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Spencer Poff

5 accepted papers

2025

SwiLTra-Bench: The Swiss Legal Translation Benchmark

ACL 2025long

In Switzerland legal translation is uniquely important due to the country’s four official languages and requirements for multilingual legal documentation. However, this process traditionally relies on professionals who must be both legal experts and skilled translators—creating bottlenecks and impac…

2024

Can Large Language Models Infer Causation from Correlation?

ICLR 2024poster

Causal inference is one of the hallmarks of human intelligence. While the field of CausalNLP has attracted much interest in the recent years, existing causal inference datasets in NLP primarily rely on discovering causality from empirical knowledge (e.g., commonsense knowledge). In this work, we pro…

2023

ROSCOE: A Suite of Metrics for Scoring Step-by-Step Reasoning

ICLR 2023top-25%

Large language models show improved downstream task performance when prompted to generate step-by-step reasoning to justify their final answers. These reasoning steps greatly improve model interpretability and verification, but objectively studying their correctness (independent of the final answer)…

2021

Not All Memories are Created Equal: Learning to Forget by Expiring

ICML 2021oral

Attention mechanisms have shown promising results in sequence modeling tasks that require long-term memory. Recent work investigated mechanisms to reduce the computational cost of preserving and storing memories. However, not all content in the past is equally important to remember. We propose Expir…

2021

Retrieval Augmentation Reduces Hallucination in Conversation

EMNLP 2021finding

Despite showing increasingly human-like conversational abilities, state-of-the-art dialogue models often suffer from factual incorrectness and hallucination of knowledge (Roller et al., 2020). In this work we explore the use of neural-retrieval-in-the-loop architectures - recently shown to be effect…