Professor Aline Villavicencio
MPhil, PhD
School of Computer Science
Chair in Natural Language Processing
Member of the Natural Language Processing research group
a.villavicencio@sheffield.ac.uk
Regent Court (DCS)
Full contact details
Professor Aline Villavicencio
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Aline Villavicencio received her PhD and MPhil degrees from the University of Cambridge (UK) and MSc in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).
She was a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) (in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy in 2014/2015 and in the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems in 2011/2012) at the Laboratoire LaTTiCe at the École Normale Supérieure (France) in 2014, an Erasmus-Mundus Visiting Scholar at Saarland University (Germany) in 2012/2013, and at the University of Bath in 2006-2009.
From 2007-2017 she held a Research Fellowship from the Brazilian Scientific Research Council (CNPq). She is also affiliated to the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
- Research interests
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Her research interests are in lexical semantics, multilinguality, and cognitively motivated NLP. This work includes techniques for Multiword Expression treatment using statistical methods and distributional semantic models, and applications like Text Simplification and Question Answering, for languages like English and Portuguese.
- Publications
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Books
- Language, Cognition, and Computational Models. Cambridge University Press.
- Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition. Springer Science & Business Media.
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics): Preface.
- Preface. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Edited books
- Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). View this article in WRRO
- Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - 13th International Conference (PROPOR 2018).. Springer.
Journal articles
- Investigating idiomaticity in word representations. Computational Linguistics, 51(2), 505-555. View this article in WRRO
- Mechanistic role of alpha oscillations in a computational model of working memory. PLoS ONE, 19(2). View this article in WRRO
- Multi-perspective thought navigation for source-free entity linking. Pattern Recognition Letters, 178, 84-90.
- Word Boundary Information Isn’t Useful for Encoder Language Models. Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2024), 118-135.
- Vocabulary Expansion for Low-resource Cross-lingual Transfer.. CoRR, abs/2406.11477.
- Enhancing Idiomatic Representation in Multiple Languages via an Adaptive Contrastive Triplet Loss. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, 12473-12485.
- An Empirical Study on Cross-lingual Vocabulary Adaptation for Efficient Language Model Inference. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 6760-6785.
- Vocabulary Expansion of Chat Models with Unlabeled Target Language Data.. CoRR, abs/2412.11704.
- Representation transfer and data cleaning in multi-views for text simplification. Pattern Recognition Letters, 177, 40-46. View this article in WRRO
- Assessing linguistic generalisation in language models: a dataset for Brazilian Portuguese. Language Resources and Evaluation, 58(1), 175-201.
- Understanding the effects of negative (and positive) pointwise mutual information on word vectors. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 35(8), 1161-1199. View this article in WRRO
- Message from the Program Chairs. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, vii-xi.
- Investigating alignment interpretability for low-resource NMT. Machine Translation, 34, 305-323. View this article in WRRO
- Introduction. Emnlp 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Tutorial Abstracts, III.
- Alterations in the Gut Microbiome at 6 Months of Age in Obese Latino Infants. Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 39(1), 47-53.
- Discovering multiword expressions. Natural Language Engineering, 25(6), 715-733. View this article in WRRO
- Unsupervised Compositionality Prediction of Nominal Compounds. Computational Linguistics, 45(1), 1-57.
- How the brain represents language and answers questions? Using an AI system to understand the underlying neurobiological mechanisms. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 13.
- Size Does Not Matter. Frequency Does. A Study of Features for Measuring Lexical Complexity, 129-140.
- Introduction to the special issue on multiword expressions. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, 10(2), 1-10.
- Book Review: Syntax-Based Collocation Extraction, by Violeta Seretan. Natural Language Engineering, 18(4), 575-579.
- Alternating predictive and short‐term memory modes of entorhinal grid cells. Hippocampus, 22(8), 1647-1651.
- Alignment-based extraction of multiword expressions. Language Resources and Evaluation, 44(1-2), 59-77.
- Prepositions in Applications: A Survey and Introduction to the Special Issue. Computational Linguistics, 35(2), 119-149.
- The availability of verb–particle constructions in lexical resources: How much is enough?. Computer Speech & Language, 19(4), 415-432.
- Introduction to the special issue on multiword expressions: Having a crack at a hard nut. Computer Speech & Language, 19(4), 365-377.
- Finding Idiomaticity in Word Representations. Computational Linguistics.
- Estratégias de evocação lexical com critério semântico em adultos após acidente vascular cerebral no hemisfério direito. Letrônica, 7(1), 325-347.
- Graph analysis of semantic word association among children, adults, and the elderly. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 27(1), 90-99.
