Emmanuele Chersoni

Large Language Models Put to the Test on Chinese Noun Compounds: Experiments on Natural Language Inference and Compound Semantics EACL 2026 Sparse Brains are Also Adaptive Brains: Cognitive-Load-Aware Dynamic Activation for LLMs EACL 2026 Do LLMs Capture Embodied Cognition and Cultural Variation? Cross-Linguistic Evidence from Demonstratives ACL 2026 Good Arguments Against the People Pleasers: How Reasoning Mitigates (Yet Masks) LLM Sycophancy ACL 2026 LST at MWE-2026 AdMIRe 2: Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation EACL 2026 Reasoning or Memorization? Investigating LLMs’ Capability in Restoring Chinese Internet Homophones ACL 2025 PhonoThink: Improving Large Language Models’ Reasoning on Chinese Phonological Ambiguities EMNLP 2025 WorldCuisines: A Massive-Scale Benchmark for Multilingual and Multicultural Visual Question Answering on Global Cuisines NAACL 2025 Compositionality and Event Retrieval in Complement Coercion: A Study of Language Models in a Low-resource Setting CONLL 2025 ChengyuSTS: An Intrinsic Perspective on Mandarin Idiom Representation EMNLP 2025 StockGenChaR: A Study on the Evaluation of Large Vision-Language Models on Stock Chart Captioning EMNLP 2025 From BERT to LLMs: Comparing and Understanding Chinese Classifier Prediction in Language Models EMNLP 2025 Learning to Look at the Other Side: A Semantic Probing Study of Word Embeddings in LLMs with Enabled Bidirectional Attention ACL 2025 ExpliCa: Evaluating Explicit Causal Reasoning in Large Language Models ACL 2025 Compositionality and Event Retrieval in Complement Coercion: A Study of Language Models in a Low-resource Setting ACL 2025 CompLex-ZH: A New Dataset for Lexical Complexity Prediction in Mandarin and Cantonese EMNLP 2024 Comparing Static and Contextual Distributional Semantic Models on Intrinsic Tasks: An Evaluation on Mandarin Chinese Datasets COLING 2024 Evaluating Multilingual Language Models for Cross-Lingual ESG Issue Identification COLING 2024 Predicting Mandarin and Cantonese Adult Speakers’ Eye-Movement Patterns in Natural Reading EACL 2024 Investigating Aspect Features in Contextualized Embeddings with Semantic Scales and Distributional Similarity NAACL 2024 Can Large Language Models Interpret Noun-Noun Compounds? A Linguistically-Motivated Study on Lexicalized and Novel Compounds ACL 2024 PolyuCBS at SMM4H 2024: LLM-based Medical Disorder and Adverse Drug Event Detection with Low-rank Adaptation ACL 2024 Log Probabilities Are a Reliable Estimate of Semantic Plausibility in Base and Instruction-Tuned Language Models EMNLP 2024 Investigating the Effect of Discourse Connectives on Transformer Surprisal: Language Models Understand Connectives, Even So They Are Surprised EMNLP 2023 Identifying ESG Impact with Key Information AACL 2023 We Understand Elliptical Sentences, and Language Models should Too: A New Dataset for Studying Ellipsis and its Interaction with Thematic Fit ACL 2023 Are Language Models Sensitive to Semantic Attraction? A Study on Surprisal ACL 2023 Empirical Sufficiency Lower Bounds for Language Modeling with Locally-Bootstrapped Semantic Structures ACL 2023 Are Frequent Phrases Directly Retrieved like Idioms? An Investigation with Self-Paced Reading and Language Models EACL 2023 Comparing and Predicting Eye-tracking Data of Mandarin and Cantonese EACL 2023 On Quick Kisses and How to Make Them Count: A Study on Event Construal in Light Verb Constructions with BERT EMNLP 2023 ChiWUG: A Graph-based Evaluation Dataset for Chinese Lexical Semantic Change Detection EMNLP 2023 Identifying ESG Impact with Key Information IJCNLP 2023 AILAB-Udine@SMM4H’22: Limits of Transformers and BERT Ensembles COLING 2022 CMCL 2022 Shared Task on Multilingual and Crosslingual Prediction of Human Reading Behavior ACL 2022 Lexicon of Changes: Towards the Evaluation of Diachronic Semantic Shift in Chinese ACL 2022 Generalizing over Long Tail Concepts for Medical Term Normalization EMNLP 2022 PolyU-CBS at TSAR-2022 Shared Task: A Simple, Rank-Based Method for Complex Word Substitution in Two Steps EMNLP 2022 Pragmatic and Logical Inferences in NLI Systems: The Case of Conjunction Buttressing NAACL 2022 Exploring Nominal Coercion in Semantic Spaces with Static and Contextualized Word Embeddings AACL 2022 Compositionality as an Analogical Process: Introducing ANNE AACL 2022 Exploring a Unified Sequence-To-Sequence Transformer for Medical Product Safety Monitoring in Social Media EMNLP 2021 Is Domain Adaptation Worth Your Investment? Comparing BERT and FinBERT on Financial Tasks EMNLP 2021 NADE: A Benchmark for Robust Adverse Drug Events Extraction in Face of Negations EMNLP 2021 Did the Cat Drink the Coffee? Challenging Transformers with Generalized Event Knowledge ACL 2021 Modeling the Influence of Verb Aspect on the Activation of Typical Event Locations with BERT IJCNLP 2021 PolyU CBS-Comp at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Lexical Complexity Prediction (LCP) IJCNLP 2021 Did the Cat Drink the Coffee? Challenging Transformers with Generalized Event Knowledge IJCNLP 2021 CMCL 2021 Shared Task on Eye-Tracking Prediction NAACL 2021 PolyU CBS-Comp at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Lexical Complexity Prediction (LCP) ACL 2021 Modeling the Influence of Verb Aspect on the Activation of Typical Event Locations with BERT ACL 2021 PolyU CBS-Comp at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Lexical Complexity Prediction (LCP) SEMEVAL 2021 BERT Prescriptions to Avoid Unwanted Headaches: A Comparison of Transformer Architectures for Adverse Drug Event Detection EACL 2021 Comparing Probabilistic, Distributional and Transformer-Based Models on Logical Metonymy Interpretation AACL 2020 The CogALex Shared Task on Monolingual and Multilingual Identification of Semantic Relations COLING 2020 Automatic Learning of Modality Exclusivity Norms with Crosslingual Word Embeddings COLING 2020 Using Conceptual Norms for Metaphor Detection ACL 2020 Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics NAACL 2019 Distributional Semantics Meets Construction Grammar. towards a Unified Usage-Based Model of Grammar and Meaning ACL 2019 BomJi at SemEval-2018 Task 10: Combining Vector-, Pattern- and Graph-based Information to Identify Discriminative Attributes SEMEVAL 2018 A Rank-Based Similarity Metric for Word Embeddings ACL 2018 Measuring Thematic Fit with Distributional Feature Overlap EMNLP 2017 Representing Verbs with Rich Contexts: an Evaluation on Verb Similarity EMNLP 2016