Paula Buttery

74 papers A* 2A 2B 13Misc 2Journal 30Unranked 25
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 — conf
Beyond Names: How Grammatical Gender Markers Bias LLM-based Educational Recommendations.
EACL (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Luca Benedetto, Antonia Donvito, Alberto Lucchetti, Andrea Cappelli, Paula Buttery
2026 J jnl
Bias Dynamics in BabyLMs: Towards a Compute-Efficient Sandbox for Democratising Pre-Training Debiasing.
CoRR
Filip Trhlik, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery
2026 — conf
PictureStories: Predicting the Task Adherence of Language Learner Answers to a Picture Story-Based Writing Task.
EACL (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Marie Bexte, Andrew Caines, Diane Nicholls, Paula Buttery, Torsten Zesch
2025 J jnl
Assessing how accurately large language models encode and apply the common European framework of reference for languages.
Comput. Educ. Artif. Intell.
Luca Benedetto, Gabrielle Gaudeau, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery
2025 J jnl
BLiSS 1.0: Evaluating Bilingual Learner Competence in Second Language Small Language Models.
CoRR
Yuan Gao, Suchir Salhan, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery, Weiwei Sun
2025 J jnl
BabyLM's First Words: Word Segmentation as a Phonological Probing Task.
CoRR
Zébulon Goriely, Paula Buttery
2025 J jnl
ByteSpan: Information-Driven Subword Tokenisation.
CoRR
Zébulon Goriely, Suchir Salhan, Pietro Lesci, Julius Cheng, Paula Buttery
2025 J jnl
IPA-CHILDES & G2P+: Feature-Rich Resources for Cross-Lingual Phonology and Phonemic Language Modeling.
CoRR
Zébulon Goriely, Paula Buttery
2025 J jnl
Investigating ReLoRA: Effects on the Learning Dynamics of Small Language Models.
CoRR
Yuval Weiss, David Demitri Africa, Paula Buttery, Richard Diehl Martinez
2025 J jnl
Learning Dynamics of Meta-Learning in Small Model Pretraining.
CoRR
David Demitri Africa, Yuval Weiss, Paula Buttery, Richard Diehl Martinez
2025 J jnl
Looking to Learn: Token-wise Dynamic Gating for Low-Resource Vision-Language Modelling.
CoRR
Bianca-Mihaela Ganescu, Suchir Salhan, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery
2025 J jnl
Meta-Pretraining for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Named Entity Recognition in Low-Resource Philippine Languages.
CoRR
David Demitri Africa, Suchir Salhan, Yuval Weiss, Paula Buttery, Richard Diehl Martinez
2025 — conf
Pico: A Modular Framework for Hypothesis-Driven Small Language Model Research.
EMNLP (System Demonstrations)
Richard Diehl Martinez, David Demitri Africa, Yuval Weiss, Suchir Salhan, Ryan K. Daniels, Paula Buttery
2025 J jnl
Pico: A Modular Framework for Hypothesis-Driven Small Language Model Research.
CoRR
Richard Diehl Martinez, David Demitri Africa, Yuval Weiss, Suchir Salhan, Ryan K. Daniels, Paula Buttery
2025 — conf
Rubrik's Cube: Testing a New Rubric for Evaluating Explanations on the CUBE dataset.
ACL (1)
Diana Galván-Sosa, Gabrielle Gaudeau, Pride Kavumba, Yunmeng Li, Hongyi Gu, Zheng Yuan, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Paula Buttery
2025 J jnl
Rubrik's Cube: Testing a New Rubric for Evaluating Explanations on the CUBE dataset.
CoRR
Diana Galván-Sosa, Gabrielle Gaudeau, Pride Kavumba, Yunmeng Li, Hongyi Gu, Zheng Yuan, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Paula Buttery
2025 J jnl
Teacher Demonstrations in a BabyLM's Zone of Proximal Development for Contingent Multi-Turn Interaction.
CoRR
Suchir Salhan, Hongyi Gu, Donya Rooein, Diana Galván-Sosa, Gabrielle Gaudeau, Andrew Caines, Zheng Yuan, Paula Buttery
2025 Misc conf
Towards CEFR-targeted Text Simplification for Question Adaptation.
RANLP
Luca Benedetto, Paula Buttery
2025 J jnl
What is the Best Sequence Length for BABYLM?
