Publications
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AdaPRA: Process Reward Agents with Adaptive Rubrics for Data Science
Atharva Naik, Vivek Chari, Pol Llado, Daniel Fried, Carolyn Rosé, Benjamin Van Durme, Sam Thomson, and Justin Svegliato
arXiv, October 2026. (preprint) -
FrankenReport: Early Exiting in Long-Form Generation Using Expected Value of Computation
Zhengping Jiang, Gonzalo Ramos, Jina Suh, Shiqian Rachel Ng, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Justin Svegliato, Benjamin Van Durme, Andy Huntington, and Sam Thomson
In EMNLP 2026, Budapest, Hungary, October 2026. (paper) -
MICE for CATs: Model-Internal Confidence Estimation for Calibrating Agents with Tools
Nishant Subramani, Jason Eisner, Justin Svegliato, Benjamin Van Durme, Yu Su, and Sam Thomson
In NAACL 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 2025. (paper) -
Language-to-Code Translation with a Single Labeled Example
Kaj Bostrom, Harsh Jhamtani, Hao Fang, Sam Thomson, Richard Shin, Patrick Xia, Benjamin Van Durme, Jason Eisner, and Jacob Andreas
In EMNLP 2024, Miami, Florida, USA, November 2024. (paper) -
BenchCLAMP: A Benchmark for Evaluating Language Models on Syntactic and Semantic Parsing
Subhro Roy, Sam Thomson, Tongfei Chen, Richard Shin, Adam Pauls, Jason Eisner, and Benjamin Van Durme
In NeurIPS 2023 (Datasets and Benchmarks Track). (paper, preprint) -
Toward Interactive Dictation
Belinda Z. Li, Jason Eisner, Adam Pauls, and Sam Thomson
In ACL 2023, Toronto, Canada, July 2023. (paper) -
When More Data Hurts: A Troubling Quirk in Developing Broad-Coverage Natural Language Understanding Systems
Elias Stengel-Eskin, Emmanouil Antonios Platanios, Adam Pauls, Sam Thomson, Hao Fang, Benjamin Van Durme, Jason Eisner, and Yu Su
In EMNLP 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, December 2022. (paper) -
Online Semantic Parsing for Latency Reduction in Task-Oriented Dialogue
Jiawei Zhou, Jason Eisner, Michael Newman, Emmanouil Antonios Platanios, and Sam Thomson
In ACL 2022 (Outstanding Paper), Dublin, Ireland, May 2022. (paper, code) -
Guided K-best Selection for Semantic Parsing Annotation
Anton Belyy, Chieh-yang Huang, Jacob Andreas, Emmanouil Antonios Platanios, Sam Thomson, Richard Shin, Subhro Roy, Aleksandr Nisnevich, Charles Chen, and Benjamin Van Durme
In ACL 2022 (Demo), Dublin, Ireland, May 2022. (paper) -
Constrained Language Models Yield Few-Shot Semantic Parsers
Richard Shin, Christopher H. Lin, Sam Thomson, Charles Chen, Subhro Roy, Emmanouil Antonios Platanios, Adam Pauls, Dan Klein, Jason Eisner, and Benjamin Van Durme
In EMNLP 2021, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November 2021. (paper, code) -
Value-Agnostic Conversational Semantic Parsing
Emmanouil Antonios Platanios, Adam Pauls, Subhro Roy, Yuchen Zhang, Alexander Kyte, Alan Guo, Sam Thomson, Jayant Krishnamurthy, Jason Wolfe, Jacob Andreas, and Dan Klein
In ACL 2021, Online, August 2021. (paper, data) -
Compositional Generalization for Neural Semantic Parsing via Span-level Supervised Attention
Pengcheng Yin, Hao Fang, Graham Neubig, Adam Pauls, Emmanouil Antonios Platanios, Yu Su, Sam Thomson, and Jacob Andreas
In NAACL 2021, Online, June 2021. (paper) -
Task-Oriented Dialogue as Dataflow Synthesis
Semantic Machines, Jacob Andreas, John Bufe, David Burkett, Charles Chen, Josh Clausman, Jean Crawford, Kate Crim, Jordan DeLoach, Leah Dorner, Jason Eisner, Hao Fang, Alan Guo, David Hall, Kristin Hayes, Kellie Hill, Diana Ho, Wendy Iwaszuk, Smriti Jha, Dan Klein, Jayant Krishnamurthy, Theo Lanman, Percy Liang, Christopher H. Lin, Ilya Lintsbakh, Andy McGovern, Aleksandr Nisnevich, Adam Pauls, Dmitrij Petters, Brent Read, Dan Roth, Subhro Roy, Jesse Rusak, Beth Short, Div Slomin, Ben Snyder, Stephon Striplin, Yu Su, Zachary Tellman, Sam Thomson, Andrei Vorobev, Izabela Witoszko, Jason Wolfe, Abby Wray, Yuchen Zhang, and Alexander Zotov
In TACL 2020, September 2020. (paper, code, data, talk, blog, bib) -
Encoding and Decoding Graph Representations of Natural Language
Sam Thomson.
