Workshop

Registration instructions

IberLEF 2021 will be held online on September 21, 2021, collocated with SEPLN 2021 and CEDI 2021. Click here to register and

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Workshop Program

September 21, 2021 (All schedule in CEST time)

1 Tasks parallel sessions (1/3)

11am - 12:30 (CEST): Parallel sessions for DETOXIS, EmoEvalES, VaxxStance, ADoBo and MEDDOPROF (see details below)

2 Tasks parallel sessions (2/3)

12:30-14:00 Parallel sessions for EXIST, MeOffendEs, HAHA and eHealth-KD (see details below)

3 IberLEF Plenary session

[Whova link for the plenary session]

16:00-16:15 Overview of IberLEF 2021

Emotions, Stance and Opinions

16:15 - 16:30 Overview of EmoEvalEs

16:30-16:45 Overview of REST-MEX

16:45-17:00 Overview of VaxxStance

Harmful Information

17:00-17:15 Overview of MeOffendEs

17:15-17:30 Overview of EXIST

17:30-17:45 Overview of DETOXIS

17:45-18:00 Overview of FakeDeS

18:00-18:15 Coffee break

Health-related Information Extraction and Knowledge Discovery

18:15-18:30 eHealth-KD

18:30-18:45 MEDDOPROF

Humour and Irony

18:45-19:00 HAHA

19:00-19:15 IDPT

Lexical Acquisition

19:15-19:30 ADoBo

19:30-19:45 Discussion and wrap-up

3 Tasks Parallel sessions (3/3)

20:30-22:00: REST-MEX (see below)

Detailed Program of the Tasks Parallel Sessions


Tasks Parallel Sessions 1/3 (11:00-12:30 CEST)

DETOXIS Parallel Session

[Whova link for DETOXIS session]

11am-11:10 (CEST): Introduction

11:10-11:30: SINAI at IberLEF-2021 DETOXIS task: Exploring Features as Tasks in a Multi-task Learning Approach to Detecting Toxic Comments. Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, M. Dolores Molina-González, L. Alfonso Ureña-López and M. Teresa Martín-Valdivia

11:30-11:50: GuillemGSubies at IberLEF-2021 DETOXIS task: Detecting Toxicity with Spanish BERT. Guillem García Subies

11:50-12:10: AI-UPV at IberLEF-2021 DETOXIS task: Toxicity Detection in Immigration-Related WebNews Comments Using Transformers and Statistical Models . Angel Felipe Magnossão de Paula and Ipek Baris Schlicht

12:10-12:30: GTH-UPM at DETOXIS-IberLEF 2021: Automatic Detection of Toxic Comments in Social Networks. Sergio Esteban Romero, Ricardo Kleinlein, Cristina Luna-Jiménez, Juan Manuel Montero and Fernando Fernández-Martínez

EmoEvalEs Parallel Session

[Whova link]

11:00 – 11:15 Welcome and presentation of the EmoEvalEs task

11:15 – 12:15 Participant's approaches presentations

11:15 - 11:25 GSI-UPM team GSI-UPM at IberLEF2021: Emotion Analysis of Spanish Tweets by Fine-tuning the XLM-RoBERTa Language Model Daniel Vera, Oscar Araque, Carlos A. Iglesias

11:25 - 11:30 Questions 11:30 - 11:40 URJC team URJC-Team at EmoEvalEs 2021: BERT for Emotion Classification in Spanish Tweets Jorge Alberto Flores Sánchez, Soto Montalvo Herranz, Raquel Martínez Unanue

11:40 - 11:45 Questions 11:45 - 11:55 UMU team UMUTeam at EmoEvalEs 2021: Emotion Analysis for Spanish based on Explainable Linguistic Features and Transformers José Antonio García-Díaz, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Rafael Valencia-García

11:55 - 12:00 Questions

12:00 - 12:10 WSSC team Emotion Detection for Spanish by Combining LASER Embeddings, Topic Information, and Offense Features Fedor Vitiugin, Giorgio Barnabò

12:10 - 12:15 Questions

12:15 – 12:30 Concluding remarks

16:15 - 16:30 Overview of EmoEvalEs (in plenary session)

MEDDOPROF Parallel Session

[Whova link]


11:00-11:30 Overview of the Plan TL/BSC MEDDOPROF Shared Task on Detection and Normalization of Occupations in Spanish Medical Documents

Salvador Lima-López, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain


11:30-11:40 NLNDE at MEDDOPROF: Boosting Transformers in a Low-Resource Setting

Lukas Lange, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany


11:40-11:50 Vicomtech at MEDDOPROF: Automatic Information Extraction and Disambiguation in Clinical Text

Elena Zotova, Vicomtech, Spain


11:50-12:00 TALP at MEDDOPROF: Everything Transformers: Recognition, Classification and Normalisation of Professions and Family Relations

Salvador Medina Herrera, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain


12:00-12:10 EdIE-KnowLab at MEDDOPROF: BERT and Approximate String Matching for Automatic Recognition and Normalization of Professions in Spanish Medical Documents

Víctor Suárez-Paniagua, University of Edinburgh, UK


12:10-12:20 SINAI at MEDDOPROF: BERT Representations to Identify Professions and Employment Statuses in Health data

José Alberto Mesa Murgado, Universidad de Jaén, Spain


12:20-12:30 Conclusions and wrap-up on MEDDOPROF and ongoing Plan TL/BSC evaluation efforts

Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

VaxxStance Parallel Session

[Whova link]

11:00-12:30:

1 MultiAzterTest@VaxxStance-IberLEF 2021: Identifying Stances with Language Models and Linguistic Features. Itziar Gonzalez-Dios and Kepa Bengoetxea.

