PortNLP - NLP Lab at Portland State: Publications

Publications

2025	Correct-Detect: Balancing Performance and Ambiguity Through the Lens of Coreference Resolution in LLMs Amber Shore, Russell Scheinberg, Ameeta Agrawal, So Young Lee. The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025).
	MFTCXplain: A Multilingual Benchmark Dataset for Evaluating the Moral Reasoning of LLMs through Hate Speech Multi-hop Explanations Jackson Trager, Francielle Vargas, Diego Alves, Matteo Guida, Mikel K. Ngueajio, Flor Plaza-del-Arco, Yalda Daryanai, Farzan Karimi-Malekabadi, Ameeta Agrawal. Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025).
	Enhancing Large Language Models with Neurosymbolic Reasoning for Multilingual Tasks Sina Bagheri Nezhad, Ameeta Agrawal. Conference on Neurosymbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy 2025).
	Explain-then-Process: Using Grammar Prompting to Enhance Grammatical Acceptability Judgments Russell Scheinberg, Ameeta Agrawal, Amber Shore, So Young Lee. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025.
	CROSS: Analyzing the Trade-offs in Long-Context Cross-lingual Retrieval Sina Bagheri Nezhad, Ameeta Agrawal. ICLR 2025 Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild.
	Model Explanations for Gender and Ethnicity Bias Mitigation in AI-Generated Narratives Martha Otisi Dimgba. Dissertations and Theses. Paper 6800. 2025.
	Investigating Key Structures in Protective Scenes for LLMs Eben M. Weisman. University Honors Theses. Paper 1583. 2025.
	Who Relies More on World Knowledge and Bias for Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution: Humans or LLMs? So Young Lee, Russell Scheinberg, Amber Shore, Ameeta Agrawal. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025).
	The Impact of Model Scaling on Seen and Unseen Language Performance Rhitabrat Pokharel, Sina Bagheri Nezhad, Ameeta Agrawal, Suresh Singh. The First Workshop on Scalable and Efficient Artificial Intelligence Systems (SEAS) at AAAI 2025.
	Beyond Data Quantity: Key Factors Driving Performance in Multilingual Language Models Sina Bagheri Nezhad, Ameeta Agrawal, Rhitabrat Pokharel. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM) at COLING 2025. GitHub Poster
	neDIOM: Dataset and Analysis of Nepali Idioms Rhitabrat Pokharel, Ameeta Agrawal. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL 2025) at COLING 2025. GitHub Poster
2024	Multilingual Relative Clause Attachment Ambiguity Resolution in Large Language Models Young Lee, Russell Scheinberg, Amber Shore, Ameeta Agrawal. Proceedings of the 38th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 2024).
	Spoken Dialogue Systems and ChatGPT for Second Language Pragmatics Research Tetyana Sydorenko, Judit Dombi, Ameeta Agrawal, Steven L. Thorne, Jung In Lee, Yufei Tao. Routledge Handbook of Technological Advances in Researching Language Learning. Routledge. 2024.
	Improving Explainable Fact-Checking via Sentence-Level Factual Reasoning Francielle Vargas, Isadora Salles, Diego Alves, Ameeta Agrawal, Thiago A. S. Pardo, Fabrício Benevenuto.. Proceedings of the Seventh Fact Extraction and Verification Workshop (FEVER) at EMNLP 2024.
	Fair Summarization: Bridging Quality and Diversity in Extractive Summaries [Poster] Sina Bagheri Nezhad, Sayan Bandyapadhyay, Ameeta Agrawal. The Algorithmic Fairness through the Lens of Metrics and Evaluation (AFME) workshop at NeurIPS 2024. GitHub Poster
	Multilingual Evaluation of Long Context Retrieval and Reasoning Ameeta Agrawal, Andy Dang, Sina Bagheri Nezhad, Rhitabrat Pokharel, Russell Scheinberg. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Multi-lingual Representation Learning (MRL) at EMNLP 2024 [Honorable Mention]. GitHub Presentation
	When Context Leads but Parametric Memory Follows in Large Language Models Yufei Tao, Adam Hiatt, Erik Haake, Antonie J. Jetter, Ameeta Agrawal. The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024). GitHub Poster
	Resolving RC Attachment Ambiguity in LLMs: Contrasting Head-Initial and Head-Final Language Processing [Poster] So Young Lee, Russell Scheinberg, Amber Shore, Ameeta Agrawal. The 2024 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2024). Presentation
	Broadening Access to Simulations for End-Users via Large Language Models: Challenges and Opportunities Philippe J. Giabbanelli, Jose J. Padilla, Ameeta Agrawal. 2024 Winter Simulation Conference.
	Training Practitioners for Real-time Product Development Using Generative Artificial Intelligence Antonie J. Jetter, Ameeta Agrawal, Dahm Mongkol Hongchai, Charles M. Weber, Yufei Tao. 2024 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), pp. 1-11. IEEE, 2024.
