no code implementations • EACL (WASSA) 2021 • Cynthia Van Hee, Orphee De Clercq, Veronique Hoste
We investigate the feasibility of defining sentiment evoked by fine-grained news events.
no code implementations • WASSA (ACL) 2022 • Ellen De Geyndt, Orphee De Clercq, Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, Pranaydeep Singh, Olivier Parent, Veronique Hoste
In this paper, we present the SentEMO platform, a tool that provides aspect-based sentiment analysis and emotion detection of unstructured text data such as reviews, emails and customer care conversations.
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) +1
no code implementations • WASSA (ACL) 2022 • Aaron Maladry, Els Lefever, Cynthia Van Hee, Veronique Hoste
This paper presents the results of a replication experiment for automatic irony detection in Dutch social media text, investigating both a feature-based SVM classifier, as was done by Van Hee et al. (2017) and and a transformer-based approach.
1 code implementation • 25 Oct 2019 • Chris Emmery, Ben Verhoeven, Guy De Pauw, Gilles Jacobs, Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, Bart Desmet, Véronique Hoste, Walter Daelemans
The detection of online cyberbullying has seen an increase in societal importance, popularity in research, and available open data.
no code implementations • CL 2018 • Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, V{\'e}ronique Hoste
Although common sense and connotative knowledge come naturally to most people, computers still struggle to perform well on tasks for which such extratextual information is required.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2018 • Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, V{\'e}ronique Hoste
Our shared tasks received submissions from 43 teams for the binary classification Task A and from 31 teams for the multiclass Task B.
no code implementations • 17 Jan 2018 • Cynthia Van Hee, Gilles Jacobs, Chris Emmery, Bart Desmet, Els Lefever, Ben Verhoeven, Guy De Pauw, Walter Daelemans, Véronique Hoste
While social media offer great communication opportunities, they also increase the vulnerability of young people to threatening situations online.
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, V{\'e}ronique Hoste
Recognising and understanding irony is crucial for the improvement natural language processing tasks including sentiment analysis.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, V{\'e}ronique Hoste
Handling figurative language like irony is currently a challenging task in natural language processing.