Philippe Laban

76 papers A* 10A 1Journal 43Unranked 21
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
AI-Slop to AI-Polish? Aligning Language Models through Edit-Based Writing Rewards and Test-time Computation.
CoRR
Tuhin Chakrabarty, Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu
2025 J jnl
Attribution Gradients: Incrementally Unfolding Citations for Critical Examination of Attributed AI Answers.
CoRR
Hita Kambhamettu, Alyssa Hwang, Philippe Laban, Andrew Head
2025 A* conf
BingoGuard: LLM Content Moderation Tools with Risk Levels.
ICLR
Fan Yin, Philippe Laban, Xiangyu Peng, Yilun Zhou, Yixin Mao, Vaibhav Vats, Linnea Ross, Divyansh Agarwal, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2025 J jnl
BingoGuard: LLM Content Moderation Tools with Risk Levels.
CoRR
Fan Yin, Philippe Laban, Xiangyu Peng, Yilun Zhou, Yixin Mao, Vaibhav Vats, Linnea Ross, Divyansh Agarwal, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2025 — conf
CRMArena: Understanding the Capacity of LLM Agents to Perform Professional CRM Tasks in Realistic Environments.
NAACL (Long Papers)
Kung-Hsiang Huang, Akshara Prabhakar, Sidharth Dhawan, Yixin Mao, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu
2025 A* conf
Can AI writing be salvaged? Mitigating Idiosyncrasies and Improving Human-AI Alignment in the Writing Process through Edits.
CHI
Tuhin Chakrabarty, Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu
2025 J jnl
DeepTRACE: Auditing Deep Research AI Systems for Tracking Reliability Across Citations and Evidence.
CoRR
Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Philippe Laban, Yilun Zhou, Kung-Hsiang Huang, Yixin Mao, Chien-Sheng Wu
2025 — conf
Do RAG Systems Cover What Matters? Evaluating and Optimizing Responses with Sub-Question Coverage.
NAACL (Long Papers)
Kaige Xie, Philippe Laban, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2025 J jnl
EvalAgent: Discovering Implicit Evaluation Criteria from the Web.
CoRR
Manya Wadhwa, Zayne Sprague, Chaitanya Malaviya, Philippe Laban, Junyi Jessy Li, Greg Durrett
2025 J jnl
Flipping the Dialogue: Training and Evaluating User Language Models.
CoRR
Tarek Naous, Philippe Laban, Wei Xu, Jennifer Neville
2025 — conf
KRISTEVA: Close Reading as a Novel Task for Benchmarking Interpretive Reasoning.
ACL (1)
Peiqi Sui, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Philippe Laban, Dean Murphy, Joseph P. Dexter, Richard Jean So, Samuel Baker, Pramit Chaudhuri
2025 J jnl
KRISTEVA: Close Reading as a Novel Task for Benchmarking Interpretive Reasoning.
CoRR
Peiqi Sui, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Philippe Laban, Dean Murphy, Joseph P. Dexter, Richard Jean So, Samuel Baker, Pramit Chaudhuri
2025 J jnl
LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation.
CoRR
Philippe Laban, Hiroaki Hayashi, Yingbo Zhou, Jennifer Neville
2025 — conf
Search Engines in the AI Era: A Qualitative Understanding to the False Promise of Factual and Verifiable Source-Cited Responses in LLM-based Search.
FAccT
Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Philippe Laban, Yilun Zhou, Yixin Mao, Chien-Sheng Wu
2025 J jnl
Voice Interaction With Conversational AI Could Facilitate Thoughtful Reflection and Substantive Revision in Writing.
CoRR
Jiho Kim, Philippe Laban, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Kenneth C. Arnold
2025 — conf
Why Vision Language Models Struggle with Visual Arithmetic? Towards Enhanced Chart and Geometry Understanding.
ACL (Findings)
Kung-Hsiang Huang, Can Qin, Haoyi Qiu, Philippe Laban, Shafiq Joty, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2025 J jnl
Why Vision Language Models Struggle with Visual Arithmetic? Towards Enhanced Chart and Geometry Understanding.
CoRR
Kung-Hsiang Huang, Can Qin, Haoyi Qiu, Philippe Laban, Shafiq Joty, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2024 A* conf
Art or Artifice? Large Language Models and the False Promise of Creativity.
