4 papers
ClimateCause: Complex and Implicit Causal Structures in Climate Reports
Liesbeth Allein, Nataly Pineda-Castañeda, Andrea Rocci +1
Understanding climate change requires reasoning over complex causal networks. Yet, existing causal discovery datasets predominantly capture explicit, direct causal relations. We in…
Assessing LLM Reasoning Through Implicit Causal Chain Discovery in Climate Discourse
Liesbeth Allein, Nataly Pineda-Castañeda, Andrea Rocci +1
How does a cause lead to an effect, and which intermediate causal steps explain their connection? This work scrutinizes the mechanistic causal reasoning capabilities of large langu…
Mimicking How Humans Interpret Out-of-Context Sentences Through Controlled Toxicity Decoding
Maria Mihaela Trusca, Liesbeth Allein
Interpretations of a single sentence can vary, particularly when its context is lost. This paper aims to simulate how readers perceive content with varying toxicity levels by gener…
Checkworthiness in Automatic Claim Detection Models: Definitions and Analysis of Datasets
Liesbeth Allein, Marie-Francine Moens
Public, professional and academic interest in automated fact-checking has drastically increased over the past decade, with many aiming to automate one of the first steps in a fact-…