CLIN34 Recap

At the end of August, the 34th edition of CLIN took place at the university of Leiden. Apart from being close to home, CLIN is always a great opportunity to network with other researchers in Belgium and the Netherlands.

We are proud to announce that LT3 had 9 accepted abstracts, showcasing our diverse research. Here’s a quick look at the topics we contributed:

• "Do We Still Need Specialized Transformers? A Comparison to Generative Foundation Models for Non-Normative Dutch” - Florian Debaene, Aaron Maladry, Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever and Véronique Hoste
• "Controlled Text Simplification for Dutch using Generative Large Language Models" - Wout Sinnaeve, Joni Kruijsbergen & Orphée De Clercq
• “Systematic, Stereotypical or an Educated Guess? Gender inference by humans and machine translation systems of words in and out of context” - Janiça Hackenbuchner, Aaron Maladry, Arda Tezcan, Joke Daems
• “Enhancing Update Statement Generation in Defeasible NLI” - Marzieh Abdolmaleki, Véronique Hoste, Els Lefever
• “NewsBERTje: a domain-adapted Dutch BERT model” - Loic De Langhe, Orphée De Clercq, Veronique Hoste
• “Similarity Detection in Medieval Marginal Writing” - Colin Swaelens, Ilse De Vos & Els Lefever
• “Identifying Controversial Claims in Political YouTube Comments” - Natalia Evgrafova, Véronique Hoste & Els Lefever
• "Comparing and Contrasting Modality Disparity in Multimodal Sarcasm Detection" - Wu Chi Hsiu, Aaron Maladry, Veronique Hoste
• “Exploring Zero-Shot Named Entity Recognition in Multilingual Historical Travelogues Using Open-Source Large Language Models” - Tess Dejaeghere, Pranaydeep Singh, Bas Vercruysse, Julie Birkholz, Els Lefever

Tess also gave an oral presentation about her work.

With another successful edition of CLIN behind us, we now look forward to the upcoming academic year, especially as we prepare for our new Language Technology Track. Stay tuned for more exciting updates!