2 SQYQP@Vaxxstance: Stance Detection for the Antivaxxers Movement. Jesús Calleja and Ariane Méndez

3 WordUp! at VaxxStance 2021: Combining Contextual Information with Textual and Dependency-Based Syntactic Features for Stance Detection. Mirko Lai, Alessandra Cignarella, Livio Finos, Andrea Sciandra.

4 Discussion/Future Work



ADoBo Parallel Session

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11.00-11.15: Introduction: lexical borrowing and ADoBo 2021 shared task

11.20-11.35: The futility of STILTs for the classification of lexical borrowings in Spanish, Javier de la Rosa

11.40-11.55: Invited talk on codeswitching, Constantine Lignos

12.00-12.15: Open discussion: the future of ADoBo

Tasks Parallel Sessions 2/3 (12:30-14:00 CEST)

eHealth-KD Parallel Session

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12:30 Task overview (eHealth-KD organisers)

12:50 Vicomtech

13:00 PUCRJ-PUCPR-UFMG

13:10 IXA

13:20 Round of systems' videos

13:30-14:00 Discussion

EXIST Parallel Session

[Whova link]


12:30 - 14:00 EXIST Parallel Session

12:30 - 12:35: Welcome and Opening Remarks.

12:35 - 12:50: Sexism Prediction in Spanish and English Tweets Using Monolingual and Multilingual BERT and Ensemble Models. Angel Felipe Magnossão de Paula, Roberto Fray da Silva, Ipek Baris Schlicht.

12:50 - 13:05: Sexism Identification in Social Networks using a Multi-Task Learning System. Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, M. Dolores Molina-González, L. Alfonso Ureña López, M. Teresa Martín-Valdivia.

13:05 - 13:20: Automatic Sexism Detection with Multilingual Transformer Models AIT_FHSTP@EXIST2021. Schütz Mina, Boeck Jaqueline, Liakhovets Daria, Slijepcevic Djordje, Kirchknopf Armin, Hecht Manuel, Bogensperger Johannes, Schlarb Sven, Schindler Alexander, and Zeppelzauer Matthias.

13:20 - 13:35: MultiAzterTest@Exist-IberLEF 2021:Linguistically Motivated Sexism Identification. Kepa Bengoetxea, Itziar Gonzalez-Dios.

13:35 - 13:50: EXIST2021: Detecting Sexism with Transformers and Translation-Augmented Data. Guillem García Subies.

13:50 - 14:00: Discussion.

HAHA Parallel Session

[Whova link]


- 12:30: Welcome

- 12:35: Keynote by Professor Rada Mihalcea

- 13:00: Presentation by Jocoso: Karish Grover and Tanishq Goel. "HAHA@IberLEF2021: Humor Analysis using Ensembles of Simple Transformers"

- 13:15: Presentation by team iic: Guillem Garcı́a Subies, David Betancur Sánchez and Alejandro Vaca. "BERT and SHAP for Humor Analysis based on Human Annotation"

- 13:30: Presentation by team RoMa: Mariano Rodríguez, Reynier Ortega-Bueno and Paolo Rosso: "RoMa at HAHA-2021: Deep Reinforcement Learning to Improve a Transformed-based Model for Humor Detection"

- 13:45: Presentation by team UMUTeam: José Antonio García-Díaz and Rafael Valencia-García. "UMUTeam at HAHA 2021: Linguistic Features and Transformers for Analysing Spanish Humor. The What, the How, and to Whom"

MeOffendES Parallel Session

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12:30 – 12:35 Introduction to the task

12:35 – 12:45 (+5 min questions) UMUTeam

UMUTeam at MeOffendEs 2021: Ensemble Learning for Offensive Language Identification using Linguistic Features, Fine-grained Negation and Transformers José Antonio García-Díaz, Salud María Jiménez-Zafra, Rafael Valencia-García

12:50 – 13:00 (+5 min questions) NLP-CIC

Evaluation of Intermediate Pre-training for the Detection of Offensive Language Segun Taofeek Aroyehun, Alexander Gelbukh

13:05 – 13:15 (+5 min questions) CIMAT-MTY-GTO

Transformers Pipeline for Offensiveness Detection in Mexican Spanish Social Media Víctor Manuel Gómez Espinosa, Víctor Muñiz Sánchez and Adrián Pastor López Monroy

13:20 – 13:30 (+5 min questions) DCCD-INFOTEC

DCCD-INFOTEC at MeOffendEs@IberLEF21 Subtask 3: A transfer learning approach based on EvoMSA's stacked generalization José J. Calderón and Eric S. Tellez and Mario Graff

13:35 – 13:45 (+5 min questions) CIC-IPN

Using Lexical Resources for Detecting Offensiveness in Mexican Spanish Tweets Daniel Abraham Huerta-Velasco and Hiram Calvo

13:50 – 14:00 Concluding remarks

17:00 – 17:15 Overview of MeOffendEs (at IberLEF main session)

Task Parallel Sessions 3/3 (20:30-22:00 CEST)

Tasks Parallel Sessions 3/3 (20:30-22:00 CEST)

REST-MEX Parallel Session

[Whova link]

20:30-22:00 CEST (13:30-15:00 CDT)

  • 20:30-21:00: A recommendation system for tourism based on semantic representations and statistical relational learning. Labsemco-UAEM, Jorge Hermosillo

  • 21:00-21:30: An embeddings based recommendation system for mexican tourism. Alumni-MCE 2GEN, Lizeth Garcia

  • 21:30-22:00: Bert-based Approach for Sentiment Analysis of Spanish Reviews from TripAdvisor, Minería UNAM, Juan Vázquez