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Takmaz, E., Pezzelle, S., & Fernández, R. (2024). Describing Images Fast and Slow: Quantifying and Predicting the Variation in Human Signals during Visuo-Linguistic Processes. In Y. Graham, & M. Purver (Eds.), EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Vol. 1, pp. 2072-2087). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
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Chen, X., Fernández, R., & Pezzelle, S. (2023). The BLA Benchmark: Investigating Basic Language Abilities of Pre-Trained Multimodal Models. In H. Bouamar, J. Pino, & K. Bali (Eds.), The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2023 : Proceedings of the Conference : December 6-10, 2023 (pp. 5817–5830). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.356[details]
Chen, X., Fernández, R. & Pezzelle, S. (2023). The BLA Benchmark: Investigating Basic Language Abilities of Multimodal Models. GitHub. https://github.com/shin-ee-chen/BLA
Giulianelli, M., Baan, J., Aziz, W., Fernández, R., & Plank, B. (2023). What Comes Next? Evaluating Uncertainty in Neural Text Generators Against Human Production Variability. In H. Bouamar, J. Pino, & K. Bali (Eds.), The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2023 : Proceedings of the Conference : December 6-10, 2023 (pp. 14349–14371). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.887[details]
Giulianelli, M., Luden, I., Fernández, R., & Kutuzov, A. (2023). Interpretable Word Sense Representations via Definition Generation: The Case of Semantic Change Analysis. In A. Rogers, J. Boyd-Graber, & N. Okazaki (Eds.), The 61st Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the Conference : ACL 2023 : July 9-14, 2023 (Vol. 1, pp. 3130-3148). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.176[details]
Giulianelli, M., Wallbridge, S., & Fernández, R. (2023). Information Value: Measuring Utterance Predictability as Distance from Plausible Alternatives. In H. Bouamar, J. Pino, & K. Bali (Eds.), The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2023 : Proceedings of the Conference : December 6-10, 2023 (pp. 5633-5653). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.343[details]
Giulianelli, M., Wallbridge, S. & Fernández, R. (20-10-2023). AltGen: 1.3M Plausible Alternatives From Neural Text Generators. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10006413
Pezzelle, S., & Fernández, R. (2023). Semantic Adaptation to the Interpretation of Gradable Adjectives via Active Linguistic Interaction. Cognitive Science, 47(2), Article e13248. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13248[details]
Qi, J., Fernández, R., & Bisazza, A. (2023). Cross-Lingual Consistency of Factual Knowledge in Multilingual Language Models. In H. Bouamar, J. Pino, & K. Bali (Eds.), The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2023 : Proceedings of the Conference : December 6-10, 2023 (pp. 10650-10666). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.658[details]
Sinclair, A. J., & Fernández, R. (2023). Alignment of code switching varies with proficiency in second language learning dialogue. System, 113, Article 102952. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2022.102952[details]
Surikuchi, A., Pezzelle, S., & Fernández, R. (2023). GROOViST: A Metric for Grounding Objects in Visual Storytelling. In H. Bouamor, J. Pino, & K. Bali (Eds.), The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2023 : Proceedings of the Conference : December 6-10, 2023 (pp. 3331-3339). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.202[details]
Takmaz, E., Brandizzi, N., Giulianelli, M., Pezzelle, S., & Fernández, R. (2023). Speaking the Language of Your Listener: Audience-Aware Adaptation via Plug-and-Play Theory of Mind. In A. Rogers, J. Boyd-Graber, & N. Okazaki (Eds.), Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023: July 9-14, 2023 (pp. 4198-4217). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.258[details]
Baan, J., Aziz, W., Plank, B., & Fernández, R. (2022). Stop Measuring Calibration When Humans Disagree. In Y. Goldberg, Z. Kozareva, & Y. Zhang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: December 7-11, 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (pp. 1892–1915). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.124[details]
Jansen, L., Laichter, Š. L., Sinclair, A., van der Goot, M. J., Fernández, R., & Pezzelle, S. (2022). Controllable Text Generation for All Ages: Evaluating a Plug-and-Play Approach to Age-Adapted Dialogue. In A. Bosselut, K. Chandu, K. Dhole, V. Gangal, S. Gehrmann, Y. Jernite, J. Novikova, & L. Perez-Beltrachini (Eds.), 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation and Metrics: GEM 2022 : proceedings of the workshop : December 7, 2022 (pp. 172-188). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/https://aclanthology.org/2022.gem-1.14[details]
