CLIN 35

Last Friday, the 35th edition of CLIN (Computation Linguistics in the Netherlands) took place in Leuven, and, as tradition goes, almost the entire LT3 team showed up!

Our team contributed 4 presentations and 7 posters, covering a wide range of topics: from language learning, resources and evaluation and language modeling to machine translation and beyond.

Here is an overview of the research contributions of LT3 members:

Presentations:

• Assessing Large Language Models for Automatically Grading L2 Dutch Adult Learner Writing - Joni Kruijsbergen, Orphée De Clercq
• LoveHate: A Russian Debate Corpus for Argument Mining - Natalia Evgrafova, Pranaydeep Singh, Véronique Hoste, Els Lefever
• Interpretation Modeling: Social Grounding of Sentences by Reasoning Over Their Implicit Moral Judgments - Liesbeth Allein, Maria Mihaela Trusca, Marie-Francine Moens
• Dictionaries, DeepL, and ChatGPT: Comparing Language Tool Effects on L2 English Speaking and Learner Perceptions - Irma Schampheleer, Lieve Macken, Vanessa De Wilde

You can find the abstracts on this page.

Posters:

• The Impact of Continual Reasoning Learning on Language Understanding in LLMs - Marzieh Abdolmaleki, Véronique Hoste, Els Lefever
• Retrieval-augmented Generation for Automated Written Corrective Feedback: From Dataset to Human Evaluation - Jasper Degraeuwe, Thomas Moerman
• Exploring More Efficient Techniques for Synthetically Generated In-Domain Data Sets for MT - Thomas Moerman, Arda Tezcan
• The MaTIAS project: Machine Translation to Inform Asylum Seekers - Lieve Macken, Margot Fonteyne, Arda Tezcan, Ella van Hest, Michaël Lumingu, Katrijn Maryns, July De Wilde
• Can We Interpret Gender? Using Contrastive Explanations to Understand Gender Choices by Translation Systems - Janiça Hackenbuchner, Arda Tezcan, Joke Daems
• Learning Through News: How Recommendation Strategies Shape Knowledge Retention in Dutch Readers - Florian Debaene, Loic De Langhe, Orphée De Clercq, Véronique Hoste
• Unsupervised Detection of Formulaic Texts in Historical Corpora Using CNN-Based Embeddings - Paulien Lemay, Els Lefever, Klaas Bentein

You can find the abstracts https://on this page.

Overall, it was another successful edition, filled with interesting insights and great connections.