CHI
Tuhin Chakrabarty, Philippe Laban, Divyansh Agarwal, Smaranda Muresan, Chien-Sheng Wu
2024 — conf
Automatic and Human-AI Interactive Text Generation (with a focus on Text Simplification and Revision).
ACL (5)
Yao Dou, Philippe Laban, Claire Gardent, Wei Xu
2024 A* conf
Beyond the Chat: Executable and Verifiable Text-Editing with LLMs.
UIST
Philippe Laban, Jesse Vig, Marti A. Hearst, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2024 J jnl
CRMArena: Understanding the Capacity of LLM Agents to Perform Professional CRM Tasks in Realistic Environments.
CoRR
Kung-Hsiang Huang, Akshara Prabhakar, Sidharth Dhawan, Yixin Mao, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu
2024 J jnl
Can AI writing be salvaged? Mitigating Idiosyncrasies and Improving Human-AI Alignment in the Writing Process through Edits.
CoRR
Tuhin Chakrabarty, Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu
2024 J jnl
Do RAG Systems Cover What Matters? Evaluating and Optimizing Responses with Sub-Question Coverage.
CoRR
Kaige Xie, Philippe Laban, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2024 — conf
Embrace Divergence for Richer Insights: A Multi-document Summarization Benchmark and a Case Study on Summarizing Diverse Information from News Articles.
NAACL-HLT
Kung-Hsiang Huang, Philippe Laban, Alexander R. Fabbri, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Shafiq Joty, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2024 J jnl
Investigating the prompt leakage effect and black-box defenses for multi-turn LLM interactions.
CoRR
Divyansh Agarwal, Alexander R. Fabbri, Philippe Laban, Ben Risher, Shafiq Joty, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2024 A* conf
MiniCheck: Efficient Fact-Checking of LLMs on Grounding Documents.
EMNLP
Liyan Tang, Philippe Laban, Greg Durrett
2024 J jnl
MiniCheck: Efficient Fact-Checking of LLMs on Grounding Documents.
CoRR
Liyan Tang, Philippe Laban, Greg Durrett
2024 — conf
Prompt Leakage effect and mitigation strategies for multi-turn LLM Applications.
EMNLP (Industry Track)
Divyansh Agarwal, Alexander R. Fabbri, Ben Risher, Philippe Laban, Shafiq Joty, Chien-Sheng Wu
2024 J jnl
Search Engines in an AI Era: The False Promise of Factual and Verifiable Source-Cited Responses.
CoRR
Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Philippe Laban, Yilun Zhou, Yixin Mao, Chien-Sheng Wu
2024 J jnl
SummExecEdit: A Factual Consistency Benchmark in Summarization with Executable Edits.
CoRR
Onkar Thorat, Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu
2024 A* conf
Summary of a Haystack: A Challenge to Long-Context LLMs and RAG Systems.
EMNLP
Philippe Laban, Alexander R. Fabbri, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2024 J jnl
Summary of a Haystack: A Challenge to Long-Context LLMs and RAG Systems.
CoRR
Philippe Laban, Alexander R. Fabbri, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2023 J jnl
Are You Sure? Challenging LLMs Leads to Performance Drops in The FlipFlop Experiment.
CoRR
Philippe Laban, Lidiya Murakhovs'ka, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2023 J jnl
Art or Artifice? Large Language Models and the False Promise of Creativity.
CoRR
Tuhin Chakrabarty, Philippe Laban, Divyansh Agarwal, Smaranda Muresan, Chien-Sheng Wu
2023 J jnl
Automatic and Human-AI Interactive Text Generation.
CoRR
Yao Dou, Philippe Laban, Claire Gardent, Wei Xu
2023 J jnl
Beyond the Chat: Executable and Verifiable Text-Editing with LLMs.
CoRR
Philippe Laban, Jesse Vig, Marti A. Hearst, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2023 A* conf
Designing and Evaluating Interfaces that Highlight News Coverage Diversity Using Discord Questions.
CHI
Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu, Lidiya Murakhovs'ka, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Caiming Xiong
2023 J jnl
Designing and Evaluating Interfaces that Highlight News Coverage Diversity Using Discord Questions.
CoRR
Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu, Lidiya Murakhovs'ka, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Caiming Xiong
2023 — conf
Did You Read the Instructions? Rethinking the Effectiveness of Task Definitions in Instruction Learning.
