Conference Program

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Monday, December 2

Location: Seminar Room 2.02 (Tutorial), Innovation Space 2.04 (Public Lecture)

Tutorial overview (PDF, 60 Kb)

13:00: Tutorial
14:00: Afternoon Tea
14:30: Tutorial (cont’d)
15:30: Closing tutorial
17:30: Public Lecture (1 hour) – Eduard Hovy

Tuesday, December 3

Location: Forum (Innovation Space 2.04)

08:45: Opening
09:00: Keynote #1 – Jing Jiang
10:00: Morning Tea
10:30: Minute Madness
11:00: Session #1 – Oral Presentations (Topic: Education and Data Visualisation)
- Can LLMs be Effective in-class Tutors?
  - Lead Author: Sebastian Kobler
  - Type: Abstract Paper (Time: 8 minutes)
- Creating a Real-world Benchmark for Text-to-Vis
  - Lead Author: Hy Nguyen
  - Type: Abstract Paper (Time: 8 minutes)
- Do LLMs Generate Creative and Visually Accessible Data Visualizations?
  - Lead Author: Clarissa Miranda-Pena
  - Type: Long Paper (Time: 20 minutes)
- A Closer Look at Tool-based Logical Reasoning with LLMs: The Choice of Tool Matters
  - Lead Author: Long Hei Matthew Lam
  - Type: Long Paper (Time: 20 minutes)
12:00: Keynote #2 – Steven Bird (delivered online)
13:00: Lunch
14:00: Session #2 – Oral Presentations (Topic: Healthcare, Biomedical, and Legal Applications)
- Enhancing Clinical Coding through Interactive Machine Learning
  - Lead Author: Yidong Gan
  - Type: Abstract Paper (Time: 8 minutes)
- Rephrasing Electronic Health Records for Pretraining Clinical Language Models
  - Lead Author: Jinghui Liu
  - Type: Short Paper (Time: 15 minutes)
- Breaking the Silence: How Online Forums Address Lung Cancer Stigma and Offer Support
  - Lead Author: Jiahe Liu
  - Type: Short Paper (Time: 15 minutes)
- L.E.G.A.L. (Leveraging Expert Guidance for AI in Law): A RAG-Based System for Legal Document Navigation
  - Lead Author: Hui Chia
  - Type: Abstract Paper (Time: 8 minutes)
15:00: Afternoon Tea
15:15: Panel Discussion
16:15: Session #3 – Oral Presentations (Topic: Multilingual NLP and Low-Resource Language Processing)
- “Is Hate Lost in Translation?”: Evaluation of Multilingual LGBTQIA+ Hate Speech Detection
  - Lead Author: Fai Leui Chan
  - Type: Short Paper (Time: 15 minutes)
- Comparison of Multilingual and Bilingual Models for Satirical News Detection of Arabic and English
  - Lead Author: Omar W. Abdalla
  - Type: Short Paper (Time: 15 minutes)
- Generating bilingual example sentences with large language models as lexicography assistants
  - Lead Author: Raphael Merx
  - Type: Long Paper (Time: 20 minutes)
18:00: Dinner (Location: Badger & Co)

Wednesday, December 4

Location: Forum (Innovation Space 2.04)

09:00: Keynote #3 – Kyla Quinn
10:00: Morning Tea
10:30: Session #4 – Oral Presentations (Topic: Advances in NLP Models and Techniques)
- Towards an Implementation of Rhetorical Structure Theory in Discourse Coherence Modelling
  - Lead Author: Michael Lambropoulos
  - Type: Long Paper (Time: 20 minutes)
- Comparing Plausibility Estimates in Base and Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models
  - Lead Author: Carina Kauf
  - Type: Abstract Paper (Time: 8 minutes)
- GenABSA-Vec: Generative Aspect-Based Sentiment Feature Vectorization for Document-Level Sentiment Classification
  - Lead Author: Minkang Liu
  - Type: Long Paper (Time: 20 minutes)
- MoDEM: Mixture of Domain Expert Models
  - Lead Author: Toby Simonds
  - Type: Long Paper (Time: 20 minutes)
- Advancing Community Directories: Leveraging LLMs for Automated Extraction in MARC Standard Venue Availability Notes
  - Lead Author: Mostafa Didar Mahdi
  - Type: Long Paper (Time: 20 minutes)
12:00: Lunch
13:00: Session #5 – Oral Presentations (Topic: Ethical Considerations and Social Media Analysis)
- Personality Profiling: How informative are social media profiles in predicting personal information?
  - Lead Author: Joshua Watt
  - Type: Short Paper (Time: 15 minutes)
- Truth in the Noise: Unveiling Authentic Dementia Self-Disclosure Statements in Social Media with LLMs
  - Lead Author: Daniel Cabrera Lozoya
  - Type: Short Paper (Time: 15 minutes)
- Which Side Are You On? Investigating Politico-Economic Bias in Nepali Language Models
  - Lead Author: Surendrabikram Thapa
  - Type: Long Paper (Time: 20 minutes)
- Lesser the Shots, Higher the Hallucinations: Exploration of Genetic Information Extraction using Generative Large Language Models
  - Lead Author: Milindi Kodikara
  - Type: Long Paper (Time: 20 minutes)
- Simultaneous Machine Translation with Large Language Models
  - Lead Author: Minghan Wang
  - Type: Long Paper (Time: 20 minutes)
14:30: Afternoon Tea
14:45: Session #6 – Oral Presentations (Shared Task)
- Overview of the 2024 ALTA Shared Task: Detect Automatic AI-Generated Sentences for Human-AI Hybrid Articles
  - Lead Author: Diego Mollá
  - Time: 13 minutes
- Advancing LLM detection in the ALTA 2024 Shared Task: Techniques and Analysis
  - Lead Author: Dima Galat
  - Time: 13 minutes
- Simple models are all you need: Ensembling stylometric, part-of-speech, and information-theoretic models for the ALTA 2024 Shared Task
  - Lead Author: Joel Thomas
  - Time: 13 minutes
15:30: ALTA AGM
16:00: Best Paper Award / Shared Task Award / Closing (ends at 17:00)