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Charese Smiley

11 accepted papers

2025

A Variational Approach for Mitigating Entity Bias in Relation Extraction

ACL 2025short

Mitigating entity bias is a critical challenge in Relation Extraction (RE), where models often rely excessively on entities, resulting in poor generalization. This paper presents a novel approach to address this issue by adapting a Variational Information Bottleneck (VIB) framework. Our method compr…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

AfroCS-xs: Creating a Compact, High-Quality, Human-Validated Code-Switched Dataset for African Languages

ACL 2025long

Code-switching is prevalent in multilingual communities but lacks adequate high-quality data for model development, especially for African languages. To address this, we present AfroCS-xs, a small human-validated synthetic code-switched dataset for four African languages (Afrikaans, Sesotho, Yoruba,…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Calibrating LLM Confidence by Probing Perturbed Representation Stability

EMNLP 2025

Miscalibration in Large Language Models (LLMs) undermines their reliability, highlighting the need for accurate confidence estimation. We introduce CCPS (Calibrating LLM Confidence by Probing Perturbed Representation Stability), a novel method analyzing internal representational stability in LLMs. C

2025

Conservative Bias in Large Language Models: Measuring Relation Predictions

ACL 2025finding

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit pronounced conservative bias in relation extraction tasks, frequently defaulting to no_relation label when an appropriate option is unavailable. While this behavior helps prevent incorrect relation assignments, our analysis reveals that it also leads to significa…

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2025

FinNLI: Novel Dataset for Multi-Genre Financial Natural Language Inference Benchmarking

NAACL 2025findings

We introduce FinNLI, a benchmark dataset for Financial Natural Language Inference (FinNLI) across diverse financial texts like SEC Filings, Annual Reports, and Earnings Call transcripts. Our dataset framework ensures diverse premise-hypothesis pairs while minimizing spurious correlations. FinNLI com…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

The Impact of Domain-Specific Terminology on Machine Translation for Finance in European Languages

NAACL 2025long

Domain-specific machine translation (MT) poses significant challenges due to specialized terminology, particularly when translating across multiple languages with scarce resources. In this study, we present the first impact analysis of domain-specific terminology on multilingual MT for finance, focu…

2025

Translating Domain-Specific Terminology in Typologically-Diverse Languages: A Study in Tax and Financial Education

EMNLP 2025

Domain-specific multilingual terminology is essential for accurate machine translation (MT) and cross-lingual NLP applications. We present a gold-standard terminology resource for the tax and financial education domains, built from curated governmental publications and covering seven typologically d

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Large Language Models as Financial Data Annotators: A Study on Effectiveness and Efficiency

COLING 2024main

Collecting labeled datasets in finance is challenging due to scarcity of domain experts and higher cost of employing them. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in data annotation tasks on general domain datasets, their effectiveness on domain specific datasets…

Cited by 20SourcePDFScholar
2022

ConvFinQA: Exploring the Chain of Numerical Reasoning in Conversational Finance Question Answering

EMNLP 2022main

With the recent advance in large pre-trained language models, researchers have achieved record performances in NLP tasks that mostly focus on language pattern matching. The community is experiencing the shift of the challenge from how to model language to the imitation of complex reasoning abilities…

2022

When FLUE Meets FLANG: Benchmarks and Large Pretrained Language Model for Financial Domain

EMNLP 2022main

Pre-trained language models have shown impressive performance on a variety of tasks and domains. Previous research on financial language models usually employs a generic training scheme to train standard model architectures, without completely leveraging the richness of the financial data. We propos…

Cited by 132SourcePDFScholar
2021

FinQA: A Dataset of Numerical Reasoning over Financial Data

EMNLP 2021main

The sheer volume of financial statements makes it difficult for humans to access and analyze a business’s financials. Robust numerical reasoning likewise faces unique challenges in this domain. In this work, we focus on answering deep questions over financial data, aiming to automate the analysis of…