Selected Publications
Here is a selection of publications representative of my research work and Interests. For a complete list, check out my scholar profile.- Controlling Equational Reasoning in Large Language Models with Prompt Interventions, To Appear in Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025, Oral). Jordan Meadows, Marco Valentino, André Freitas
- Eliciting Critical Reasoning in Retrieval-Augmented Language Models via Contrastive Explanations, To Appear in Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025). Leonardo Ranaldi, Marco Valentino, André Freitas
- Verification and Refinement of Natural Language Explanations through LLM-Symbolic Theorem Proving, Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024, Outstanding Paper Award). Xin Quan, Marco Valentino, Louise Dennis, André Freitas
- Inference to the Best Explanation in Large Language Models, Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024). Dhairya Dalal, Marco Valentino, André Freitas, Paul Buitelaar
- On the Nature of Explanation: An Epistemological‑Linguistic Perspective for Explanation‑Based Natural Language Inference, Philosophy & Technology. Marco Valentino, André Freitas
- Multi-Operational Mathematical Derivations in Latent Space, Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024). Marco Valentino, Jordan Meadows, Lan Zhang, André Freitas
- Multi-Relational Hyperbolic Word Embeddings from Natural Language Definitions, Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2024). Marco Valentino, Danilo S. Carvalho, André Freitas
- NLI4CT: Multi-Evidence Natural Language Inference for Clinical Trial Reports, Proceedings of The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023). Mael Jullien, Marco Valentino, Hannah Frost, Paul O'Regan, Donal Landers, André Freitas [website]
- Hybrid Autoregressive Inference for Scalable Multi-Hop Explanation Regeneration, 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022, Oral). Marco Valentino, Mokanarangan Thayaparan, Deborah Ferreira, André Freitas
- Case-Based Abductive Natural Language Inference, 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2022). Marco Valentino, Mokanarangan Thayaparan, André Freitas
- Diff-Explainer: Differentiable Convex Optimization for Explainable Multi-hop Inference, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL 2022). Mokanarangan Thayaparan, Marco Valentino, Deborah Ferreira, Julia Rozanova, André Freitas