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Robert van Rooij

6 accepted papers

2025

Empowering LLMs with Logical Reasoning: A Comprehensive Survey

IJCAI 2025

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable successes on various tasks. However, recent studies have found that there are still significant challenges to the logical reasoning abilities of LLMs, which can be categorized into the following two aspects: (1) Logical question answering: LLMs o

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2025

Mitigating Spurious Correlations via Counterfactual Contrastive Learning

EMNLP 2025

Identifying causal relationships rather than spurious correlations between words and class labels plays a crucial role in building robust text classifiers. Previous studies proposed using causal effects to distinguish words that are causally related to the sentiment, and then building robust text cl

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2024

Are LLMs classical or nonmonotonic reasoners? Lessons from generics

ACL 2024short

Recent scholarship on reasoning in LLMs has supplied evidence of impressive performance and flexible adaptation to machine generated or human critique. Nonmonotonic reasoning, crucial to human cognition for navigating the real world, remains a challenging, yet understudied task. In this work, we stu…

2023

The language of prompting: What linguistic properties make a prompt successful?

EMNLP 2023long findings

The latest generation of LLMs can be prompted to achieve impressive zero-shot or few-shot performance in many NLP tasks. However, since performance is highly sensitive to the choice of prompts, considerable effort has been devoted to crowd-sourcing prompts or designing methods for prompt optimisatio…

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2021

Stepmothers are mean and academics are pretentious: What do pretrained language models learn about you?

EMNLP 2021main

In this paper, we investigate what types of stereotypical information are captured by pretrained language models. We present the first dataset comprising stereotypical attributes of a range of social groups and propose a method to elicit stereotypes encoded by pretrained language models in an unsupe…

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