--- title: "Simone Balloccu — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Simone Balloccu, Technische Universität Darmstadt: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-balloccu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-balloccu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Simone Balloccu # Simone Balloccu Simone Balloccu has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/); often with [Mateusz Lango](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mateusz-lango/), [Ondřej Dušek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ondrej-dusek/), [Patrícia Schmidtová](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patricia-schmidtova/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5023246059) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9812-5092) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130846195) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5023246059) · [52 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023246059) · [209 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023246059&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-balloccu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 121 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-balloccu/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5932](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/60/#star-5932) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Simone+Balloccu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Simone+Balloccu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Simone+Balloccu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Simone+Balloccu) ## Affiliations [🎓**Technische Universität Darmstadt** Darmstadt · Germany 2025–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technische-universitat-darmstadt/) · [🎓**University of Aberdeen** Aberdeen · United Kingdom 2020–2024 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-aberdeen/) · [🎓**Charles University** Prague · Czechia 2023–2024 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/charles-university/) · [🎓**University of Cagliari** Cagliari · Italy 2018–2022 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/003109y17) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-balloccu/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-balloccu/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Leak, Cheat, Repeat: Data Contamination and Evaluation Malpractices in Closed-Source LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/balloccu-2024-leak-cheat-repeat-data-contamination/)** *(2024 · 174 citations)* The authors study how test data ends up in closed LLMs (data contamination). They separately examine a phenomenon they call indirect data leakage. When researchers evaluate GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 through ChatGPT, benchmark examples may become training material for subsequent versions of the model. Existing contamination… 2. **[ARQA: A Benchmark for Grounded Table–Text QA in Enterprise Annual Reports](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-arqa-benchmark-grounded-table-text/)** *(2026)* Enterprise annual reports pair audited KPI tables with narrative explaining why figures changed. Existing QA benchmarks usually test only one ability, such as table arithmetic, hybrid retrieval, or text-only citation. ARQA (Annual Report QA) combines numeric recomputation, joint table–text grounding, and causal… ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Mateusz Lango](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mateusz-lango/) - [Ondřej Dušek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ondrej-dusek/) - [Patrícia Schmidtová](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patricia-schmidtova/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/) ×2: [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/), [EACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 121 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [26 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-balloccu/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026