Publications (and patents)
2024
Vincent Jung and Lonneke van der Plas. 2024. Understanding the effects of language-specific class imbalance in multilingual fine-tuning. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024
2023
Alessandro Miani, Lonneke van der Plas, and Adrian Bangerter. 2023. Loose and tight: Creative formation but rigid use of nominal compounds in conspiracist texts. The Journal of Creative Behavior.
Molly Petersen and Lonneke van der Plas. 2023. Can language models learn analogical reasoning? Investigating training objectives and comparisons to human performance. EMNLP main papers.
Colin Layfield, René Zandbergen, Lisa Fagin Davis, John Abela, Claire Bowern, Michael Rosner, Lonneke van der Plas. 2023. International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022. In proceedings of HistoCrypt. https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp195.
Milind Agarwal, Sweta Agrawal, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Luisa Bentivogli, Ondřej Bojar, Claudia Borg, Marine Carpuat, Roldano Cattoni, Mauro Cettolo, Mingda Chen, William Chen, Khalid Choukri, Alexandra Chronopoulou, Anna Currey, Thierry Declerck, Qianqian Dong, Kevin Duh, Yannick Estève, Marcello Federico, et al.. 2023. FINDINGS OF THE IWSLT 2023 EVALUATION CAMPAIGN. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2023), pages 1–61, Toronto, Canada (in-person and online). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Aiden Williams, Kurt Abela, Rishu Kumar, Martin Bär, Hannah Billinghurst, Kurt Micallef, Ahnaf Mozib Samin, Andrea DeMarco, Lonneke van der Plas, and Claudia Borg. 2023. UM-DFKI Maltese Speech Translation. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2023), pages 433–441, Toronto, Canada (in-person and online). Association for Computational Linguistics.
2022
Andreas Marfurt, Ashley Thornton, David Sylvan, Lonneke van der Plas, and James Henderson. A Corpus and Evaluation for Predicting Semi-Structured Human Annotations. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM), pages 262–275, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Kurt Micallef, Albert Gatt, Marc Tanti, Lonneke van der Plas and Claudia Borg
In Proceedings of the workshop on Deep Learning for Low-Resource NLP
Inga Lang, Lonneke van der Plas, Malvina Nissim and Albert Gatt
Visually Grounded Interpretation of Noun-Noun Compounds in English
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics
Kevin Farrugia, Colin Layfield, Lonneke van der Plas
Demystifying the Scribes behind the Voynich Manuscript using Computational Linguistic Techniques.
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022
2021
Marc Tanti, Lonneke van der Plas, Claudia Borg, Albert Gatt
On the Language-specificity of Multilingual BERT and the Impact of Fine-tuning
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP (Blackbox NLP)
2020
Michele Loi, Eleonora Viganò, and Lonneke van der Plas
The societal and ethical relevance of computational Creativity
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity
Yunyao Li, Carlos Diez Sanchez, and Lonneke van der Plas
Patent P201900541US01: Using a joint distributional semantic system to correct redundant semantic verb frames
holder: IBM US
Patrick Ziering and Lonneke van der Plas
Compound or phrase or in between? Testing Linguistic Criteria for Compoundhood.
In Compounds Between Phrases and Words. Special issue Word Structure.
Michele Loi and Lonneke van der Plas
A blind spot of AI ethics: anti-fragility in statistical prediction
Poster at the Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS2020)
ELSI best paper award!!
Gianina Iordăchioaia, Lonneke van der Plas, Glorianna Jagfeld
Compositionality in English deverbal compounds: The role of the head
In Sabine Schulte im Walde and Eva Smolka (eds.) The role of constituents in multiword expressions: An interdisciplinary, cross-lingual perspective. Phraseology and Multiword Expressions. Language Science Press.