Ryb, S., Giulianelli, M., Sinclair, A., & Fernández, R. (2022). AnaLog: Testing Analytical and Deductive Logic Learnability in Language Models. In V. Nastase, E. Pavlick, M. T. Pilehvar, J. Camacho-Collados, & A. Raganato (Eds.), The 11th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics: *SEM 2022 : proceedings of the conference : July 14-15, 2022 (pp. 55-68). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.starsem-1.5[details]
Sinclair, A., Jumelet, J., Zuidema, W., & Fernández, R. (2022). Structural Persistence in Language Models: Priming as a Window into Abstract Language Representations. Transactions of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 10, 1031–1050. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00504[details]
Takmaz, E., Pezzelle, S., & Fernández, R. (2022). Less Descriptive yet Discriminative: Quantifying the Properties of Multimodal Referring Utterances via CLIP. In E. Chersoni, N. Hollenstein, C. Jacobs, Y. Oseki, L. Prévot, & E. Santus (Eds.), Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics: CMCL 2022 : proceedings of the workshop : May 26, 2022 (pp. 36-42). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.cmcl-1.4[details]
Giulianelli, M., & Fernández, R. (2021). Analysing Human Strategies of Information Transmission as a Function of Discourse Context. In A. Bisazza, & O. Abend (Eds.), The 25th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: CoNLL 2021 : proceedings of the conference : November 10-11, 2021, online (pp. 647–660). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.conll-1.50[details]
Giulianelli, M., Sinclair, A., & Fernández, R. (2021). Is Information Density Uniform in Task-Oriented Dialogues? In M-C. Moens, X. Huang, L. Specia, & S. W. Yih (Eds.), 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2021 : proceedings of the conference : November 7-11, 2021 (pp. 8271–8283). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.652[details]
Jansen, L., Sinclair, A., van der Goot, M. J., Fernández, R., & Pezzelle, S. (2021). Detecting age-related linguistic patterns in dialogue: Toward adaptive conversational systems. In Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CliC-it 2021 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3033). CEUR-WS.
Noble, B., Sayeed, A., Fernández, R., & Larsson, S. (2021). Semantic shift in social networks. In L-W. Ku, V. Nastase, & I. Vulić (Eds.), The 10th Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics: *SEM 2021 : proceedings of the conference : August 5-6, 2021, Bangkok, Thailand (online) (pp. 26-37). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.starsem-1.3[details]
Parfenova, I., Elliott, D., Fernández, R., & Pezzelle, S. (2021). Probing Cross-Modal Representations in Multi-Step Relational Reasoning. In A. Rogers, I. Calixto, I. Vulić, N. Saphra, N. Kassner, O-M. Camburu, T. Bansal, & V. Shwartz (Eds.), The 6th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP: RepL4NLP 2021 : proceedings of the workshop : August 6, 2021, Bangkok, Thailand (online) (pp. 152–162). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.repl4nlp-1.16[details]
Pezzelle, S., Takmaz, E., & Fernández, R. (2021). Word Representation Learning in Multimodal Pre-Trained Transformers: An Intrinsic Evaluation. Transactions of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 9, 1563–1579. https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00443[details]
Sinclair, A. J., & Fernández, R. (2021). Construction Coordination in First and Second Language Acquisition. In E. Breitholz, K. Georgila, & D. Schlangen (Eds.), PotsDial : Proceedings of the 25th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue: Potsdam & The Internet, 20-22 September 2021 (pp. 150-161). (Proceedings SemDial; Vol. 2021). Universität Potsdam. http://semdial.org/anthology/papers/Z/Z21/Z21-3018/[details]
Del Tredici, M., & Fernández, R. (2020). Words are the Window to the Soul: Language-based User Representations for Fake News Detection. In D. Scott, N. Bel, & C. Zong (Eds.), The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: COLING 2020 : Proceedings of the Conference : December 8-13, 2020, Barcelona, Spain (Online) (pp. 5467-5479). International Committee on Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.477[details]
Fernández, R., & Linzen, T. (Eds.) (2020). The 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNNL): CoNNL 2020 : proceedings of the conference : November 19-20, 2020, Online. The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.0[details]
Giulianelli, M., Del Tredici, M., & Fernández, R. (2020). Analysing Lexical Semantic Change with Contextualised Word Representations. In D. Jurafsky, J. Chai, N. Schluter, & J. Tetreault (Eds.), The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2020 : Proceedings of the Conference : July 5-10, 2020 (pp. 3960–3973). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.365[details]
