William Thorne

14 papers C 4Journal 7Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Demystifying Funding: Reconstructing a Unified Dataset of the UK Funding Lifecycle.
CoRR
William Thorne, Rupert Shepherd, Diana Maynard
2026 J jnl
Evaluating LLM-Based Grant Proposal Review via Structured Perturbations.
CoRR
William Thorne, Joseph James, Yang Wang, Chenghua Lin, Diana Maynard
2025 — conf
Comparing Apples to Oranges: A Dataset & Analysis of LLM Humour Understanding from Traditional Puns to Topical Jokes.
EMNLP (Findings)
Tyler Loakman, William Thorne, Chenghua Lin
2025 J jnl
Comparing Apples to Oranges: A Dataset & Analysis of LLM Humour Understanding from Traditional Puns to Topical Jokes.
CoRR
Tyler Loakman, William Thorne, Chenghua Lin
2025 J jnl
Who's Laughing Now? An Overview of Computational Humour Generation and Explanation.
CoRR
Tyler Loakman, William Thorne, Chenghua Lin
2024 C conf
Efficient Token Sparsification Through the Lens of Infused Knowledge.
FUSION
Bohua Peng, Bin Chen, Wei He, William Thorne, Visakan Kadirkamanathan
2024 J jnl
Increasing the Difficulty of Automatically Generated Questions via Reinforcement Learning with Synthetic Preference.
CoRR
William Thorne, Ambrose Robinson, Bohua Peng, Chenghua Lin, Diana Maynard
2024 — conf
Navigating Prompt Complexity for Zero-Shot Classification: A Study of Large Language Models in Computational Social Science.
LREC/COLING
Yida Mu, Ben P. Wu, William Thorne, Ambrose Robinson, Nikolaos Aletras, Carolina Scarton, Kalina Bontcheva, Xingyi Song
2023 J jnl
Bio-SIEVE: Exploring Instruction Tuning Large Language Models for Systematic Review Automation.
CoRR
Ambrose Robinson, William Thorne, Ben Wu, Abdullah Pandor, Munira Essat, Mark Stevenson, Xingyi Song
2023 — conf
FLYPE: Multitask Prompt Tuning for Multimodal Human Understanding of Social Media.
MUWS@CIKM
Bohua Peng, Chengfu Wu, Wei He, William Thorne, Aline Villavicencio, Yujin Wang, Aline Paes
2023 J jnl
Navigating Prompt Complexity for Zero-Shot Classification: A Study of Large Language Models in Computational Social Science.
CoRR
Yida Mu, Ben P. Wu, William Thorne, Ambrose Robinson, Nikolaos Aletras, Carolina Scarton, Kalina Bontcheva, Xingyi Song
2018 C conf
Design of a Technology-Enhanced Pedagogical Framework for a Systems and Networking Administration course incorporating a Virtual Laboratory.
FIE
Rukshan Athauda, Tareq Alkhaldi, Ilung Pranata, Daniel Conway, Charles Frank, William Thorne, Ryan Dean
2007 C conf
Visual Data Mining of Web Navigational Data.
IV
Jiyang Chen, Tong Zheng, William Thorne, Osmar R. Zaïane, Randy Goebel
2007 C conf
Visualizing Web Navigation Data with Polygon Graphs.
IV
Jiyang Chen, Tong Zheng, William Thorne, Daniel Huntley, Osmar R. Zaïane, Randy Goebel