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LT|3 June 2025
ACL 2025 accepts 12 papers from LT members

We are blown away by the fact that ACL 2025 has accepted 12 papers from  LT members:

Tadesse Destaw Belay, Ahmed Haj Ahmed, Alvin C Grissom II, Iqra Ameer, Grigori Sidorov, Olga Kolesnikova, Seid Muhie  Yimam, CULEMO: Cultural Lenses on Emotion - Benchmarking LLMs for Cross-Cultural Emotion Understanding. ACL 2025 Main. Gregor Geigle*, Florian Schneider*, Carolin Holtermann, Chris Biemann, Radu...
LT|6 March 2025
NAACL 2025 accepts 2 papers from LT members

We are delighted to announce that NAACL 2025 has accepted one paper from  LT members.

Fischer, T., Biemann, C. (2025): Semi-automatic Sequential Sentence Classification in the Discourse Analysis Tool Suite. Proceedings of NAACL 2025 Demo Track, Albuquerque, NM, USA Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Saminu Mohammad Aliyu,...
LT|2 December 2024
COLING 2025 accepts 3 papers from LT members

We are delighted to announce that COLING 2025 has accepted a total of three papers from members of our research group.

Tadesse Destaw Belay, Israel Abebe Azime, Abinew Ali Ayele, Grigori Sidorov, Dietrich Klakow, Philip Slusallek, Olga Kolesnikova and Seid Muhie Yimam: Evaluating the Capabilities of Large Language Models for Multi-label Emotion Understanding. Accepted at COLING 2025. Daryna...
LT|23 September 2024
EMNLP 2024 accepts 4 papers from LT members

We are delighted to announce that EMNLP 2024 has accepted a total of four papers from members of our research group.

Hans Ole Hatzel, Chris Biemann: Story Embeddings — Narrative-Focused Representations of Fictional Stories. Accepted at EMNLP 2024 Viktor Moskvoretskii, Nazarii Tupitsa, Chris Biemann, Samuel Horváth, Eduard Gorbunov, Irina Nikishina: Low-Resource Machine Translation through the...
LT|16 May 2024
ACL 2024 accepts 3 papers from LT members

The ACL 2024 accepts 3 papers from LT members:

Viktor Moskvoretskii, Ekaterina Neminova, Alina Lobanova, Alexander Panchenko, Irina Nikishina: TaxoLLaMA: WordNet-based Model for Solving Multiple Lexical Semantic Tasks. Accepted at ACL 2024 Nedjma Ousidhoum, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Mohamed Abdalla, Idris Abdulmumin, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Sanchit Ahuja, Alham Fikri Aji, Vladimir Araujo, Abinew...
LT|22 February 2024
LREC-COLING 2024 accepts 7 papers from LT members

The LREC 2024 Conference has accepted 7 papers  co-authored by LT members

Ahmad Shallouf, Hanna Herasimchyk, Mikhail Salnikov, Rudy Garrido Veliz, Natia Mestvirishvili, Alexander Panchenko, Chris Biemann and Irina Nikishina: End-to-End Open Domain Comparative Question Answering
System  Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Israel Abebe Azime, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Moges Ahmed Mehamed, Abinew...
Veranstaltung|26 October 2023
Participation in ERC Synergy Grant CultCryo

Whether in logistics, science or air conditioning in the home - the possibility of artificial cooling has a fundamental influence on the world we live in. Yet this "artificial cryosphere" and its consequences, for example for climate change, have hardly been researched to date. The ERC project "CultCryo" aims to change that. It is investigating how the infrastructure of artificial cooling on the...

Publication|23 October 2023
Paper Accepted in Language Resources and Evaluation (LREV)

The following paper has been accepted and available online in Language Resources & Evaluation:

Anwar, S., Shelmanov, A., Arefyev, N., Panchenko, A., Biemann, C. (2023). Text augmentation for semantic frame induction and parsing. Language Resources & Evaluation. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-023-09679-8. (link)

Abstract: Semantic frames are formal structures describing situations, actions or...

LT|21 September 2023
GSCL master's thesis award 2023 goes to Florian Schneider

Every two years the German Society for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (GSCL) awards the best bachelor and master thesis. At the German Conference on Natural Language Processing, KONVENS 2023 in Ingolstadt,  two master's thesis finalists were invited to present their thesis.

This year's award for the best master's thesis goes to Florian Schneider for his thesis 'Self-supervised...

LT|17 July 2023
Two papers accepted at ECAI 2023

The '26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence' (ECAI 2023) accepted the following papers:

"Using Self-Supervised Dual Constraint Contrastive Learning for Cross-modal Retrieval" - Xintong Wang, Xiaoyu Li, Liang Ding, Sanyuan Zhao, and Chris Biemann

Abstract: In this work, we present a self-supervised dual constraint contrastive method for efficiently fine-tuning the vision-language...

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