Program

Monday, April 19, 2021

10:00 - 11:00 Paper Session-I

Chair: John Phillip McCrae, National University of Ireland Galway

Co-Chair: Manel Zarrouk, Institut Galilée Université Paris 13

10:00 - 10:20 Impact of COVID-19 in Natural Language Processing Publications: a Disaggregated Study in Gender, Contribution and Experience

Christine Basta and Marta R. Costa-jussa

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

10:20 - 10:40 Adapting the Portuguese Braille System to Formal Semantics

Luís Filipe Cunha

Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto / Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto

10:40 - 11:00 Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning for Hate Speech Detection

Irina Bigoulaeva, Viktor Hangya, Alexander Fraser

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 Paper Session II

Chair: Kalika Bali, Microsoft Research India

Co-Chair: Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, National University of Ireland Galway

11:30 - 11:50 hBERT + BiasCorp - Fighting Racism on the Web

Olawale Onabola1, Zhuang Ma2, Xie Yang3, Benjamin Akera4, Ibraheem Abdulrahman1, Jia Xue5, Dianbo Liu6, Yoshua Bengio7

1Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, 2CMU, 3Mila, 4Samasource, 5University of Toronto, 6Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 7University of Montreal

11:50 - 12:10 An Overview of Fairness in Data – Illuminating the Bias in Data Pipeline

Senthil Kumar B1, Aravindan Chandrabose1, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi2

1SSN College of Engineering, 2Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway

12:10 - 12:30 GEPSA, a tool for monitoring social challenges in digital press

Iñaki San Vicente, Xabier Saralegi, Nerea Zubia

Elhuyar Foundation

12:30 - 12:50 Finding Spoiler Bias in Tweets by Zero-shot Learning and Knowledge Distilling from Neural Text Simplification

Avi Bleiweiss

BShalem

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:00 Poster Session-Shared Task Papers

Chair: Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, National University of Ireland Galway

Co-Chair: Vigneshwaran Muralidaran, Cardiff University

14:00 - 15:00 Findings of the Shared Task on Hope Speech Detection for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi1 and Vigneshwaran Muralidaran2

1Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, 2Cardiff University

14:00 - 15:00 dhivya-hope-detection@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Multilingual Hope Speech Detection for Code-mixed and Transliterated Texts

Dhivya Chinnappa

Thomson Reuters

14:00 - 15:00 KU_NLP@LT-EDI-EACL2021: A Multilingual Hope Speech Detection for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion using Context Aware Embeddings

Junaida M K and Ajees A P

Kannur University

14:00 - 15:00 EDIOne@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Pre-trained Transformers with Convolutional Neural Networks for Hope Speech Detection.

Suman Dowlagar and Radhika Mamidi

Language Technologies Research Center, IIIT - Hyderabad.

14:00 - 15:00 ssn_diBERTsity@LT-EDI-EACL2021:Hope Speech Detection on multilingual YouTube comments via transformer based approach

Arunima S, Akshay Ramakrishnan, Avantika Balaji, Thenmozhi D., Senthil Kumar B

SSN College of Engineering

14:00 - 15:00 IIITT@LT-EDI-EACL2021-Hope Speech Detection: There is always hope in Transformers

Karthik Puranik1, Adeep Hande2, Ruba Priyadharshini3, Sajeetha Thavareesan4, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi5

1Indian Institute of Information Technology Tiruchirappalli, 2Indian Institute of Information Technology,Tiruchirappalli, 3ULTRA Arts and Science College,, 4Lecturer, 5Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway

14:00 - 15:00 IIIT_DWD@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Hope Speech Detection in YouTube multilingual comments

SUNIL SAUMYA1 and ANKIT KUMAR MISHRA2

1INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DHARWAD, 2Magadh University

14:00 - 15:00 IRNLP_DAIICT@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Hope Speech detection in Code Mixed text using TF-IDF Char N-grams and MuRIL

Bhargav Dave, Shripad Bhat, Prasenjit Majumder

DA-IICT

14:00 - 15:00 ZYJ@LT-EDI-EACL2021:XLM-RoBERTa-Based Model with Attention for Hope Speech Detection

Yingjia Zhao and Xin Tao

Yunnan University

14:00 - 15:00 TEAM HUB@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Hope Speech Detection Based On Pre-trained Language Model

Bo Huang1 and Yang Bai2

1YunNanUniversity, 2Yunnan University

14:00 - 15:00 cs_english@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Hope Speech Detection Based On Fine-tuning ALBERT Model

shi chen and bing kong

Yunnan University

14:00 - 15:00 GCDH@LT-EDI-EACL2021: XLM-RoBERTa for Hope Speech Detection in English, Malayalam, and Tamil

Stefan Ziehe1, Franziska Pannach1, Aravind Krishnan2

1University of Göttingen, 2College of Engineering, Trivandrum

14:00 - 15:00 TeamUNCC@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Hope Speech Detection using Transfer Learning with Transformers

Khyati Mahajan1, Erfan Al-Hossami1, Samira Shaikh2

1University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2UNC - Charlotte

14:00 - 15:00 Autobots@LT-EDI-EACL2021: One World, One Family: Hope Speech Detection with BERT Transformer Model

Sunil Gundapu and Radhika Mamidi

IIIT Hyderabad

14:00 - 15:00 Amrita@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Hope Speech Detection on Multilingual Text

Thara S, Ravi teja Tasubilli, Kothamasu Sai rahul

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetam

14:00 - 15:00 Hopeful Men@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Hope Speech Detection Using Indic Transliteration and Transformers

Ishan Sanjeev Upadhyay1, Nikhil E2, Anshul Wadhawan3, Radhika Mamidi4

1International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, 2International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, 3Netaji Subhas University of Technology, 4IIIT Hyderabad

14:00 - 15:00 Hopeful NLP@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Finding Hope in YouTube Comment Section

Vasudev Awatramani

Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology

14:00 - 15:00 NLP-CUET@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Multilingual Code-Mixed Hope Speech Detection using Cross-lingual Representation Learner

Eftekhar Hossain1, Omar Sharif2, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque2

1Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, 2Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology

14:00 - 15:00 Simon @ LT-EDI-EACL2021: Detecting Hope Speech with BERT

Qinyu Que

Yunnan University

14:00 - 15:00 MUCS@LT-EDI-EACL2021:CoHope-Hope Speech Detection for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Code-Mixed Texts

Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Aparna B K, H L Shashirekha

Mangalore University

14:00 - 15:00 Spartans@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Inclusive Speech Detection using Pretrained Language Models

Megha Sharma1 and Gaurav Arora2

1Amazon, 2Haptik

14:00 - 15:00 CFILT IIT Bombay@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Hope Speech Detection for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion using Multilingual Representation fromTransformers

Pankaj Singh, Prince Kumar, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

14:00 - 15:00 IIITK@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Hope Speech Detection for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Tamil , Malayalam and English

Nikhil Ghanghor1, Rahul Ponnusamy2, Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan3, Ruba Priyadharshini4, Sajeetha Thavareesan5, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi6

1IIIT Kottayam, 2Master degree, IIITMK College, 3Student, IIITMK College, 4ULTRA Arts and Science College,, 5Lecturer, 6Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway

15:00 - 16:00 Invited Talk

Chair: Paul Buitelaar, National University of Ireland Galway

Co-Chair: John Phillip McCrae, National University of Ireland Galway

16:00 - 16:30 Closing Remarks

Chair: John P McCrae, National University of Ireland Galway

Co-Chair: Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, National University of Ireland Galway