COLING 2024

2,170 papers

Zero-shot Trajectory Mapping in Holocaust Testimonies

Eitan Wagner, Renana Keydar, Omri Abend

Tracing the deportation to define Holocaust geometries. The exploratory case of Milan

Giovanni Pietro Vitali, Laura Brazzo

Identifying Narrative Patterns and Outliers in Holocaust Testimonies Using Topic Modeling

Maxim Ifergan, Omri Abend, Renana Keydar, Amit Pinchevski

Speech Technology Services for Oral History Research

Christoph Draxler, Henk van den Heuvel, Arjan van Hessen, Pavel Ircing, Jan Lehečka

Creating a Typology of Places to Annotate Holocaust Testimonies Through Machine Learning

Christine Liu, William J.B. Mattingly

Dates and places as points of attachment for memorial contents in the ISW corpus: 1938 as a turning point

Carolina Flinz, Simona Leonardi

Repurposing Holocaust-Related Digital Scholarly Editions to Develop Multilingual Domain-Specific Named Entity Recognition Tools

Maria Dermentzi, Hugo Scheithauer

TEI Specifications for a Sustainable Management of Digitized Holocaust Testimonies

Sarah Bénière, Floriane Chiffoleau, Laurent Romary

The Impact of Digital Editing on the Study of Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies in the context of Voci dall’Inferno Project

Angelo Mario Del Grosso, Marina Riccucci, Elvira Mercatanti

LLMs of Catan: Exploring Pragmatic Capabilities of Generative Chatbots Through Prediction and Classification of Dialogue Acts in Boardgames’ Multi-party Dialogues

Andrea Martinenghi, Gregor Donabauer, Simona Amenta, Sathya Bursic, Mathyas Giudici

Riddle Me This: Evaluating Large Language Models in Solving Word-Based Games

Raffaele Manna, Maria Pia Di Buono, Johanna Monti

Linguistic Acceptability and Usability Enhancement: A Case Study of GWAP Evaluation and Redesign

Wateen Abdullah Aliady, Massimo Poesio

Utilizing GPT-4 to Solve TextWorld Commonsense Games Efficiently

Binggang Zhuo, Masaki Murata

Branching Narratives: Character Decision Points Detection

Alexey Tikhonov

Leveraging Large Language Models for Spell-Generation in Dungeons & Dragons

Elio Musacchio, Lucia Siciliani, Pierpaolo Basile, Giovanni Semeraro

Generating Converging Narratives for Games with Large Language Models

Douglas Summers-Stay, Clare R. Voss

Aspect-based Sentiment Evaluation of Chess Moves (ASSESS): an NLP-based Method for Evaluating Chess Strategies from Textbooks

Haifa Alrdahi, Riza Batista-Navarro

Using In-context Learning to Automate AI Image Generation for a Gamified Text Labelling Task

Fatima Althani, Chris Madge, Massimo Poesio

Hostomytho: A GWAP for Synthetic Clinical Texts Evaluation and Annotation

Nicolas Hiebel, Bertrand Remy, Bruno Guillaume, Olivier Ferret, Aurélie Névéol

Empowering Adaptive Digital Game-Based Language Learning for Under-Resourced Languages Through Text Analysis

Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha, Sally Bruen, Liang Xu, Monica Ward

“Actors Challenge”: Collecting Data to Study Prosodic Patterns and Their Mappings to Meanings Across Languages

Sia V. Sepanta

An Evaluation of Language Models for Hyperpartisan Ideology Detection in Persian Twitter

Sahar Omidi Shayegan, Isar Nejadgholi, Kellin Pelrine, Hao Yu, Sacha Levy

This Word Mean What: Constructing a Singlish Dictionary with ChatGPT

Siew Yeng Chow, Chang-Uk Shin, Francis Bond

Endangered Language Preservation: A Model for Automatic Speech Recognition Based on Khroskyabs Data

Ruiyao Li, Yunfan Lai

Neural Mining of Persian Short Argumentative Texts

Mohammad Yeghaneh Abkenar, Manfred Stede

The Extraction and Fine-grained Classification of Written Cantonese Materials through Linguistic Feature Detection

