Zahra Rahimi


2024

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HalluSafe at SemEval-2024 Task 6: An NLI-based Approach to Make LLMs Safer by Better Detecting Hallucinations and Overgeneration Mistakes
Zahra Rahimi | Hamidreza Amirzadeh | Alireza Sohrabi | Zeinab Taghavi | Hossein Sameti
Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)

The advancement of large language models (LLMs), their ability to produce eloquent and fluent content, and their vast knowledge have resulted in their usage in various tasks and applications. Despite generating fluent content, this content can contain fabricated or false information. This problem is known as hallucination and has reduced the confidence in the output of LLMs. In this work, we have used Natural Language Inference to train classifiers for hallucination detection to tackle SemEval-2024 Task 6-SHROOM (Mickus et al., 2024) which is defined in three sub-tasks: Paraphrase Generation, Machine Translation, and Definition Modeling. We have also conducted experiments on LLMs to evaluate their ability to detect hallucinated outputs. We have achieved 75.93% and 78.33% accuracy for the modelaware and model-agnostic tracks, respectively. The shared links of our models and the codes are available on GitHub.

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NIMZ at SemEval-2024 Task 9: Evaluating Methods in Solving Brainteasers Defying Commonsense
Zahra Rahimi | Mohammad Moein Shirzady | Zeinab Taghavi | Hossein Sameti
Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)

The goal and dream of the artificial intelligence field have long been the development of intelligent systems or agents that mimic human behavior and thinking. Creativity is an essential trait in humans that is closely related to lateral thinking. The remarkable advancements in Language Models have led to extensive research on question-answering and explicit and implicit reasoning involving vertical thinking. However, there is an increasing need to shift focus towards research and development of models that can think laterally. One must step outside the traditional frame of commonsense concepts in lateral thinking to conclude. Task 9 of SemEval-2024 is Brainteaser (Jiang et al.,2024), which requires lateral thinking to answer riddle-like multiple-choice questions. In our study, we assessed the performance of various models for the Brainteaser task. We achieved an overall accuracy of 75% for the Sentence Puzzle subtask and 66.7% for the Word Puzzle subtask. All the codes, along with the links to our saved models, are available on our GitHub.

2018

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Weighting Model Based on Group Dynamics to Measure Convergence in Multi-party Dialogue
Zahra Rahimi | Diane Litman
Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue

This paper proposes a new weighting method for extending a dyad-level measure of convergence to multi-party dialogues by considering group dynamics instead of simply averaging. Experiments indicate the usefulness of the proposed weighted measure and also show that in general a proper weighting of the dyad-level measures performs better than non-weighted averaging in multiple tasks.

2016

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The Teams Corpus and Entrainment in Multi-Party Spoken Dialogues
Diane Litman | Susannah Paletz | Zahra Rahimi | Stefani Allegretti | Caitlin Rice
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Automatically Extracting Topical Components for a Response-to-Text Writing Assessment
Zahra Rahimi | Diane Litman
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

2015

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Incorporating Coherence of Topics as a Criterion in Automatic Response-to-Text Assessment of the Organization of Writing
Zahra Rahimi | Diane Litman | Elaine Wang | Richard Correnti
Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications