Photo (left to right): Dr Benjamin Matthews, Prof. Patrizia Paggio, Mr Aiden Williams, Prof. Sandra Vella, Mr Kurt Abela, Dr Claudia Borg, Ms Sarah Aguis)

​Several University of Malta researchers and students from the Department of Artificial Intelligence and the Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology presented their work at the Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) held in Torino, Italy.

​Papers focused on several areas in Natural Language Processing and Linguistics Resources and presented datasets for a variety of problems in different domains. Whilst some papers present local research, others involve international collaborations with other European researchers. Several papers were supported by the LT-Bridge Project (H2020 Research and Innovation Programme, Grant Agreement No. 952194).

Below is the list of papers in alphabetical order of the first author (UM researchers and students are in bold):

• Amit Kumar Chaudhary, Kurt Micallef, and Claudia Borg. 2024. Topic Classification and Headline Generation for Maltese Using a Public News Corpus. In Proceedings of LREC-COLING 2024, pages 16274–16281, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL. More information is available online.

• Júlia Falcão, Claudia Borg, Nora Aranberri, and Kurt Abela. 2024. COMET for Low-Resource Machine Translation Evaluation: A Case Study of English-Maltese and Spanish-Basque. In Proceedings of LREC-COLING 2024​, pages 3553–3565, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL. More information is available online.

• Karen Fort, Laura Alonso Alemany, Luciana Benotti, Julien Bezançon, Claudia Borg, Marthese Borg, Yongjian Chen, Fanny Ducel, Yoann Dupont, Guido Ivetta, Zhijian Li, Margot Mieskes, Marco Naguib, Yuyan Qian, Matteo Radaelli, Wolfgang S. Schmeisser-Nieto, Emma Raimundo Schulz, Thiziri Saci, Sarah Saidi, et al.. 2024. Your Stereotypical Mileage May Vary: Practical Challenges of Evaluating Biases in Multiple Languages and Cultural Contexts. In Proceedings of  LREC-COLING 2024​, pages 17764–17769, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL. More information is available online.

• Patrizia Paggio, Manex Agirrezabal, Costanza Navarretta, and Leo Vitasovic. 2024. Multimodal Behaviour in an Online Environment: The GEHM Zoom Corpus Collection. In Proceedings of  LREC-COLING 2024​, pages 11890–11900, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL. More information is available online.

• Michael Rosner and Maxim Ionov. 2024. Linguistic LOD for Interoperable Morphological Description. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 94–102, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL. More information is available online.

• Dimitar Trajanov, Elena Apostol, Radovan Garabik, Katerina Gkirtzou, Dagmar Gromann, Chaya Liebeskind, Cosimo Palma, Michael Rosner, Alexia Sampri, Gilles Sérasset, Blerina Spahiu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, and Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene. 2024. From Linguistic Linked Data to Big Data. In Proceedings of  LREC-COLING 2024​, pages 7489–7502, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL. More information is available online.

• Alexandra (Sandra) Vella, Sarah Agius, Aiden Williams, and Claudia Borg. 2024. Towards a Corpus of Spoken Maltese: Korpus tal-Malti Mitkellem, KMM. In Proceedings of LREC-COLING 2024​, pages 16343–16352, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL. More information is available online.