Chaak-ming Lau, Mingfei Lau, Ann Wai Huen To

Open Text Collections as a Resource for Doing NLP with Eurasian Languages

Sebastian Nordhoff, Christian Döhler, Mandana Seyfeddinipur

Improved Neural Word Segmentation for Standard Tibetan

Collin J. Brown

Low-Resource Machine Translation through Retrieval-Augmented LLM Prompting: A Study on the Mambai Language

Raphael Merx, Aso Mahmudi, Katrina Langford, Leo Alberto de Araujo, Ekaterina Vylomova

Cluster Language Model for Improved E-Commerce Retrieval and Ranking: Leveraging Query Similarity and Fine-Tuning for Personalized Results

Duleep Rathgamage Don, Ying Xie, Le Yu, Simon Hughes, Yun Zhu

TAAL: Target-Aware Active Learning

Kunal Kotian, Indranil Bhattacharya, Shikhar Gupta, Kaushik Pavani, Naval Bhandari

Explicit Attribute Extraction in e-Commerce Search

Robyn Loughnane, Jiaxin Liu, Zhilin Chen, Zhiqi Wang, Joseph Giroux

Multi-word Term Embeddings Improve Lexical Product Retrieval

Viktor Shcherbakov, Fedor Krasnov

STA: Self-controlled Text Augmentation for Improving Text Classifications

Congcong Wang, Gonzalo Fiz Pontiveros, Steven Derby, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya

Frogs into princes: A generative model to understand the success of product descriptions

Takehiro Takayanagi, Bruno Charron, Marco Visentini-Scarzanella

Assessing Image-Captioning Models: A Novel Framework Integrating Statistical Analysis and Metric Patterns

Qiaomu Li, Ying Xie, Nina Grundlingh, Varsha Rani Chawan, Cody Wang

Detecting AI-enhanced Opinion Spambots: a study on LLM-generated Hotel Reviews

Vijini Liyanage, Davide Buscaldi, Penelope Forcioli

Turkish Typo Correction for E-Commerce Search Engines

Elif Oral, Koray Mancuhan, Hüseyin Varol Erdem, Pınar Ece Hatipoglu

Don’t Just Translate, Summarize Too: Cross-lingual Product Title Generation in E-commerce

Bryan Zhang, Taichi Nakatani, Daniel Vidal Hussey, Stephan Walter, Liling Tan

Self-Improving Customer Review Response Generation Based on LLMs

Guy Azov, Tatiana Pelc, Adi Fledel Alon, Gila Kamhi

Hallucination Detection in LLM-enriched Product Listings

Ling Jiang, Keer Jiang, Xiaoyu Chu, Saaransh Gulati, Pulkit Garg

Efficient and Interpretable Information Retrieval for Product Question Answering with Heterogeneous Data

Biplob Biswas, Rajiv Ramnath

Towards Multi-Modal Co-Reference Resolution in Conversational Shopping Agents

Samuel Osebe, Prashan Wanigasekara, Thomas Gueudre, Thanh Tran, Rahul Sharma

Learning Reasons for Product Returns on E-Commerce

Miriam Farber, Slava Novgorodov, Ido Guy

Gaining More Insight into Neural Semantic Parsing with Challenging Benchmarks

Xiao Zhang, Chunliu Wang, Rik van Noord, Johan Bos

The Relative Clauses AMR Parsers Hate Most

Xiulin Yang, Nathan Schneider

Accelerating UMR Adoption: Neuro-Symbolic Conversion from AMR-to-UMR with Low Supervision

Claire Benet Post, Marie C. McGregor, Maria Leonor Pacheco, Alexis Palmer

Chinese UMR annotation: Can LLMs help?

