COLING 2024

2,170 papers

Big-Five Backstage: A Dramatic Dataset for Characters Personality Traits & Gender Analysis

Marina Tiuleneva, Vadim A. Porvatov, Carlo Strapparava

Representing Abstract Concepts with Images: An Investigation with Large Language Models

Ludovica Cerini, Alessandro Bondielli, Alessandro Lenci

Using a Language Model to Unravel Semantic Development in Children’s Use of a Dutch Perception Verb

Bram van Dijk, Max J. van Duijn, Li Kloostra, Marco Spruit, Barend Beekhuizen

Cross-Linguistic Processing of Non-Compositional Expressions in Slavic Languages

Iuliia Zaitova, Irina Stenger, Muhammad Umer Butt, Tania Avgustinova

What’s in a Name? Electrophysiological Differences in Processing Proper Nouns in Mandarin Chinese

Bernard A. J. Jap, Yu-Yin Hsu, Lavinia Salicchi, Yu Xi Li

Can GPT-4 Recover Latent Semantic Relational Information from Word Associations? A Detailed Analysis of Agreement with Human-annotated Semantic Ontologies.

Simon De Deyne, Chunhua Liu, Lea Frermann

What GPT-4 Knows about Aspectual Coercion: Focused on “Begin the Book”

Seohyun Im, Chungmin Lee

Idiom Complexity in Apple-Pie Order: The Disentanglement of Decomposability and Transparency

Irene Pagliai

How Human-Like Are Word Associations in Generative Models? An Experiment in Slovene

Špela Vintar, Mojca Brglez, Aleš Žagar

Symbolic Learning of Rules for Semantic Relation Types Identification in French Genitive Postnominal Prepositional Phrases

Hani Guenoune, Mathieu Lafourcade

An Empirical Study on Vague Deictic Temporal Adverbials

Svenja Kenneweg, Brendan Balcerak Jackson, Joerg Deigmoeller, Julian Eggert, Philipp Cimiano

Individual Text Corpora Predict Openness, Interests, Knowledge and Level of Education

Markus J. Hofmann, Markus T. Jansen, Christoph Wigbels, Benny Briesemeister, Arthur M. Jacobs

CLAVELL - Cognitive Linguistic Annotation and Visualization Environment for Language Learning

Werner Winiwarter

Intent Detection and Entity Extraction from Biomedical Literature

Ankan Mullick, Mukur Gupta, Pawan Goyal

Unveiling Voices: Identification of Concerns in a Social Media Breast Cancer Cohort via Natural Language Processing

Swati Rajwal, Avinash Kumar Pandey, Zhishuo Han, Abeed Sarker

Biomedical Entity Linking for Dutch: Fine-tuning a Self-alignment BERT Model on an Automatically Generated Wikipedia Corpus

Fons Hartendorp, Tom Seinen, Erik van Mulligen, Suzan Verberne

Using BART to Automatically Generate Discharge Summaries from Swedish Clinical Text

Nils Berg, Hercules Dalianis

Development of a Benchmark Corpus for Medical Device Adverse Event Detection

Susmitha Wunnava, David Harris, Florence T. Bourgeois, Timothy A. Miller

Exploring the Challenges of Behaviour Change Language Classification: A Study on Semi-Supervised Learning and the Impact of Pseudo-Labelled Data

Selina Meyer, Marcos Fernandez-Pichel, David Elsweiler, David E. Losada

Enhancing Consumer Health Question Reformulation: Chain-of-Thought Prompting Integrating Focus, Type, and User Knowledge Level

Jooyeon Lee, Luan Huy Pham, Ozlem Uzuner

Speech Accommodation in Health-Care Interactions: Evidence Using a Mixed-Reality Platform

Rose Baker, Susan C. Bobb, Dai’Sha Dowson, Elisha Eanes, Makyah McNeill

Automated Question-Answer Generation for Evaluating RAG-based Chatbots

Juan José González Torres, Mihai Bogdan Bîndilă, Sebastiaan Hofstee, Daniel Szondy, Quang-Hung Nguyen

Unraveling Clinical Insights: A Lightweight and Interpretable Approach for Multimodal and Multilingual Knowledge Integration

Kanimozhi Uma, Marie-Francine Moens

Revisiting the MIMIC-IV Benchmark: Experiments Using Language Models for Electronic Health Records

Jesus Lovon-Melgarejo, Thouria Ben-Haddi, Jules Di Scala, José G. Moreno, Lynda Tamine

