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Dustin Wright

7 accepted papers

2025

Unstructured Evidence Attribution for Long Context Query Focused Summarization

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) are capable of generating coherent summaries from very long contexts given a user query, and extracting and citing evidence spans helps improve the trustworthiness of these summaries. Whereas previous work has focused on evidence citation with fixed levels of granularity

2024

BMRS: Bayesian Model Reduction for Structured Pruning

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

Modern neural networks are often massively overparameterized leading to high compute costs during training and at inference. One effective method to improve both the compute and energy efficiency of neural networks while maintaining good performance is structured pruning, where full network structur…

2024

LLM Tropes: Revealing Fine-Grained Values and Opinions in Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024finding

Uncovering latent values and opinions embedded in large language models (LLMs) can help identify biases and mitigate potential harm. Recently, this has been approached by prompting LLMs with survey questions and quantifying the stances in the outputs towards morally and politically charged statement…

2024

Understanding Fine-grained Distortions in Reports of Scientific Findings

ACL 2024findings

Distorted science communication harms individuals and society as it can lead to unhealthy behavior change and decrease trust in scientific institutions. Given the rapidly increasing volume of science communication in recent years, a fine-grained understanding of how findings from scientific publicat…

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2022

Generating Scientific Claims for Zero-Shot Scientific Fact Checking

ACL 2022long

Automated scientific fact checking is difficult due to the complexity of scientific language and a lack of significant amounts of training data, as annotation requires domain expertise. To address this challenge, we propose scientific claim generation, the task of generating one or more atomic and v…

2022

Modeling Information Change in Science Communication with Semantically Matched Paraphrases

EMNLP 2022main

Whether the media faithfully communicate scientific information has long been a core issue to the science community. Automatically identifying paraphrased scientific findings could enable large-scale tracking and analysis of information changes in the science communication process, but this requires…

2021

Semi-Supervised Exaggeration Detection of Health Science Press Releases

EMNLP 2021main

Public trust in science depends on honest and factual communication of scientific papers. However, recent studies have demonstrated a tendency of news media to misrepresent scientific papers by exaggerating their findings. Given this, we present a formalization of and study into the problem of exagg…