Accepted Papers

Long Papers

Education and Data Visualisation

Do LLMs Generate Creative and Visually Accessible Data Visualizations?
Clarissa Miranda-Pena, Andrew Reeson, Cecile Paris, Josiah Poon, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld
🥈 Outstanding Paper | A Closer Look at Tool-based Logical Reasoning with LLMs: The Choice of Tool Matters
Long Hei Matthew Lam, Ramya Keerthy Thatikonda, Ehsan Shareghi

Multilingual NLP and Low-Resource Language Processing

🥇 Best Paper | Generating bilingual example sentences with large language models as lexicography assistants
Raphael Merx, Ekaterina Vylomova, Kemal Kurniawan

Advances in NLP Models and Techniques

Towards an Implementation of Rhetorical Structure Theory in Discourse Coherence Modelling
Michael Lambropoulos, Shunichi Ishihara
GenABSA-Vec: Generative Aspect-Based Sentiment Feature Vectorization for Document-Level Sentiment Classification
Liu Minkang, Jasy Liew Suet Yan
MoDEM: Mixture of Domain Expert Models
Toby Simonds, Kemal Kurniawan, Jey Han Lau
Advancing Community Directories: Leveraging LLMs for Automated Extraction in MARC Standard Venue Availability Notes
Mostafa Didar Mahdi, Thushari Atapattu, Menasha Thilakaratne

Which Side Are You On? Investigating Politico-Economic Bias in Nepali Language Models
Surendrabikram Thapa, Kritesh Rauniyar, Ehsan Barkhordar, Hariram Veeramani, Usman Naseem
Lesser the Shots, Higher the Hallucinations: Exploration of Genetic Information Extraction using Generative Large Language Models
Milindi Kodikara, Karin Verspoor
Simultaneous Machine Translation with Large Language Models
Minghan Wang, Thuy-Trang Vu, Jinming Zhao, Fatemeh Shiri, Ehsan Shareghi, Gholamreza Haffari

Short Papers

Healthcare, Biomedical, and Legal Applications

Rephrasing Electronic Health Records for Pretraining Clinical Language Models
Jinghui Liu, Anthony Nguyen
Breaking the Silence: How Online Forums Address Lung Cancer Stigma and Offer Support
Jiahe Liu, Mike Conway, Daniel Cabrera Lozoya

Multilingual NLP and Low-Resource Language Processing

“Is Hate Lost in Translation?”: Evaluation of Multilingual LGBTQIA+ Hate Speech Detection
Fai Leui Chan, Duke Nguyen, Aditya Joshi
Comparison of Multilingual and Bilingual Models for Satirical News Detection of Arabic and English
Omar W. Abdalla, Aditya Joshi, Rahat Masood, Salil S. Kanhere

Personality Profiling: How informative are social media profiles in predicting personal information?
Joshua Watt, Lewis Mitchell, Jonathan Tuke
Truth in the Noise: Unveiling Authentic Dementia Self-Disclosure Statements in Social Media with LLMs
Daniel Cabrera Lozoya, Jude P Mikal, Yun Leng Wong, Laura S Hemmy, Mike Conway

Abstracts

Education and Data Visualisation

Can LLMs be Effective in-class Tutors?
Sebastian Kobler, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld
Creating a Real-world Benchmark for Text-to-Vis
Hy Nguyen, Andrew Reeson, Cecile Paris, Josiah Poon, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld

Healthcare, Biomedical, and Legal Applications

Enhancing Clinical Coding through Interactive Machine Learning
Yidong Gan, Maciej Rybinski, Ben Hachey, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld
L.E.G.A.L. (Leveraging Expert Guidance for AI in Law): A RAG-Based System for Legal Document Navigation
Hui Chia1, Geordie Z. Zhang, Daniel Russo-Batterham, Kabir Manandhar Shrestha, Uy Thinh Quang, Zeyu Wang, Jeannie Marie Paterson

Advances in NLP Models and Techniques

Comparing Plausibility Estimates in Base and Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models
Carina Kauf, Emmanuele Chersoni, Alessandro Lenci, Evelina Fedorenko, Anna A Ivanova

Shared Task

Overview of the 2024 ALTA Shared Task: Detect Automatic AI-Generated Sentences for Human-AI Hybrid Articles
Diego Mollá, Qiongkai Xu, Zijie Zeng, Zhuang Li
Advancing LLM detection in the ALTA 2024 Shared Task: Techniques and Analysis
Dima Galat
Simple models are all you need: Ensembling stylometric, part-of-speech, and information-theoretic models for the ALTA 2024 Shared Task
Joel Thomas, Gia Bao Hoang, Lewis Mitchell

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