Haibo Sun, Nianwen Xue, Jin Zhao, Liulu Yue, Yao Sun

Extending VerbNet’s Verb-Specific Features to Enhance Selectional Preferences of Semantic Roles

Susan Windisch Brown

Adjudicating LLMs as PropBank Adjudicators

Julia Bonn, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Jena D. Hwang, Claire Bonial

Lexicalized Meaning Representation (LMR)

Jorge Baptista, Sónia Reis, João Dias, Pedro Santos

Mapping Czech Verbal Valency to PropBank Argument Labels

Jan Hajic, Eva Fučíková, Marketa Lopatkova, Zdeňka Urešová

Argument Sharing in Meaning Representation Parsing

Maja Buljan, Stephan Oepen, Lilja Øvrelid

YARN is All You Knit: Encoding Multiple Semantic Phenomena with Layers

Siyana Pavlova, Maxime Amblard, Bruno Guillaume

VOLARE - Visual Ontological LAnguage REpresentation

Werner Winiwarter

A Quantum Theory of Terms and New Challenges to Meaning Representation of Quanterms

Diego Burgos

Unveiling Semantic Information in Sentence Embeddings

Leixin Zhang, David Burian, Vojtěch John, Ondřej Bojar

Expanding Russian PropBank: Challenges and Insights for Developing New SRL Resources

Skatje Myers, Roman Khamov, Adam Pollins, Rebekah Tozier, Olga Babko-Malaya

NoVRol: A semantic role lexicon of Norwegian verbs

Henrik Torgersen, Erlend Ø. Ravnanger, Lars Hellan, Dag Haug

Aspect Variability and the Annotation of Aspect in the IMAGACT Ontology of Action

Massimo Moneglia, Rossella Varvara

PropBank-Powered Data Creation: Utilizing Sense-Role Labelling to Generate Disaster Scenario Data

Mollie Frances Shichman, Claire Bonial, Taylor A. Hudson, Austin Blodgett, Francis Ferraro

Self-Evaluation of Generative AI Prompts for Linguistic Linked Open Data Modelling in Diachronic Analysis

Florentina Armaselu, Chaya Liebeskind, Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene

Towards Automated Evaluation of Knowledge Encoded in Large Language Models

Bruno Carlos Luís Ferreira, Catarina Silva, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira

Evaluating Large Language Models for Linguistic Linked Data Generation

Maria Pia Di Buono, Blerina Spahiu, Verginica Barbu Mititelu

How to Turn Card Catalogs into LLM Fodder

Mary Ann Tan, Shufan Jiang, Harald Sack

Deductive Verification of LLM Generated SPARQL Queries

Alexandre Rademaker, Guilherme Lima, Sandro Rama Fiorini, Viviane Torres da Silva

Combining Deep Learning Models and Lexical Linked Data: Some Insights from the Development of a Multilingual News Named Entity Recognition and Linking Dataset

Emmanuel Cartier, Emile Peetermans

TaxoCritic: Exploring Credit Assignment in Taxonomy Induction with Multi-Critic Reinforcement Learning

Injy Sarhan, Bendegúz Toth, Pablo Mosteiro, Shihan Wang

Investigating the Impact of Different Graph Representations for Relation Extraction with Graph Neural Networks

Moritz Blum, Gennaro Nolano, Basil Ell, Philipp Cimiano

Pre-Gamus: Reducing Complexity of Scientific Literature as a Support against Misinformation

Nico Colic, Jin-Dong Kim, Fabio Rinaldi

Simpler Becomes Harder: Do LLMs Exhibit a Coherent Behavior on Simplified Corpora?

Miriam Anschütz, Edoardo Mosca, Georg Groh

Legal Science and Compute Science: A Preliminary Discussions on How to Represent the “Penumbra” Cone with AI

Angela Condello, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio

Clearer Governmental Communication: Text Simplification with ChatGPT Evaluated by Quantitative and Qualitative Research

Nadine Beks van Raaij, Daan Kolkman, Ksenia Podoynitsyna

LARGEMED: A Resource for Identifying and Generating Paraphrases for French Medical Terms

Ioana Buhnila, Amalia Todirascu

Term Variation in Institutional Languages: Degrees of Specialization in Municipal Waste Management Terminology

