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Horacio Saggion

49 papers · 2002–2025 · 9 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (15) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌍 Conference Polyglot (9) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (23) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (52) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (7) 🐺 Lone Wolf (4) πŸ‘₯ Mega-Team (22) ❓ The Questioner (4) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (8) πŸ’Ž Century Club (49) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (112) πŸš€ Conference Pioneer ⚑ Prolific Year (7)

Conferences

EMNLP (11) COLING (10) SEMEVAL (8) ACL (5) EACL (5) IJCNLP (4) NAACL (4) AAAI (1) IJCAI (1)

Top co-authors

Luis Espinosa-Anke (8) Francesco Ronzano (8) Sanja Ε tajner (7) Francesco Barbieri (7) Jose Camacho-Collados (5) Euan McGill (4) Piotr PrzybyΕ‚a (4) Stefan Bott (4) Matthew Shardlow (3) Joseph Marvin Imperial (3)

Research topics

Education (1)

Keywords

text classification (11) text simplification (6) lexical simplification (6) transfer learning (4) multilingual nlp (4) emoji prediction (4) social media (3) neural machine translation (3) misinformation detection (2) attention mechanism (2) sentence simplification (2) word embedding (2) natural language processing (2) sentiment analysis (2) natural language generation (2) adversarial example (2) semantic similarity (2) adversarial attack (2) named entity recognition (2) long short-term memory (2)

Papers

UoL-UPF at TSAR 2025 Shared Task A Generate-and-Select Approach for Readability-Controlled Text Simplification EMNLP 2025
Attacking Misinformation Detection Using Adversarial Examples Generated by Language Models EMNLP 2025
UniversalCEFR: Enabling Open Multilingual Research on Language Proficiency Assessment EMNLP 2025
Know Thine Enemy: Adaptive Attacks on Misinformation Detection Using Reinforcement Learning ACL 2024
TRIBBLE - TRanslating IBerian languages Based on Limited E-resources EMNLP 2024
Lexical Complexity Prediction and Lexical Simplification for Catalan and Spanish: Resource Creation, Quality Assessment, and Ethical Considerations EMNLP 2024
An Extensible Massively Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline Dataset using the MultiLS Framework COLING 2024
A Novel Corpus for Automated Sexism Identification on Social Media COLING 2024
The BEA 2024 Shared Task on the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline NAACL 2024
AffilGood: Building reliable institution name disambiguation tools to improve scientific literature analysis ACL 2024
Sentence Simplification Capabilities of Transfer-Based Models AAAI 2022
Translating Spanish into Spanish Sign Language: Combining Rules and Data-driven Approaches COLING 2022
Exploring the limits of a base BART for multi-document summarization in the medical domain COLING 2022
What’s in a (dataset’s) name? The case of BigPatent EMNLP 2022
Lexical Simplification in Foreign Language Learning: Creating Pedagogically Suitable Simplified Example Sentences EMNLP 2022
Controllable Lexical Simplification for English EMNLP 2022
Findings of the TSAR-2022 Shared Task on Multilingual Lexical Simplification EMNLP 2022
LaSTUS/TALN at SemEval-2019 Task 6: Identification and Categorization of Offensive Language in Social Media with Attention-based Bi-LSTM model SEMEVAL 2019
Transferring Knowledge from Discourse to Arguments: A Case Study with Scientific Abstracts ACL 2019
Data-Driven Text Simplification COLING 2018
Interpretable Emoji Prediction via Label-Wise Attention LSTMs EMNLP 2018
SemEval 2018 Task 2: Multilingual Emoji Prediction SEMEVAL 2018
SemEval-2018 Task 9: Hypernym Discovery SEMEVAL 2018
Multimodal Emoji Prediction NAACL 2018
LaSTUS/TALN at Complex Word Identification (CWI) 2018 Shared Task NAACL 2018
Are Emojis Predictable? EACL 2017
TALN at SemEval-2016 Task 14: Semantic Taxonomy Enrichment Via Sense-Based Embeddings SEMEVAL 2016
Supervised Distributional Hypernym Discovery via Domain Adaptation EMNLP 2016
Extending WordNet with Fine-Grained Collocational Information via Supervised Distributional Learning COLING 2016
TALN at SemEval-2016 Task 11: Modelling Complex Words by Contextual, Lexical and Semantic Features SEMEVAL 2016
Natural Language Processing for Intelligent Access to Scientific Information COLING 2016
A Deeper Exploration of the Standard PB-SMT Approach to Text Simplification and its Evaluation ACL 2015
Do We Criticise (and Laugh) in the Same Way? Automatic Detection of Multi-Lingual Satirical News in Twitter IJCAI 2015
TALN-UPF: Taxonomy Learning Exploiting CRF-Based Hypernym Extraction on Encyclopedic Definitions SEMEVAL 2015
A Deeper Exploration of the Standard PB-SMT Approach to Text Simplification and its Evaluation IJCNLP 2015
UPF-taln: SemEval 2015 Tasks 10 and 11. Sentiment Analysis of Literal and Figurative Language in Twitter SEMEVAL 2015
Modelling Irony in Twitter EACL 2014
Unsupervised Learning Summarization Templates from Concise Summaries NAACL 2013
Readability Indices for Automatic Evaluation of Text Simplification Systems: A Feasibility Study for Spanish IJCNLP 2013
Can Spanish Be Simpler? LexSiS: Lexical Simplification for Spanish COLING 2012
Multilingual Summarization Evaluation without Human Models COLING 2010
Introduction to Text Summarization and Other Information Access Technologies IJCNLP 2008
Experiments on Semantic-based Clustering for Cross-document Coreference IJCNLP 2008
SHEF: Semantic Tagging and Summarization Techniques Applied to Cross-document Coreference SEMEVAL 2007
NLP for Indexing and Retrieval of Captioned Photographs EACL 2003
Event-Coreference across Multiple, Multi-lingual Sources in the Mumis Project EACL 2003
Evaluation Challenges in Large-Scale Document Summarization ACL 2003
Robust Generic and Query-based Summarization EACL 2003
Meta-evaluation of Summaries in a Cross-lingual Environment using Content-based Metrics COLING 2002