Hindi Reading Comprehension: Do Large Language Models Exhibit Semantic Understanding?

Lal, D. M., Rayson, P. & El-Haj, M., 20/01/2025, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indo-Aryan and Dravidian Languages. Weerasinghe, R., Anuradha, I. & Sumanathilaka, D. (eds.). Abu Dhabi: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 1-10 10 p.

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IgboBERT Models: Building and Training Transformer Models for the Igbo Language

Chukwuneke, C., Rayson, P., Ezeani, I. & El-Haj, M., 20/06/2022, LREC 2022 Conference Proceedings. Calzolari, N. (ed.). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 5114–5122 9 p.

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Multilingual Financial Word Embeddings for Arabic, English and French

Zmandar, N., El-Haj, M. & Rayson, P., 13/01/2022, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). IEEE, p. 4584-4589 6 p.

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CoFiF Plus: A French Financial Narrative Summarisation Corpus

Zmandar, N., Daudert, T., Ahmadi, S., El-Haj, M. & Rayson, P., 23/06/2022, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022). Calzolari, N. (ed.). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 1622-1639 18 p.

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The Financial Narrative Summarisation Shared Task (FNS 2022)

El-Haj, M., Zmandar, N., Rayson, P., AbuRa'ed, A., Litvak, M., Pittaras, N., Giannakopoulos, G., Kosmopoulos, A., Carbajo-Coronado, B. & Sandoval, A., 15/06/2022, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022). Calzolari, N. (ed.). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 52-61 9 p.

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Is it Offensive or Abusive? An Empirical Study of Hateful Language Detection of Arabic Social Media Texts?

Al Mandhari, S., El-Haj, M. & Rayson, P., 29/07/2024, The First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS). Mitkov, R. (ed.). Lancaster : Lancaster University

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Using JK-fold Cross Validation To Reduce Variance When Tuning NLP Models

Moss, H., Leslie, D. & Rayson, P., 31/08/2018, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Santa Fe: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 2978-2989 12 p.

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Overview of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025)

Hettiarachchi, H., Ranasinghe, T., Rayson, P., Mitkov, R., Gaber, M. M., Dola Mullage, D., Tan, F. A. & Uyangodage, L., 20/01/2025, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages. Association for Computational Linguistics

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Abstractive Hindi Text Summarization: A Challenge in a Low-Resource Setting

Lal, D., Rayson, P., Singh, K. P. & Tiwary, U. S., 17/12/2023, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON). Pawar, J. D. & Devi, S. L. (eds.). NLP Association of India (NLPAI), p. 603-612 10 p.

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Tagging the Bard: Evaluating the Accuracy of a Modern POS Tagger on Early Modern English Corpora

Rayson, P., Archer, D., Baron, A., Culpeper, J. & Smith, N., 2007, Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference: CL2007. Davies, M., Rayson, P., Hunston, S. & Danielsson, P. (eds.). UCREL, 14 p.

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Measuring MWE compositionality using semantic annotation.

Piao, S. L., Rayson, P., Mudraya, O., Wilson, A. & Garside, R., 2006, Proceedings of COLING/ACL Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties.

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Automatic Extraction of Translation Equivalents of Phrasal and Light Verbs in English and Russian

Mudraya, O., Piao, S., Rayson, P., Sharoff, S., Babych, B. & Lofberg, L., 2008, Phraseology : an interdisciplinary perspective. Granger, S. & Meunier, F. (eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins, p. 293-309 17 p.

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Who said what? Methodological issues in applying corpus-based methods to analyse online chat data

Rayson, P., Greenwood, P., Rashid, A. & Walkerdine, J., 07/2009, CL2009 Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference.

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A Tool Suite for Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering

Chitchyan, R., Sampaio, A., Rashid, A. & Rayson, P., 05/2006, EA '06 Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Early aspects at ICSE. ACM, p. 19-26 8 p.

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ASSIST: Automated Semantic Assistance for Translators

Sharoff, S., Babych, B., Rayson, P., Mudraya, O. & Piao, S., 04/2006, EACL '06 Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Posters & Demonstrations. p. 139-142 4 p.

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Comparing the UCREL semantic annotation scheme with lexicographical taxonomies.

Archer, D., Rayson, P., Piao, S. & McEnery, A. M., 2004, Proceedings of the EURALEX-2004 conference. France, p. 817-827 11 p.

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Exploring fine-grained sentiment values in online product reviews

Teh, P. L., Rayson, P., Pak, I. & Piao, S., 2015, 2015 IEEE Conference on Open Systems. IEEE, p. 114-118 5 p.