Nicola Cirillo, Daniela Vellutino

The Simplification of the Language of Public Administration: The Case of Ombudsman Institutions

Gabriel Gonzalez-Delgado, Borja Navarro-Colorado

Legal Text Reader Profiling: Evidences from Eye Tracking and Surprisal Based Analysis

Calogero J. Scozzaro, Davide Colla, Matteo Delsanto, Antonio Mastropaolo, Enrico Mensa

DARES: Dataset for Arabic Readability Estimation of School Materials

Mo El-Haj, Sultan Almujaiwel, Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Ruslan Mitkov

Simplification Strategies in French Spontaneous Speech

Lucía Ormaechea, Nikos Tsourakis, Didier Schwab, Pierrette Bouillon, Benjamin Lecouteux

An Approach towards Unsupervised Text Simplification on Paragraph-Level for German Texts

Leon Fruth, Robin Jegan, Andreas Henrich

Enhancing Lexical Complexity Prediction through Few-shot Learning with Gpt-3

Jenny Alexandra Ortiz-Zambrano, César Humberto Espín-Riofrío, Arturo Montejo-Ráez

Plain Language Summarization of Clinical Trials

Polydoros Giannouris, Theodoros Myridis, Tatiana Passali, Grigorios Tsoumakas

Multilingual Resources for Lexical Complexity Prediction: A Review

Matthew Shardlow, Kai North, Marcos Zampieri

Towards Automatic Finnish Text Simplification

Anna Dmitrieva, Jörg Tiedemann

Beyond Sentence-level Text Simplification: Reproducibility Study of Context-Aware Document Simplification

Jan Bakker, Jaap Kamps

Complexity-Aware Scientific Literature Search: Searching for Relevant and Accessible Scientific Text

Liana Ermakova, Jaap Kamps

Reproduction & Benchmarking of German Text Simplification Systems

Regina Stodden

Leveraging High-Precision Corpus Queries for Text Classification via Large Language Models

Nathan Dykes, Stephanie Evert, Philipp Heinrich, Merlin Humml, Lutz Schröder

A Hybrid Human-AI Approach for Argument Map Creation From Transcripts

Lucas Anastasiou, Anna De Liddo

Integrating conflict prevention tools into deliberative democracy online platforms

Sara Greco, Chiara Jermini

Pitfalls of Conversational LLMs on News Debiasing

Ipek Baris Schlicht, Defne Altiok, Maryanne Taouk, Lucie Flek

Can Text Simplification Help to Increase the Acceptance of E-participation?

Regina Stodden, Phillip Nguyen

A Unified LLM-KG Framework to Assist Fact-Checking in Public Deliberation

Nikolaos Giarelis, Charalampos Mastrokostas, Nikos Karacapilidis

AQuA – Combining Experts’ and Non-Experts’ Views To Assess Deliberation Quality in Online Discussions Using LLMs

Maike Behrendt, Stefan Sylvius Wagner, Marc Ziegele, Lena Wilms, Anke Stoll

SensoryT5: Infusing Sensorimotor Norms into T5 for Enhanced Fine-grained Emotion Classification

Yuhan Xia, Qingqing Zhao, Yunfei Long, Ge Xu, Jia Wang

Combining Neo-Structuralist and Cognitive Approaches to Semantics to Build Wordnets for Ancient Languages: Challenges and Perspectives

Erica Biagetti, Martina Giuliani, Silvia Zampetta, Silvia Luraghi, Chiara Zanchi

Three Studies on Predicting Word Concreteness with Embedding Vectors

Michael Flor

The Mental Lexicon of Communicative Fragments and Contours: The Remix N-gram Method

Emese K. Molnár, Andrea Dömötör

Listen, Repeat, Decide: Investigating Pronunciation Variation in Spoken Word Recognition among Russian Speakers

Vladislav Ivanovich Zubov, Elena Riekhakaynen

Interaction of Semantics and Morphology in Russian Word Vectors

Yulia Zinova, Ruben van de Vijver, Anastasia Yablokova