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Seth Ebner

{seth.ebner} {at} {kensho.com}

Hello, World!

I'm Seth Ebner, a research scientist at Kensho. I went to grad school at Johns Hopkins, where I was affiliated with the Center for Language and Speech Processing and was advised by Benjamin Van Durme.

Research interests

I am interested in natural language processing and computational linguistics, particularly semantics and pragmatics and their applications. A lot of my work has focused on information extraction, especially in multi-sentence and multilingual or cross-lingual settings. I have also worked on representations and models of speaker belief, and have also done some work on measuring factuality.

In undergrad, I did research in text-to-speech processing, neuromorphic architectures, binary integer programming, and cache replacement policies.

Selected publications

No Free Labels: Limitations of LLM-as-a-Judge Without Human Grounding. arXiv 2025. M. Krumdick, C. Lovering, V. Reddy, S. Ebner, C. Tanner. [paper]

A Closer Look at Claim Decomposition. *SEM 2024. M. Wanner*, S. Ebner*, Z. Jiang, M. Dredze, B. Van Durme. [paper]

The Effect of Alignment Correction on Cross-Lingual Annotation Projection. Linguistic Annotation Workshop 2023. S. Behzad*, S. Ebner*, M. Marone, B. Van Durme, M. Yarmohammadi. [paper]

Everything Is All It Takes: A Multipronged Strategy for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Information Extraction. EMNLP 2021. M. Yarmohammadi, S. Wu, M. Marone, H. Xu, S. Ebner, G. Qin, Y. Chen, J. Guo, C. Harman, K. Murray, A. S. White, M. Dredze, B. Van Durme. [paper]

Gradual Fine-Tuning for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation. Domain Adaptation for NLP 2021. H. Xu, S. Ebner, M. Yarmohammadi, A. S. White, B. Van Durme, K. Murray. [paper] [poster]

Multi-Sentence Argument Linking. ACL 2020. S. Ebner*, P. Xia*, R. Culkin, K. Rawlins, B. Van Durme. [paper] [code] [slides]

Reading the Manual: Event Extraction as Definition Comprehension. Structured Prediction for NLP 2020. Y. Chen, T. Chen, S. Ebner, B. Van Durme. [paper]

Additional writings

Intension in Literature. 2018. [paper]

An Analysis of Metareference. 2017. [paper]

Semantic Relatedness through Ontologies and Wikipedia. 2017. [paper]


I have written a LaTeX linter for catching common mistakes (especially concerning citations and references to document elements) in LaTeX documents.
Run the linter with: python latexlint.py --dir /path/to/latexfiles <flags> (requires Python 3.6 or later). Flags are set to False by default.
To see the full list of flags, run: python latexlint.py -h