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Language Resources and Tools for Supporting The System Engineering Process

Onditi, V., Rayson, P., Ransom, B., Ramduny-Ellis, D., Sommerville, I., Dix, A., Meziane, F. (Editor) & Métais, E. (Editor), 06/2004, NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS. Springer, p. 147-158 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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EA-Miner: towards automation in aspect-oriented requirements engineering

Sampaio, A., Rashid, A., Chitchyan, R. & Rayson, P., 02/2007, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development III. Rashid, A. & Aksit, M. (eds.). Berlin: Springer Verlag, p. 4-39 36 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 4620).

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Building a Spanish lexicon for corpus analysis

Jiménez, R.-M., Sanjurjo-González, H., Rayson, P. E. & Piao, S. S., 4/05/2017, Languages at the Crossroads: Training, Accreditation and Context of Use : 35th Edition of the International Conference of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics. Jaén: Universidad de Jaén, p. 227-236 10 p.

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Supporting Law Enforcement in Digital Communities through Natural Language Analysis

Hughes, D., Rayson, P., Walkerdine, J., Lee, K., Greenwood, P., Rashid, A., May-Chahal, C. & Brennan, M., 2008, Computational Forensics : Second International Workshop, IWCF 2008, Washington, DC, USA, August 7-8, 2008. Proceedings. Srihari, S. N. & Franke, K. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, p. 122-134 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 5158).

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Towards A Welsh Semantic Annotation System

Piao, S. S., Rayson, P. E., Knight, D. & Watkins, G., 9/05/2018, LREC 2018, Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Calzolari, N., Choukri, K., Cieri, C., Declerck, T., Goggi, S., Hasida, K., Isahara, H., Maegaard, B., Mariani, J., Mazo, H., Moreno, A., Odijk, J., Piperidis, S. & Tokunaga, T. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 980-985 6 p.

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Infrastructure for Semantic Annotation in the Genomics Domain

El-Haj, M., Rutherford, N., Coole, M., Ezeani, I., Prentice, S., Ide, N., Knight, J., Piao, S., Mariani, J., Rayson, P. & Suderman, K., 11/05/2020, LREC 2020, Twelfth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation: LREC'20. Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 6921-6929 9 p.

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Exploring the Suitability of Transformer Models to Analyse Mental Health Peer Support Forum Data for a Realist Evaluation

Coole, M., Rayson, P., Glossop, Z., Lobban, F., Marshall, P. & Vidler, J., 1/05/2024, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC-COLING 2024. Demner-Fushman, D., Ananiadou, S., Thompson, P. & Ondov, B. (eds.). Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL, p. 184-188 5 p.

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Improving the precision of corpus methods: The standardized version of Early Modern English Medical Texts

Lehto, A., Baron, A., Ratia, M. & Rayson, P., 2010, Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies. Taavitsainen, I. & Pahta, P. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 279-289 11 p.

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Spatializing and analyzing digital texts: Corpora, GIS, and places

Gregory, I., Cooper, D., Hardie, A. & Rayson, P., 1/01/2015, Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives. Bodenhamer, D. J., Corrigan, J. & Harris, T. M. (eds.). Indiana University Press, p. 150-178 29 p.

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A large semantic lexicon for corpus annotation.

Piao, S. S. L., Archer, D., Mudraya, O., Rayson, P., Garside, R., McEnery, A. M. & Wilson, A., 2005, Proceedings of the corpus linguistics 2005 conference.. Birmingham

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Sentiment analysis tools should take account of the number of exclamation marks!!!

Teh, P. L., Rayson, P. E., Pak, I. & Piao, S. S., 11/12/2015, iiWAS '15 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services. New York: ACM, 6 p. 35

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Discovering affect-laden requirements to achieve system acceptance

Sutcliffe, A., Rayson, P., Bull, C. & Sawyer, P., 08/2014, 22nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'14). IEEE, p. 173-182 10 p.

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Automatic standardisation of texts containing spelling variation: How much training data do you need?

Baron, A. & Rayson, P., 2009, Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference: CL2009. Mahlberg , M., González-Díaz, V. & Smith, C. (eds.). Lancaster: Lancaster University, 25 p.

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Analysing Emotions in Cancer Narratives: A Corpus-Driven Approach

Lal, D. M., Rayson, P., Payne, S. A. & Liu, Y., 1/05/2024, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC-COLING 2024. Demner-Fushman, D., Ananiadou, S., Thompson, P. & Ondov, B. (eds.). Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL, p. 73-83 11 p.

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How to generalise the task of annotation

Fligelstone, S., Pacey, M. & Rayson, P., 01/1997, Corpus Annotation: Linguistic Information from Computer Text Corpora. Garside, R., Leech, G. & McEnery, A. (eds.). London: Longman, p. 122-136 15 p.