- An HPSG account of closest conjunct agreement in NP coordination in Portuguese. Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
- Verb-particle constructions in a computational grammar of English. Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
Book chapters
- Foreword, IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature (pp. vii-xii). John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Introduction: Cognitive issues in natural language processing, Language Cognition and Computational Models (pp. 3-24).
- brWaC: A WaCky Corpus for Brazilian Portuguese, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 201-206). Springer International Publishing
- The Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis and conventionality: A crosslinguistic study on verb acquisition by Chinese Mandarin- and Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children, Lexical Bootstrapping the Role of Lexis and Semantics in Child Language Development (pp. 73-97).
- Computational Modeling as a Methodology for Studying Human Language Learning, Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing (pp. 1-25). Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Language Acquisition with Feature‐Based Grammars, Non‐Transformational Syntax (pp. 404-442). Wiley
- Portuguese: Corpora, coordination and agreement, Roots Linguistics in Search of Its Evidential Base (pp. 9-28).
- Verb-Particle Constructions in the World Wide Web, Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions (pp. 115-130). Springer Nature
- Computational Treatment of Multiword Expressions, The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics 2nd edition Oxford University Press (OUP)
Conference proceedings
- SemEval-2025 Task 1: AdMIRe - Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation. Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025) (pp 2597-2609). Vienna, Austria, 31 July 2025 - 31 July 2025. View this article in WRRO
- The Rephrased Reality: Analysing Sentiment Shifts in LLM-Rephrased Text. Proceedings of the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (pp 920-927)
- Rolling the DICE on Idiomaticity: How LLMs Fail to Grasp Context. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp 7314-7332), July 2025 - July 2025.
- An empirical study on cross-lingual vocabulary adaptation for efficient language model inference. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 (pp 6760-6785). Miami, Florida, USA, 12 November 2024 - 12 November 2024. View this article in WRRO
- Sign of the Times: Evaluating the use of Large Language Models for Idiomaticity Detection. Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies Mwe Ud 2024 at Lrec Coling 2024 Workshop Proceedings (pp 178-187)
- Enhancing Idiomatic Representation in Multiple Languages via an Adaptive Contrastive Triplet Loss.. ACL (Findings) (pp 12473-12485)
- ShefCDTeam at SemEval-2024 Task 4: A Text-to-Text Model for Multi-Label Classification. Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024) (pp 1860-1867), June 2024 - June 2024.
- Evaluating Open-Domain Dialogues in Latent Space with Next Sentence Prediction and Mutual Information. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp 562-574), July 2023 - July 2023.
- FLYPE: Multitask prompt tuning for multimodal human understanding of social media. MUWS 2023: Multimodal Human Understanding for the Web and Social Media 2023: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal Human Understanding for the Web and Social Media co-located with the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information, Vol. 3566 (pp 18-33). Birmingham, United Kingdom, 22 October 2023 - 22 October 2023. View this article in WRRO
- SemEval-2022 Task 2: Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection and Sentence Embedding. Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022)
- Sample Efficient Approaches for Idiomaticity Detection. Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2022)
- Effective Cross-Task Transfer Learning for Explainable Natural Language Inference with T5. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FLP) (pp 54-60), December 2022 - December 2022.
- Improving Tokenisation by Alternative Treatment of Spaces. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp 11430-11443), December 2022 - December 2022.
- Unsupervised Word Segmentation from Discrete Speech Units in Low-Resource Settings. 1st Annual Meeting of the Elra ISCA Special Interest Group on Under Resourced Languages Sigul 2022 Held in Conjunction with the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Lrec 2022 Proceedings (pp 1-9)
- Message from the Program Chairs. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp vii-xi)
- Message from the Program Chairs. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vol. 1 (pp vii-xi)
- Sample Efficient Approaches for Idiomaticity Detection. Lrec 2022 Workshop Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 18th Workshop on Multiword Expressions Mwe 2022 Proceedings (pp 105-111)
- SemEval-2022 Task 2: Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection and Sentence Embedding.. SemEval@NAACL (pp 107-121)
- Unsupervised Word Segmentation from Discrete Speech Units in Low-Resource Settings. Proceedings of 1st Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL 2022), 24 June 2022 - 25 June 2022.
