Conference Program

The program schedule is now available for download:

Wednesday, 23.June 2021

  • 9.00-9.30
    Welcome Address
    Antonio Krüger, DFKI GmbH
    Saarbrücken, Germany
  • 9.30-11.00

    Session 1 – Semantic Relations
  • 11.00-11.30
    Coffee Break
  • 11.30-13.00
    Session 2 – Social Media
  • 13.00-14.30
    Lunch Break
  • 14.30-15.40
    Session 3 – The Role of Learning
  • 15.40-16.00
    Coffee Break
  • 16.00-17.30
    Panel
    The NL4XAI consortium

Thursday, 24.June 2021

  • 9.00-10.40

    Session 4 – Methodological Approaches
    (1) and Applications
  • 10.40-11.10
    Coffee Break
  • 11.10-12.25

    Invited Talk
    Elke Teich, Saarland University,
    Germany
  • 12.25-14.00
    Lunch Break
  • 14.00-15.30
    Session 5 – Classification (1)
  • 15.30-16.00
    Coffee Break
  • 16.00-17.50

    Session 6 – Classification (2) and Linking
    Documents (1)
  • 17.50-18.20

    Award Session

Friday, 25.June 2021

  • 9.00-10.50

    Session 7 – Sentiment Analysis (1) and
    Multimodality (1)
  • 10.50-11.20
    Coffee Break
  • 11.20-12.35

    Invited Talk
    Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam,
    Germany
  • 12.35-14.00
    Lunch Break
  • 14.00-15.40
    Session 8 – Methodological Approaches
    (2) and Linking Documents (2)
  • 15.40-16.10
    Coffee Break
  • 16.10-17.40

    Session 9 – Sentiment Analysis (2) and
    Multimodality (2)
  • 17.40-18.10
    Closing Ceremony and Outlook

Wednesday, 23.June 2021

9.00-9.30

Welcome Address
Antonio Krüger, DFKI GmbH Saarbrücken, Germany


Session 1 – Semantic Relations
9.30-10.00

Identifying Causality in the Biomedical Domain using an Ensemble

Approach with Target-specific Semantic Embeddings
Raksha Sharma and Girish Palshika

10.00-10.30


Entity-Informed Business Relation Extraction
Hadjer Khaldi, Farah Benamara, Amine Abdaoui, Nathalie
Aussenac-Gilles and Eunbee Kang

10.30-11.00


The Importance of Character-Level Information in an Event Detection
Model
Emanuela Boros, Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret and Brigitte Grau


11.00-11.30
Coffee Break


Session 2 – Social Media
11.30-12.00

Argument Mining in Tweets: Comparing Crowd and Expert

Annotations for Automated Claim and Evidence Detection
Neslihan Iskender, Robin Schaefer, Tim Polzehl and Sebastian Möller

12.00-12.30


Authorship Attribution using Capsule-based Fusion Approach
Chanchal Suman, Rohit Kumar, Sriparna Saha and Pushpak Bhattacharyya

12.30-13.00

On the Explainability of Automatic Predictions of Mental Disorders

from Social Media Data
Ana Sabina Uban, Berta Chulvi and Paolo Rosso


13.00-14.30
Lunch Break


Session 3 – The Role of Learning
14.30-15.00

You can’t Learn what’s not there: Self Supervised Learning and the
Poverty of the Stimulus
Csaba Veres and Jennifer Sampson

15.00-15.20


Scaling Federated Learning for Fine-tuning of Large Language Models
Agrin Hilmkil, Sebastian Callh, Matteo Barbieri, Leon René Sütfeld,
Edvin Listo Zec and Olof Mogren

15.20-15.40


Human-Style Lifelong Learning for Social Intelligent Agents in a Hybrid
Architecture
Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie Mcshane and Jesse English


15.40-16.00
Coffee Break


16.00-17.30
Panel – The NL4XAI consortium
1) Introduction – Presenting briefly NL4XAI (5min)
2) Designing and developing human-centered XAI models (15min)
3) Enhancing NL Technologies (NLT) for XAI (15min)
4) Exploiting Argumentation Technology for XAI (15min)
5) Developing Interactive Interfaces for XAI (20min)
6) Open Discussion (20min)

Thursday, 24.June 2021

Session 4 – Methodological Approaches (1) and Applications

9.00-9.30


NumER: A Fine-grained Numeral Entity Recognition Dataset
Thanakrit Julavanich and Akiko Aizawa

9.30-10.00


Cross-Domain Transfer of Generative Explanations using Text-to-Text Models
Karl Fredrik Erliksson, Anders Arpteg, Mihhail Matskin and Amir H. Payberah

