Papers by Mourad Heddaya
Language of Bargaining (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | a new dataset is being developed to study how language shapes bilateral bargaining . a recent study examined the use of language in negotiation education . |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset to study how language shapes bilateral bargaining . they recruit participants via behavioral labs instead of crowdsourcing platforms . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset is based on an exercise in negotiation education . it shows that when subjects can talk, negotiations finish faster and prices drop . |
When Internalization Fails: Finding Better Targets for Reasoning Compression (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Reasoning language models generate long reasoning traces that increase latency and cost. |
| Approach: | They compare three approaches to shorten reasoning traces by inference-time truncation . they use Implicit Chain-of-Thought-style curricula that progressively shorten the teacher trace . |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods work well on GSM8K and multiplication tasks. |
CaseSumm: A Large-Scale Dataset for Long-Context Summarization from U.S. Supreme Court Opinions (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | CaseSumm is a dataset for long-context summarization in the legal domain . human groundtruth summaries are often not available for legal summarizing . |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset for long-context summarization that includes SCOTUS opinions and their official summaries. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset is the largest open legal case summarization dataset . it outperforms larger models on automatic metrics and human evaluation . |