevilla, Nikolay Babakov, Ehud Reiter +1

In this paper, we propose a model for building natural language explanations for Bayesian Network Reasoning in terms of factor arguments, which are argumentation graphs of flowing…

cs.CL2024

Scalability of Bayesian Network Structure Elicitation with Large Language Models: a Novel Methodology and Comparative Analysis

Nikolay Babakov, Ehud Reiter, Alberto Bugarin

In this work, we propose a novel method for Bayesian Networks (BNs) structure elicitation that is based on the initialization of several LLMs with different experiences, independen…

cs.CL2024

Toxicity Classification in Ukrainian

Daryna Dementieva, Valeriia Khylenko, Nikolay Babakov +1

The task of toxicity detection is still a relevant task, especially in the context of safe and fair LMs development. Nevertheless, labeled binary toxicity classification corpora ar…

cs.CL2024

MultiParaDetox: Extending Text Detoxification with Parallel Data to New Languages

Daryna Dementieva, Nikolay Babakov, Alexander Panchenko

Text detoxification is a textual style transfer (TST) task where a text is paraphrased from a toxic surface form, e.g. featuring rude words, to the neutral register. Recently, text…

cs.CL2023

Don't lose the message while paraphrasing: A study on content preserving style transfer

Nikolay Babakov, David Dale, Ilya Gusev +2

Text style transfer techniques are gaining popularity in natural language processing allowing paraphrasing text in the required form: from toxic to neural, from formal to informal,…

cs.CL2022

Error syntax aware augmentation of feedback comment generation dataset

Nikolay Babakov, Maria Lysyuk, Alexander Shvets +2

This paper presents a solution to the GenChal 2022 shared task dedicated to feedback comment generation for writing learning. In terms of this task given a text with an error and a…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Studying the role of named entities for content preservation in text style transfer

Nikolay Babakov, David Dale, Varvara Logacheva +2

Text style transfer techniques are gaining popularity in Natural Language Processing, finding various applications such as text detoxification, sentiment, or formality transfer. Ho…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Beyond Plain Toxic: Detection of Inappropriate Statements on Flammable Topics for the Russian Language

Nikolay Babakov, Varvara Logacheva, Alexander Panchenko

Toxicity on the Internet, such as hate speech, offenses towards particular users or groups of people, or the use of obscene words, is an acknowledged problem. However, there also e…

cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

Detecting Inappropriate Messages on Sensitive Topics that Could Harm a Company's Reputation

Nikolay Babakov, Varvara Logacheva, Olga Kozlova +2

Not all topics are equally "flammable" in terms of toxicity: a calm discussion of turtles or fishing less often fuels inappropriate toxic dialogues than a discussion of politics or…