Publications

  1. Mechanistic Signs of Modality Collapse in Multimodal Event Understanding

    Surikuchi, A. K., Fernández, R., Pezzelle, S.

    Under Review

  2. Where is the multimodal goal post? On the Ability of Foundation Models to Recognize Highlights in Videos

    Surikuchi, A. K., Fernández, R., Pezzelle, S.

    Under Review pdf

  3. How Well Do Vision-Language Models Understand Movies?

    Zaranis, E., Farinhas, A., Santos, S., Canaverde, B., Ramos, M. M., Surikuchi, A. K., Liao, B., Bueno-Benito, E., Viveiros, A. G. N., Sivakumaran, N., Vasylenko, P., Yu, S., Sannigrahi, S., Mohammed, W., Peters, B., Villegas, D. S., Stengel-Eskin, E., Attanasio, G., Yoon, J., Frank, S., Suglia, A., Zerva, C., Elliott, D., Dimiccoli, M., Bansal, M., Lanz, O., Bernardi, R., Fernández, R., Pezzelle, S., Niculae, V., Martins, A. F. T.

    Published in EMNLP 2026 pdf

  4. Natural Language Generation from Visual Events: State-of-the-Art and Key Open Questions

    Surikuchi, A. K., Fernández, R., Pezzelle, S.

    Under Review pdf

  5. On the Challenges in Evaluating Visually Grounded Stories

    Surikuchi, A. K., Fernández, R., Pezzelle, S.

    Published in Text2Story workshop (ECIR 2025) pdf

  6. LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks

    (authors arranged alphabetically)
    Bavaresco, A., Bernardi, R., Bertolazzi, L., Elliott, D., Fernández, R., Gatt, A., Ghaleb, E., Giulianelli, M., Hanna, M., Koller, A., Martins, A. F. T., Mondorf, P., Neplenbroek, V., Pezzelle, S., Plank, B., Schlangen, D., Suglia, A., Surikuchi, A. K., Takmaz, E., Testoni, A.

    Published in ACL 2025 pdf

  7. Not (yet) the whole story: Evaluating Visual Storytelling Requires More than Measuring Coherence, Grounding, and Repetition

    Surikuchi, A. K., Fernández, R., Pezzelle, S.

    Published in EMNLP 2024 Findings pdf poster

  8. GROOViST: A Metric for Grounding Objects in Visual Storytelling

    Surikuchi, A. K., Pezzelle, S., Fernández, R.

    Published in EMNLP 2023 pdf poster

  9. Character-Centric Storytelling

    Surikuchi, A. K., Laaksonen, J.

    Presented at StoryNLP workshop (ACL 2019) pdf

Other Activities

  • Reviewer for ACL ARR, COLING, ACM CIKM, GenBench workshop (EMNLP) – 2024, 2025, 2026
  • Master’s thesis advisor for Once Upon a Bot: Exploring Affective Storytelling in AI-Generated Stories, University of Amsterdam – 2025
  • Master’s thesis advisor for Increasing Effectiveness of AI-powered Systems using Real-Time Feedback, University of Amsterdam – Spring 2022
  • Master’s thesis advisor for Predicting Time Series with Transformer, Aalto University – Fall 2020
  • Teaching assistant for the Deep Learning course (CS-E4890), Aalto University – Fall 2019