10.00-10.20


Comparing MultiLingual and Multiple MonoLingual Models for Intent
Classification and Slot Filling
Cedric Lothritz, Kevin Allix, Bertrand Lebichot, Lisa Veiber,
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé and Jacques Klein

10.20-10.40


Automated Retrieval of Graphical User Interface Prototypes from

Natural Language Requirements
Kristian Kolthoff, Christian Bartelt and Simone Paolo Ponzetto


10.40-11.10
Coffee Break


11.10-12.25
Invited Talk
Elke Teich, Saarland University, Germany


12.25-14.00
Lunch Break


Session 5 – Classification (1)

14.00-14.20


BERT-Capsule Model for Cyberbullying Detection in Code-Mixed
Indian Languages
Krishanu Maity and Sriparna Saha

14.20-14.40


Multiword Expression Features for Automatic Hate Speech Detection
Nicolas Zampieri, Irina Illina and Dominique Fohr

14.40-15.10


Semantic Text Segment Classification of Structured Technical Content
Julian Höllig, Philipp Dufter, Michaela Geierhos, Wolfgang Ziegler,
and Hinrich Schütze

15.10-15.30


On the Generalization of Figurative Language Detection: the Case of
Irony and Sarcasm
Lorenzo Famiglini, Elisabetta Fersini and Paolo Rosso


15.30-16.00
Coffee Break


Session 6 – Classification (2) and Linking Documents (1)
16.00-16.30

Sequence-based Word Embeddings for Effective Text Classification
Bruno Guilherme, Fabricio Murai, Olga Goussevskaia and Ana
Paula Couto Da Silva

16.30-17.00


Extracting Facts from Case Rulings through Paragraph Segmentation of
Judicial Decisions
Andrés Lou, Olivier Salaün, Hannes Westermann and Leila Kosseim

17.00-17.20


Detection of Misinformation about COVID-19 in Brazilian Portuguese
WhatsApp Messages
Antonio Diogo Forte Martins, Lucas Cabral, Pedro Jorge Chaves
Mourao, José Maria Monteiro and Javam de Castro Machado

17.20-17.50

Using Document Embeddings for Background Linking of News Articles
Pavel Khloponin and Leila Kosseim


17.50-18.20

Award Session

Friday, 25.June 2021

Session 7 – Sentiment Analysis (1) and Multimodality (1)

9.00-9.30


Cross-Active Connection for Image-Text Multimodal Feature Fusion
Junghyuk Im, Dae-Shik Kim and Wooyeong Cho

9.30-9.50


Multi-Step Transfer Learning for Sentiment Analysis
Anton Golubev and Natalia Loukachevitch

9.50-10.20

Human Language Comprehension in Aspect Phrase Extraction with
Importance Weighting
Joschka Kersting and Michaela Geierhos

10.20-10.50


Exploring Summarization to Enhance Headline Stance Detection


10.50-11.20
Coffee Break


11.20-12.35

Invited Talk
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany


12.35-14.00
Lunch Break


Session 8 – Methodological Approaches (2) and Linking Documents (1)

14.00-14.30


Word Embedding-based Topic Similarity Measures
Silvia Terragni, Elisabetta Fersini and Enza Messina

14.30-15.00


Mixture Variational Autoencoder of Boltzmann Machines for Text Processing
Bruno Guilherme, Fabricio Murai, Olga Goussevskaia and Ana
Paula Couto Da Silva

15.00-15.20


A Modular Approach for Romanian-English Speech Translation
Andrei-Marius Avram, Vasile Pais and Dan Tufis

15.20-15.40


Let’s Summarize Scientific Documents! A Clustering-based Approach
via Citation Context
Santosh Kumar Mishra, Naveen Saini, Sriparna Saha and Bushpak
Bhattacharyya


15.40-16.10
Coffee Break


Session 9 – Sentiment Analysis (2) and Multimodality (2)

16.10-16.40


Improving Sentiment Classification in Low Resource Bengali Language
Utilizing Cross-lingual Self-supervised Learning
Salim Sazzed

16.40-17.00

Sentiment Progression based Searching and Indexing of Literary

Textual Artefacts
Hrishikesh Kulkarni and Bradly Alicea

17.00-17.20


Predicting Vaccine Hesitancy and Vaccine Sentiment using Topic
Modeling and Evolutionary Optimization
Gokul S Krishnan, Sowmya Kamath S and Vijayan Sugumaran

17.20-17.40


Profiling Fake News Spreaders: Personality and Visual Information Matter
Riccardo Cervero, Paolo Rosso and Gabriella Pasi


17.40-18.10

Closing Ceremony and Outlook