ACL (1)
Fan Yin, Jesse Vig, Philippe Laban, Shafiq Joty, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2023 J jnl
Did You Read the Instructions? Rethinking the Effectiveness of Task Definitions in Instruction Learning.
CoRR
Fan Yin, Jesse Vig, Philippe Laban, Shafiq Joty, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Jason Wu
2023 J jnl
Embrace Divergence for Richer Insights: A Multi-document Summarization Benchmark and a Case Study on Summarizing Diverse Information from News Articles.
CoRR
Kung-Hsiang Huang, Philippe Laban, Alexander R. Fabbri, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Shafiq Joty, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2023 — conf
INTELMO: Enhancing Models' Adoption of Interactive Interfaces.
EMNLP (Demos)
Chunxu Yang, Chien-Sheng Wu, Lidiya Murakhovs'ka, Philippe Laban, Xiang Chen
2023 J jnl
LLMs as Factual Reasoners: Insights from Existing Benchmarks and Beyond.
CoRR
Philippe Laban, Wojciech Kryscinski, Divyansh Agarwal, Alexander R. Fabbri, Caiming Xiong, Shafiq Joty, Chien-Sheng Wu
2023 J jnl
Marvista: Exploring the Design of a Human-AI Collaborative News Reading Tool.
ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact.
Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Chien-Sheng Wu, Lidiya Murakhovs'ka, Philippe Laban, Tong Niu, Wenhao Liu, Caiming Xiong
2023 J jnl
Next Steps for Human-Centered Generative AI: A Technical Perspective.
CoRR
Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Jeff Burke, Ruofei Du, Matthew K. Hong, Jennifer Jacobs, Philippe Laban, Dingzeyu Li, Nanyun Peng, Karl D. D. Willis, Chien-Sheng Wu, Bolei Zhou
2023 — conf
SWiPE: A Dataset for Document-Level Simplification of Wikipedia Pages.
ACL (1)
Philippe Laban, Jesse Vig, Wojciech Kryscinski, Shafiq Joty, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2023 J jnl
SWiPE: A Dataset for Document-Level Simplification of Wikipedia Pages.
CoRR
Philippe Laban, Jesse Vig, Wojciech Kryscinski, Shafiq Joty, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2023 — conf
Salespeople vs SalesBot: Exploring the Role of Educational Value in Conversational Recommender Systems.
EMNLP (Findings)
Lidiya Murakhovs'ka, Philippe Laban, Tian Xie, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2023 J jnl
Salespeople vs SalesBot: Exploring the Role of Educational Value in Conversational Recommender Systems.
CoRR
Lidiya Murakhovs'ka, Philippe Laban, Tian Xie, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
2023 A* conf
SummEdits: Measuring LLM Ability at Factual Reasoning Through The Lens of Summarization.
EMNLP
Philippe Laban, Wojciech Kryscinski, Divyansh Agarwal, Alexander R. Fabbri, Caiming Xiong, Shafiq Joty, Chien-Sheng Wu
2023 — conf
Understanding Factual Errors in Summarization: Errors, Summarizers, Datasets, Error Detectors.
ACL (1)
Liyan Tang, Tanya Goyal, Alexander R. Fabbri, Philippe Laban, Jiacheng Xu, Semih Yavuz, Wojciech Kryscinski, Justin F. Rousseau, Greg Durrett
2023 J jnl
XGen-7B Technical Report.
CoRR
Erik Nijkamp, Tian Xie, Hiroaki Hayashi, Bo Pang, Congying Xia, Chen Xing, Jesse Vig, Semih Yavuz, Philippe Laban, Ben Krause, Senthil Purushwalkam, Tong Niu, Wojciech Kryscinski, Lidiya Murakhovs'ka, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Alexander R. Fabbri, Ye Liu, Rui Meng, Lifu Tu, Meghana Bhat, Chien-Sheng Wu, Silvio Savarese, Yingbo Zhou, Shafiq Joty, Caiming Xiong
2022 — conf
Discord Questions: A Computational Approach To Diversity Analysis in News Coverage.
EMNLP (Findings)
Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu, Lidiya Murakhovs'ka, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Caiming Xiong
2022 J jnl
Discord Questions: A Computational Approach To Diversity Analysis in News Coverage.
CoRR
Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu, Lidiya Murakhovs'ka, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Caiming Xiong
2022 — conf
MixQG: Neural Question Generation with Mixed Answer Types.