CoRR
Suchir Salhan, Richard Diehl Martinez, Zébulon Goriely, Paula Buttery
2024 — conf
Distractor Generation Using Generative and Discriminative Capabilities of Transformer-based Models.
LREC/COLING
Shiva Taslimipoor, Luca Benedetto, Mariano Felice, Paula Buttery
2024 J jnl
From Babble to Words: Pre-Training Language Models on Continuous Streams of Phonemes.
CoRR
Zébulon Goriely, Richard Diehl Martinez, Andrew Caines, Lisa Beinborn, Paula Buttery
2024 J jnl
Less is More: Pre-Training Cross-Lingual Small-Scale Language Models with Cognitively-Plausible Curriculum Learning Strategies.
CoRR
Suchir Salhan, Richard Diehl Martinez, Zébulon Goriely, Paula Buttery
2024 — conf
Logging Keystrokes in Writing by English Learners.
LREC/COLING
Georgios Velentzas, Andrew Caines, Rita Borgo, Erin Pacquetet, Clive Hamilton, Taylor B. Arnold, Diane Nicholls, Paula Buttery, Thomas Gaillat, Nicolas Ballier, Helen Yannakoudakis
2024 A* conf
Mitigating Frequency Bias and Anisotropy in Language Model Pre-Training with Syntactic Smoothing.
EMNLP
Richard Diehl Martinez, Zébulon Goriely, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery, Lisa Beinborn
2024 J jnl
Mitigating Frequency Bias and Anisotropy in Language Model Pre-Training with Syntactic Smoothing.
CoRR
Richard Diehl Martinez, Zébulon Goriely, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery, Lisa Beinborn
2024 — conf
Prompting open-source and commercial language models for grammatical error correction of English learner text.
ACL (Findings)
Christopher Davis, Andrew Caines, Øistein E. Andersen, Shiva Taslimipoor, Helen Yannakoudakis, Zheng Yuan, Christopher Bryant, Marek Rei, Paula Buttery
2024 J jnl
Prompting open-source and commercial language models for grammatical error correction of English learner text.
CoRR
Christopher Davis, Andrew Caines, Øistein E. Andersen, Shiva Taslimipoor, Helen Yannakoudakis, Zheng Yuan, Christopher Bryant, Marek Rei, Paula Buttery
2024 — conf
Recurrent Neural Collaborative Filtering for Knowledge Tracing.
AIED Companion (1)
Russell Moore, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery
2024 — conf
Tending Towards Stability: Convergence Challenges in Small Language Models.
EMNLP (Findings)
Richard Diehl Martinez, Pietro Lesci, Paula Buttery
2024 J jnl
Tending Towards Stability: Convergence Challenges in Small Language Models.
CoRR
Richard Diehl Martinez, Pietro Lesci, Paula Buttery
2024 — conf
Using Knowledge Graphs to Improve Question Difficulty Estimation from Text.
AIED (2)
Enrico Gherardi, Luca Benedetto, Maristella Matera, Paula Buttery
2024 — conf
Using LLMs to simulate students' responses to exam questions.
EMNLP (Findings)
Luca Benedetto, Giovanni Aradelli, Antonia Donvito, Alberto Lucchetti, Andrea Cappelli, Paula Buttery
2023 J jnl
A Survey on Recent Approaches to Question Difficulty Estimation from Text.
ACM Comput. Surv.
Luca Benedetto, Paolo Cremonesi, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery, Andrea Cappelli, Andrea Giussani, Roberto Turrin
2023 J jnl
CLIMB: Curriculum Learning for Infant-inspired Model Building.
CoRR
Richard Diehl Martinez, Zébulon Goriely, Hope McGovern, Christopher Davis, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery, Lisa Beinborn
2023 — conf
On the Application of Large Language Models for Language Teaching and Assessment Technology.
LLM@AIED
Andrew Caines, Luca Benedetto, Shiva Taslimipoor, Christopher Davis, Yuan Gao, Øistein E. Andersen, Zheng Yuan, Mark Elliott, Russell Moore, Christopher Bryant, Marek Rei, Helen Yannakoudakis, Andrew Mullooly, Diane Nicholls, Paula Buttery
2023 J jnl
On the application of Large Language Models for language teaching and assessment technology.
CoRR
Andrew Caines, Luca Benedetto, Shiva Taslimipoor, Christopher Davis, Yuan Gao, Oeistein Andersen, Zheng Yuan, Mark Elliott, Russell Moore, Christopher Bryant, Marek Rei, Helen Yannakoudakis, Andrew Mullooly, Diane Nicholls, Paula Buttery
2022 B conf
CEPOC: The Cambridge Exams Publishing Open Cloze dataset.
LREC
Mariano Felice, Shiva Taslimipoor, Øistein E. Andersen, Paula Buttery
2022 — conf
Constructing Open Cloze Tests Using Generation and Discrimination Capabilities of Transformers.
ACL (Findings)
Mariano Felice, Shiva Taslimipoor, Paula Buttery
2022 J jnl
Constructing Open Cloze Tests Using Generation and Discrimination Capabilities of Transformers.
CoRR
Mariano Felice, Shiva Taslimipoor, Paula Buttery
2022 — conf
PostCog: A tool for interdisciplinary research into underground forums at scale.
EuroS&P Workshops
Ildiko Pete, Jack Hughes, Andrew Caines, Anh V. Vu, Harshad Gupta, Alice Hutchings, Ross J. Anderson, Paula Buttery
2022 B conf
Probing for targeted syntactic knowledge through grammatical error detection.
CoNLL
Christopher Davis, Christopher Bryant, Andrew Caines, Marek Rei, Paula Buttery
2022 J jnl
Probing for targeted syntactic knowledge through grammatical error detection.
CoRR
Christopher Davis, Christopher Bryant, Andrew Caines, Marek Rei, Paula Buttery
2021 — conf
Efficient Unsupervised NMT for Related Languages with Cross-Lingual Language Models and Fidelity Objectives.
VarDial@EACL
Rami Aly, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery
2020 — conf
Adaptive Forgetting Curves for Spaced Repetition Language Learning.
AIED (2)
Ahmed H. Zaidi, Andrew Caines, Russell Moore, Paula Buttery, Andrew Rice
2020 J jnl
Adaptive Forgetting Curves for Spaced Repetition Language Learning.
CoRR
Ahmed H. Zaidi, Andrew Caines, Russell Moore, Paula Buttery, Andrew Rice
2020 — conf
Detecting Trending Terms in Cybersecurity Forum Discussions.
W-NUT@EMNLP
Jack Hughes, Seth Aycock, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery, Alice Hutchings
2020 B conf
Grammatical error detection in transcriptions of spoken English.
COLING
Andrew Caines, Christian Bentz, Kate M. Knill, Marek Rei, Paula Buttery
2020 A* conf
Investigating the effect of auxiliary objectives for the automated grading of learner English speech transcriptions.
ACL
Hannah Craighead, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery, Helen Yannakoudakis
2020 B conf
REPROLANG 2020: Automatic Proficiency Scoring of Czech, English, German, Italian, and Spanish Learner Essays.
LREC
Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery
2020 J jnl
The Teacher-Student Chatroom Corpus.
CoRR
Andrew Caines, Helen Yannakoudakis, Helena Edmondson, Helen Allen, Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Bill Byrne, Paula Buttery
2019 B conf
Accurate Modelling of Language Learning Tasks and Students Using Representations of Grammatical Proficiency.
EDM
Ahmed H. Zaidi, Andrew Caines, Christopher Davis, Russell Moore, Paula Buttery, Andrew Rice
2019 — conf
Behavioural Cloning of Teachers for Automatic Homework Selection.
AIED (1)
Russell Moore, Andrew Caines, Andrew Rice, Paula Buttery
2019 — conf
CAMsterdam at SemEval-2019 Task 6: Neural and graph-based feature extraction for the identification of offensive tweets.
SemEval@NAACL-HLT
Guy Aglionby, Christopher Davis, Pushkar Mishra, Andrew Caines, Helen Yannakoudakis, Marek Rei, Ekaterina Shutova, Paula Buttery
2019 Misc conf
Entropy as a Proxy for Gap Complexity in Open Cloze Tests.
RANLP
Mariano Felice, Paula Buttery
2019 B conf
Skills Embeddings: A Neural Approach to Multicomponent Representations of Students and Tasks.
EDM
Russell Moore, Andrew Caines, Mark Elliott, Ahmed H. Zaidi, Andrew Rice, Paula Buttery
2018 — conf
Aggressive language in an online hacking forum.
