Varun Gangal

49 papers A* 7A 1B 2Journal 28Unranked 11
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
A Unified Definition of Hallucination, Or: It's the World Model, Stupid.
CoRR
Emmy Liu, Varun Gangal, Chelsea Zou, Xiaoqi Huang, Michael Yu, Alex Chang, Zhuofu Tao, Sachin Kumar, Steven Y. Feng
2025 J jnl
MEMTRACK: Evaluating Long-Term Memory and State Tracking in Multi-Platform Dynamic Agent Environments.
CoRR
Darshan Deshpande, Varun Gangal, Hersh Mehta, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian, Peng Wang
2025 J jnl
TRAIL: Trace Reasoning and Agentic Issue Localization.
CoRR
Darshan Deshpande, Varun Gangal, Hersh Mehta, Jitin Krishnan, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian
2024 — conf
Enhancing Hallucination Detection through Perturbation-Based Synthetic Data Generation in System Responses.
ACL (Findings)
Dongxu Zhang, Varun Gangal, Barrett Martin Lattimer, Yi Yang
2024 J jnl
Enhancing Hallucination Detection through Perturbation-Based Synthetic Data Generation in System Responses.
CoRR
Dongxu Zhang, Varun Gangal, Barrett Martin Lattimer, Yi Yang
2024 J jnl
Sparse Rewards Can Self-Train Dialogue Agents.
CoRR
Barrett Martin Lattimer, Varun Gangal, Ryan McDonald, Yi Yang
2023 J jnl
DYAD: A Descriptive Yet Abjuring Density efficient approximation to linear neural network layers.
CoRR
Sarin Chandy, Varun Gangal, Yi Yang, Gabriel Maggiotti
2023 A conf
PANCETTA: Phoneme Aware Neural Completion to Elicit Tongue Twisters Automatically.
EACL
Sedrick Scott Keh, Steven Y. Feng, Varun Gangal, Malihe Alikhani, Eduard H. Hovy
2022 J jnl
EUREKA: EUphemism Recognition Enhanced through Knn-based methods and Augmentation.
CoRR
Sedrick Scott Keh, Rohit Bharadwaj, Emmy Liu, Simone Tedeschi, Varun Gangal, Roberto Navigli
2022 A* conf
NAREOR: The Narrative Reordering Problem.
AAAI
Varun Gangal, Steven Y. Feng, Malihe Alikhani, Teruko Mitamura, Eduard H. Hovy
2022 J jnl
PANCETTA: Phoneme Aware Neural Completion to Elicit Tongue Twisters Automatically.
CoRR
Sedrick Scott Keh, Steven Y. Feng, Varun Gangal, Malihe Alikhani, Eduard H. Hovy
2022 B conf
PINEAPPLE: Personifying INanimate Entities by Acquiring Parallel Personification Data for Learning Enhanced Generation.
COLING
Sedrick Scott Keh, Kevin Lu, Varun Gangal, Steven Y. Feng, Harsh Jhamtani, Malihe Alikhani, Eduard H. Hovy
2022 J jnl
PINEAPPLE: Personifying INanimate Entities by Acquiring Parallel Personification data for Learning Enhanced generation.
CoRR
Sedrick Scott Keh, Kevin Lu, Varun Gangal, Steven Y. Feng, Harsh Jhamtani, Malihe Alikhani, Eduard H. Hovy
2022 A* conf
Retrieve, Caption, Generate: Visual Grounding for Enhancing Commonsense in Text Generation Models.
AAAI
Steven Y. Feng, Kevin Lu, Zhuofu Tao, Malihe Alikhani, Teruko Mitamura, Eduard H. Hovy, Varun Gangal
2021 — conf
A Survey of Data Augmentation Approaches for NLP.
ACL/IJCNLP (Findings)
Steven Y. Feng, Varun Gangal, Jason Wei, Sarath Chandar, Soroush Vosoughi, Teruko Mitamura, Eduard H. Hovy
2021 J jnl
A Survey of Data Augmentation Approaches for NLP.
