Michael Sejr SchlichtkrullLecturer, Queen Mary University of London
I am a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. My research is focused on automated reasoning (by LLMs and other NLP models) over retrieved evidence, especially for fact-checking and problems with similarly complex epistemology. I am also very interested in modeling structured data sources, such as knowledge graphs, tables, or parse trees. I study technologies that improve the way we interact with information, whether that is through question answering systems that allow us to interrogate data, or fact-checking systems that help us reason about the evidential support for data.
Before coming to Queen Mary, I was a postdoctoral research associate and affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge, where I worked with Andreas Vlachos on automated fact verification. I was also a research associate at Fitzwilliam College. I graduated in 2021 with my PhD thesis from the University of Amsterdam, where I worked with Ivan Titov on building NLP models that incorporate structured data.
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Generating Media Background Checks for Automated Source Critical Reasoning
Findings of EMNLP, 2024Automated Focused Feedback Generation for Scientific Writing Assistance
Findings of ACL, 2024Document-level Claim Extraction and Decontextualisation for Fact-Checking
ACL, 2024The Intended Uses of Automated Fact-Checking Artefacts: Why, How and Who
Findings of EMNLP, 2023Are Embedded Potatoes Still Vegetables? On the Limitations of WordNet Embeddings for Lexical Semantics
EMNLP, 2023AVeriTeC: A Dataset for Real-world Claim Verification with Evidence from the Web
NeurIPS, 2023A Survey on Automated Fact-Checking
TACL, 2022UniK-QA: Unified Representations of Structured and Unstructured Knowledge for Open-Domain Question Answering
Findings of NAACL, 2022FEVEROUS: Fact Extraction and VERification Over Unstructured and Structured information
NeurIPS 2021, 2021Joint Verification and Reranking for Open Fact Checking Over Tables
ACL, 2021Interpreting Graph Neural Networks for NLP With Differentiable Edge Masking
ICLR, 2021NeurIPS 2020 EfficientQA Competition: Systems, Analyses and Lessons Learned
NeurIPS 2020 Competitions and Demonstrations Track, 2021How do Decisions Emerge across Layers in Neural Models? Interpretation with Differentiable Masking
EMNLP, 2020Evaluating for Diversity in Question Generation over Text
ArXiv, 2020Modeling Relational Data with Graph Convolutional Networks
ESWC, 2018, Best student research paperCross-Lingual Dependency Parsing with Late Decoding for Truly Low-Resource Languages
EACL, 2017MSejrKu at SemEval-2016 Task 14: Taxonomy Enrichment by Evidence Ranking
SemEval, 2016Learning Affective Projections for Emoticons on Twitter
CogInfoCom, 2015, Best paper
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m (dot) schlichtkrull (at) qmul (dot) (dot) ac (dot) ukSchool of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London