Publications

2025

1. 

   INCLUDE: Evaluating Multilingual Language Understanding with Regional Knowledge

   Angelika Romanou, Negar Foroutan, Anna Sotnikova, Sree Harsha Nelaturu, Shivalika Singh, Rishabh Maheshwary, Micol Altomare, Zeming Chen, Mohamed A Haggag, A Snegha, and  others

   In The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, Apr 2025

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2. 

   A Logical Fallacy-Informed Framework for Argument Generation

   Luca Mouchel, Debjit Paul, Shaobo Cui, Robert West, Antoine Bosselut, and Boi Faltings

   In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), Apr 2025

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{mouchel-etal-2025-logical,
     title = {A Logical Fallacy-Informed Framework for Argument Generation},
     author = {Mouchel, Luca and Paul, Debjit and Cui, Shaobo and West, Robert and Bosselut, Antoine and Faltings, Boi},
     editor = {Chiruzzo, Luis and Ritter, Alan and Wang, Lu},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
     month = apr,
     year = {2025},
     address = {Albuquerque, New Mexico},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.374/},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-long.374},
     pages = {7296--7314},
     isbn = {979-8-89176-189-6},
   }

2024

1. 

   Entity Insertion in Multilingual Linked Corpora: The Case of Wikipedia

   Tomás Feith, Akhil Arora, Martin Gerlach, Debjit Paul, and Robert West

   In EMNLP: 2024, Nov 2024

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{feith-etal-2024-entity,
     title = {Entity Insertion in Multilingual Linked Corpora: The Case of {W}ikipedia},
     author = {Feith, Tom{\'a}s and Arora, Akhil and Gerlach, Martin and Paul, Debjit and West, Robert},
     editor = {Al-Onaizan, Yaser and Bansal, Mohit and Chen, Yun-Nung},
     booktitle = {EMNLP: 2024},
     month = nov,
     year = {2024},
     address = {Miami, Florida, USA},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.1268/},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.1268},
     pages = {22796--22819},
   }

2. 

   Making Reasoning Matter: Measuring and Improving Faithfulness of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

   Debjit Paul, Robert West, Antoine Bosselut, and Boi Faltings

   In Findings of EMNLP: 2024, Nov 2024

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{paul2024reasoning,
     title = {Making Reasoning Matter: Measuring and Improving Faithfulness of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning},
     author = {Paul, Debjit and West, Robert and Bosselut, Antoine and Faltings, Boi},
     month = nov,
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     booktitle = {Findings of EMNLP: 2024},
     url = {https://debjitpaul.github.io/reasoningmatter},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.13950},
   }

3. 

   δ-CAUSAL: Exploring Defeasibility in Causal Reasoning

   Shaobo Cui, Lazar Milikic, Yiyang Feng, Mete Ismayilzada, Debjit Paul, Antoine Bosselut, and Boi Faltings

   In Findings of ACL: 2024, Aug 2024

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{Cui2024deltaCAUSALED,
     title = {δ-CAUSAL: Exploring Defeasibility in Causal Reasoning},
     author = {Cui, Shaobo and Milikic, Lazar and Feng, Yiyang and Ismayilzada, Mete and Paul, Debjit and Bosselut, Antoine and Faltings, Boi},
     booktitle = {Findings of ACL: 2024},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     month = aug,
     year = {2024},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.03183},
   }

4. 

   REFINER: Reasoning Feedback on Intermediate Representations

   Debjit Paul, Mete Ismayilzada, Maxime Peyrard, Beatriz Borges, Antoine Bosselut, Robert West, and Boi Faltings

   In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Mar 2024

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{Paul2023REFINERRF,
     title = {REFINER: Reasoning Feedback on Intermediate Representations},
     author = {Paul, Debjit and Ismayilzada, Mete and Peyrard, Maxime and Borges, Beatriz and Bosselut, Antoine and West, Robert and Faltings, Boi},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
     month = mar,
     year = {2024},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-long.67},
   }

2023

1. 

   CRAB: Assessing the Strength of Causal Relationships Between Real-world Events

   Angelika Romanou, Syrielle Montariol*, Debjit Paul*, Léo Laugier, Karl Aberer, and Antoine Bosselut

   In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Dec 2023

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{angelika2023crab,
     title = {CRAB: Assessing the Strength of Causal Relationships Between Real-world Events},
     author = {Romanou, Angelika and Montariol*, Syrielle and Paul*, Debjit and Laugier, Léo and Aberer, Karl and Bosselut, Antoine},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
     month = dec,
     year = {2023},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.940},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.940},
     pages = {15198--15216},
   }

2. 

   CRoW: Benchmarking Commonsense Reasoning in Real-World Tasks

   Mete Ismayilzada, Debjit Paul, Syrielle Montariol, Mor Geva, and Antoine Bosselut

   In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Dec 2023

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{ismayilzada2023crow,
     title = {CRoW: Benchmarking Commonsense Reasoning in Real-World Tasks},
     author = {Ismayilzada, Mete and Paul, Debjit and Montariol, Syrielle and Geva, Mor and Bosselut, Antoine},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
     month = dec,
     year = {2023},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.607},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.607},
     pages = {9785--9821},
   }

3. 