NAACL-HLT (Findings)
Lidiya Murakhovs'ka, Chien-Sheng Wu, Philippe Laban, Tong Niu, Wenhao Liu, Caiming Xiong
2022 A* conf
Near-Negative Distinction: Giving a Second Life to Human Evaluation Datasets.
EMNLP
Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu, Wenhao Liu, Caiming Xiong
2022 J jnl
Near-Negative Distinction: Giving a Second Life to Human Evaluation Datasets.
CoRR
Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu, Wenhao Liu, Caiming Xiong
2022 A conf
NewsPod: Automatic and Interactive News Podcasts.
IUI
Philippe Laban, Elicia Ye, Srujay Korlakunta, John F. Canny, Marti A. Hearst
2022 J jnl
NewsPod: Automatic and Interactive News Podcasts.
CoRR
Philippe Laban, Elicia Ye, Srujay Korlakunta, John F. Canny, Marti A. Hearst
2022 — conf
Quiz Design Task: Helping Teachers Create Quizzes with Automated Question Generation.
NAACL-HLT (Findings)
Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu, Lidiya Murakhovs'ka, Wenhao Liu, Caiming Xiong
2022 J jnl
Quiz Design Task: Helping Teachers Create Quizzes with Automated Question Generation.
CoRR
Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu, Lidiya Murakhovs'ka, Wenhao Liu, Caiming Xiong
2022 J jnl
SummaC: Re-Visiting NLI-based Models for Inconsistency Detection in Summarization.
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics
Philippe Laban, Tobias Schnabel, Paul N. Bennett, Marti A. Hearst
2022 J jnl
Understanding Factual Errors in Summarization: Errors, Summarizers, Datasets, Error Detectors.
CoRR
Liyan Tang, Tanya Goyal, Alexander R. Fabbri, Philippe Laban, Jiacheng Xu, Semih Yavuz, Wojciech Kryscinski, Justin F. Rousseau, Greg Durrett
2021 — conf
Can Transformer Models Measure Coherence In Text: Re-Thinking the Shuffle Test.
ACL/IJCNLP (2)
Philippe Laban, Luke Dai, Lucas Bandarkar, Marti A. Hearst
2021 J jnl
Can Transformer Models Measure Coherence In Text? Re-Thinking the Shuffle Test.
CoRR
Philippe Laban, Luke Dai, Lucas Bandarkar, Marti A. Hearst
2021 — conf
Keep It Simple: Unsupervised Simplification of Multi-Paragraph Text.
ACL/IJCNLP (1)
Philippe Laban, Tobias Schnabel, Paul N. Bennett, Marti A. Hearst
2021 J jnl
Keep it Simple: Unsupervised Simplification of Multi-Paragraph Text.
CoRR
Philippe Laban, Tobias Schnabel, Paul N. Bennett, Marti A. Hearst
2021 — conf
News Headline Grouping as a Challenging NLU Task.
NAACL-HLT
Philippe Laban, Lucas Bandarkar, Marti A. Hearst
2021 J jnl
News Headline Grouping as a Challenging NLU Task.
CoRR
Philippe Laban, Lucas Bandarkar, Marti A. Hearst
2021 J jnl
SummaC: Re-Visiting NLI-based Models for Inconsistency Detection in Summarization.
CoRR
Philippe Laban, Tobias Schnabel, Paul N. Bennett, Marti A. Hearst
2021 J jnl
The Summary Loop: Learning to Write Abstractive Summaries Without Examples.
CoRR
Philippe Laban, Andrew Hsi, John F. Canny, Marti A. Hearst
2021 — —
Unsupervised Text Generation and its Application to News Interfaces
Philippe Laban
2021 J jnl
What's The Latest? A Question-driven News Chatbot.
CoRR
Philippe Laban, John F. Canny, Marti A. Hearst
2020 A* conf
The Summary Loop: Learning to Write Abstractive Summaries Without Examples.
ACL
Philippe Laban, Andrew Hsi, John F. Canny, Marti A. Hearst
2020 — conf
What's The Latest? A Question-driven News Chatbot.
ACL (demo)
Philippe Laban, John F. Canny, Marti A. Hearst
2017 — conf
newsLens: building and visualizing long-ranging news stories.
NEWS@ACL
Philippe Laban, Marti A. Hearst