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