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António Branco

4 accepted papers

2025

Hands-off Image Editing: Language-guided Editing without any Task-specific Labeling, Masking or even Training

COLING 2025main

Instruction-guided image editing consists in taking an image and an instruction and delivering that image altered according to that instruction. State-of-the-art approaches to this task suffer from the typical scaling up and domain adaptation hindrances related to supervision as they eventually reso…

2021

Shortcutted Commonsense: Data Spuriousness in Deep Learning of Commonsense Reasoning

EMNLP 2021main

Commonsense is a quintessential human capacity that has been a core challenge to Artificial Intelligence since its inception. Impressive results in Natural Language Processing tasks, including in commonsense reasoning, have consistently been achieved with Transformer neural language models, even mat…

2020

Comparative Probing of Lexical Semantics Theories for Cognitive Plausibility and Technological Usefulness

COLING 2020main

Lexical semantics theories differ in advocating that the meaning of words is represented as an inference graph, a feature mapping or a cooccurrence vector, thus raising the question: is it the case that one of these approaches is superior to the others in representing lexical semantics appropriately…