Gualdoni, E., Bernardi, R., Fernández, R., & Pezzelle, S. (2020). Grounded and Ungrounded Referring Expressions in Human Dialogues: Language Mirrors Different Grounding Conditions. In J. Monti, F. Dell'Orletta, & F. Tamburini (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics: Bologna, Italy, March 1-3, 2021 Article 38 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2769). CEUR-WS. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2769/paper_38.pdf[details]
Fernández, R., Pezzelle, S., Sinclair, A., Takmaz, E., Giulianelli, M., Gelderloos, L., Calixto, I., Bruni, E., Haber, J., Bernardi, R. B. & Baumgärtner, T. (2019). The PhotoBook Task and Dataset. GitHub. https://dmg-photobook.github.io/
Takmaz, E., Giulianelli, M., Pezzelle, S., Sinclair, A., & Fernández, R. (2020). Refer, Reuse, Reduce: Generating Subsequent References in Visual and Conversational Contexts. In B. Webber, T. Cohn, Y. He, & Y. Liu (Eds.), 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2020 : proceedings of the conference : November 16-20, 2020 (pp. 4350-4368). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.353[details]
Fernández, R., Pezzelle, S., Sinclair, A., Takmaz, E., Giulianelli, M., Gelderloos, L., Calixto, I., Bruni, E., Haber, J., Bernardi, R. B. & Baumgärtner, T. (2019). The PhotoBook Task and Dataset. GitHub. https://dmg-photobook.github.io/
Takmaz, E., Pezzelle, S., Beinborn, L., & Fernández, R. (2020). Generating Image Descriptions via Sequential Cross-Modal Alignment Guided by Human Gaze. In B. Webber, T. Cohn, Y. He, & Y. Liu (Eds.), 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2020 : proceedings of the conference : November 16-20, 2020 (pp. 4664–4677). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.377[details]
Bani, G., Belli, D., Dagan, G., Geenen, A., Skliar, A., Venkatesh, A., Baumgärtner, T., Bruni, E., & Fernández, R. (2019). Adding object detection skills to visual dialogue agents. In L. Leal-Taixé, & S. Roth (Eds.), Computer Vision – ECCV 2018 Workshops: Munich, Germany, September 8-14, 2018 : proceedings (Vol. IV, pp. 180-187). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 11132). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11018-5_17[details]
Del Tredici, M., Fernández, R., & Boleda, G. (2019). Short-Term Meaning Shift: A Distributional Exploration. In J. Burstein, C. Doran, & T. Solorio (Eds.), The 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: NAACL HLT 2019 : proceedings of the conference : June 2-June 7, 2019 (Vol. 1, pp. 2069-2075). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N19-1210[details]
Del Tredici, M., Marcheggiani, D., Schulte im Walde, S., & Fernández, R. (2019). You Shall Know a User by the Company It Keeps: Dynamic Representations for Social Media Users in NLP. In K. Inui, J. Jiang, V. Ng, & X. Wan (Eds.), 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 : proceedings of the conference : November 3-7, 2019, Hong Kong, China (pp. 4707-4717). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D19-1477[details]
Greco, C., Plank, B., Fernández, R., & Bernardi, R. (2019). Psycholinguistics meets Continual Learning: Measuring Catastrophic Forgetting in Visual Question Answering. In A. Korhonen, D. Traum, & L. Màrquez (Eds.), The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2019 : proceedings of the conference : July 28-August 2, 2019, Florence, Italy (pp. 3601-3605). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/P19-1350[details]
Haber, J., Baumgärtner, T., Takmaz, E., Gelderloos, L., Bruni, E., & Fernández, R. (2019). The PhotoBook Dataset: Building Common Ground through Visually Grounded Dialogue. In A. Korhonen, D. Traum, & L. Màrquez (Eds.), The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2019 : proceedings of the conference : July 28-August 2, 2019, Florence, Italy (pp. 1895-1910). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/P19-1184[details]
Fernández, R., Pezzelle, S., Sinclair, A., Takmaz, E., Giulianelli, M., Gelderloos, L., Calixto, I., Bruni, E., Haber, J., Bernardi, R. B. & Baumgärtner, T. (2019). The PhotoBook Task and Dataset. GitHub. https://dmg-photobook.github.io/
Pezzelle, S., & Fernández, R. (2019). Big Generalizations with Small Data: Exploring the Role of Training Samples in Learning Adjectives of Size. In A. Mogadala, D. Klakow, S. Pezzelle, & M-F. Moens (Eds.), Beyond Vision and LANguage: inTEgrating Real-world kNowledge (LANTERN): EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 : proceedings of the workshop : November 3, 2019, Hong Kong, China (pp. 18-23). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D19-6403[details]
Pezzelle, S., & Fernández, R. (2019). Is the Red Square Big? MALeViC: Modeling Adjectives Leveraging Visual Contexts. In K. Inui, J. Jiang, V. Ng, & X. Wan (Eds.), 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 : proceedings of the conference : November 3-7, 2019, Hong Kong, China (pp. 2865-2876). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D19-1285[details]
