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9 papers

cs.CL2026

Disagreeing Rationales: Rethinking Classification and Explainability Evaluation in Hate Speech Detection

Benedetta Muscato, Beiduo Chen, Gizem Gezici +2

Human disagreement is ubiquitous and well-known in labeling. However, variation in explanations, captured through token-level human rationales, remains far less explored. At the sa…

cs.CL2026

Reasoning that Travels: Dissecting How Chain-of-Thought Transfers Across Models

Xinyuan Cheng, Beiduo Chen, Philipp Mondorf +1

Large reasoning models (LRMs) often generate extensive chain-of-thought (CoT) traces before producing a final answer. As explicit textual artifacts, these traces can be passed to o…

cs.CL2026

Human Label Variation as Stable Signal: Learning Annotator-Specific Explanation Behavior via Cross-Annotator Preference Optimization

Beiduo Chen, Pingjun Hong, Ziyun Zhang +3

Free-text explanations extend human label variation (HLV) beyond label disagreement by revealing the reasoning and preferences behind annotators' decisions. We study whether large…

cs.CL2026

Decoupling the Effect of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: A Human Label Variation Perspective

Beiduo Chen, Tiancheng Hu, Caiqi Zhang +3

Reasoning-tuned LLMs utilizing long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) excel at single-answer tasks, yet their ability to model Human Label Variation--which requires capturing probabilistic am…

cs.CL2026

Agree, Disagree, Explain: Decomposing Human Label Variation in NLI through the Lens of Explanations

Pingjun Hong, Beiduo Chen, Siyao Peng +3

Natural Language Inference (NLI) datasets often exhibit human label variation. To better understand these variations, explanation-based approaches analyze the underlying reasoning…

cs.CL2025

LiTEx: A Linguistic Taxonomy of Explanations for Understanding Within-Label Variation in Natural Language Inference

Pingjun Hong, Beiduo Chen, Siyao Peng +2

There is increasing evidence of Human Label Variation (HLV) in Natural Language Inference (NLI), where annotators assign different labels to the same premise-hypothesis pair. Howev…