Stavros Assimakopoulos, Rebecca Vella Muskat, Lonneke van der Plas, Albert Gatt
Annotating for Hate Speech: The MaNeCo Corpus and Some Input from Critical Discourse Analysis
Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Carlos Daniel Hernandez Mena, Albert Gatt, Andrea DeMarco, Claudia Borg, Lonneke van der Plas, Amanda Muscat, Ian Padovani
MASRI-HEADSET: A Maltese Corpus for Speech Recognition
Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Colin Layfield, Lonneke van der Plas, Michael Rosner, John Abela
Word Probability Findings in the Voynich Manuscript
Proceedings of LT4HALA 2020 - 1st Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages
Automatic Removal of Identifying Information in Official EU Languages for Public Administrations: The MAPA Project (Gianola, Lucie; Ajausks, Ēriks; Arranz, Victoria; Bendahman, Chomicha; Bié, Laurent; Borg, Claudia; Cerdà, Aleix; Choukri, Khalid; Cuadros, Montse; Gibert, Ona de; Degroote, Hans; Edelman, Elena; Etchegoyhen, Thierry; Torres, Ángela Franco; Hernandez, Mercedes García; Pablos, Aitor García; Gatt, Albert; Grouin, Cyril; Herranz, Manuel; Kohan, Alejandro Adolfo; Lavergne, Thomas; Melero, Maite; Paroubek, Patrick; Rigault, Mickaël; Rosner, Mike; Rozis, Roberts; Plas, Lonneke van der; Vīksna, Rinalds and Zweigenbaum, Pierre), In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX'20), IOS Press, 2020.
2019
Prajit Dhar and Lonneke van der Plas
Learning to predict novel noun-noun-compounds
Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019).
Prajit Dhar, Janis Pagel and Lonneke van der Plas
Measuring the compositionality of noun-noun compounds over time
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2019
2018
Agata Savary, Marie Candito, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Eduard Bejček, Fabienne Cap, Slavomir Čéplö, Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro, Gülşen Eryiğit, Voula Giouli, Maarten van Gompel, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Jolanta Kovalevskaitė, Simon Krek, Chaya Liebeskind, Johanna Monti, Carla Parra Escartín, Lonneke van der Plas, Behrang QasemiZadeh, Carlos Ramisch, Federico Sangati, Ivelina Stoyanova, Veronika Vincze
PARSEME multilingual corpus of verbal multiword expressions
Chapter in Markantonatou, Stella, Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary & Veronika Vincze (eds.). 2018. Multiword expressions at length and in depth: Extended papers from the MWE 2017 workshop Phraseology and Multiword Expressions 2). Berlin: Language Science Press.
Albert Gatt, Marc Tanti, Adrian Muscat, Patrizia Paggio, Reuben A. Farrugia, Claudia Borg, Kenneth P. Camilleri, Mike Rosner, Lonneke van der Plas
Proceedings of LREC
2017
M. Constant, G. Eryiğit, J. Monti, L. van der Plas, C. Ramisch, M. Rosner, A. Todariscu
Multiword Expression Processing: A Survey
Journal of Computational Linguistics December 2017, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 837–892
Glorianna Jagfeld, Patrick Ziering, Lonneke van der Plas
Evaluation of Compound Splitting Extrinsically with Textual Entailment
Proceedings of ACL
Hoa Trong Vu, Thuong-Hai Pham, Xiaoyu Bai Marc Tanti, Lonneke van der Plas, Albert Gatt
LCT-MALTA’s Submission to RepEval 2017 Shared Task
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Evaluating Vector-Space Representations for NLP, pages 56–60
2016
Jörg Tiedemann, Lonneke van der Plas
Bootstrapping a Dependency Parser for Maltese - A Real-World Test Case
Chapter in 'From Semantics to Dialectometry : Festschrift in honor of John Nerbonne', Ed. Martijn Weiling, Martin Kroon, Gertjan Van Noord
Gianina Iordachioaia, Lonneke van der Plas and Glorianna Jagfeld
The Grammar of Deverbal Compounds and their Meaning
GramLex @ Coling
Patrick Ziering and Lonneke van der Plas
NAACL
Patrick Ziering, Stefan Müller and Lonneke van der Plas
Top a Splitter: Using Distributional Semantics for Improving Compound Splitting
Proceedings of the 12th ACL-Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2016)
2015
Glorianna Jagfeld and Lonneke van der Plas
Towards a better Semantic Role Labelling of Complex Predicates
NAACL Student Research Workshop
Patrick Ziering and Lonneke van der Plas
One tree is not enough: Cross-lingual Accumulative Structure Transfer for Semantic Indeterminacy
Pages 739–746 of the Proceedings of RANLP
Patrick Ziering and Lonneke van der Plas
From a Distance: Using Cross-lingual Word Alignments for Noun Compound Bracketing
IWCS
Ngoc Quan Pham and Lonneke van der Plas
Predicting cross-lingual pronouns with continuous word spaces
DiscoMT (@ EMNLP)
2014
Lonneke van der Plas, Marianna Apidianaki, and Chenhua Chen
Global methods for cross-lingual semantic role and predicate labelling
Coling
Patrick Ziering and Lonneke van der Plas
Coling
Lonneke van der Plas and Marianna Apidianaki
Crosslingual word sense disambiguation for predicate labelling of French
TALN
2013
Patrick Ziering, Lonneke van der Plas, Hinrich Schütze
Multilingual Lexicon Bootstrapping - Improving a Lexicon Induction System Using a Parallel Corpus
IJCNLP
Patrick Ziering, Lonneke van der Plas, Hinrich Schütze
Bootstrapping Semantic Lexicons for Technical Domains
IJCNLP
Joerg Tiedemann, Lonneke van der Plas, Begona Villada Morón.