Schlöder, J. J., & Fernández, R. (2019). How to Reject What in Dialogue. In C. Howes, J. Hough, & C. Kennington (Eds.), LondonLogue : Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue: London, 4-6-September 2019 (pp. 99-108). (Proceedings SemDial; Vol. 2019). SEMDIAL. http://semdial.org/anthology/papers/Z/Z19/Z19-3014/[details]
Shekhar, R., Takmaz, E., Fernández, R., & Bernardi, R. (2019). Evaluating the Representational Hub of Language and Vision Models. In S. Dobnik, S. Chatzikyriakidis, & V. Demberg (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Long Papers: IWCS 2019 : 23-27 May, 2019, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden (pp. 211-222). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-0418[details]
Shekhar, R., Venkatesh, A., Baumgärtner, T., Bruni, E., Plank, B., Bernardi, R., & Fernández, R. (2019). Beyond Task Success: A Closer Look at Jointly Learning to See, Ask, and GuessWhat. In J. Burstein, C. Doran, & T. Solorio (Eds.), The 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: NAACL HLT 2019 : proceedings of the conference : June 2-June 7, 2019 (Vol. 1, pp. 2578-2587). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N19-1265[details]
Testoni, A., Shekhar, R., Fernández, R., & Bernardi, R. (2019). The Devil is in the Details: A Magnifying Glass for the GuessWhich Visual Dialogue Game. In C. Howes, J. Hough, & C. Kennington (Eds.), LondonLogue : Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue: London, 4-6-September 2019 (pp. 15-24). (Proceedings SemDial; Vol. 2019). SEMDIAL. http://semdial.org/anthology/papers/Z/Z19/Z19-3005/[details]
Aina, L., Bernardi, R., & Fernández, R. (2018). A distributional study of negated adjectives and antonyms. In E. Cabrio, A. Mazzei, & F. Tamburini (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018): Torino, Italy, December 10-12, 2018 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2253). CEUR-WS. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2253/paper03.pdf[details]
Del Tredici, M., & Fernández, R. (2018). The Road to Success: Assessing the Fate of Linguistic Innovations in Online Communities. In E. M. Bender, L. Derczynski, & P. Isabelle (Eds.), The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: COLING 2018 : proceedings of the conference : August 20-26, 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (pp. 1591-1603). Association for Computational Linguistics. http://aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1135[details]
Hupkes, D., Bouwmeester, S., & Fernández, R. (2018). Analysing the potential of seq-to-seq models for incremental interpretation in task-oriented dialogue. In T. Linzen, G. Chrupała, & A. Alishahi (Eds.), The 2018 EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP: EMNLP 2018 : proceedings of the First Workshop : November 1, 2018, Brussels, Belgium (pp. 165–174). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W18-5419[details]
Klubička, F., & Fernández, R. (2018). Examining a hate speech corpus for hate speech detection and popularity prediction. In A. Branco, N. Calzolari, & K. Choukri (Eds.), 4REAL 2018 : Workshop on Replicability and Reproducibility of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language: LREC 2018 Workshop : proceedings (pp. 16-23). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04661[details]
Shekhar, R., Baumgärtner, T., Venkatesh, A., Bruni, E., Bernardi, R., & Fernandez, R. (2018). Ask No More: Deciding when to guess in referential visual dialogue. In E. M. Bender, L. Derczynski, & P. Isabelle (Eds.), The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: COLING 2018 : proceedings of the conference : August 20-26, 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (pp. 1218-1233). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1104/[details]
Xing, Y., & Fernández, R. (2018). Automatic Evaluation of Neural Personality-based Chatbots. In E. Krahmer, A. Gatt, & M. Goudbeek (Eds.), INLG 20018 : The 11th International Natural Language Generation Conference: proceedings of the conference : November 5-8, 2018, Tilburg, The Netherlands (pp. 189-194). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W18-6524[details]
Aina, L., Philippova, N., Vogelmann, V., & Fernández, R. (2017). Referring Expressions and Communicative Success in Task-oriented Dialogues. In V. Petukhova, & Y. Tian (Eds.), SEMDIAL 2017 : SaarDial: proceedings of the 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue : Saarbrücken, 15-17 August 2017 (pp. 8-16). (Proceedings SemDial; Vol. 2017). Saarland University. http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Semdial_2017/pdfs/SemDial_2017_SaarDial_paper_20.pdf[details]
Bruni, E., & Fernández, R. (2017). Adversarial Evaluation for Open-Domain Dialogue Generation. In K. Jokinen, M. Stede, D. DeVault, & A. Louis (Eds.), 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue: proceedings of the conference : 15-17 August 2017, Saarbrücken, Germany : SIGDIAL 2017 (pp. 284-288). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-5534[details]