   Flows: Building Blocks of Reasoning and Collaborating AI

   Martin Josifoski, Lars Klein, Maxime Peyrard, Yifei Li, Saibo Geng, Julian Paul Schnitzler, Yuxing Yao, Jiheng Wei, Debjit Paul, and Robert West

   Aug 2023

   Bib PDF

   @misc{josiforski2023-flows,
     title = {Flows: Building Blocks of Reasoning and Collaborating AI},
     author = {Josifoski, Martin and Klein, Lars and Peyrard, Maxime and Li, Yifei and Geng, Saibo and Schnitzler, Julian Paul and Yao, Yuxing and Wei, Jiheng and Paul, Debjit and West, Robert},
     eprint = {2308.01285},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.01285},
     month = aug,
     year = {2023},
   }

4. 

   Language Model Decoding as Likelihood–Utility Alignment

   Martin Josifoski, Maxime Peyrard, Frano Rajič, Jiheng Wei, Debjit Paul, Valentin Hartmann, Barun Patra, Vishrav Chaudhary, Emre Kiciman, Robert West, and Boi Faltings

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023, May 2023

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{josifoski-etal-2023-language,
     title = {Language Model Decoding as Likelihood{--}Utility Alignment},
     author = {Josifoski, Martin and Peyrard, Maxime and Raji{\v{c}}, Frano and Wei, Jiheng and Paul, Debjit and Hartmann, Valentin and Patra, Barun and Chaudhary, Vishrav and Kiciman, Emre and West, Robert and Faltings, Boi},
     booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023},
     month = may,
     year = {2023},
     address = {Dubrovnik, Croatia},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-eacl.107},
     pages = {1455--1470},
   }

2022

1. 

   Class Incremental Learning for Intent Classification with Limited or No Old Data

   Debjit Paul, Daniil Sorokin, and Judith Gaspers

   In Proceedings of the The First Workshop on Ever Evolving NLP (EvoNLP), Dec 2022

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{paul-etal-2022-class,
     title = {Class Incremental Learning for Intent Classification with Limited or No Old Data},
     author = {Paul, Debjit and Sorokin, Daniil and Gaspers, Judith},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the The First Workshop on Ever Evolving NLP (EvoNLP)},
     month = dec,
     year = {2022},
     address = {Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.evonlp-1.4},
     pages = {16--25},
   }

2021

1. 

   COINS: Dynamically Generating COntextualized Inference Rules for Narrative Story Completion

   Debjit Paul, and Anette Frank

   In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), Aug 2021

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{paul-frank-2021-coins,
     title = {{COINS}: Dynamically Generating {CO}ntextualized Inference Rules for Narrative Story Completion},
     author = {Paul, Debjit and Frank, Anette},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
     month = aug,
     year = {2021},
     address = {Online},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.395},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.395},
     pages = {5086--5099},
   }

2. 

   CO-NNECT: A Framework for Revealing Commonsense Knowledge Paths as Explicitations of Implicit Knowledge in Texts

   Maria Becker, Katharina Korfhage, Debjit Paul, and Anette Frank

   In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), Jun 2021

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{becker-etal-2021-co,
     title = {{CO}-{NNECT}: A Framework for Revealing Commonsense Knowledge Paths as Explicitations of Implicit Knowledge in Texts},
     author = {Becker, Maria and Korfhage, Katharina and Paul, Debjit and Frank, Anette},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS)},
     month = jun,
     year = {2021},
     address = {Groningen, The Netherlands (online)},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.3},
     pages = {21--32},
   }

3. 

   Generating Hypothetical Events for Abductive Inference

   Debjit Paul, and Anette Frank

   In Proceedings of *SEM 2021: The Tenth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Aug 2021

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{paul-frank-2021-generating,
     title = {Generating Hypothetical Events for Abductive Inference},
     author = {Paul, Debjit and Frank, Anette},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of *SEM 2021: The Tenth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics},
     month = aug,
     year = {2021},
     address = {Online},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2021.starsem-1.6},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2021.starsem-1.6},
     pages = {67--77},
   }

2020

1. 

   Social Commonsense Reasoning with Multi-Head Knowledge Attention

   Debjit Paul, and Anette Frank

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, Nov 2020

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{paul-frank-2020-social,
     title = {Social Commonsense Reasoning with Multi-Head Knowledge Attention},
     author = {Paul, Debjit and Frank, Anette},
     booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020},
     month = nov,
     year = {2020},
     address = {Online},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.267},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.267},
     pages = {2969--2980},
   }

2019

1. 

   Handling Noisy Labels for Robustly Learning from Self-Training Data for Low-Resource Sequence Labeling

   Debjit Paul, Mittul Singh, Michael A. Hedderich, and Dietrich Klakow

   In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, Jun 2019

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{paul-etal-2019-handling,
     title = {Handling Noisy Labels for Robustly Learning from Self-Training Data for Low-Resource Sequence Labeling},
     author = {Paul, Debjit and Singh, Mittul and Hedderich, Michael A. and Klakow, Dietrich},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North {A}merican Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop},
     month = jun,
     year = {2019},
     address = {Minneapolis, Minnesota},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/N19-3005},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/N19-3005},
     pages = {29--34},
   }

2. 

   Ranking and Selecting Multi-Hop Knowledge Paths to Better Predict Human Needs

   Debjit Paul, and Anette Frank

   In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), Jun 2019

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{paul-frank-2019-ranking,
     title = {Ranking and Selecting Multi-Hop Knowledge Paths to Better Predict Human Needs},
     author = {Paul, Debjit and Frank, Anette},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North {A}merican Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)},
     month = jun,
     year = {2019},
     address = {Minneapolis, Minnesota},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/N19-1368},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/N19-1368},
     pages = {3671--3681},
   }