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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).

Exploring Cross-Modal Interactions in Unimodal and Multimodal Emotion Recognition: An Empirical Study (.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).

Understanding irony through explanations and background knowledge (.pdf)

Maladry, A, Van Hee, C., 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).

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).

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).

Sentiment analysis on video transcripts : comparing the value of textual and multimodal annotations (.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).

Decoding emotion in ancient poetry : leveraging generative models for classical Chinese sentiment analysis (.pdf)

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).

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).

Understanding irony through explanations and background knowledge

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).

Guidelines for writing and evaluating explanations for irony in tweets (.pdf)

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).

Linguistic annotation of Byzantine book epigrams (.pdf)

Swaelens, C., De Vos, I., & Lefever, E. (2025).

Lemmatisation & morphological analysis of unedited Greek : do simple tasks need complex solutions? (.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).

Chatbots (.pdf)

Hoste, V., Lefever, E., & Doğruöz, A.S. (2024).

Computational terminology (.pdf)

Lefever, E., & Rigouts Terryn, A. (2024).

Automatische tekstgeneratie (.pdf)

Lefever, E., & Tezcan, A. (2024).

Human and system perspectives on the expression of irony : an analysis of likelihood labels and rationales (.pdf)

Maladry, A, Cignarella, ATC, Lefever, E., Van Hee, C., & Hoste, V. (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).

Shared task for cross-lingual classification of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) themes and topics (.pdf)

Nayekoo, Y., Katrenko, S., Hoste, V., Maladry, A, & Lefever, E. (2024).

At the crossroad of cuneiform and NLP : challenges for fine-grained part-of-speech tagging (.pdf)

Smidt, G., De Graef, K., & Lefever, E. (2024).

Keep me PoS-ted : experimenting with Part-of-Speech prediction on Old Babylonian letters (.pdf)

Smidt, G., De Graef, K., & Lefever, E. (2024).

Lemmatisation of Medieval Greek : against the limits of transformer’s capabilities? (.pdf)

Swaelens, C., Singh, P., De Vos, I., & Lefever, E. (2024).

How relevant is part-of-speech information to compute similarity between Greek verses in a graph database? (.pdf)

Swaelens, C., Deforche, M., De Tré, G., De Vos, I., & Lefever, E. (2024).

Waarom is taal zo moeilijk? (.pdf)

Van Hee, C., Hoste, V., De Clercq, O., Lefever, E., & Macken, L. (2024).