Simone Balloccu

27 papers B 1Misc 1Journal 14Unranked 11
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 — conf
ARQA: A Benchmark for Grounded Table-Text QA in Enterprise Annual Reports.
EACL (Industry Track)
Ruilong Wang, Simone Balloccu
2026 J jnl
Hypothesis-Driven Feature Manifold Analysis in LLMs via Supervised Multi-Dimensional Scaling.
Trans. Mach. Learn. Res.
Federico Tiblias, Irina Bigoulaeva, Jingcheng Niu, Simone Balloccu, Iryna Gurevych
2026 J jnl
The Scaffold Effect: How Prompt Framing Drives Apparent Multimodal Gains in Clinical VLM Evaluation.
CoRR
Doan Nam Long Vu, Simone Balloccu
2025 J jnl
Large Language Models as Span Annotators.
CoRR
Zdenek Kasner, Vilém Zouhar, Patrícia Schmidtová, Ivan Kartác, Kristýna Onderková, Ondrej Plátek, Dimitra Gkatzia, Saad Mahamood, Ondrej Dusek, Simone Balloccu
2025 J jnl
Shape Happens: Automatic Feature Manifold Discovery in LLMs via Supervised Multi-Dimensional Scaling.
CoRR
Federico Tiblias, Irina Bigoulaeva, Jingcheng Niu, Simone Balloccu, Iryna Gurevych
2025 J jnl
When LLMs Can't Help: Real-World Evaluation of LLMs in Nutrition.
CoRR
Karen Jia-Hui Li, Simone Balloccu, Ondrej Dusek, Ehud Reiter
2024 — conf
Ask the experts: sourcing a high-quality nutrition counseling dataset through Human-AI collaboration.
EMNLP (Findings)
Simone Balloccu, Ehud Reiter, Karen Li, Rafael Sargsyan, Vivek Kumar, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Daniele Riboni, Ondrej Dusek
2024 J jnl
Ask the experts: sourcing high-quality datasets for nutritional counselling through Human-AI collaboration.
CoRR
Simone Balloccu, Ehud Reiter, Vivek Kumar, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Daniele Riboni
2024 J jnl
Automatic Metrics in Natural Language Generation: A Survey of Current Evaluation Practices.
CoRR
Patrícia Schmidtová, Saad Mahamood, Simone Balloccu, Ondrej Dusek, Albert Gatt, Dimitra Gkatzia, David M. Howcroft, Ondrej Plátek, Adarsa Sivaprasad
2024 B conf
Automatic Metrics in Natural Language Generation: A survey of Current Evaluation Practices.
INLG
Patrícia Schmidtová, Saad Mahamood, Simone Balloccu, Ondrej Dusek, Albert Gatt, Dimitra Gkatzia, David M. Howcroft, Ondrej Plátek, Adarsa Sivaprasad
2024 — conf
HUMAD 2024: International Workshop on Human-Centered Modeling and Adaptation for Digital Transformation.
UMAP (Adjunct Publication)
Simone Balloccu, Alessandro Sebastian Podda, Livio Pompianu, Roberto Saia, Angelo Antonio Salatino
2024 — conf
Leak, Cheat, Repeat: Data Contamination and Evaluation Malpractices in Closed-Source LLMs.
EACL (1)
Simone Balloccu, Patrícia Schmidtová, Mateusz Lango, Ondrej Dusek
2024 J jnl
Leak, Cheat, Repeat: Data Contamination and Evaluation Malpractices in Closed-Source LLMs.
CoRR
Simone Balloccu, Patrícia Schmidtová, Mateusz Lango, Ondrej Dusek
2024 J jnl
PhilHumans: Benchmarking Machine Learning for Personal Health.
CoRR
Vadim Liventsev, Vivek Kumar, Allmin Pradhap Singh Susaiyah, Zixiu Wu, Ivan Rodin, Asfand Yaar, Simone Balloccu, Marharyta Beraziuk, Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Aki Härmä, Rim Helaoui, Milan Petkovic, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Ehud Reiter, Daniele Riboni, Raymond Sterling
2024 — conf
factgenie: A Framework for Span-based Evaluation of Generated Texts.
INLG (System Demonstrations)
Zdenek Kasner, Ondrej Plátek, Patrícia Schmidtová, Simone Balloccu, Ondrej Dusek
2024 J jnl
factgenie: A Framework for Span-based Evaluation of Generated Texts.
CoRR
Zdenek Kasner, Ondrej Plátek, Patrícia Schmidtová, Simone Balloccu, Ondrej Dusek
2023 — conf
Are Experts Needed? On Human Evaluation of Counselling Reflection Generation.
ACL (1)
Zixiu Wu, Simone Balloccu, Ehud Reiter, Rim Helaoui, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Daniele Riboni
2023 J jnl
Creation, Analysis and Evaluation of AnnoMI, a Dataset of Expert-Annotated Counselling Dialogues.
Future Internet
Zixiu Wu, Simone Balloccu, Vivek Kumar, Rim Helaoui, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Daniele Riboni
2023 — conf
Smart Selection of Useful Insights from Wearables.
ICASSP Workshops
Allmin Pradhap Singh Susaiyah, Aki Härmä, Simone Balloccu, Ehud Reiter, Milan Petkovic
2022 Misc conf
Anno-MI: A Dataset of Expert-Annotated Counselling Dialogues.
ICASSP
Zixiu Wu, Simone Balloccu, Vivek Kumar, Rim Helaoui, Ehud Reiter, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Daniele Riboni
2022 J jnl
Comparing informativeness of an NLG chatbot vs graphical app in diet-information domain.
CoRR
Simone Balloccu, Ehud Reiter
2021 — conf
Unaddressed challenges in persuasive dieting chatbots.
UMAP (Adjunct Publication)
Simone Balloccu, Ehud Reiter, Matteo G. Collu, Federico Sanna, Manuela Sanguinetti, Maurizio Atzori
2020 — conf
A NLG Framework for User Tailoring and Profiling in Healthcare.
SmartPhil@IUI
Simone Balloccu, Steffen Pauws, Ehud Reiter
2020 J jnl
Fully-Unsupervised Embeddings-Based Hypernym Discovery.
Inf.
Maurizio Atzori, Simone Balloccu
2020 J jnl
How are you? Introducing stress-based text tailoring.
CoRR
Simone Balloccu, Ehud Reiter, Alexandra Johnstone, Claire Fyfe
2019 — conf
OKgraph: Unsupervised Structured Data Extraction from Plain Text.
IIR
Maurizio Atzori, Simone Balloccu, Andrea Bellanti, Emanuele Mameli, Stefano Raimondo Usai
2018 — conf
Unsupervised Singleton Expansion from Free Text.
ICSC
Maurizio Atzori, Simone Balloccu, Andrea Bellanti