- Assessing idiomaticity representations in vector models with a noun compound dataset labeled at type and token levels. Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (pp 2730-2741). Bangkok, Thailand, 1 August 2021 - 1 August 2021. View this article in WRRO
- CogNLP-Sheffield at CMCL 2021 Shared Task: Blending cognitively inspired features with transformer-based language models for predicting eye tracking patterns. Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2021) (pp 125-133). Mexico City, Mexico, 10 June 2021 - 10 June 2021. View this article in WRRO
- Probing for idiomaticity in vector space models. Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp 3551-3564). Virtual conference, 19 April 2021 - 19 April 2021. View this article in WRRO
- What if the whole is greater than the sum of the parts? Modelling Complex (Multiword) Expressions. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2944 (pp 1-10)
- Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2021): Workshop and Shared Task Report. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2021) (pp 1-9), August 2021 - August 2021.
- AStitchInLanguageModels : dataset and methods for the exploration of idiomaticity in pre-trained language models. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021. Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, 7 November 2021 - 11 November 2021.
- AStitchInLanguageModels: Dataset and Methods for the Exploration of Idiomaticity in Pre-Trained Language Models.. EMNLP (Findings) (pp 3464-3477)
- Investigating language impact in bilingual approaches for computational language documentation. 1st Joint Workshop of Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages and Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU-CCURL 2020) (pp 79-87). Marseille, France, 10 May 2020 - 10 May 2020. View this article in WRRO
- Preface. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2693
- Empirical evaluation of sequence-to-sequence models for word discovery in low-resource settings. Interspeech 2019 - Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (pp 2688-2692). Graz, Austria, 15 September 2019 - 15 September 2019. View this article in WRRO
- When the whole is greater than the sum of its parts : multiword expressions and idiomaticity. Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019). Florence, Italy, 2 August 2019 - 2 August 2019.
- Introduction. Conll 2019 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning Proceedings of the Conference (pp iii-iv)
- The brWaC corpus: A new open resource for Brazilian Portuguese. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018) (pp 4339-4344). Miyazaki, Japan, 7 May 2018 - 7 May 2018. View this article in WRRO
- Unsupervised word segmentation from speech with attention. Proceedings of Interspeech 2018 (pp 2678-2682). Hyderabad, India, 2 September 2018 - 2 September 2018. View this article in WRRO
- A small Griko-Italian speech translation corpus. The 6th Intl. Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages. Gurugram, India, 29 August 2018 - 29 August 2018. View this article in WRRO
- A corpus study of verbal multiword expressions in Brazilian Portuguese. Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (pp 24-34). Canela, Brazil, 24 September 2018 - 26 September 2018.
- Restricted recurrent neural tensor networks: Exploiting word frequency and compositionality. ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, Vol. 2 (pp 8-13)
- Similarity Measures for the Detection of Clinical Conditions with Verbal Fluency Tasks. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers), 1 June 2018 - 6 June 2018.
- Unwritten languages demand attention too! Word discovery with encoder-decoder models. 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU) (pp 458-465). Okinawa, Japan, 16 December 2017 - 16 December 2017. View this article in WRRO
- LexSubNC: A dataset of lexical substitution for nominal compounds. 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics Iwcs 2017 Short Papers
- Predicting the Compositionality of Nominal Compounds: Giving Word Embeddings a Hard Time. Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Vol. 1: Long papers(-) (pp 1986-1997). Berlin, Germany, 7 August 2016 - 12 August 2016.
- Matrix Factorization using Window Sampling and Negative Sampling for Improved Word Representations. Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) (pp 419-424), 7 August 2016 - 12 August 2016.
- The Portuguese B $$^2$$ 2 SG: A Semantic Test for Distributional Thesaurus (pp 333-339)
- Joining Forces for Multiword Expression Identification (pp 233-238)
- Crawling by Readability Level (pp 306-318)
- Verblexpor: A lexical resource with semantic roles for Portuguese. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16) (pp 2656-2661). Portorož, Slovenia, 23 May 2016 - 23 May 2016. View this article in WRRO
- Multiword expressions in child language. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16) (pp 2307-2311). Portorož, Slovenia, 23 May 2016 - 23 May 2016. View this article in WRRO
- How Naked is the Naked Truth? A Multilingual Lexicon of Nominal Compound Compositionality. Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), August 2016 - August 2016.
