🧑‍🔬 Francesca Toni

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓Imperial College LondonLondon · United Kingdom1992–2026 · 334 papersEducationEmployment 2000–2005 · Governors' Lecturer, ComputingEmployment 2005–2008 · Senior Lecturer, ComputingEmployment 2008–2013 · Reader, Computingcurrent🎓University of PisaPisa · Italy1984–2005 · 7 papersEducation 1984–1990 · Laurea, Scienze dell'Informazione🏢PfizerParis · France2011–2012 · 4 papers🏥Hôpital Paris Saint-JosephParis · France2013–2020 · 3 papers🎓Sapienza University of RomeRome · Italy2009–2012 · 2 papers🎓University of LondonLondon · United Kingdom1991–1995Education 1991–1995

🏛️University of London, Imperial College LondonLondon · United Kingdom1991–1995Education 1991–1995 · PhD, Computing

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 9 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

2020s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Explainable Automated Fact-Checking for Public Health Claims (2020 · 314 citations)
   Automated fact-checking research has mostly targeted political statements, and few systems justify their verdicts.
2. Explanation-Based Human Debugging of NLP Models: A Survey (2021 · 77 citations)
   The survey examines explanation-based human debugging (EBHD), meaning the use of model explanations so that people can find and repair defects in trained NLP models.

All works

14 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. Explainable Automated Fact-Checking for Public Health ClaimsConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Neema Kotonya, Francesca Toni2020 · 314 citations
2. Explainable Automated Fact-Checking: A Survey ↗Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yetNeema Kotonya, Francesca Toni2020 · 156 citations
3. Identifying attack and support argumentative relations using deep learning ↗Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetOana Cocarascu, Francesca Toni2017 · 82 citations
4. On Computing Explanations in Argumentation ↗Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yetXiuyi Fan, Francesca Toni2015 · 80 citations
5. Human-grounded Evaluations of Explanation Methods for Text Classification ↗Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) · no summary yetPiyawat Lertvittayakumjorn, Francesca Toni2019 · 78 citations
6. Explanation-Based Human Debugging of NLP Models: A SurveyTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)Piyawat Lertvittayakumjorn, Francesca Toni2021 · 77 citations
7. Argumentation for Explainable Scheduling ↗Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yetKristijonas Čyras et al.2019 · 55 citations
8. Explanation for Case-Based Reasoning via Abstract Argumentation ↗Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications · no summary yetCcaron yras Kristijonas, Ken Satoh, Francesca Toni2016 · 24 citations
9. How well do SOTA legal reasoning models support abductive reasoning? ↗arXiv:2304.06912 · no summary yetHa-Thanh Nguyen et al.2023 · 18 citations
10. Black-Box Analysis: GPTs Across Time in Legal Textual Entailment Task ↗arXiv:2309.05501 · no summary yetHa-Thanh Nguyen et al.2023 · 10 citations
11. Beyond Logic Programming for Legal Reasoning ↗arXiv:2306.16632 · no summary yetHa-Thanh Nguyen et al.2023 · 7 citations
12. Learning Case Relevance in Case-Based Reasoning with Abstract Argumentation ↗JURIX 2023 — Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (IOS Press, FAIA) · no summary yetGuilherme Paulino-Passos, Francesca Toni2023 · 4 citations
13. LawGiBa – Combining GPT, Knowledge Bases, and Logic Programming in a Legal Assistance System ↗JURIX 2023 — Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (IOS Press, FAIA) · no summary yetHa Thanh Nguyen et al.2023 · 3 citations
14. Argumentative LLMs for Legal Information Entailment ↗JURIX 2025 — Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (IOS Press, FAIA) · no summary yetCharlie Lindsay et al.2025

🤝 Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

• Piyawat Lertvittayakumjorn

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• JURIX 2025 — Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (IOS Press, FAIA) ×3
• Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) ×2: EMNLP 2020
• Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ×2
• Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL): Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2021
• Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications
• Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
• Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

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Papers of our library cite their works 294 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 33 citing papers with a page here →.

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