Publications
In press
TRIC : a confidence-aware multilingual dataset for irony detection and rationales in English, Dutch and Italian (.pdf)
Maladry, A, Cignarella, ATC, Van Hee, C., Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2025).
Explicit modality weighting with unimodal supervision for categorical multimodal emotion recognition (.pdf)
Du, Q, De Langhe, L., Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2026).
Disentangling emotion understanding and generation in large language models (.pdf)
Jafari, Sadegh, Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2026).
Linguistic annotation of Byzantine book epigrams : revisited (.pdf)
Swaelens, C., De Vos, I., & Lefever, E. (2026).
2026
PMWP : a benchmark for math word problem solving in Persian (.pdf)
Abdolmaleki, MA, Hoste, V., & Lefever, E. (2026).
A survey on stereotype detection in natural language processing (.pdf)
Cignarella, ATC, Giachanou, A., & Lefever, E. (2026).
Exploring cross-modal interactions in unimodal and multimodal emotion recognition : an empirical study (.pdf)
Du, Q, De Langhe, L., Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2026).
Lovehate : stance detection and generation for multiple topics in user-generated comments in Russian and English (.pdf)
Evgrafova, N., Hoste, V., & Lefever, E. (2026).
Towards Reliable Evaluation of Emotional Text Generation in LLMs: Human vs. Automatic Metrics
Jafari, Sadegh, Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2026).
APARSIN : a multi-variety sentiment and translation benchmark for Iranic languages (.pdf)
Jafari, Sadegh, Azin, T., Roodi, F., Dehghani Tafti, Z., Ghadrdan, M., Vatankhahan Esfahani, E., Naebzadeh, A., Shahhosseini, M., Khan, G., Forghani, K., Namazi, D., Hossein Hashemi, M., Farsi, F., Osoolian, M., Mohammadi, M., Erfan Zare, M., Hasnain Khan, M., Hussain, M., Zaki, N., Mohammadi, J., Bali, S., Javad Ranjbar, M., Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2026).
From orthography to semantics : large-scale unsupervised textual similarity detection in historical Greek (.pdf)
Lemay, P., Lefever, E., & Bentein, K. (2026).
CorpusClues : scalable unsupervised similarity search for historical texts using MinHash-LSH (.pdf)
Lemay, P., Bentein, K., & Lefever, E. (2026).
From online resource to reusable dataset : the dataset of Byzantine book epigrams (.pdf)
Lemay, P., Bentein, K., Lamsens, F., Six, J., Demoen, K., & Lefever, E. (2026).
Exploring the Transfer of Irony Explanation Generation from English to Dutch (.pdf)
Maladry, A, Lefever, E., Van Hee, C., & Hoste, V. (2026).
Understanding irony through explanations and background knowledge (.pdf)
Maladry, A, Van Hee, C., Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2026).
Lost in activations : a neuron-level analysis of encoders for cross-lingual emotion detection (.pdf)
Singh, P., De Clercq, O., & Lefever, E. (2026).
2025
Evaluating transformers for OCR post-correction in early modern Dutch theatre (.pdf)
Debaene, F, Maladry, A, Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2025).
Unlocking domain knowledge : model adaptation for non-normative Dutch (.pdf)
Debaene, F, Maladry, A, Singh, P., Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2025).
LLMs as chainsaws : evaluating open-weights generative LLMs for extracting fauna and flora from multilingual travelogues (.pdf)
Dejaeghere, T., Lefever, E., & Birkholz, J. (2025).
Decoding emotion in ancient poetry : leveraging generative models for classical Chinese sentiment analysis (.pdf)
Du, Q, De Langhe, L., Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2025).
Sentiment Analysis on Video Transcripts: Comparing the Value of Textual and Multimodal Annotations
Du, Q, De Langhe, L., Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2025).
LDW : Label Divergence Weighting for multimodal sentiment analysis (.pdf)
Du, Q, De Langhe, L., Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2025).
Sentiment analysis on video transcripts : comparing the value of textual and multimodal annotations (.pdf)
Du, Q, De Langhe, L., Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2025).
Stance-aware definition generation for argumentative texts (.pdf)
Evgrafova, N., De Langhe, L., Hoste, V., & Lefever, E. (2025).
Embedding analogies for evaluating emotion in LLM-generated utterances (.pdf)
Jafari, Sadegh, Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2025).
MariATE : automatic term extraction using large language models in the maritime domain (.pdf)
Liu, S, Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2025).
Trilingual Recognition of Irony with Confidence (TRIC)
Maladry, A, Cignarella, ATC, Van Hee, C., Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2025).
Guidelines for writing and evaluating explanations for irony in tweets (.pdf)
Maladry, A, Van Hee, C., Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2025).
Annotating confidence-aware likelihood labels and trigger words for irony detection (.pdf)
Maladry, A, Cignarella, ATC, Van Hee, C., Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2025).
Understanding irony through explanations and background knowledge
Maladry, A, Van Hee, C., Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2025).
Can human-centred participatory design turn AI into a pertinent tool for human rights research? (.pdf)
Palli-Aspero, C., Evrard, E., Lefever, E., & Destrooper, T. (2025).
EnerGIZAr : leveraging GIZA++ for effective tokenizer initialization (.pdf)
Singh, P., Agirre, E., Azkune, G., De Clercq, O., & Lefever, E. (2025).
Lemmatisation & morphological analysis of unedited Greek : do simple tasks need complex solutions? (.pdf)
Swaelens, C., De Vos, I., & Lefever, E. (2025).
Linguistic annotation of Byzantine book epigrams (.pdf)
Swaelens, C., De Vos, I., & Lefever, E. (2025).
LeTTuce PoS-Tagger: A Sprout of Innovation in Multilingual NLP (.pdf)
Van Hee, C., Singh, P., & Lefever, E. (2025).
2024
Benchmarking zero-shot text classification for Dutch (.pdf)
De Langhe, L., Maladry, A, Vanroy, B., De Bruyne, L., Singh, P., Lefever, E., & De Clercq, O. (2024).
Exploring aspect-based sentiment analysis methodologies for literary-historical research purposes (.pdf)
Dejaeghere, T., Singh, P., Lefever, E., & Birkholz, J. (2024).
Analysing pathos in user-generated argumentative text (.pdf)
Evgrafova, N., Hoste, V., & Lefever, E. (2024).
Decoding Byzantine book epigrams : an exploration of machine-assisted extraction of formulaic material (.pdf)
Giannikou, K., Swaelens, C., De Vos, I., Lefever, E., & Bentein, K. (2024).
Computational terminology (.pdf)
Lefever, E., & Rigouts Terryn, A. (2024).
Automatische tekstgeneratie (.pdf)
Lefever, E., & Tezcan, A. (2024).
The limitations of irony detection in Dutch social media (.pdf)
Maladry, A, Lefever, E., Van Hee, C., & Hoste, V. (2024).
Findings of the WASSA 2024 EXALT shared task on explainability for cross-lingual emotion in tweets (.pdf)
Maladry, A, Singh, P., & Lefever, E. (2024).