CoRR
Steven Y. Feng, Varun Gangal, Jason Wei, Sarath Chandar, Soroush Vosoughi, Teruko Mitamura, Eduard H. Hovy
2021 — conf
Automatic Construction of Evaluation Suites for Natural Language Generation Datasets.
NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks
Simon Mille, Kaustubh D. Dhole, Saad Mahamood, Laura Perez-Beltrachini, Varun Gangal, Mihir Sanjay Kale, Emiel van Miltenburg, Sebastian Gehrmann
2021 J jnl
Automatic Construction of Evaluation Suites for Natural Language Generation Datasets.
CoRR
Simon Mille, Kaustubh D. Dhole, Saad Mahamood, Laura Perez-Beltrachini, Varun Gangal, Mihir Sanjay Kale, Emiel van Miltenburg, Sebastian Gehrmann
2021 — conf
Coarse2Fine: Fine-grained Text Classification on Coarsely-grained Annotated Data.
EMNLP (1)
Dheeraj Mekala, Varun Gangal, Jingbo Shang
2021 J jnl
Coarse2Fine: Fine-grained Text Classification on Coarsely-grained Annotated Data.
CoRR
Dheeraj Mekala, Varun Gangal, Jingbo Shang
2021 — conf
Improving Automated Evaluation of Open Domain Dialog via Diverse Reference Augmentation.
ACL/IJCNLP (Findings)
Varun Gangal, Harsh Jhamtani, Eduard H. Hovy, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick
2021 J jnl
Improving Automated Evaluation of Open Domain Dialog via Diverse Reference Augmentation.
CoRR
Varun Gangal, Harsh Jhamtani, Eduard H. Hovy, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick
2021 — conf
Investigating Robustness of Dialog Models to Popular Figurative Language Constructs.
EMNLP (1)
Harsh Jhamtani, Varun Gangal, Eduard H. Hovy, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick
2021 J jnl
Investigating Robustness of Dialog Models to Popular Figurative Language Constructs.
CoRR
Harsh Jhamtani, Varun Gangal, Eduard H. Hovy, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick
2021 J jnl
NAREOR: The Narrative Reordering Problem.
CoRR
Varun Gangal, Steven Y. Feng, Eduard H. Hovy, Teruko Mitamura
2021 J jnl
NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation.
CoRR
Kaustubh D. Dhole, Varun Gangal, Sebastian Gehrmann, Aadesh Gupta, Zhenhao Li, Saad Mahamood, Abinaya Mahendiran, Simon Mille, Ashish Srivastava, Samson Tan, Tongshuang Wu, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Jinho D. Choi, Eduard H. Hovy, Ondrej Dusek, Sebastian Ruder, Sajant Anand, Nagender Aneja, Rabin Banjade, Lisa Barthe, Hanna Behnke, Ian Berlot-Attwell, Connor Boyle, Caroline Brun, Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Emile Chapuis, Wanxiang Che, Mukund Choudhary, Christian Clauss, Pierre Colombo, Filip Cornell, Gautier Dagan, Mayukh Das, Tanay Dixit, Thomas Dopierre, Paul-Alexis Dray, Suchitra Dubey, Tatiana Ekeinhor, Marco Di Giovanni, Tanya Goyal, Rishabh Gupta, Louanes Hamla, Sang Han, Fabrice Harel-Canada, Antoine Honore, Ishan Jindal, Przemyslaw K. Joniak, Denis Kleyko, Venelin Kovatchev, Kalpesh Krishna, Ashutosh Kumar, Stefan Langer, Seungjae Ryan Lee, Corey James Levinson, Hualou Liang, Kaizhao Liang, Zhexiong Liu, Andrey Lukyanenko, Vukosi Marivate, Gerard de Melo, Simon Meoni, Maxime Meyer, Afnan Mir, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Niklas