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Assisting Requirements Recovery from Legacy Documents

Rayson, P., Garside, R. & Sawyer, P., 01/2000, Systems Engineering for Business Process Change: collected papers from the EPSRC research programme. Henderson, P. (ed.). London: Springer-Verlag, p. 251-263 13 p.

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A Corpus/annotation toolbox

McEnery, T. & Rayson, P., 01/1997, Corpus Annotation: Linguistic Information from Computer Text Corpora. Garside, R., Leech, G. & McEnery, A. (eds.). London: Longman, p. 194-208 15 p.

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Customising geoparsing and georeferencing for historical texts

Rupp, C. J., Rayson, P., Baron, A., Donaldson, C., Gregory, I., Hardie, A. & Murrieta-Flores, P., 2013, Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data. IEEE, p. 59-62 4 p.

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Towards an Extensible Framework for Understanding Spatial Narratives

Ezeani, I., Rayson, P., Gregory, I., Haris, E., Cohn, A., Stell, J., Cole, T., Taylor, J., Bodenhamer, D., Devadasan, N., Steiner, E., Frank, Z. & Olson, J., 13/11/2023, GeoHumanities '23: Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities. New York: ACM, p. 1-10 10 p. (Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities).

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The Nakba Lexicon: Building a Comprehensive Dataset from Palestinian Literature

AbuHaija, I., Al Mandhari, S., El-Haj, M., Sibony, J. & Rayson, P., 20/01/2025, Proceedings of the first International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources. Jarrar, M., Habash, H. & El-Haj, M. (eds.). Abu Dhabi: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 37-47 11 p.

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The IgboAPI Dataset: Empowering Igbo Language Technologies through Multi-dialectal Enrichment

Emezue, C. C., Okoh, I., Mbonu, C. E., Chukwuneke, C., Lal, D. M., Ezeani, I., Rayson, P., Onwuzulike, I., Okeke, C. O., Nweya, G. O., Ogbonna, B. I., Oraegbunam, C. U., Awo-Ndubuisi, E. C. & Osuagwu, A. A., 1/05/2024, Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). Calzolari, N., Kan, M.-Y., Hoste, V., Lenci, A., Sakti, S. & Xue, N. (eds.). Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL, p. 15932-15941 10 p.

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Sampling labelled profile data for identity resolution

Edwards, M., Wattam, S. M., Rayson, P. E. & Rashid, A., 5/12/2016, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2016). IEEE, p. 540-547 8 p.

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Bringing replication and reproduction together with generalisability in NLP: Three reproduction studies for Target Dependent Sentiment Analysis

Moore, A. & Rayson, P. E., 20/08/2018, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 1132-1134 13 p.

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Domain adaptation using stock market prices to refine sentiment dictionaries

Moore, A., Rayson, P. E. & Young, S. E., 23/05/2016, Proceedings of the 10th edition of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2016). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 4 p.

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lexiDB: a scalable corpus database management system

Coole, M., Rayson, P. E. & Mariani, J. A., 5/12/2016, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). IEEE, p. 3880-3884 5 p.

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Using J-K-fold Cross Validation to Reduce Variance When Tuning NLP Models

Moss, H., Leslie, D. S. & Rayson, P. E., 06/2018, (E-pub ahead of print) Proceedings of COLING 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Anthology), p. 2978–2989 12 p. (Proceedings of COLING 2018).

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Integrating corpus linguistics and spatial technologies for the analysis of literature

Murrieta-Flores, P., Gregory, I., Cooper, D., Donaldson, C., Baron, A., Hardie, A. & Rayson, P., 2013, Corpus Linguistics 2013 Abstracts. Hardie, A. & Love, R. (eds.). UCREL, p. 222-225 4 p.

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Geographical Text Analysis Mapping and spatially analysing corpora

Gregory, I., Baron, A., Murrieta-Flores, P., Hardie, A. & Rayson, P., 2013, Corpus Linguistics 2013 Abstracts. Hardie, A. & Love, R. (eds.). UCREL, p. 105-108 4 p.

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Semantics-Based Composition for Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering

Chitchyan, R., Rashid, A., Rayson, P. & Waters, R., 04/2007, AOSD '07 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development. ACM, p. 36-48 13 p.

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An Exploratory Study of Information Retrieval Techniques in Domain Analysis

Alves, V., Schwanninger, C., Barbosa, L., Rashid, A., Sawyer, P., Rayson, P., Pohl, C. & Rummler, A., 2008, 12th International Software Product Line Conference, 2008. SPLC '08. . IEEE Publishing, p. 67-76 10 p.

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A flexible framework to experiment with ontology learning techniques

Gacitua, R., Sawyer, P. & Rayson, P., 2008, Proceedings of AI-2007 Twenty-seventh SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Bramer, M., Coenen, F. & Petridis, M. (eds.). Springer, p. 153-166 14 p.

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