Dankers, V., Bilgin, A., & Fernández, R. (2017). Modelling Word Associations and Interactiveness for Describer Agents in Word-Guessing Games: A Case Study for the Location Taboo Game. In B. Verheij, & M. Wiering (Eds.), BNAIC 2017: Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Preproceedings of the 29th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, November 8–9, 2017 in Groningen, The Netherlands (pp. 408-409). (BNAIC; Vol. 29). University of Groningen. http://bnaic2017.ai.rug.nl/preproceedings.pdf[details]
Dankers, V., Bilgin, A., & Fernández, R. (2017). Modelling Word Associations with Word Embeddings for a Guesser Agent in the Taboo City Challenge Competition. In Proceedings of the ESSENCE Taboo Challenge Competition: An IJCAI Workshop. Melbourne, 21 August 2017 : IJCAI-17, Melbourne (pp. 8-16). ESSENCE. https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/r.fernandezrovira/papers/2017/dankers-etal-essence2017.pdf[details]
Dankers, V., Bilgin, A., & Fernández, R. (2017). Modelling the Generation and Retrieval of Word Associations with Word Embeddings: A Case Study for a Guesser Agent in the Location Taboo Game. In B. Verheij, & M. Wiering (Eds.), BNAIC 2017: Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Preproceedings of the 29th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, November 8–9, 2017 in Groningen, The Netherlands (pp. 401-402). (BNAIC; Vol. 29). University of Groningen. http://bnaic2017.ai.rug.nl/preproceedings.pdf[details]
Del Tredici, M., & Fernández, R. (2017). Semantic Variation in Online Communities of Practice. In C. Gardent, & C. Retoré (Eds.), Proceedings of IWCS 2017: 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics, Montpellier 19-22 September 2017 (Vol. 1). ACL. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-6804[details]
Abramova, E., & Fernández, R. (2016). Questioning Arbitrariness in Language: a Data-Driven Study of Conventional Iconicity. In K. Knight, A. Nenkova, & O. Rambow (Eds.), NAACL HLT 2016 : The 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Proceedings of the Conference : June 12-17, 2016, San Diego, California, USA (pp. 343-352). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N16-1038[details]
Hiller, S., & Fernández, R. (2016). A Data-driven Investigation of Corrective Feedback on Subject Omission Errors in First Language Acquisition. In S. Riezler, & Y. Goldberg (Eds.), CoNLL 2016 : The 20th SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL): proceedings of the conference : Augustu 11-12, 2016, Berlin, Germany (pp. 105-114). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/K16-1011[details]
Lazaridou, A., Chrupała, G., Fernández, R., & Baroni, M. (2016). Multimodal Semantic Learning from Child-Directed Input. In K. Knight, A. Nenkova, & O. Rambow (Eds.), NAACL HLT 2016 : The 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Proceedings of the Conference : June 12-17, 2016, San Diego, California, USA (pp. 387-392). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N16-1043[details]
Noble, B., & Fernández, R. (2016). Semantic Approximation And Its Effect On The Development Of Lexical Conventions. In S. G. Roberts, C. Cuskley, L. McCrohon, L. Barceló-Coblijn, O. Feher, & T. Verhoef (Eds.), The evolution of language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11) Evolang. http://evolang.org/neworleans/pdf/EVOLANG_11_paper_35.pdf[details]
Paperno, D., Kruszewski, G., Lazaridou, A., Pham, Q. N., Bernardi, R., Pezzelle, S., Baroni, M., Boleda, G., & Fernández, R. (2016). The LAMBADA dataset: Word prediction requiring a broad discourse context. In K. Erk, & N. A. Smith (Eds.), The 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics : ACL 2016: proceedings of the conference : August 7-12, 2016, Berlin Germany (Vol. 1, pp. 1525-1534). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/P16-1144[details]
Paperno, D., Kruszewski, G., Lazaridou, A., Pham, Q., Bernardi, R. B., Pezzelle, S., Baroni, M., Boleda, G. & Fernández, R. (2016). The LAMBADA dataset. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2630551
Schlöder, J. J., Breitholtz, E., & Fernández, R. (2016). Why? In J. Hunter, M. Simons, & M. Stone (Eds.), SEMDIAL 2016 : JerSem: Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue : New Brunswick, NJ, 16-18 July 2016 (pp. 5-14). (Proceedings SemDial; Vol. 2016). Rutgers University. https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/r.fernandezrovira/papers/2016/why-semdial2016.pdf[details]
Zarrieß, S., Hough, J., Kennington, C., Manuvinakurike, R., DeVault, D., Fernández, R., & Schlangen, D. (2016). PentoRef: A Corpus of Spoken References in Task-oriented Dialogues. In N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, T. Declerck, S. Goggi, M. Grobelnik, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, H. Mazo, A. Moreno, J. Odijk, & S. Piperidis (Eds.), LREC 2016 : Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation: May 23-28, 2016, Grand Hotel Bernardin Conference Center, Portorož, Slovenia (pp. 125-131). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/summaries/563.html[details]