Muennighoff, Timothy Sum Hon Mun, Kenton Murray, Marcin Namysl, Maria Obedkova, Priti Oli, Nivranshu Pasricha, Jan Pfister, Richard Plant, Vinay Prabhu, Vasile Pais, Libo Qin, Shahab Raji, Pawan Kumar Rajpoot, Vikas Raunak, Roy Rinberg, Nicholas Roberts, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Claude Roux, Paulo Henrique Santos Vasconcellos, Ananya B. Sai, Robin M. Schmidt, Thomas Scialom, Tshephisho Sefara, Saqib Shamsi, Xudong Shen, Yiwen Shi, Haoyue Shi, Anna Shvets, Nick Siegel, Damien Sileo, Jamie Simon, Chandan Singh, Roman Sitelew, Priyank Soni, Taylor Sorensen, William Soto Martinez, Aman Srivastava, KV Aditya Srivatsa, Tony Sun, Mukund Varma T., A. Tabassum, Fiona Anting Tan, Ryan Teehan, Mo Tiwari, Marie Tolkiehn, Athena Wang, Zijian Wang, Zijie J. Wang, Gloria Wang, Fuxuan Wei, Bryan Wilie, Genta Indra Winata, Xinyi Wu, Witold Wydmanski, Tianbao Xie, Usama Yaseen, Michael A. Yee, Jing Zhang, Yue Zhang
2021 J jnl
Retrieve, Caption, Generate: Visual Grounding for Enhancing Commonsense in Text Generation Models.
CoRR
Steven Y. Feng, Kevin Lu, Zhuofu Tao, Malihe Alikhani, Teruko Mitamura, Eduard H. Hovy, Varun Gangal
2021 B conf
SAPPHIRE: Approaches for Enhanced Concept-to-Text Generation.
INLG
Steven Y. Feng, Jessica Huynh, Chaitanya Prasad Narisetty, Eduard H. Hovy, Varun Gangal
2021 J jnl
SAPPHIRE: Approaches for Enhanced Concept-to-Text Generation.
CoRR
Steven Y. Feng, Jessica Huynh, Chaitanya Narisetty, Eduard H. Hovy, Varun Gangal
2021 J jnl
The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metrics.
CoRR
Sebastian Gehrmann, Tosin P. Adewumi, Karmanya Aggarwal, Pawan Sasanka Ammanamanchi, Aremu Anuoluwapo, Antoine Bosselut, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Miruna-Adriana Clinciu, Dipanjan Das, Kaustubh D. Dhole, Wanyu Du, Esin Durmus, Ondrej Dusek, Chris Emezue, Varun Gangal, Cristina Garbacea, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Yufang Hou, Yacine Jernite, Harsh Jhamtani, Yangfeng Ji, Shailza Jolly, Dhruv Kumar, Faisal Ladhak, Aman Madaan, Mounica Maddela, Khyati Mahajan, Saad Mahamood, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Pedro Henrique Martins, Angelina McMillan-Major, Simon Mille, Emiel van Miltenburg, Moin Nadeem, Shashi Narayan, Vitaly Nikolaev, Rubungo Andre Niyongabo, Salomey Osei, Ankur P. Parikh, Laura Perez-Beltrachini, Niranjan Ramesh Rao, Vikas Raunak, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Sashank Santhanam, João Sedoc, Thibault Sellam, Samira Shaikh, Anastasia Shimorina, Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo, Hendrik Strobelt, Nishant Subramani, Wei Xu, Diyi Yang, Akhila Yerukola, Jiawei Zhou
2020 — conf
BERTering RAMS: What and How Much does BERT Already Know About Event Arguments? - A Study on the RAMS Dataset.
BlackboxNLP@EMNLP
Varun Gangal, Eduard H. Hovy
2020 J jnl
BERTering RAMS: What and How Much does BERT Already Know About Event Arguments? - A Study on the RAMS Dataset.
CoRR
Varun Gangal, Eduard H. Hovy
2020 J jnl
GenAug: Data Augmentation for Finetuning Text Generators.
