Publications
2025
- “The Geometry of Under-Resourced Languages in Multilingual Language Models” - (working draft)
“Does Model Size Matter? A Study of Cross-Lingual Transfer in Multilingual Language Models “ - (working draft, not yet submitted)
“FiRC-NLP at SemEval-2025 Task 11: To Prompt or to Fine-Tune? Approaches for Multilingual Emotion Classification.” To apear in Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), Vienna, Austria, July 2025. (Paper accepted) Camera ready link
- “FiRC-NLP at SemEval-2025 Task 3: Exploring Prompting Approaches for Detecting Hallucinations in LLMs.” Proceedings of the 19th To apear in International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), Vienna, Austria, July 2025. (Paper accepted) Camera ready link
2024
“Grounding Toxicity in Real-World Events Across Languages.” Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 29th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2024, Turin, Italy, June 25–27, 2024. Proceedings. June 2024, pp. 197–210. Code and data
- “Unknown Script: Impact of Script on Cross-Lingual Transfer.” Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop), NAACL 2024, Mexico City, Mexico, June 2024, pp. 124–129.
- “The Constant in HATE: Toxicity in Reddit across Topics and Languages.” Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression & Cyberbullying @ LREC-COLING-2024, Torino, Italy, May 2024, pp. 1–11. Code and data
2023
” Confidently Wrong: Exploring the Calibration and Expression of (Un) Certainty of Large Language Models in a Multilingual Setting.“ Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual Natural Language Generation and Multilingual WebNLG Challenge (MM-NLG 2023), 1-9. Code and data
” Cross-Domain Toxic Spans Detection.” Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 28th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2023, Derby, UK, June 21–23, 2023, Proceedings June 2023 Pages 533–545. Code and data
2022
” A WordNet View on Crosslingual Contextualized Language Models.” In Proceedings of the 12th Global Wordnet Conference, pages 14–24, University of the Basque Country, Donostia - San Sebastian, Basque Country. Global Wordnet Association. Code and data
“SeqL at SemEval-2022 Task 11: An Ensemble of Transformer Based Models for Complex Named Entity Recognition Task.” In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022), pages 1583–1592, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
2018-2021
- ” Parallel Corpora for bi-lingual English-Ethiopian Languages Statistical Machine Translation.” Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3102–3111. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 20-26, 2018.
- ” English-Ethiopian Languages Statistical Machine Translation.” 3rd Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop, Florence, Italy.
- ” Morphological Segmentation Using Encoder-Decoder for Morphological Rich Languages.” 2nd BAI Workshop at NeurIPS 2018, Montreal, Canada
