Els Lefever

Disentangling Emotion Understanding and Generation in Large Language Models EACL 2026 PMWP: A Benchmark for Math Word Problem Solving in Persian EACL 2026 Lost in Activations: A Neuron-level Analysis of Encoders for Cross-Lingual Emotion Detection EACL 2026 APARSIN: A Multi-Variety Sentiment and Translation Benchmark for Iranic Languages EACL 2026 EnerGIZAr: Leveraging GIZA++ for Effective Tokenizer Initialization ACL 2025 Lemmatisation & Morphological Analysis of Unedited Greek: Do Simple Tasks Need Complex Solutions? ACL 2025 Stance-aware Definition Generation for Argumentative Texts ACL 2025 Sentiment Analysis on Video Transcripts: Comparing the Value of Textual and Multimodal Annotations NAACL 2025 Evaluating Transformers for OCR Post-Correction in Early Modern Dutch Theatre COLING 2025 Shared Task for Cross-lingual Classification of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Themes and Topics COLING 2024 Lemmatisation of Medieval Greek: Against the Limits of Transformer’s Capabilities? COLING 2024 Analysing Pathos in User-Generated Argumentative Text COLING 2024 Findings of the WASSA 2024 EXALT shared task on Explainability for Cross-Lingual Emotion in Tweets ACL 2024 Exploring Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Methodologies for Literary-Historical Research Purposes COLING 2024 At the Crossroad of Cuneiform and NLP: Challenges for Fine-grained Part-of-speech Tagging COLING 2024 Human and System Perspectives on the Expression of Irony: An Analysis of Likelihood Labels and Rationales COLING 2024 A Fine Line Between Irony and Sincerity: Identifying Bias in Transformer Models for Irony Detection ACL 2023 Misery Loves Complexity: Exploring Linguistic Complexity in the Context of Emotion Detection EMNLP 2023 Too Many Cooks Spoil the Model: Are Bilingual Models for Slovene Better than a Large Multilingual Model? EACL 2023 Medieval Social Media: Manual and Automatic Annotation of Byzantine Greek Marginal Writing ACL 2023 Irony Detection for Dutch: a Venture into the Implicit ACL 2022 Combining Language Models and Linguistic Information to Label Entities in Memes ACL 2022 SentEMO: A Multilingual Adaptive Platform for Aspect-based Sentiment and Emotion Analysis ACL 2022 When the Student Becomes the Master: Learning Better and Smaller Monolingual Models from mBERT COLING 2022 How Language-Dependent is Emotion Detection? Evidence from Multilingual BERT EMNLP 2022 A Pilot Study for BERT Language Modelling and Morphological Analysis for Ancient and Medieval Greek EMNLP 2021 LT3 at SemEval-2021 Task 6: Using Multi-Modal Compact Bilinear Pooling to Combine Visual and Textual Understanding in Memes SEMEVAL 2021 LT3 at SemEval-2021 Task 6: Using Multi-Modal Compact Bilinear Pooling to Combine Visual and Textual Understanding in Memes IJCNLP 2021 LT3 at SemEval-2021 Task 6: Using Multi-Modal Compact Bilinear Pooling to Combine Visual and Textual Understanding in Memes ACL 2021 LT3 at SemEval-2020 Task 8: Multi-Modal Multi-Task Learning for Memotion Analysis COLING 2020 LT3 at SemEval-2020 Task 7: Comparing Feature-Based and Transformer-Based Approaches to Detect Funny Headlines COLING 2020 Annotating Topics, Stance, Argumentativeness and Claims in Dutch Social Media Comments: A Pilot Study COLING 2020 LT3 at SemEval-2020 Task 7: Comparing Feature-Based and Transformer-Based Approaches to Detect Funny Headlines SEMEVAL 2020 LT3 at SemEval-2020 Task 8: Multi-Modal Multi-Task Learning for Memotion Analysis SEMEVAL 2020 LT3 at SemEval-2020 Task 9: Cross-lingual Embeddings for Sentiment Analysis of Hinglish Social Media Text SEMEVAL 2020 LT3 at SemEval-2020 Task 9: Cross-lingual Embeddings for Sentiment Analysis of Hinglish Social Media Text COLING 2020 LT3 at SemEval-2019 Task 5: Multilingual Detection of Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women in Twitter (hatEval) SEMEVAL 2019 SemEval-2018 Task 3: Irony Detection in English Tweets SEMEVAL 2018 Economic Event Detection in Company-Specific News Text ACL 2018 Very quaffable and great fun: Applying NLP to wine reviews ACL 2016 SemEval-2016 Task 13: Taxonomy Extraction Evaluation (TExEval-2) SEMEVAL 2016 Monday mornings are my fave :) #not Exploring the Automatic Recognition of Irony in English tweets COLING 2016 LT3: Sentiment Analysis of Figurative Tweets: piece of cake #NotReally SEMEVAL 2015 LT3: Applying Hybrid Terminology Extraction to Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis SEMEVAL 2015 LT3: A Multi-modular Approach to Automatic Taxonomy Construction SEMEVAL 2015 SemEval 2014 Task 5 - L2 Writing Assistant SEMEVAL 2014 LT3: Sentiment Classification in User-Generated Content Using a Rich Feature Set SEMEVAL 2014 SemEval-2013 Task 10: Cross-lingual Word Sense Disambiguation SEMEVAL 2013 ParaSense or How to Use Parallel Corpora for Word Sense Disambiguation ACL 2011 SemEval-2010 Task 3: Cross-Lingual Word Sense Disambiguation SEMEVAL 2010 Language-Independent Bilingual Terminology Extraction from a Multilingual Parallel Corpus EACL 2009 Linguistically-Based Sub-Sentential Alignment for Terminology Extraction from a Bilingual Automotive Corpus COLING 2008 AUG: A combined classification and clustering approach for web people disambiguation SEMEVAL 2007