Bernardi, R., Boleda, G., Fernández, R., & Paperno, D. (2015). Distributional Semantics in Use. In M. Roth, A. Louis, B. Webber, & T. Baldwin (Eds.), EMNLP : Workshop on Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics (LSDSem): workshop proceedings : 18 September 2015, Lisbon, Portugal (pp. 95-101). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W15-2712[details]
Noble, B., & Fernández, R. (2015). Centre Stage: How Social Network Position Shapes Linguistic Coordination. In T. O'Donnell, & M. van Schijndel (Eds.), NAACL HLT 2015 : The Sixth Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL): proceedings of the workshop : June 4, 2015, Denver, Colorado, USA (pp. 29-38). The Association for Computational Linguistics. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-1104.pdf[details]
Schlöder, J. J., & Fernández, R. (2015). Clarifying Intentions in Dialogue: A Corpus Study. In M. Purver, M. Sadrzadeh, & M. Stone (Eds.), IWCS 2015 : Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics: 15-17 April, 2015, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK (pp. 46-51). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-0106/[details]
Schlöder, J. J., & Fernández, R. (2015). Pragmatic Rejection. In M. Purver, M. Sadrzadeh, & M. Stone (Eds.), IWCS 2015 : Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics: 15-17 April, 2015, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK (pp. 250-260). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-0129/[details]
Fernandez Rovira, R., & Grimm, R. (2014). Quantifying Categorical and Conceptual Convergence in Child-Adult Dialogue. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 463-468)
Fernández, R., & Larsson, S. (2014). Vagueness and Learning: a Type-Theoretic Approach. In Proceedings of the Third Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics: *SEM 2014 : Dublin, Ireland, August 23-24 2014 (pp. 151-159). ACL. http://aclweb.org/anthology/S/S14/S14-1019.pdf[details]
Ginzburg, J., Fernández, R., & Schlangen, D. (2014). Disfluencies as Intra-Utterance Dialogue Moves. Semantics and Pragmatics, 7, Article 9. https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.7.9[details]
Kruger, J., Endriss, U., Fernández, R., & Qing, C. (2014). Axiomatic Analysis of Aggregation Methods for Collective Annotation. In A. Lomuscio, P. Scerri, A. Bazzan, & M. Huhns (Eds.), AAMAS '14: proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems: May 5-9, 2014, Paris, France (pp. 1185-1192). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2617437[details]
Qing, C., Endriss, U., Fernández, R., & Kruger, J. (2014). Empirical Analysis of Aggregation Methods for Collective Annotation. In J. Tsujii, & J. Hajic (Eds.), COLING 2014: the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: proceedings of COLING 2014 : technical papers: August 23-29, 2014, Dublin, Ireland (pp. 1533-1542). Association for Computational Linguistics. http://aclweb.org/anthology/C/C14/C14-1145.pdf[details]
Schlöder, J. J., & Fernández, R. (2014). The Role of Polarity in Inferring Acceptance and Rejection in Dialogue. In K. Georgila, M. Stone, H. Hastie, & A. Nenkova (Eds.), SIGDIAL 2014 : 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue: proceedings of the conference : 18-20 June 2014, Philadelphia, PA, USA (pp. 151-160). Association for Computational Linguistics. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W14/W14-4321.pdf[details]
2013
Abramova, E., Fernández, R., & Sangati, F. (2013). Automatic Labeling of Phonesthemic Senses. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society : Berlin, Germany, July 31-August 3, 2013 (pp. 1696-1701). Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8h07505p[details]
Barr, D., van Deemter, K., & Fernandez Rovira, R. (2013). Generation of Quantified Referring Expressions: Evidence from Experimental Data. In Proceedings of ENLG 2013, The 14th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (pp. 157-161). Sofia, Bulgaria.
Endriss, U., & Fernández, R. (2013). Collective Annotation of Linguistic Resources: Basic Principles and a Formal Model. In P. Fung, & M. Poesio (Eds.), ACL 2013 : 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: proceedings of the conference : August 4-9, 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria (Vol. 1, pp. 539-549). Association for Computational Linguistics. http://aclweb.org/anthology/P13-1053[details]
Ginzburg, J., Fernandez Rovira, R., & Schlangen, D. (2013). Self-Addressed Questions in Disfluencies. In R. Eklund (Ed.), Proceedings of DiSS 2013: The 6th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (Vol. 54, pp. 33-36). (1). Stockholm, Sweden.