Thesis, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2019. (thesis, bib) -
Rational Recurrences
Hao Peng, Roy Schwartz, Sam Thomson, and Noah A. Smith.
In EMNLP 2018, Brussels, Belgium, November 2018. (pdf, bib, code) -
Syntactic Scaffolds for Semantic Structures
Swabha Swayamdipta, Sam Thomson, Kenton Lee, Luke Zettlemoyer, Chris Dyer, and Noah A. Smith.
In EMNLP 2018, Brussels, Belgium, November 2018. (pdf, bib, code) -
SoPa: Bridging CNNs, RNNs, and Weighted Finite-State Machines
Roy Schwartz*, Sam Thomson*, and Noah A. Smith.
In ACL 2018, Melbourne, Australia, July 2018. (pdf, bib, code) -
Backpropagating through Structured Argmax using a SPIGOT
Hao Peng, Sam Thomson, and Noah A. Smith.
In ACL 2018, Melbourne, Australia, July 2018. (pdf, supp, bib, code) -
Neural Motifs: Scene Graph Parsing with Global Context
Rowan Zellers, Mark Yatskar, Sam Thomson, and Yejin Choi.
In CVPR 2018, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2018. (preprint, bib, project, code ) -
Learning Joint Semantic Parsers from Disjoint Data
Hao Peng, Sam Thomson, Swabha Swayamdipta, and Noah A. Smith.
In NAACL 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 2018. (pdf, bib, code, talk) -
Frame-Semantic Parsing with Softmax-Margin Segmental RNNs and a Syntactic Scaffold
Swabha Swayamdipta, Sam Thomson, Chris Dyer, and Noah A. Smith.
arXiv, June 2017. (preprint, bib, code) -
Deep Multitask Learning for Semantic Dependency Parsing
Hao Peng, Sam Thomson, and Noah A. Smith.
In ACL 2017, Vancouver, Canada, July 2017. (pdf, bib, code) -
Frame-Semantic Role Labeling with Heterogeneous Annotations
Meghana Kshirsagar, Sam Thomson, Nathan Schneider, Jaime Carbonell, Noah A. Smith, and Chris Dyer.
In ACL 2015, Beijing, China, July 2015. (pdf, bib, code) -
Toward Abstractive Summarization Using Semantic Representations
Fei Liu, Jeffrey Flanigan Sam Thomson, Norman Sadeh, and Noah A. Smith.
In NAACL 2015, Denver, CO, May 2015. (pdf, bib) -
CMU: Arc-Factored, Discriminative Semantic Dependency Parsing
Sam Thomson, Brendan O'Connor, Jeffrey Flanigan, David Bamman, Jesse Dodge, Swabha Swayamdipta, Nathan Schneider, Chris Dyer and Noah A. Smith.
In SemEval 2014, Dublin, Ireland, August 2014. (pdf, bib, code) -
Graph-based Algorithms for Semantic Parsing
Jeffrey Flanigan, Sam Thomson, David Bamman, Jesse Dodge, Manaal Faruqui, Brendan O'Connor, Nathan Schneider, Swabha Swayamdipta, Chris Dyer and Noah A. Smith.
In ACL 2014 Workshop on Semantic Parsing, Baltimore, MD, June 2014. -
A Discriminative Graph-Based Parser for the Abstract Meaning Representation
Jeffrey Flanigan, Sam Thomson, Jaime Carbonell, Chris Dyer and Noah A. Smith.
In ACL 2014 (Best Long Paper Honorable Mention), Baltimore, MD, June 2014. (pdf, bib, code)
*Equal contribution.