- Filtering and measuring the intrinsic quality of human compositionality judgments. Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions. Berlin, Germany, 11 August 2016 - 11 August 2016. View this article in WRRO
- UFRGS&LIF at SemEval-2016 task 10: Rule-based MWE identification and predominant-supersense tagging. Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2016) (pp 910-917). San Diego, California, 16 June 2016 - 16 June 2016. View this article in WRRO
- B2SG: a TOEFL-like task for Portuguese. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16) (pp 3659-3662). Portorož, Slovenia, 23 May 2016 - 23 May 2016. View this article in WRRO
- mwetoolkit+sem: Integrating word embeddings in the mwetoolkit for semantic MWE processing. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16) (pp 1221-1225). Portorož, Slovenia, 23 May 2016 - 23 May 2016. View this article in WRRO
- Identification of multiword expressions in the brWaC. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14) (pp 728-735). Reykjavik, Iceland, 26 May 2014 - 26 May 2014. View this article in WRRO
- Nothing like good old frequency: Studying context filters for distributional thesauri. Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (pp 419-424). Doha, Qatar, 25 October 2014 - 25 October 2014. View this article in WRRO
- Comparing the quality of focused crawlers and of the translation resources obtained from them. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14) (pp 3572-3578). Reykjavik, Iceland, 26 May 2014 - 26 May 2014. View this article in WRRO
- Comparing similarity measures for distributional thesauri. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14) (pp 2964-2971). Reykjavik, Iceland, 26 May 2014 - 26 May 2014. View this article in WRRO
- Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language
- Language acquisition and probabilistic models : keeping it simple. Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vol. Vol 1: Long Papers (pp 1321-1330). Sofia, Bulgaria, 4 August 2013 - 4 August 2013. View this article in WRRO
- Introduction. Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Multiword Expressions Mwe 2013 in Conjunction with the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Naacl Hlt 2013 (pp III-IV)
- A large scale annotated child language construction database. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Lrec 2012 (pp 2370-2374)
- Semi-automatic acquisition system of ontologies. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 776 (pp 189-194)
- Extraction and validation of ontologies from digital resources. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 776 (pp 183-188)
- Identification and treatment of multiword expressions applied to information retrieval. Workshop on Multiword Expressions from Parsing and Generation to the Real World Mwe 2011 at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Acl Hlt 2011 Proceedings (pp 101-109)
- Fast and flexible MWE candidate generation with the MWE toolkit. Workshop on Multiword Expressions from Parsing and Generation to the Real World Mwe 2011 at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Acl Hlt 2011 Proceedings (pp 134-136)
- Identifying and analyzing Brazilian portuguese complex predicates. Workshop on Multiword Expressions from Parsing and Generation to the Real World Mwe 2011 at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Acl Hlt 2011 Proceedings (pp 74-82)
- Introduction. Workshop on Multiword Expressions from Parsing and Generation to the Real World Mwe 2011 at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Acl Hlt 2011 Proceedings (pp III-IV)
- A Hybrid Approach for Multiword Expression Identification (pp 65-74)
- Question Answering for Portuguese: How Much Is Needed? (pp 173-182)
- Web-based and combined language models: A case study on noun compound identification. Coling 2010 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics Proceedings of the Conference, Vol. 2 (pp 1041-1049)
- Multiword expressions in the wild? the mwetoolkit comes in handy. Coling 2010 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics Proceedings of the Conference, Vol. 2 (pp 57-60)
- COMUNICA - A question answering system for brazilian portuguese. Coling 2010 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics Proceedings of the Conference, Vol. 2 (pp 21-24)
- An investigation on the influence of frequency on the lexical organization of verbs. Acl 2010 Textgraphs 2010 2010 Workshop on Graph Based Methods for Natural Language Processing Proceedings of the Workshop (pp 19-23)
- Mwetoolkit: A framework for multiword expression identification. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Lrec 2010 (pp 662-669)
- An investigation on the influence of frequency on the lexical organization of verbs. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp 19-23)
- Towards the Construction of Language Resources for Greek Multiword Expressions: Extraction and Evaluation. LREC 2010 - SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION (pp H31-H40)
- Statistically-driven alignment-based multiword expression identification for technical domains. Proceedings of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions Identification, Interpretation, Disambiguation and Applications - MWE '09 (pp 1-1), 6 August 2009 - 6 August 2009.
- Identification of Multiword Expressions in Technical Domains: Investigating Statistical and Alignment-Based Approaches. 2009 Seventh Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology (pp 27-35), 8 September 2009 - 11 September 2009.
- Preface. 2009 Seventh Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology (pp viii-ix), 8 September 2009 - 11 September 2009.
- Picking them up and figuring them out. Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning - CoNLL '08 (pp 49-49), 16 August 2008 - 17 August 2008.
- Picking them up and figuring them out: Verb-particle constructions, noise and idiomaticity. Conll 2008 Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (pp 49-56)
- UFRGS@CLEF2008: Indexing Multiword Expressions for Information Retrieval. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1174
- Validation and evaluation of automatically acquired multiword expressions for grammar engineering. Emnlp Conll 2007 Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (pp 1034-1043)
- Automated multiword expression prediction for grammar engineering. Proceedings of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties - MWE '06 (pp 36-36), 23 July 2006 - 23 July 2006.