2012
Baumgaertner, B., Fernández, R., & Stone, M. (2012). Towards a Flexible Semantics: Colour Terms in Collaborative Reference Tasks. In E. Agirre, J. Bos, & M. Diab (Eds.), SEM 2012: the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Volume 1 : Proceedings of the Main Conference and Shared Task (pp. 80-84). Association for Computational Linguistics. http://aclweb.org/anthology//S/S12/S12-1013.pdf?CFID=318130540&CFTOKEN=46341090[details]
Ginzburg, J., Fernández, R., & Schlangen, D. (2012). On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dysfluency. In M. Aloni, V. Kimmelman, F. Roelofsen, G. W. Sassoon, K. Schultz, & M. Westera (Eds.), Logic, Language and Meaning: 18th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 19-21 2011: revised selected papers (pp. 321-330). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 7218), (FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_33[details]
2011
Crespo, I., & Fernández, R. (2011). Expressing Taste in Dialogue. In R. Artstein, M. Core, D. DeVault, K. Georgila, E. Kaiser, & A. Stent (Eds.), SemDial 2011 (Los Angelogue): Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue : September 21-23, 2011, Los Angeles, California (pp. 84-93). (Proceedings SemDial; Vol. 2011). Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California. [details]
Fernández, R., Larsson, S., Cooper, R., Ginzburg, J., & Schlangen, D. (2011). Reciprocal Learning via Dialogue Interaction: Challenges and Prospects. In J. Beal, & W. Bradley Knox (Eds.), IJCAI 2011 Workshop on Agents Learning Interactively from Human Teachers (ALIHT): July 16-17, 2011, Barcelona, Spain: accepted papers University of Texas at Austin. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bradknox/IJCAI-ALIHT11-papers/aliht2011_submission_15.pdf[details]
Kunert, R., Fernández, R., & Zuidema, W. (2011). Adaptation in Child Directed Speech: Evidence from Corpora. In R. Artstein, M. Core, D. DeVault, K. Georgila, E. Kaiser, & A. Stent (Eds.), SemDial 2011 (Los Angelogue): Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue : September 21-23, 2011, Los Angeles, California (pp. 112-119). (Proceedings SemDial; Vol. 2011). Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California. [details]
Fernández, R. (2010). Early interpretation by implicature in definite referential descriptions. In P. Łupkowski, & M. Purver (Eds.), Aspects of Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue: SemDial 2010, 14th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (pp. 111-118). Polish Society for Cognitive Science. http://events.illc.uva.nl/semdial/proceedings/semdial2010_pozdial_proceedings.pdf[details]
Tur, G., Stolcke, A., Voss, L., Peters, S., Hakkani-Tür, D., Dowding, J., Favre, B., Fernández, R., Frampton, M., Frandsen, M., Frederickson, C., Graciarena, M., Kintzing, D., Leveque, K., Mason, S., Niekrasz, J., Purver, M., Riedhammer, K., Shriberg, E., ... Yang, F. (2010). The CALO Meeting Assistant system. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 18(6), 1601-1611. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASL.2009.2038810[details]
2009
Fernández, R. (2009). Salience and feature variability in definite descriptions with positive-form vague adjectives. In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Production of Referring Expressions (PRE-CogSci 2009): Bridging the gap between computational and empirical approaches to reference Cognitive Science Society. http://pre2009.uvt.nl/pdf/fernandez.pdf[details]
Frampton, M., Fernández, R., Ehlen, P., Christoudias, M., Darrell, T., & Peters, S. (2009). Who is "you"? Combining linguistic and gaze features to resolve second-person references in dialogue. In A. Lascarides, C. Gardent, & J. Nivre (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2009: 30 March-3 April 2009, Megaron Athens International Conference Centre, Athens, Greece (pp. 273-281). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.3115/1609067.1609097[details]
Purver, M., Fernández, R., Frampton, M., & Peters, S. (2009). Cascaded lexicalised classifiers for second-person reference resolution. In P. Healey, R. Pieraccini, D. Byron, S. Young, & M. Purver (Eds.), Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference, the 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue: 11-12 September 2009, London, UK (pp. 306-309). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1708376.1708420[details]
2022
Giulianelli, M., Sinclair, A., & Fernández, R. (2022). Construction Repetition Reduces Information Rate in Dialogue. In Y. He, H. Ji, S. Li, Y. Liu, & C-H. Chang (Eds.), The 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: proceedings of the conference : AACL-IJCNLP 2022 : November 20-23, 2022 (Vol. 1, pp. 665-682). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2022.aacl-main.51[details]
Fernández, R., Katagiri, Y., Komatani, K., Lemon, O., & Nakano, M. (2010). Proceedings of the Sigdial 2010 conference : the 11th annual meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue: 24-24 September 2010, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Association for Computational Linguistics. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1944506[details]
Ginzburg, J., & Fernández, R. (2010). Computational models of dialogue. In A. Clark, C. Fox, & S. Lappin (Eds.), The handbook of computational linguistics and natural language processing (pp. 429-481). (Blackwell handbooks in linguistics). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444324044.ch16[details]
van Cranenburgh, A., Sassoon, G. W., & Fernández, R. (2010). Invented antonyms: Esperanto as a semantic lab. In Y. N. Falk (Ed.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL 26) Bar-Ilan University. http://linguistics.huji.ac.il/IATL/26/vanCranenburghSassoonFernandez.pdf[details]
2022
Jansen, L. (Author), Laichter, Š. L. (Author), Sinclair, A. (Author), van der Goot, M. J. (Author), Fernandez Rovira, R. (Author), & Pezzelle, S. (Author). (2022). Exploring Age Adaptation of Conversational Systems. Web publication or website https://dmg-illc.github.io/ai-age-adaptation/
2014
Endriss, U. (Author), & Fernandez Rovira, R. (Author). (2014). Collective Annotation: Unexpected Connections between Computational Linguistics and Voting Theory. Web publication or website, CNGL Blog. http://tinyurl.com/ca-coling
2023
van der Goot, M. J., Dolinšek, S., Jansen, L., Sinclair, A. J., Fernandez Rovira, R., & Pezzelle, S. (2023). Adapting the language of conversational systems to different age groups: An experimental study. Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Enschede.
