Accepted Papers

Long PapersPermalink

Education and Data VisualisationPermalink

• 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 ProcessingPermalink

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

Advances in NLP Models and TechniquesPermalink

• 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

Ethical Considerations and Social Media AnalysisPermalink

• 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 PapersPermalink

Healthcare, Biomedical, and Legal ApplicationsPermalink

• 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 ProcessingPermalink

• “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

Ethical Considerations and Social Media AnalysisPermalink

• 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

AbstractsPermalink

Education and Data VisualisationPermalink

• 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 ApplicationsPermalink

• 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 TechniquesPermalink

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

Shared TaskPermalink

• 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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