Exploring the Suitability of Transformer Models to Analyse Mental Health Peer Support Forum Data for a Realist Evaluation

Matthew Coole, Paul Rayson, Zoe Glossop, Fiona Lobban, Paul Marshall

MedDialog-FR: A French Version of the MedDialog Corpus for Multi-label Classification and Response Generation Related to Women’s Intimate Health

Xingyu Liu, Vincent Segonne, Aidan Mannion, Didier Schwab, Lorraine Goeuriot

CliniRes: Publicly Available Mapping of Clinical Lexical Resources

Elena Zotova, Montse Cuadros, German Rigau

Generating Distributable Surrogate Corpus for Medical Multi-label Classification

Seiji Shimizu, Shuntaro Yada, Shoko Wakamiya, Eiji Aramaki

Evaluating LLMs for Temporal Entity Extraction from Pediatric Clinical Text in Rare Diseases Context

Judith Jeyafreeda Andrew, Marc Vincent, Anita Burgun, Nicolas Garcelon

Experiments in Automated Generation of Discharge Summaries in Italian

Lorenzo Ruinelli, Amos Colombo, Mathilde Rochat, Sotirios Georgios Popeskou, Andrea Franchini

Towards Using Automatically Enhanced Knowledge Graphs to Aid Temporal Relation Extraction

Timotej Knez, Slavko Zitnik

Building Certified Medical Chatbots: Overcoming Unstructured Data Limitations with Modular RAG

Leonardo Sanna, Patrizio Bellan, Simone Magnolini, Marina Segala, Saba Ghanbari Haez

Generating Synthetic Documents with Clinical Keywords: A Privacy-Sensitive Methodology

Simon Meoni, Éric de la Clergerie, Théo Ryffel

Medical-FLAVORS: A Figurative Language and Vocabulary Open Repository for Spanish in the Medical Domain

Lucía Pitarch, Emma Angles-Herrero, Yufeng Liu, Daisy Monika Lal, Jorge Gracia

On Simplification of Discharge Summaries in Serbian: Facing the Challenges

Anđelka Zečević, Milica Ćulafić, Stefan Stojković

A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Monitoring Salt Content in Food

Anuja Tayal, Barbara Di Eugenio, Devika Salunke, Andrew D. Boyd, Carolyn A. Dickens

Study of Medical Text Reading and Comprehension through Eye-Tracking Fixations

Oksana Ivchenko, Natalia Grabar

Analysing Emotions in Cancer Narratives: A Corpus-Driven Approach

Daisy Monika Lal, Paul Rayson, Sheila A. Payne, Yufeng Liu

Towards Generation of Personalised Health Intervention Messages

Clara Wan Ching Ho, Volha Petukhova

Large Language Models as Drug Information Providers for Patients

Luca Giordano, Maria Pia Di Buono

Towards AI-supported Health Communication in Plain Language: Evaluating Intralingual Machine Translation of Medical Texts

Silvana Deilen, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Sergio Hernández Garrido, Christiane Maaß, Julian Hörner

Structuring Clinical Notes of Italian ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients

Vittorio Torri, Sara Mazzucato, Stefano Dalmiani, Umberto Paradossi, Claudio Passino

Annotating Emotions in Acquired Brain Injury Patients’ Narratives

Salomé Klein, Amalia Todirascu, Hélène Vassiliadou, Marie Kuppelin, Joffrey Becart

Simulating Diverse Patient Populations Using Patient Vignettes and Large Language Models

Daniel Reichenpfader, Kerstin Denecke

It’s Difficult to Be Neutral – Human and LLM-based Sentiment Annotation of Patient Comments

Petter Mæhlum, David Samuel, Rebecka Maria Norman, Elma Jelin, Øyvind Andresen Bjertnæs

Improving Sign Language Production in the Healthcare Domain Using UMLS and Multi-task Learning

Jonathan Mutal, Raphael Rubino, Pierrette Bouillon, Bastien David, Johanna Gerlach

Simplified Chinese Character Distance Based on Ideographic Description Sequences

Yixia Wang, Emmanuel Keuleers

Towards Fast Cognate Alignment on Imbalanced Data

Logan Born, M. Willis Monroe, Kathryn Kelley, Anoop Sarkar

Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: ‘Poverty of the Stimulus’ Problems and Arbitrary Correspondences in End-to-End Speech Models

