no code implementations • CONSTRAINT (ACL) 2022 • Pranaydeep Singh, Aaron Maladry, Els Lefever
This paper describes the system we developed for the shared task ‘Hero, Villain and Victim: Dissecting harmful memes for Semantic role labelling of entities’ organised in the framework of the Second Workshop on Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situation (Constraint 2022).
no code implementations • COLING 2022 • Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever
In this research, we present pilot experiments to distil monolingual models from a jointly trained model for 102 languages (mBERT).
no code implementations • TERM (LREC) 2022 • Ayla Rigouts Terryn, Veronique Hoste, Els Lefever
This contribution presents D-Terminer: an open access, online demo for monolingual and multilingual automatic term extraction from parallel corpora.
no code implementations • COLING (ArgMining) 2020 • Nina Bauwelinck, Els Lefever
This pilot study reports on the annotation of a corpus of 100 Dutch user comments made in response to politically-themed news articles on Facebook.
1 code implementation • SIGUL (LREC) 2022 • Pranaydeep Singh, Orphee De Clercq, Els Lefever
This paper reports on experiments for cross-lingual transfer using the anchor-based approach of Schuster et al. (2019) for English and a low-resourced language, namely Hindi.
no code implementations • WASSA (ACL) 2022 • Aaron Maladry, Els Lefever, Cynthia Van Hee, Veronique Hoste
This paper presents the results of a replication experiment for automatic irony detection in Dutch social media text, investigating both a feature-based SVM classifier, as was done by Van Hee et al. (2017) and and a transformer-based approach.
no code implementations • WASSA (ACL) 2022 • Ellen De Geyndt, Orphee De Clercq, Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, Pranaydeep Singh, Olivier Parent, Veronique Hoste
In this paper, we present the SentEMO platform, a tool that provides aspect-based sentiment analysis and emotion detection of unstructured text data such as reviews, emails and customer care conversations.
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) +1
1 code implementation • EMNLP (LaTeCHCLfL, CLFL, LaTeCH) 2021 • Pranaydeep Singh, Gorik Rutten, Els Lefever
This paper presents a pilot study to automatic linguistic preprocessing of Ancient and Byzantine Greek, and morphological analysis more specifically.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2021 • Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever
Internet memes have become ubiquitous in social media networks today.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2020 • Pranaydeep Singh, Nina Bauwelinck, Els Lefever
Internet memes have become a very popular mode of expression on social media networks today.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2020 • Bram Vanroy, Sofie Labat, Olha Kaminska, Els Lefever, Veronique Hoste
This paper presents two different systems for the SemEval shared task 7 on Assessing Humor in Edited News Headlines, sub-task 1, where the aim was to estimate the intensity of humor generated in edited headlines.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2020 • Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever
The second approach incorporates pre-trained English embeddings that are incrementally retrained with a set of Hinglish tweets.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Els Lefever, Sofie Labat, Pranaydeep Singh
This paper investigates the validity of combining more traditional orthographic information with cross-lingual word embeddings to identify cognate pairs in English-Dutch and French-Dutch.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever
We specifically investigate the use of these embeddings for a sentiment analysis task for Hinglish Tweets, viz.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Ayla Rigouts Terryn, Veronique Hoste, Patrick Drouin, Els Lefever
The TermEval 2020 shared task provided a platform for researchers to work on automatic term extraction (ATE) with the same dataset: the Annotated Corpora for Term Extraction Research (ACTER).
1 code implementation • 25 Oct 2019 • Chris Emmery, Ben Verhoeven, Guy De Pauw, Gilles Jacobs, Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, Bart Desmet, Véronique Hoste, Walter Daelemans
The detection of online cyberbullying has seen an increase in societal importance, popularity in research, and available open data.
no code implementations • RANLP 2019 • Ayla Rigouts Terryn, Patrick Drouin, Veronique Hoste, Els Lefever
Traditional approaches to automatic term extraction do not rely on machine learning (ML) and select the top n ranked candidate terms or candidate terms above a certain predefined cut-off point, based on a limited number of linguistic and statistical clues.
no code implementations • RANLP 2019 • Sofie Labat, Els Lefever
This paper presents proof-of-concept experiments for combining orthographic and semantic information to distinguish cognates from non-cognates.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2019 • Nina Bauwelinck, Gilles Jacobs, V{\'e}ronique Hoste, Els Lefever
This paper describes our contribution to the SemEval-2019 Task 5 on the detection of hate speech against immigrants and women in Twitter (hatEval).
no code implementations • CL 2018 • Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, V{\'e}ronique Hoste
Although common sense and connotative knowledge come naturally to most people, computers still struggle to perform well on tasks for which such extratextual information is required.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Gilles Jacobs, Els Lefever, V{\'e}ronique Hoste
This paper presents a dataset and supervised classification approach for economic event detection in English news articles.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2018 • Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, V{\'e}ronique Hoste
Our shared tasks received submissions from 43 teams for the binary classification Task A and from 31 teams for the multiclass Task B.
no code implementations • 17 Jan 2018 • Cynthia Van Hee, Gilles Jacobs, Chris Emmery, Bart Desmet, Els Lefever, Ben Verhoeven, Guy De Pauw, Walter Daelemans, Véronique Hoste
While social media offer great communication opportunities, they also increase the vulnerability of young people to threatening situations online.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Orph{\'e}e De Clercq, Els Lefever, Gilles Jacobs, Tijl Carpels, V{\'e}ronique Hoste
This paper presents an integrated ABSA pipeline for Dutch that has been developed and tested on qualitative user feedback coming from three domains: retail, banking and human resources.
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) +3
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, V{\'e}ronique Hoste
Recognising and understanding irony is crucial for the improvement natural language processing tasks including sentiment analysis.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Els Lefever, V{\'e}ronique Hoste
Breaking news on economic events such as stock splits or mergers and acquisitions has been shown to have a substantial impact on the financial markets.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, V{\'e}ronique Hoste
Handling figurative language like irony is currently a challenging task in natural language processing.
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Els Lefever, Marjan Van de Kauter, V{\'e}ronique Hoste
In this research, we evaluate different approaches for the automatic extraction of hypernym relations from English and Dutch technical text.
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Els Lefever, V{\'e}ronique Hoste, Martine De Cock
The input for the inter-language link detection system is a set of Dutch pages for a given ambiguous noun and the output of the system is a set of links to the corresponding pages in three target languages (viz.