	Understanding Position Bias Effects on Fairness in Social Multi-Document Summarization Olubusayo Olabisi, Ameeta Agrawal. The Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial) at NAACL 2024.
	What Drives Performance in Multilingual Language Models? Sina Bagheri Nezhad, Ameeta Agrawal. The Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial) at NAACL 2024. GitHub Poster
	ChatGPT Role-play Dataset: Analysis of User Motives and Model Naturalness Yufei Tao, Ameeta Agrawal, Judit Dombi, Tetyana Sydorenko, Jung In Lee. Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), 2024. GitHub Poster Presentation
	Making a Long Story Short in Conversation Modeling Yufei Tao, Tiernan Mines, Ameeta Agrawal. Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI (TEICAI) at EACL 2024. Presentation Video
	Narrating Causal Graphs with Large Language Models Atharva Phatak, Vijay K. Mago, Ameeta Agrawal, Aravind Inbasekaran, Philippe J. Giabbanelli. Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2024 [Best Paper Award].
2023	MEEP: Is this Engaging? Prompting Large Language Models for Dialogue Evaluation in Multilingual Settings Amila Ferron, Amber Shore, Ekata Mitra, Ameeta Agrawal. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023.
	Generating Continuations in Multilingual Idiomatic Contexts Rhitabrat Pokharel, Ameeta Agrawal. Proceedings of the The 3rd Workshop on Multi-lingual Representation Learning (MRL) at EMNLP 2023. GitHub Poster Presentation
	All Translation Tools Are Not Equal: Investigating the Quality of Language Translation for Forced Migration Ameeta Agrawal, Lisa Singh, Elizabeth Jacobs, Yaguang Liu, Gwyneth Dunlevy, Rhitabrat Pokharel, Varun Uppala. 2023 IEEE 10th International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), IEEE. Presentation
	Using NLP to ascertain changes in the fast-fashion industry based on UN sustainable development goals Jaanya Chadha, Srinidhi Gubba, Ameeta Agrawal. Journal of Emerging Investigators (JEI). Vol 6.
	Conversation Derailment Forecasting with Graph Convolutional Networks Enas Altarawneh, Ameeta Agrawal, Michael Jenkin, Manos Papagelis. Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) at ACL 2023.
	Corpus Complexity Matters in Pretraining Language Models Ameeta Agrawal, Suresh Singh. Proceedings of The Fourth Workshop on Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing (SustaiNLP) at ACL 2023. Presentation
	Emotion and Sentiment Guided Paraphrasing Justin J. Xie, Ameeta Agrawal. Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis (WASSA) at ACL 2023.
	Estimating Semantic Similarity between In-Domain and Out-of-Domain Samples Rhitabrat Pokharel, Ameeta Agrawal. Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023) at ACL. GitHub Poster Presentation
	The Role of Preprocessing for Word Representation Learning in Affective Tasks Nastaran Babanejad, Heidar Davoudi, Ameeta Agrawal, Aijun An, Manos Papagelis. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 2023.
	Trajectory-User Linking using Higher-order Mobility Flow Representations Mahmoud Alsaeed, Ameeta Agrawal, Manos Papagelis. Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management. MDM 2023.
	An Analysis of YouTube Comments to Inform the Design of Virtual Reality Training Simulations to Target Emotional Arousal Karan R Patil, Siddharth Bhandari, Ameeta Agrawal, Steven K Ayer, Logan A Perry, Matthew R Hallowell. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. 2023.
	Using Lexicon and Machine Learning-Based Models for Sentiment Analysis in Arabic to Predict Migration Routes Jenny Park, Lisa Singh, Ameeta Agrawal. ACM Capital Region Women in Computing Conference. 2023.
	Machine Learning Predictions of Electricity Capacity Marcus Harris, Elizabeth Kirby, Ameeta Agrawal, Rhitabrat Pokharel, Francis Puyleart, Martin Zwick. Energies 2023, 16, 187.
2022	Assessing Inter-metric Correlation for Multi-document Summarization Evaluation Michael Ridenour, Ameeta Agrawal, Olubusayo Olabisi. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics at EMNLP. GEM 2022.
	Analyzing the Dialect Diversity in Multi-document Summaries Olubusayo Olabisi, Aaron Hudson, Antonie Jetter, Ameeta Agrawal. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. COLING 2022. GitHub
	Unsupervised Knowledge Graph Generation Using Semantic Similarity Matching Lixian Liu, Amin Omidvar, Zongyang Ma, Ameeta Agrawal, Aijun An. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Deep Learning for Low-Resource NLP at NAACL. DeepLo 2022.
2021	On the Role of Corpus Ordering in Language Modeling Ameeta Agrawal, Suresh Singh, Lauren Schneider, Michael Samuels. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing at EMNLP. SustaiNLP 2021.
	Extracting Physical Events from Digital Chatter for COVID-19 Vikram Nagapudi, Ameeta Agrawal, Nirupama Bulusu. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing. SmartComp 2021.