- Lexical encoding of MWEs. Proceedings of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions Integrating Processing - MWE '04 (pp 80-87), 26 July 2004 - 26 July 2004.
- A multilingual database of idioms. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Lrec 2004 (pp 1127-1130)
- Multiword expressions: Linguistic precision and reusability. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Lrec 2002 (pp 1941-1947)
- Extracting the Unextractable: A Case Study on Verb-particles. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Learning to Distinguish PP Arguments from Adjuncts. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- The acquisition of word order by a computational learning system. Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning Conll 2000 and of the 2nd Learning Language in Logic Workshop Lll 2000 Held in Cooperation with Icgi 2000 (pp 209-218)
- Representing a system of lexical types using default unification. 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Eacl 1999 (pp 261-264)
- A hierarchical description of the Portuguese verb (pp 302-311)
- Part-of-speech tagging for portuguese texts (pp 323-332)
- Detecting Neuropsychiatric Conditions With Semantic Verbal Fluency. LatinX in AI at Neural Information Processing Systems Conference 2018
Preprints
- Adapting Chat Language Models Using Only Target Unlabeled Language Data, arXiv.
- From Input Perception to Predictive Insight: Modeling Model Blind Spots Before They Become Errors, arXiv.
- Stands to Reason: Investigating the Effect of Reasoning on Idiomaticity Detection, arXiv.
- Rolling the DICE on Idiomaticity: How LLMs Fail to Grasp Context, arXiv.
- Investigating Idiomaticity in Word Representations, arXiv.
- A Methodology for Explainable Large Language Models with Integrated Gradients and Linguistic Analysis in Text Classification, arXiv.
- Enhancing Idiomatic Representation in Multiple Languages via an Adaptive Contrastive Triplet Loss, arXiv.
- How Can We Effectively Expand the Vocabulary of LLMs with 0.01GB of Target Language Text?, arXiv.
- Sign of the Times: Evaluating the use of Large Language Models for Idiomaticity Detection, arXiv.
- Is Less More? Quality, Quantity and Context in Idiom Processing with Natural Language Models, arXiv.
- Word Boundary Information Isn't Useful for Encoder Language Models, arXiv.
- Assessing Linguistic Generalisation in Language Models: A Dataset for Brazilian Portuguese, arXiv.
- Effective Cross-Task Transfer Learning for Explainable Natural Language Inference with T5, arXiv.
- AStitchInLanguageModels: Dataset and Methods for the Exploration of
Idiomaticity in Pre-Trained Language Models.
- A novel specific artificial intelligence-based method to identify COVID-19 cases using simple blood exams, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Investigating Language Impact in Bilingual Approaches for Computational Language Documentation, arXiv.
- How Does Language Influence Documentation Workflow? Unsupervised Word Discovery Using Translations in Multiple Languages, arXiv.
- Empirical Evaluation of Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Word Discovery in Low-resource Settings, arXiv.
- A small Griko-Italian speech translation corpus, arXiv.
- Unsupervised Word Segmentation from Speech with Attention, arXiv.
- Unwritten Languages Demand Attention Too! Word Discovery with Encoder-Decoder Models, arXiv.
- Enhancing the LexVec Distributed Word Representation Model Using Positional Contexts and External Memory, arXiv.
- Matrix Factorization using Window Sampling and Negative Sampling for Improved Word Representations, arXiv.
- Language, Cognition, and Computational Models. Cambridge University Press.
- Grants
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- Atrium: Advancing FronTier Research In the Arts and hUManities, Horizon Europe, 01/2024 - 12/2027, £370,950, as PI
- Modeling Idiomaticity in Human and Artificial Language Processing, EPSRC, 12/2020 - 11/2024, £446,163, as PI
- Modelling the link between working memory and language deficits in schizophrenia, Royal Society, 12/2020 - 09/2024, £74,000, as Co-PI
- Professional activities and memberships
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Some of her recent activities include being the PC co-chair of the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2019), Area Chair for events like ACL-2019, NAACL-2018, COLING 2018, and General co-chair for the 13th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2018).
She is a member of the advisory board of WiNLP, of the editorial board of TACL, JNLE, Journal of Language Modelling and Linguamatica, and a reviewer for various conferences, in addition to having co-chaired numerous *ACL workshops on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition and on Multiword Expressions. She has also co-edited special issues and books dedicated to these topics.
She is a member of the Natural Language Processing group at the University of Sheffield and of the Neurocomputational and Language Processing Laboratory of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).