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Gilles Jacobs obtains PhD!

(Dec. 10, 2021 ) Yesterday, Gilles Jacobs successfully defended his PhD on Extracting Fine-Grained Event and Sentiment from Economic News. He was supervised by Professor Véronique Hoste, Professor Els Lefever and professor Diane Breesch. …

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New SENTiVENT publications on extracting events and sentiment for financial news

(Oct. 26, 2021 - Gilles Jacobs) We are happy to announce two new open access publications in the SENTiVENT project. SENTiVENT: enabling supervised information extraction of company-specific events in economic and financial news”  is published in …

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CLIN31 was a great success!

(July 12, 2021 ) Last Friday, 9 July 2021, LT3 team members Lieve, Orphée, Seza, Arda, Bram, Ayla and Sofie organised the first online edition of the annual Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Conference …

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New work presented at various COLING workshops

(Dec. 14, 2020 ) Last week, the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics took place online. Various LT3 colleagues presented work at one of the workshops co-located with this conference: Gilles Jacobs and Veronique …

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New cyberbullying publications

(Nov. 25, 2020 - Gilles Jacobs) We have two new publications on cyberbullying detection: 1. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/article/automatic-classification-of-participant-roles-in-cyberbullying-can-we-detect-victims-bullies-and-bystanders-in-social-media-text/A2079C2C738C29428E666810B8903342 In "Automatic classification of participant roles in cyberbullying" we automatically identify bullies, victims and defenders from social media text using …

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AI tries to help you protect your children from cyberbullying

(Oct. 22, 2018 - Gilles Jacobs) Article in newscientist.com

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New publication on cyberbullying detection

(Oct. 9, 2018 ) Wondering how to automatically detect toxic behavior on Social Media? The open acces journal PlosOne published our paper “Automatic detection of cyberbullying in social media text”. The work presents a …

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LT3 at ACL2018 in Melbourne, Australia

(July 29, 2018 ) Prof. Véronique Hoste co-organized and co-hosted the 1st workshop on Economics and NLP at ACL2018 in Melbourne, Australia.Here, Phd candidate Gilles Jacobs presented a gold-standard dataset and baseline systems for …

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LT3 - Hello Customer collaboration presented at WASSA workshop

(Sept. 20, 2017 ) On Friday 8 September, Orphée, Véronique and Els attended the WASSA workshop at EMNLP2017 in Copenhagen where they presented joint work with the Ghent-based company Hello Customer. The past year, …

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AMiCA Symposium on Youngsters & Online Safety

(Dec. 8, 2016 - Cynthia Van Hee) Within the inter-university research project AMiCA, technology was developed that can automatically detect threatening situations for children and youngsters online. This technology allows for a faster and more efficient intervention …

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LT3 in San Diego for NAACL, SemEval and CLPsych

(June 16, 2016 ) Bart, Gilles and Orphée have been in beautiful San Diego to attend the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, aka NAACL2016! Today the workshops collocated with …

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AMiCA nominated for the Language Industry Awards

(March 3, 2016 ) The AMiCA project on online safety for young people was nominated for a Language Industries prize. The AMiCA project, a cooperation between the University of Antwerp, Ghent University and the …

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