Workshop on Twenty Years of Bitext in connection with EMNLP 2013
2012
Sarah Cruchet, Celia Boyer, Lonneke van der Plas.
Trustworthiness and relevance in web-based clinical question answering.
in Health Informatics: Building a Healthcare Future Through Trusted Information. Stud Health Technol Inform.:180:863-7.
2011
Lonneke van der Plas, Paola Merlo and James Henderson
Scaling up Cross-Lingual Semantic Annotation Transfer
In Proceedings of ACL/HLT, Portland, US, pp 299-304.
Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann, and Jean-Luc Manguin
Synonym acquisition across domains and languages
Chapter in V. Pallotta, A. Soro, and E. Vargiu, ed., Advances in Distributed Agent-based Retrieval Tools, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp 41-58.
Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann, and Ismail Fahmi
Automatic extraction of medical term variants from multilingual parallel translations
Chapter in A. van den Bosch, and G. Bouma, ed., Interactive Multi-modal Question Answering. Theory and Applications of Natural
Language Processing. Springer Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-642-17524-4, pp 149-170.
2010
Tanja Samardzic, Lonneke van der Plas, Goljihan Kashaeva, and Paola Merlo
Variation in verbal predicates in English and French [pdf]
In Generative Grammar in Geneva (GG@G), Volume 6, pp 109 - 135.
Tanja Samardzic, Lonneke van der Plas, Goljihan Kashaeva, and Paola Merlo
The Scope and the Sources of Variation in Verbal Predicates in English and French
In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, Tartu, Estonia.
Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann
Finding Medical Term Variations using Parallel Corpora and Distributional Similarity
In Proceedings of the Coling workshop on ontologies and lexical resources, Beijing, China.
Lonneke van der Plas, Tanja Samardzic, and Paola Merlo
Cross-lingual Validity of PropBank in the Manual Annotation of French
In Proceedings of the 4th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW IV), Uppsala, Sweden.
Lonneke van der Plas, Gosse Bouma, Jori Mur
Automatic Acquisition of Lexico-semantic Knowledge for QA
Chapter in Chu-Ren Huang, ed., Ontology and the Lexicon, Studies in Natural Language Processing,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. pp 271--287
ISBN 978-0-521-88659-8.
Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann and Jean-Luc Manguin
Automatic acquisition of synonyms for French using parallel corpora
In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Distributed Agent-based Retrieval Tools, Geneva, Switzerland.
2009
Paola Merlo and Lonneke van der Plas
Abstraction and Generalisation in Semantic Role Labels: PropBank, VerbNet or both?
In Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP, Singapore.
Cedric Boidin, Verena Rieser, Lonneke van der Plas, Oliver Lemon, Jonathan Chevelu
In the Interspeech special session on Machine Learning for Adaptivity in Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Lonneke van der Plas
Combining Syntactic Co-occurrences and Nearest Neighbours in Distributional Methods to Remedy Data Sparseness
In Proceedings of the NAACL workshop on Unsupervised and Minimally Supervised Learning of Lexical Semantics, Boulder, US.
