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Farhad Moghimifar

4 accepted papers

2025

Proverbs Run in Pairs: Evaluating Proverb Translation Capability of Large Language Model

ACL 2025finding

Despite achieving remarkable performance, machine translation (MT) research remains underexplored in terms of translating cultural elements in languages, such as idioms, proverbs, and colloquial expressions. This paper investigates the capability of state-of-the-art neural machine translation (NMT)…

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2023

NormMark: A Weakly Supervised Markov Model for Socio-cultural Norm Discovery

ACL 2023findings

Norms, which are culturally accepted guidelines for behaviours, can be integrated into conversational models to generate utterances that are appropriate for the socio-cultural context. Existing methods for norm recognition tend to focus only on surface-level features of dialogues and do not take int…

2021

Neural-Symbolic Commonsense Reasoner with Relation Predictors

ACL 2021short

Commonsense reasoning aims to incorporate sets of commonsense facts, retrieved from Commonsense Knowledge Graphs (CKG), to draw conclusion about ordinary situations. The dynamic nature of commonsense knowledge postulates models capable of performing multi-hop reasoning over new situations. This feat…

2020

CosMo: Conditional Seq2Seq-based Mixture Model for Zero-Shot Commonsense Question Answering

COLING 2020main

Commonsense reasoning refers to the ability of evaluating a social situation and acting accordingly. Identification of the implicit causes and effects of a social context is the driving capability which can enable machines to perform commonsense reasoning. The dynamic world of social interactions re…