Selected publications

You can also find my articles on Google Scholar and DBLP.

Preprints and current work

• Reasoning Core: A Scalable Procedural Data Generation Suite for Symbolic Pre-training and Post-Training
  Valentin Lacombe, Valentin Quesnel, Damien Sileo
  arXiv preprint, 2026
  Software

2026

• A benchmark of expert-level academic questions to assess AI capabilities
  HLE Contributors Consortium, including Damien Sileo
  Nature, 2026

• Logic Haystacks: Probing LLMs’ Long-Context Logical Reasoning
  Damien Sileo
  EACL 2026, Short Papers

• Adaptive Text Anonymization: Learning Privacy-Utility Trade-offs via Prompt Optimization
  Damien Sileo et al.
  Findings of ACL 2026

2025

• Bridging the Data Provenance Gap Across Text, Speech, and Video
  Shayne Longpre, Nikhil Singh, et al., including Damien Sileo
  ICLR 2025

• Attention Overflow: Language Model Input Blur during Long-Context Missing Items Identification
  Damien Sileo
  Findings of IJCNLP-AACL 2025

• Tau-Eval: A Unified Evaluation Framework for Useful and Private Text Anonymization
  Damien Sileo et al.
  EMNLP 2025, System Demonstrations

• TAROT: Task-Oriented Authorship Obfuscation Using Policy Optimization Methods
  Damien Sileo et al.
  PrivacyNLP 2025

2024

• Scaling Synthetic Logical Reasoning Datasets with Context-Sensitive Declarative Grammars
  Damien Sileo
  EMNLP 2024
  Software

• tasksource: A Large Collection of NLP Tasks with a Structured Dataset Preprocessing Framework
  Damien Sileo
  LREC-COLING 2024
  Software

• A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI
  Shayne Longpre, Robert Mahari, et al., including Damien Sileo
  Nature Machine Intelligence, 2024

• Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons
  Shayne Longpre, Robert Mahari, et al., including Damien Sileo
  NeurIPS 2024, Datasets and Benchmarks Track

• Generating Multiple-choice Questions for Medical Question Answering with Distractors and Cue-masking
  Damien Sileo et al.
  2024

• DISRPT: A Multilingual, Multi-domain, Cross-framework Benchmark for Discourse Processing
  Multiple authors, including Damien Sileo
  2024

2023

• MindGames: Targeting Theory of Mind in Large Language Models with Dynamic Epistemic Modal Logic
  Damien Sileo, Antoine Lernould
  Findings of EMNLP 2023
  Software and data

• Probing Neural Language Models for Understanding of Words of Estimative Probability
  Damien Sileo, Marie-Francine Moens
  SEM 2023

• NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation, section B.33
  Kaustubh Dhole, Damien Sileo
  Northern European Journal of Language Technology, 2023

• Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and Extrapolating the Capabilities of Language Models
  Sohl-Dickstein et al., including Damien Sileo
  Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2023

2022

• Zero-Shot Recommendations as Language Modeling
  Damien Sileo, Wout Vossen, Robbe Raymaekers
  ECIR 2022

• Analysis and Prediction of NLP Models Via Task Embeddings
  Damien Sileo, Marie-Francine Moens
  LREC 2022

• A Pragmatics-Centered Evaluation Framework for Natural Language Understanding
  Damien Sileo, Tim Van De Cruys, Camille Pradel, Philippe Muller
  LREC 2022

• When Do Discourse Markers Affect Computational Sentence Understanding?
  Ruiqi Li, Liesbeth Allein, Damien Sileo, Marie-Francine Moens
  Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs, 2022

Earlier work

• DiscSense: Automated Semantic Analysis of Discourse Markers
  Damien Sileo, Tim Van De Cruys, Camille Pradel, Philippe Muller
  LREC 2020

• Mining Discourse Markers for Unsupervised Sentence Representation Learning
  Damien Sileo, Tim Van De Cruys, Camille Pradel, Philippe Muller
  NAACL 2019

• Composition of Sentence Embeddings: Lessons from Statistical Relational Learning
  Damien Sileo, Tim Van De Cruys, Camille Pradel, Philippe Muller
  SEM 2019