CoRR
Steven Y. Feng, Varun Gangal, Dongyeop Kang, Teruko Mitamura, Eduard H. Hovy
2020 A* conf
Likelihood Ratios and Generative Classifiers for Unsupervised Out-of-Domain Detection in Task Oriented Dialog.
AAAI
Varun Gangal, Abhinav Arora, Arash Einolghozati, Sonal Gupta
2020 A* conf
SCDE: Sentence Cloze Dataset with High Quality Distractors From Examinations.
ACL
Xiang Kong, Varun Gangal, Eduard H. Hovy
2020 J jnl
SCDE: Sentence Cloze Dataset with High Quality Distractors From Examinations.
CoRR
Xiang Kong, Varun Gangal, Eduard H. Hovy
2019 — conf
(Male, Bachelor) and (Female, Ph.D) have different connotations: Parallelly Annotated Stylistic Language Dataset with Multiple Personas.
EMNLP/IJCNLP (1)
Dongyeop Kang, Varun Gangal, Eduard H. Hovy
2019 J jnl
(Male, Bachelor) and (Female, Ph.D) have different connotations: Parallelly Annotated Stylistic Language Dataset with Multiple Personas.
CoRR
Dongyeop Kang, Varun Gangal, Eduard H. Hovy
2019 J jnl
Likelihood Ratios and Generative Classifiers for Unsupervised Out-of-Domain Detection In Task Oriented Dialog.
CoRR
Varun Gangal, Abhinav Arora, Arash Einolghozati, Sonal Gupta
2019 — conf
OPERA: Operations-oriented Probabilistic Extraction, Reasoning, and Analysis.
TAC
Eduard H. Hovy, Jaime G. Carbonell, Hans Chalupsky, Anatole Gershman, Alex Hauptmann, Florian Metze, Teruko Mitamura, Zaid Sheikh, Ankit Dangi, Aditi Chaudhary, Xianyang Chen, Xiang Kong, Bernie Huang, Salvador Medina, Hector Liu, Xuezhe Ma, Maria Ryskina, Ramon Sanabria, Varun Gangal
2018 — conf
Learning to Generate Move-by-Move Commentary for Chess Games from Large-Scale Social Forum Data.
ACL (1)
Harsh Jhamtani, Varun Gangal, Eduard H. Hovy, Graham Neubig, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick
2017 J jnl
CharManteau: Character Embedding Models For Portmanteau Creation.
CoRR
Varun Gangal, Harsh Jhamtani, Graham Neubig, Eduard H. Hovy, Eric Nyberg
2017 A* conf
Charmanteau: Character Embedding Models For Portmanteau Creation.
EMNLP
Varun Gangal, Harsh Jhamtani, Graham Neubig, Eduard H. Hovy, Eric Nyberg
2017 A* conf
Detecting and Explaining Causes From Text For a Time Series Event.
EMNLP
Dongyeop Kang, Varun Gangal, Ang Lu, Zheng Chen, Eduard H. Hovy
2017 J jnl
Detecting and Explaining Causes From Text For a Time Series Event.
CoRR
Dongyeop Kang, Varun Gangal, Ang Lu, Zheng Chen, Eduard H. Hovy
2017 J jnl
Shakespearizing Modern Language Using Copy-Enriched Sequence-to-Sequence Models.
CoRR
Harsh Jhamtani, Varun Gangal, Eduard H. Hovy, Eric Nyberg
2016 — conf
HEMI: Hyperedge Majority Influence Maximization.
SocInf@IJCAI
Varun Gangal, Balaraman Ravindran, Ramasuri Narayanam
2016 J jnl
HEMI: Hyperedge Majority Influence Maximization.
CoRR
Varun Gangal, Balaraman Ravindran, Ramasuri Narayanam
2016 A* conf
Trust and Distrust Across Coalitions: Shapley Value Based Centrality Measures for Signed Networks (Student Abstract Version).
AAAI
Varun Gangal, Abhishek Narwekar, Balaraman Ravindran, Ramasuri Narayanam