ALW
Andrew Caines, Sergio Pastrana, Alice Hutchings, Paula Buttery
2018 A conf
Characterizing Eve: Analysing Cybercrime Actors in a Large Underground Forum.
RAID
Sergio Pastrana, Alice Hutchings, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery
2017 — conf
A Text Normalisation System for Non-Standard English Words.
NUT@EMNLP
Emma Flint, Elliot Ford, Olivia Thomas, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery
2017 — conf
Collecting fluency corrections for spoken learner English.
BEA@EMNLP
Andrew Caines, Emma Flint, Paula Buttery
2017 — conf
Parsing transcripts of speech.
SCNLP@EMNLP 2017
Andrew Caines, Michael McCarthy, Paula Buttery
2017 J jnl
Variation in Word Frequency Distributions: Definitions, Measures and Implications for a Corpus-Based Language Typology.
J. Quant. Linguistics
Christian Bentz, Dimitrios Alikaniotis, Tanja Samardzic, Paula Buttery
2016 B conf
Automated speech-unit delimitation in spoken learner English.
COLING
Russell Moore, Andrew Caines, Calbert Graham, Paula Buttery
2016 B conf
Crowdsourcing a Multi-lingual Speech Corpus: Recording, Transcription and Annotation of the CrowdIS Corpora.
LREC
Andrew Caines, Christian Bentz, Calbert Graham, Tim Polzehl, Paula Buttery
2016 B conf
Predicting Author Age from Weibo Microblog Posts.
LREC
Wanru Zhang, Andrew Caines, Dimitrios Alikaniotis, Paula Buttery
2016 A conf
Vowel Characteristics in the Assessment of L2 English Pronunciation.
INTERSPEECH
Calbert Graham, Paula Buttery, Francis Nolan
2015 — conf
Incremental Dependency Parsing and Disfluency Detection in Spoken Learner English.
TSD
Russell Moore, Andrew Caines, Calbert Graham, Paula Buttery
2015 J jnl
Tracking cortical entrainment in neural activity: auditory processes in human temporal cortex.
Frontiers Comput. Neurosci.
Andrew Thwaites, Ian Nimmo-Smith, Elisabeth Fonteneau, Roy D. Patterson, Paula Buttery, William D. Marslen-Wilson
2012 B conf
Annotating progressive aspect constructions in the spoken section of the British National Corpus.
LREC
Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery
2012 B conf
Reclassifying subcategorization frames for experimental analysis and stimulus generation.
LREC
Paula Buttery, Andrew Caines
2011 J jnl
UKPMC: a full text article resource for the life sciences.
Nucleic Acids Res.
Johanna R. McEntyre, Sophia Ananiadou, Stephen Andrews, William J. Black, Richard Boulderstone, Paula Buttery, David Chaplin, Sandeepreddy Chevuru, Norman Cobley, Lee-Ann Coleman, Paul Davey, Bharti Gupta, Lesley Haji-Gholam, Craig Hawkins, Alan Horne, Simon J. Hubbard, Jee-Hyub Kim, Ian Lewin, Vic Lyte, Ross MacIntyre, Sami Mansoor, Linda Mason, John McNaught, Elizabeth Newbold, Chikashi Nobata, Ernest Ong, Sharmila Pillai, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Heather Rosie, Rob Rowbotham, C. J. Rupp, Peter Stoehr, Philip Vaughan
2010 B conf
LIPS: A Tool for Predicting the Lexical Isolation Point of a Word.
LREC
Andrew Thwaites, Jeroen Geertzen, William D. Marslen-Wilson, Paula Buttery
2010 B conf
The Cambridge Cookie-Theft Corpus: A Corpus of Directed and Spontaneous Speech of Brain-Damaged Patients and Healthy Individuals.
LREC
Caroline Williams, Andrew Thwaites, Paula Buttery, Jeroen Geertzen, Billi Randall, Meredith A. Shafto, Barry Devereux, Lorraine K. Tyler
2009 — conf
Biomedical Event Extraction without Training Data.
BioNLP@HLT-NAACL (Shared Task)
Andreas Vlachos, Paula Buttery, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Ted Briscoe
2005 J jnl
Charles D. Yang.
Nat. Lang. Eng.
Paula Buttery