Daan van Esch

Abbreviation Across the World’s Languages and Scripts

Kyle Gorman, Brian Roark

Tokenization via Language Modeling: the Role of Preceding Text

Rastislav Hronsky, Emmanuel Keuleers

Tool for Constructing a Large-Scale Corpus of Code Comments and Other Source Code Annotations

Luna Peck, Susan Brown

A Joint Approach for Automatic Analysis of Reading and Writing Errors

Wieke Harmsen, Catia Cucchiarini, Roeland van Hout, Helmer Strik

ParsText: A Digraphic Corpus for Tajik-Farsi Transliteration

Rayyan Merchant, Kevin Tang

mini-CIEP+ : A Shareable Parallel Corpus of Prose

Annemarie Verkerk, Luigi Talamo

Multiple Discourse Relations in English TED Talks and Their Translation into Lithuanian, Portuguese and Turkish

Deniz Zeyrek, Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene, Amalia Mendes

SweDiagnostics: A Diagnostics Natural Language Inference Dataset for Swedish

Felix Morger

Bootstrapping the Annotation of UD Learner Treebanks

Arianna Masciolini

Building Annotated Parallel Corpora Using the ATIS Dataset: Two UD-style treebanks in English and Turkish

Neslihan Cesur, Aslı Kuzgun, Mehmet Kose, Olcay Taner Yıldız

EuReCo: Not Building and Yet Using Federated Comparable Corpora for Cross-Linguistic Research

Marc Kupietz, Piotr Banski, Nils Diewald, Beata Trawinski, Andreas Witt

Creating Clustered Comparable Corpora from Wikipedia with Different Fuzziness Levels and Language Representativity

Anna Laskina, Eric Gaussier, Gaelle Calvary

BnPC: A Gold Standard Corpus for Paraphrase Detection in Bangla, and its Evaluation

Sourav Saha, Zeshan Ahmed Nobin, Mufassir Ahmad Chowdhury, Md. Shakirul Hasan Khan Mobin, Mohammad Ruhul Amin

INCLURE: a Dataset and Toolkit for Inclusive French Translation

Paul Lerner, Cyril Grouin

Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models in Adaptive Machine Translation for Generic Text and Subtitles

Abdelhadi Soudi, Mohamed Hannani, Kristof Van Laerhoven, Eleftherios Avramidis

Exploring the Necessity of Visual Modality in Multimodal Machine Translation using Authentic Datasets

Zi Long, ZhenHao Tang, Xianghua Fu, Jian Chen, Shilong Hou

Invited Talk: The Way Towards Massively Multilingual Language Models

François Yvon

PORTULAN ExtraGLUE Datasets and Models: Kick-starting a Benchmark for the Neural Processing of Portuguese

Tomás Freitas Osório, Bernardo Leite, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Luís Gomes, João Rodrigues

Modeling Diachronic Change in English Scientific Writing over 300+ Years with Transformer-based Language Model Surprisal

Julius Steuer, Marie-Pauline Krielke, Stefan Fischer, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Marius Mosbach

On a Novel Application of Wasserstein-Procrustes for Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Alignment of Embeddings

Guillem Ramírez, Rumen Dangovski, Preslav Nakov, Marin Soljacic

Improving Cross-Lingual CSR Classification Using Pretrained Transformers with Variable Selection Networks and Data Augmentation

shubham sharma, Himanshu Janbandhu, Ankush Chopra

Advancing CSR Theme and Topic Classification: LLMs and Training Enhancement Insights

Jens Van Nooten, Andriy Kosar

Shared Task for Cross-lingual Classification of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Themes and Topics

Yola Nayekoo, Sophia Katrenko, Véronique Hoste, Aaron Maladry, Els Lefever

ESG-GPT:GPT4-Based Few-Shot Prompt Learning for Multi-lingual ESG News Text Classification

Ke Tian, Hua Chen

Adapting LLM to Multi-lingual ESG Impact and Length Prediction Using In-context Learning and Fine-Tuning with Rationale

Pawan Kumar Rajpoot, Ashvini Jindal, Ankur Parikh

Leveraging Semi-Supervised Learning on a Financial-Specialized Pre-trained Language Model for Multilingual ESG Impact Duration and Type Classification

Jungdae Kim, Eunkwang Jeon, Jeon Sang Hyun

ESG Classification by Implicit Rule Learning via GPT-4

Yun Hyojeong, Kim Chanyoung, Moonjeong Hahm, Kyuri Kim, Guijin Son

Jetsons at FinNLP 2024: Towards Understanding the ESG Impact of a News Article Using Transformer-based Models

