Kalina Bontcheva

47 papers · 2002–2026 · 9 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🏃 Academic Marathon (23) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (50) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (8) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (10) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (9) 🤝 Dynamic Duo (14) 👥 Mega-Team (36) 🔬 Deep Specialist (15) 💎 Century Club (46) 🚀 Conference Pioneer ❓ The Questioner 📈 Trend Setter ⚡ Prolific Year (5) 🔥 Unstoppable (13) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (128)

Conferences

ACL (9) EACL (8) EMNLP (8) SEMEVAL (8) COLING (7) IJCNLP (3) AACL (2) CONLL (1) NAACL (1)

Top co-authors

Xingyi Song (14) Carolina Scarton (9) Yida Mu (7) Hamish Cunningham (6) Ian Roberts (6) Nikolaos Aletras (6) Trevor Cohn (5) Leon Derczynski (5) MICHAL LUKASIK (5) Twin Karmakharm (4)

Research topics

Understanding (1)

Keywords

text classification (10) large language model (6) social media (6) rumor detection (5) machine translation (4) social media analysis (4) stance detection (3) rumour detection (3) multilingual nlp (3) persuasion detection (3) transformer model (3) binary classification (2) few-shot learning (2) document classification (2) multilingual model (2) hierarchical classification (2) prompt engineering (2) concept drift (2) natural language processing (2) continual learning (2)

Papers

A Browser-based Open Source Assistant for Multimodal Content Verification EACL 2026

SheffieldGATE at SemEval-2025 Task 2: Multi-Stage Reasoning with Knowledge Fusion for Entity Translation SEMEVAL 2025

GateNLP at SemEval-2025 Task 10: Hierarchical Three-Step Prompting for Multilingual Narrative Classification ACL 2025

SheffieldGATE at SemEval-2025 Task 2: Multi-Stage Reasoning with Knowledge Fusion for Entity Translation ACL 2025

Hostility Detection in UK Politics: A Dataset on Online Abuse Targeting MPs ACL 2025

GateNLP at SemEval-2025 Task 10: Hierarchical Three-Step Prompting for Multilingual Narrative Classification SEMEVAL 2025

Optimising LLM-Driven Machine Translation with Context-Aware Sliding Windows EMNLP 2024

SheffieldVeraAI at SemEval-2024 Task 4: Prompting and fine-tuning a Large Vision-Language Model for Binary Classification of Persuasion Techniques in Memes NAACL 2024

Examining Temporalities on Stance Detection towards COVID-19 Vaccination COLING 2024

Examining the Limitations of Computational Rumor Detection Models Trained on Static Datasets COLING 2024

Large Language Models Offer an Alternative to the Traditional Approach of Topic Modelling COLING 2024

Navigating Prompt Complexity for Zero-Shot Classification: A Study of Large Language Models in Computational Social Science COLING 2024

SheffieldVeraAI at SemEval-2024 Task 4: Prompting and fine-tuning a Large Vision-Language Model for Binary Classification of Persuasion Techniques in Memes SEMEVAL 2024

Analysing State-Backed Propaganda Websites: a New Dataset and Linguistic Study EMNLP 2023

GATE Teamware 2: An open-source tool for collaborative document classification annotation EACL 2023

SheffieldVeraAI at SemEval-2023 Task 3: Mono and Multilingual Approaches for News Genre, Topic and Persuasion Technique Classification SEMEVAL 2023

SheffieldVeraAI at SemEval-2023 Task 3: Mono and Multilingual Approaches for News Genre, Topic and Persuasion Technique Classification ACL 2023

It’s about Time: Rethinking Evaluation on Rumor Detection Benchmarks using Chronological Splits EACL 2023

Don’t waste a single annotation: improving single-label classifiers through soft labels EMNLP 2023

On the Impact of Temporal Concept Drift on Model Explanations EMNLP 2022

European Language Grid: A Joint Platform for the European Language Technology Community EACL 2021

Toxic Language Detection in Social Media for Brazilian Portuguese: New Dataset and Multilingual Analysis AACL 2020

Measuring What Counts: The Case of Rumour Stance Classification AACL 2020

SemEval-2019 Task 7: RumourEval, Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours SEMEVAL 2019

Journalist-in-the-Loop: Continuous Learning as a Service for Rumour Analysis EMNLP 2019

Journalist-in-the-Loop: Continuous Learning as a Service for Rumour Analysis IJCNLP 2019

Team Bertha von Suttner at SemEval-2019 Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection using ELMo Sentence Representation Convolutional Network SEMEVAL 2019

Can Rumour Stance Alone Predict Veracity? COLING 2018

SemEval-2017 Task 8: RumourEval: Determining rumour veracity and support for rumours SEMEVAL 2017

Stance Detection with Bidirectional Conditional Encoding EMNLP 2016

Hawkes Processes for Continuous Time Sequence Classification: an Application to Rumour Stance Classification in Twitter ACL 2016

USFD at SemEval-2016 Task 6: Any-Target Stance Detection on Twitter with Autoencoders SEMEVAL 2016

Broad Twitter Corpus: A Diverse Named Entity Recognition Resource COLING 2016

Modeling Tweet Arrival Times using Log-Gaussian Cox Processes EMNLP 2015

Point Process Modelling of Rumour Dynamics in Social Media IJCNLP 2015

Point Process Modelling of Rumour Dynamics in Social Media ACL 2015

Classifying Tweet Level Judgements of Rumours in Social Media EMNLP 2015

Proceedings of 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations ACL 2014

Passive-Aggressive Sequence Labeling with Discriminative Post-Editing for Recognising Person Entities in Tweets EACL 2014

The GATE Crowdsourcing Plugin: Crowdsourcing Annotated Corpora Made Easy EACL 2014

AnnoMarket: An Open Cloud Platform for NLP ACL 2013

Coling 2008: Companion volume: Demonstrations COLING 2008

Perceptron Learning for Chinese Word Segmentation IJCNLP 2005

Using Uneven Margins SVM and Perceptron for Information Extraction CONLL 2005

Robust Generic and Query-based Summarization EACL 2003

Multilingual adaptations of a reusable information extraction tool EACL 2003

GATE: an Architecture for Development of Robust HLT applications ACL 2002