2022
Takmaz, E., Pezzelle, S., & Fernandez Rovira, R. (2022). Time Alignment between Gaze and Speech in Image Descriptions: Exploring Theories of Linearization. Abstract from 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83w56904
2021
Jansen, L., Sinclair, A. J., van der Goot, M. J., Fernandez Rovira, R., & Pezzelle, S. (2021). Detecting age-related linguistic patterns in dialogue: Toward adaptive conversa-tional systems. Paper presented at CLIC-it 2021: Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics , Milan, Italy.
Crespo, M. I., & Fernandez Rovira, R. (2012). Disagreement, meaning and affect. Paper presented at Workshop on Dialogue with Contextualism. Université Paris-Diderot. Paris, France., .
Prize / grant
Fernandez Rovira, R. (2016). Best Paper Award.
Fernandez Rovira, R. (2015). Best Student Paper Award.
Fernández, R. (speaker) (9-2-2021). Individual and social processes in image description generation, Paris Artificial Intelligence Research Institute.
Fernández, R. (keynote speaker) (27-11-2020). Interaction-driven linguistic conventions, Swedish Language Technology Conference.
Fernández, R. (keynote speaker) (2019). Analysing Language in Use with Vector Representations, Vector Semantics for Dialogue and Discourse.
Fernández, R. (keynote speaker) (2019). Visually grounded dialogue models: past, present, and future, The 6th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics.
Fernández, R. (invited speaker) (2019). Learning representations via visually grounded dialogue, Apple.
Fernández, R. (keynote speaker) (2019). Representations shaped by dialogue interaction, 4th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP.
Fernandez Rovira, R. (keynote speaker) (2017). Acquiring Language through Interaction, Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) , Valencia.
Fernandez Rovira, R. (keynote speaker) (2017). Only You: Towards Partner-Specific Dialogue, Facebook Faculty Summit, New York City.
Fernandez Rovira, R. (keynote speaker) (10-12-2016). Coordination and Learning in Human Dialogue, Let's Discuss: Learning Methods for Dialogue (NIPS Conference), Barcelona.
Fernandez Rovira, R. (keynote speaker) (9-12-2016). Human-like dialogue: Key challenges for AI, Workshop on Machine Intelligence (NIPS Conference), Barcelona.
2024
Jumelet, J. (2024). Finding structure in language models. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
Takmaz, E. K. (2024). Visual and linguistic processes in deep neural networks: A cognitive perspective. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
Giulianelli, M. (2023). Neural models of language use: Studies of language comprehension and production in context. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
Del Tredici, M. (2020). Linguistic variation in online communities: A computational perspective. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. Institute for Logic, Language and Computation. [details]
Bavaresco, A., Testoni, A. & Fernández, R. (30-5-2024). TRADE: TRuly ADversarial ad understanding Evaluation. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11355892
2023
Giulianelli, M., Wallbridge, S. & Fernández, R. (20-10-2023). AltGen: 1.3M Plausible Alternatives From Neural Text Generators. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10006413
Chen, X., Fernández, R. & Pezzelle, S. (2023). The BLA Benchmark: Investigating Basic Language Abilities of Multimodal Models. GitHub. https://github.com/shin-ee-chen/BLA
Fernández, R., Pezzelle, S., Sinclair, A., Takmaz, E., Giulianelli, M., Gelderloos, L., Calixto, I., Bruni, E., Haber, J., Bernardi, R. B. & Baumgärtner, T. (2019). The PhotoBook Task and Dataset. GitHub. https://dmg-photobook.github.io/
Paperno, D., Kruszewski, G., Lazaridou, A., Pham, Q., Bernardi, R. B., Pezzelle, S., Baroni, M., Boleda, G. & Fernández, R. (2016). The LAMBADA dataset. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2630551
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