Piek Vossen

33 papers · 2007–2026 · 7 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐝 Cross-Pollinator (15) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (7) 🏃 Academic Marathon (18) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (7) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (51) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🏆 Keyword Champion (2) 🧬 Topic Evolution 🚀 Conference Pioneer 💎 Century Club (31) ❓ The Questioner (3) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (123) 🔥 Unstoppable (6) ⚡ Prolific Year (6)

Conferences

COLING (11) SEMEVAL (9) EMNLP (4) EACL (3) NAACL (3) ACL (2) AAAI (1)

Top co-authors

Marten Postma (6) Pia Sommerauer (4) Antske Fokkens (4) Ilia Markov (3) Eneko Agirre (3) Stella Verkijk (3) Oier Lopez de Lacalle (3) Wondimagegnhue Tufa (3) Filip Ilievski (3) Stefan Schouten (2)

Keywords

named entity recognition (4) language model (3) knowledge graph (3) text classification (3) semantic analysis (3) historical text (2) event extraction (2) encoder model (2) cross-lingual transfer (2) evaluation methodology (2) semantic reasoning (2) multilingual model (2) coreference resolution (2) historical language (2) word sense disambiguation (2) episodic memory (2) conditional random field (2) domain adaptation (2) image captioning (1) natural language inference (1)

Papers

A Position Paper on Toxic Reasoning: Grounding Categories of Toxic Language in Implications and Attitudes EACL 2026

Out-Of-Tune rather than Fine-Tuned: How Pre-training, Fine-tuning and Tokenization Affect Semantic Similarity in a Historical, Non-Standardized Domain EACL 2026

Language Models Lack Temporal Generalization and Bigger is Not Better ACL 2025

An Empirical Analysis of Diversity in Argument Summarization EACL 2024

Studying Language Variation Considering the Re-Usability of Modern Theories, Tools and Resources for Annotating Explicit and Implicit Events in Centuries Old Text NAACL 2024

Unknown Script: Impact of Script on Cross-Lingual Transfer NAACL 2024

A Machine with Short-Term, Episodic, and Semantic Memory Systems AAAI 2023

Do Differences in Values Influence Disagreements in Online Discussions? EMNLP 2023

Reasoning about Ambiguous Definite Descriptions EMNLP 2023

Probing the representations of named entities in Transformer-based Language Models EMNLP 2022

SeqL at SemEval-2022 Task 11: An Ensemble of Transformer Based Models for Complex Named Entity Recognition Task NAACL 2022

Evaluating Agent Interactions Through Episodic Knowledge Graphs COLING 2022

The Role of Common Ground for Referential Expressions in Social Dialogues COLING 2022

Annotating Targets of Toxic Language at the Span Level COLING 2022

SeqL at SemEval-2022 Task 11: An Ensemble of Transformer Based Models for Complex Named Entity Recognition Task SEMEVAL 2022

Batavia asked for advice. Pretrained language models for Named Entity Recognition in historical texts. EMNLP 2021

Would you describe a leopard as yellow? Evaluating crowd-annotations with justified and informative disagreement COLING 2020

Proceedings of the Workshop Events and Stories in the News 2018 COLING 2018

Systematic Study of Long Tail Phenomena in Entity Linking COLING 2018

A Deep Dive into Word Sense Disambiguation with LSTM COLING 2018

SemEval-2018 Task 5: Counting Events and Participants in the Long Tail SEMEVAL 2018

NewsReader at SemEval-2018 Task 5: Counting events by reasoning over event-centric-knowledge-graphs SEMEVAL 2018

Meaning_space at SemEval-2018 Task 10: Combining explicitly encoded knowledge with information extracted from word embeddings SEMEVAL 2018

Measuring the Diversity of Automatic Image Descriptions COLING 2018

Scoring and Classifying Implicit Positive Interpretations: A Challenge of Class Imbalance COLING 2018

More is not always better: balancing sense distributions for all-words Word Sense Disambiguation COLING 2016

Semantic overfitting: what ‘world’ do we consider when evaluating disambiguation of text? COLING 2016

VUA-background : When to Use Background Information to Perform Word Sense Disambiguation SEMEVAL 2015

SPINOZA_VU: An NLP Pipeline for Cross Document TimeLines SEMEVAL 2015

Offspring from Reproduction Problems: What Replication Failure Teaches Us ACL 2013

SemEval-2010 Task 17: All-Words Word Sense Disambiguation on a Specific Domain SEMEVAL 2010

Kyoto: An Integrated System for Specific Domain WSD SEMEVAL 2010

SemEval-2007 Task 01: Evaluating WSD on Cross-Language Information Retrieval SEMEVAL 2007