Lonneke van der Plas, James Henderson, and Paola Merlo
Domain Adaptation with Artificial Data for Semantic Parsing of Speech
In Proceedings of NAACL, Boulder, US.
2008
Lonneke van der Plas
Automatic lexico-semantic acquisition for question answering (PhD thesis)
In the GRODIL series.
ISBN 978-90-367-3564-3.
Lonneke van der Plas and Jörg Tiedemann
Using Lexico-Semantic Information for Query Expansion in Passage Retrieval for Question Answering
In Coling 2008 Workshop: Information Retrieval for Question Answering, Manchester, UK.
Lonneke van der Plas, Jean-Luc Manguin and Jörg Tiedeman
Extraction de synonymes à partir d'un corpus multilingue aligné
In Actes des journées de linguistique de corpus, Lorient, France.
Jean-Luc Manguin, Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann
Le traitement automatique: un moteur pour l'évolution des dictionnaire de synonymes
In Actes du colloque "Lexicographie et informatique: bilan et perspectives, Nancy, France.
Lonneke van der Plas and Jörg Tiedeman
Finding Synonyms Automatically in Multilingual Parallel Corpora In Proceedings of the HERA Conference, Tallinn, Estonia.
Bouma G., Kloosterman G., Mur J., van Noord G., van der Plas L., Tiedemann J. (2008) Question Answering with Joost at CLEF 2007. In: Peters C. et al. (eds) Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval. CLEF 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5152. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
2007
Ismail Fahmi, Gosse Bouma and Lonneke van der Plas
Using Multilingual Terms for Biomedical Term Extraction
In Proceedings of the RANLP Workshop on Acquisition and Management of Multilingual Lexicons , Borovetz, Bulgaria.
Bouma G., Fahmi I., Mur J., van Noord G., van der Plas L., Tiedemann J. (2007) Using Syntactic Knowledge for QA. In: Peters C. et al. (eds) Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval. CLEF 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4730. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
2006
Lonneke van der Plas and Jörg Tiedemann
Finding Synonyms Using Automatic Word Alignment and Measures of Distributional Similarity
In Proceedings of ACL/Coling.
Jori Mur and Lonneke van der Plas
Anaphora Resolution for Off-line Answer Extraction using Instances
In Proceedings of the Workshop for Anaphora Resolution (WAR).
Gosse Bouma, Ismail Fahmi, Jori Mur, Gertjan van Noord, Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann
Linguistic Knowledge and Question Answering
In Traitement Automatique des Langues, vol 46(3), pp 15-39.
Bouma G., Mur J., van Noord G., van der Plas L., Tiedemann J. (2006) Question Answering for Dutch Using Dependency Relations. In: Peters C. et al. (eds) Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories. CLEF 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
2005
Lonneke van der Plas and Gosse Bouma
Automatic Acquisition of Lexico-Semantic Knowledge for QA
In Proceedings of the IJCNLP workshop on Ontologies and Lexical Resources, Jeju Island, South Korea.
Lonneke van der Plas and Gosse Bouma
Syntactic Contexts for finding Semantically Similar Words
In Proceedings of CLIN 04.
2004
Lonneke van der Plas, Vincenzo Palotta, Martin Rajman and Hatem Ghorbel
Keyword Extraction from Spoken Text. A Comparison of Two Lexical Resources: EDR and WordNet
In Proceedings of LREC, volume VI, Lisbon, Portugal.
Fabio Rinaldi, James Dowdall, Michael Hess, Kaarel Kaljurand, Andreas Persidis, Babis Theodoulidis, Bill Black, John McNaught, Haralampos Karanikas, Argyris Vasilakopoulos, Kelly Zervanou, Luc Bernard, Gian Piero Zarri, Hilbert Bruins Slot, Chris van der Touw, Margaret Daniel-King, Nancy Underwood, Agnes Lisowska, Lonneke van der Plas, Veronique Sauron, Myra Spiliopoulou, Marko Brunzel, Jeremy Ellman, Giorgos Orphanos, Thomas Mavroudakis, Spiros Taraviras
Parmenides: an opportunity for ISO TC37 SC4? In the ACL workshop Workshop on Linguistic Annotation: Getting the Model Right Sapporo, Japan.