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Robert Vacareanu

8 accepted papers

2026

Online Rubrics Elicitation from Pairwise Comparisons

ICML 2026poster

Rubrics provide a flexible way to train LLMs on open-ended long-form answers where verifiable rewards are not applicable and human preferences provide coarse signals. Prior work shows that reinforcement learning with rubric-based rewards leads to consistent gains in LLM post-training. Most existing …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

MorphNLI: A Stepwise Approach to Natural Language Inference Using Text Morphing

NAACL 2025findings

We introduce MorphNLI, a modular step-by-step approach to natural language inference (NLI). When classifying the premise-hypothesis pairs into entailment, contradiction, neutral, we use a language model to generate the necessary edits to incrementally transform (i.e., morph) the premise into the hyp…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Active Learning Design Choices for NER with Transformers

COLING 2024main

We explore multiple important choices that have not been analyzed in conjunction regarding active learning for token classification using transformer networks. These choices are: (i) how to select what to annotate, (ii) decide whether to annotate entire sentences or smaller sentence fragments, (iii)…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

Best of Both Worlds: A Pliable and Generalizable Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Relation Classification

NAACL 2024findings

This paper introduces a novel neuro-symbolic architecture for relation classification (RC) that combines rule-based methods with contemporary deep learning techniques. This approach capitalizes on the strengths of both paradigms: the adaptability of rule-based systems and the generalization power of…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

Towards Realistic Few-Shot Relation Extraction: A New Meta Dataset and Evaluation

COLING 2024main

We introduce a meta dataset for few-shot relation extraction, which includes two datasets derived from existing supervised relation extraction datasets – NYT29 (Takanobu et al., 2019; Nayak and Ng, 2020) and WIKI- DATA (Sorokin and Gurevych, 2017) – as well as a few-shot form of the TACRED dataset (…

2024

When and Where Did it Happen? An Encoder-Decoder Model to Identify Scenario Context

EMNLP 2024finding

We introduce a neural architecture finetuned for the task of scenario context generation: The relevant location and time of an event or entity mentioned in text. Contextualizing information extraction helps to scope the validity of automated finings when aggregating them as knowledge graphs. Our app…

2022

A Human-machine Interface for Few-shot Rule Synthesis for Information Extraction

NAACL 2022system demonstrations

We propose a system that assists a user in constructing transparent information extraction models, consisting of patterns (or rules) written in a declarative language, through program synthesis. Users of our system can specify their requirements through the use of examples,which are collected with a…

2020

An Unsupervised Method for Learning Representations of Multi-word Expressions for Semantic Classification

COLING 2020main

This paper explores an unsupervised approach to learning a compositional representation function for multi-word expressions (MWEs), and evaluates it on the Tratz dataset, which associates two-word expressions with the semantic relation between the compound constituents (e.g. the label employer is as…