Poster Session 1

• Improving Text Classification by Filtering Out Irrelevant Sentences Using a Sentence Classifier
  Sander Puts, Shashank Chakravarthy, Martijn Nobel, André L. A. J. Dekker, Catharina M.L. Zegers & Inigo Bermejo
• Optimizing Controllable Sentence Simplification for Dutch using T5 Large Language Model
  Florelien Soete & Vincent Vandeghinste
• Comprehensive Evaluation of RAG Pipelines in QA Systems: Insights from the CRAG Benchmark
  Mert Yazan, Jirui Qi, Xinyi Chen, Andreas Paraskeva, Yumeng Wang & Mohanna Hoveyda
• Identifying Controversial Claims in Political YouTube Comments
  Natalia Evgrafova, Véronique Hoste & Els Lefever
• Unveiling Sentiments and Topics in COVID-19 Vaccine Comments on YouTube Over Time: from the First Vaccine Approval to the Post-Pandemic Era
  Foteini Papadopoulou
• Automatic Release Notes Summarization with Large Language Models
  Qianru Meng, Zhaochun Ren & Joost Visser
• Sentiment Analysis of Arabic-English Code-Switched Data: A Comparative Study of Machine Learning and Lexicon-Based Approaches
  Nadine Donia, Weiwei Sun & Arun Kumar Rajasekaran
• Improving the CoThought pipeline for training a BabyLM on Dutch data
  Thijs Groeneweg & Gijs Wijnholds
• Case Study: Leveraging Large Language Models in a Hybrid Search System for Improved CSR Information Retrieval
  Lorenzo Lazzari, Carlos Villacampa Calvo & Sophia Katrenko
• Generate then Refine: Data Augmentation for Zero-shot Intent Detection
  I-Fan Lin, Faegheh Hasibi & Suzan Verberne
• In-Corpus and Cross-Corpus Analysis of Native Language Identification Using Machine Learning
  Shima Rahimi, Ehsan Lotfi & Walter Daelemans
• A pilot study and framework for using and analyzing social scientist’s interaction strategies with Instruction-Tuned LLMs
  Myrthe Reuver, Indira Sen & Gabriella Lapesa
• Evaluation of Greek Word Embeddings
  Leonidas Mylonadis & Jelke Bloem
• A view on propositions: graphics for meaningful parsing and generation
  Crit Cremers
• Automated Correction of Error Patterns in Dutch Child Speech: Leveraging Transformer Architecture for Enhanced Accuracy
  Camille Lavigne & Alex Stasica
• Comparing and Contrasting Modality Disparity in Multimodal Sarcasm Detection
  Wu Chi Hsiu, Aaron Maladry & Veronique Hoste
• Evaluating the Linguistic Knowledge of Dutch Large Language Models
  Julia Pestel & Raquel G. Alhama
• Retrieval augmented chatbot for an IT helpdesk (WIP)
  Micheal Wheeler & Suzan Verberne
• Information Retrieval for Dutch Organizations: Evaluating Encoder Models and Practical Approaches
  Pauline van Nies, Marten Koopmans, Gijs Wobben, Coen Goedhart & Paul Verhaar
• Multi-token and Multi-word Lexical Substitution using Encoder-Only Language Models
  Henry Grafé & Tim Van de Cruys
• How Good is Your Wikipedia? Quality Estimation and Methods of Data Pruning for Non-English Wikipedias
  Kushal Tatariya, Artur Kulmizev, Esther Ploeger, Marcell Bollman, Jiaming Luo, Johannes Bjerva, Miryam de Lhoneux & Heather Lent
• On the generalisability of personality models
  Simon Blanchard & Walter Daelemans
• Controlled Text Simplification for Dutch using Generative Large Language Models
  Wout Sinnaeve, Joni Kruijsbergen & Orphée De Clercq
• Happy or lonely? Investigating Dutch people’s mental well-being using remote methods during the COVID-19 pandemic
  Marije Kanis, Marijn Schraagen, Shihan Wang & Erik Tjong Kim Sang
• One Size Does Not Fit All: Exploring Variable Thresholds for Distance-Based Multi-Label Text Classification
  Andrew Kosar, Jens Van Nooten, Walter Daelemans & Guy De Pauw
• Evaluating Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion and Syllable Counting of Large Language Models for Dutch
  Leonardo Grotti
• Predicting Initial Quality Scores of Dutch Essays with Language Models to Warm-Start Comparative Judgment Assessments
  Michiel De Vrindt, Anaïs Tack, Renske Brouwer, Wim Van Den Noortgate & Marije Lesterhuis
• Do we still need specialized transformers? A comparison to generative foundation models for non-normative Dutch
  Florian Debaene, Aaron Maladry, Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever & Veronique Hoste
• The Riddle Experiment: two groups are trying to solve a black story behind a screen, only one group is alive.
  Nikki Rademaker, Linthe van Rooij, Yanna Smid, Tessa Verhoef & Tom Kouwenhoven
• BLiMP-NL: A corpus of Dutch minimal pairs and grammaticality judgements for language model evaluation
  Michelle Suijkerbuik, Zoë Prins, Marianne de Heer Kloots, Willem Zuidema & Stefan L. Frank
• Ontology-based distance metrics for keyword evaluation
  Simone van Bruggen & Maaike Koninx
• Distributional Semantic Modeling of SC-Pair Polish Aspectual Verbs
  Matthew Micyk & Jelke Bloem
• Multilingual Definition Modeling for Neologisms
  Tanmay Khokle, Tim Van de Cruys & Kris Heylen
• Location-focused Translation in Low-resource Tagalog of Flooding Events in News Articles
  Suzan Lejeune & Iris Hendrickx
• Quantifying Politicization: Leverage Contextualized Embeddings of Politicized Keywords
  Sidi Wang & Jelke Bloem
• Systematic, Stereotypical or an Educated Guess? Gender inference by humans and machine translation systems of words in and out of context
  Janiça Hackenbuchner, Aaron Maladry, Arda Tezcan & Joke Daems
• Metaphorically speaking: a clustering-based exploration of metaphor identification in Dutch using transformer architectures
  Lisa Hubin
• Similarity Detection in Medieval Marginal Writing
  Colin Swaelens, Ilse De Vos & Els Lefever
• Natural Chatbots: Designing an Intuitive Healthcare Conversational Agent by Studying the Role of Empathy in Generated Messages
  Cristina Reguera-Gómez, Denis Papermo & Maaike H. T. de Boer
• Enhancing Human-Likeness of Generative AI through Explainable Techniques
  Hadi Mohammadi, Anastasia Giachanou & Ayoub Bagheri
• Domain adaptation of Large Language Models for Sparse Information Retrieval
  Katharina Sommer, Evgeniia Egorova & Eugene Shalugin
• Using Natural Language Processing to Quantify Politicization in Foreign Aid Reports
  Léa Gontard & Jelke Bloem
• Word Sense Discrimination using French Transformer Models
  Stef Accou & Tim Van de Cruys