Parag Pravin Dakle, Alolika Gon, Sihan Zha, Liang Wang, Sai Krishna Rallabandi

CriticalMinds: Enhancing ML Models for ESG Impact Analysis Categorisation Using Linguistic Resources and Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Iana Atanassova, Marine Potier, Maya Mathie, Marc Bertin, Panggih Kusuma Ningrum

Fine-tuning Language Models for Predicting the Impact of Events Associated to Financial News Articles

Neelabha Banerjee, Anubhav Sarkar, Swagata Chakraborty, Sohom Ghosh, Sudip Kumar Naskar

DICE @ ML-ESG-3: ESG Impact Level and Duration Inference Using LLMs for Augmentation and Contrastive Learning

Konstantinos Bougiatiotis, Andreas Sideras, Elias Zavitsanos, Georgios Paliouras

IMNTPU at ML-ESG-3: Transformer Language Models for Multi-Lingual ESG Impact Type and Duration Classification

Yu Han Kao, Vidhya Nataraj, Ting-Chi Wang, Yu-Jyun Zheng, Hsiao-Chuan Liu

Multi-Lingual ESG Impact Duration Inference

Chung-Chi Chen, Yu-Min Tseng, Juyeon Kang, Anaïs Lhuissier, Yohei Seki

LLaMA-2-Econ: Enhancing Title Generation, Abstract Classification, and Academic Q&A in Economic Research

Onur Keles, Omer Turan Bayraklı

Cheap Talk: Topic Analysis of CSR Themes on Corporate Twitter

Nile Phillips, Sathvika Anand, Michelle Lum, Manisha Goel, Michelle Zemel

Multilingual ESG News Impact Identification Using an Augmented Ensemble Approach

Harika Abburi, Ajay Kumar, Edward Bowen, Balaji Veeramani

Duration Dynamics: Fin-Turbo’s Rapid Route to ESG Impact Insight

Weijie Yang, Xinyun Rong

Topic Taxonomy Construction from ESG Reports

Saif Majdi AlNajjar, Xinyu Wang, Yulan He

Stock Price Prediction with Sentiment Analysis for Chinese Market

Yuchen Luan, Haiyang Zhang, Chenlei Zhang, Yida Mu, Wei Wang

BBRC: Brazilian Banking Regulation Corpora

Rafael Faria de Azevedo, Thiago Henrique Eduardo Muniz, Claudio Pimentel, Guilherme Jose de Assis Foureaux, Barbara Caldeira Macedo

ESG-FTSE: A Corpus of News Articles with ESG Relevance Labels and Use Cases

Mariya Pavlova, Bernard Casey, Miaosen Wang

Keyword-based Annotation of Visually-Rich Document Content for Trend and Risk Analysis Using Large Language Models

Giuseppe Gallipoli, Simone Papicchio, Lorenzo Vaiani, Luca Cagliero, Arianna Miola

Exploring Large Language Models in Financial Argument Relation Identification

Yasser Otiefy, Alaa Alhamzeh

Analysis of Material Facts on Financial Assets: A Generative AI Approach

Gabriel Assis, Daniela Vianna, Gisele L. Pappa, Alexandre Plastino, Wagner Meira Jr

Unveiling Currency Market Dynamics: Leveraging Federal Reserve Communications for Strategic Investment Insights

Martina Menzio, Davide Paris, Elisabetta Fersini

FB-GAN: A Novel Neural Sentiment-Enhanced Model for Stock Price Prediction

Jainendra Kumar Jain, Ruchit Agrawal

NetZeroFacts: Two-Stage Emission Information Extraction from Company Reports

Marco Wrzalik, Florian Faust, Simon Sieber, Adrian Ulges

Modal-adaptive Knowledge-enhanced Graph-based Financial Prediction from Monetary Policy Conference Calls with LLM

Kun Ouyang, Yi Liu, Shicheng Li, Ruihan Bao, Keiko Harimoto

Evaluating Multilingual Language Models for Cross-Lingual ESG Issue Identification

Wing Yan Li, Emmanuele Chersoni, Cindy Sing Bik Ngai

Development and Evaluation of a German Language Model for the Financial Domain

Nata Kozaeva, Serhii Hamotskyi, Christian Hänig

Assessing the Impact of ESG-Related News on Stock Trading in the Indonesian Market: A Text Similarity Framework Approach

Okiriza Wibisono, Ali Akbar Septiandri, Reinhard Denis Najogie