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Oana Balalau

6 accepted papers

2025

Benchmarking the Benchmarks: Reproducing Climate-Related NLP Tasks

ACL 2025finding

Significant efforts have been made in the NLP community to facilitate the automatic analysis of climate-related corpora by tasks such as climate-related topic detection, climate risk classification, question answering over climate topics, and many more. In this work, we perform a reproducibility stu…

2025

Navigating the Political Compass: Evaluating Multilingual LLMs across Languages and Nationalities

ACL 2025finding

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become ubiquitous in today’s technological landscape, boasting a plethora of applications, and even endangering human jobs in complex and creative fields. One such field is journalism: LLMs are being used for summarization, generation and even fact-checking. However…

2025

Structured Discourse Representation for Factual Consistency Verification

ACL 2025finding

Analysing the differences in how events are represented across texts, or verifying whether the language model generations hallucinate, requires the ability to systematically compare their content. To support such comparison, structured representation that captures fine-grained information plays a vi…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

The Search for Conflicts of Interest: Open Information Extraction in Scientific Publications

EMNLP 2025

A conflict of interest (COI) appears when a person or a company has two or more interests that may directly conflict. This happens, for instance, when a scientist whose research is funded by a company audits the same company. For transparency and to avoid undue influence, public repositories of rela

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2023

FactSpotter: Evaluating the Factual Faithfulness of Graph-to-Text Generation

EMNLP 2023long findings

Graph-to-text (G2T) generation takes a graph as input and aims to generate a fluent and faith- ful textual representation of the information in the graph. The task has many applications, such as dialogue generation and question an- swering. In this work, we investigate to what extent the G2T generat…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2021

Breaking Down the Invisible Wall of Informal Fallacies in Online Discussions

ACL 2021long

People debate on a variety of topics on online platforms such as Reddit, or Facebook. Debates can be lengthy, with users exchanging a wealth of information and opinions. However, conversations do not always go smoothly, and users sometimes engage in unsound argumentation techniques to prove a claim.…