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Evaluation of Large Language Models on hierarchical entity matching for cultural heritage metadata Open

Iris Hendrickx · 2025

Towards Stable and Personalised Profiles for Lexical Alignment in Spoken Human-Agent Dialogue Open

Keara Schaaij, Roel Boumans, Tibor Bosse, Iris Hendrickx · 2025

Evaluating Large Language Models for Confidence-based Check Set Selection Open

J. A. Cruz, Iris Hendrickx, Martha Larson · 2025

HyLECA: A Framework for Developing Hybrid Long-term Engaging Controlled Conversational Agents Open

Erkan Başar, Divyaa Balaji, Linwei He, Iris Hendrickx, Emiel Krahmer , et al. · 2023

We present HyLECA, an open-source framework designed for the development of long-term engaging controlled conversational agents. HyLECA's dialogue manager employs a hybrid architecture, combining rule-based methods for controlled dialogue …

Hints of Independence in a Pre-scripted World: On Controlled Usage of Open-domain Language Models for Chatbots in Highly Sensitive Domains Open

Erkan Başar, Iris Hendrickx, Emiel Krahmer, Gert‐Jan de Bruijn, Tibor Bosse · 2022

Open-domain large language models have progressed to generating natural-sounding and coherent text. Even though the generated texts appear human-like, the main stumbling block is that their output is never fully predictable, which runs the…

Doing not Being: Concrete Language as a Bridge from Language Technology to Ethnically Inclusive Job Ads Open

Jetske Adams, Kyrill Poelmans, Iris Hendrickx, Martha Larson · 2022

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Towards a New generation of Personalized Intelligent Conversational Agents Open

Iris Hendrickx, Federica Cena, Erkan Başar, Luigi Di, Florian Kunneman , et al. · 2021

© 2021 Owner/Author.focuses on both long-term engaging spoken dialogue systems and text-based chatbots, as well as conversational recommender systems. The goal of the workshop is to stimulate discussion around problems, challenges, possibl…

Using Text Mining Techniques to Identify Health Care Providers With Patient Safety Problems: Exploratory Study Open

Iris Hendrickx, Tim Voets, Pieter van Dyk, Rudolf B Kool · 2021

Background Regulatory bodies such as health care inspectorates can identify potential patient safety problems in health care providers by analyzing patient complaints. However, it is challenging to analyze the large number of complaints. T…

Take Back Control: User Privacy and Transparency Concerns in Personalized Conversational Agents Open

Iris Hendrickx, Jelte van Waterschoot, Arif Khan, Louis ten Bosch, Catia Cucchiarini , et al. · 2021

We reflect on user privacy concerns, transparency and informed consent for long-term interactions with personalized conversational agents. We argue that the common practice of asking users to sign an informed consent form is insufficient t…

Spoken Conversational Agents for Older Adults: Who Are the Stakeholders and What Do They Expect? Open

Jelte Barachia van Waterschoot, Iris Hendrickx, Arif Khan, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik , et al. · 2021

In this paper we discuss our road map to design a Dutch spoken conversational agent that helps older adults with self-management of their well-being. We conducted three usability studies with our conversational agent, each time after discu…

Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume Open

Jörg Tiedemann, Isabelle Augenstein, Madhumita Sushil, Valerio Basile, Aline Villavicencio , et al. · 2021

Welcome to EACL 2021, the 16th conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics!This year's conference is held from the 21st to the 23rd of April, 2021.While we were planning to hold the conference in Kyi…

BLISS. An Agent for Collecting Spoken Dialogue data about Health and Well-being Open

Jelte van Waterschoot, Iris Hendrickx, Arif Khan, Esther Klabbers, Marcel de Korte , et al. · 2020

An important objective in health-technology is the ability to gather information about people's well-being. Structured interviews can be used to obtain this information, but these are time-consuming and not scalable. Questionnaires provide…

Using Text Mining Techniques to Identify Health Care Providers With Patient Safety Problems: Exploratory Study (Preprint) Open

Iris Hendrickx, Tim Voets, Pieter van Dyk, Rudolf B Kool · 2020

BACKGROUND Regulatory bodies such as health care inspectorates can identify potential patient safety problems in health care providers by analyzing patient complaints. However, it is challenging to analyze the large number of complaints. …

P24 Predicting life expectancy to aid in advance care planning Open

Merijn Beeksma, Ankie F. Suntjens, Antal van den Bosch, Hüseyin Daş, Gert P. Westert , et al. · 2019

Background Accurate timing of ACP is considered challenging. Available tools are not widely implemented, can be unfeasible to screen large populations, and require prior awareness to be used proactively in individual patients. We are devel…

SemEval-2013 Task 4: Free Paraphrases of Noun Compounds Open

Iris Hendrickx, Zornitsa Kozareva, Preslav Nakov, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Stan Śzpakowicz , et al. · 2019

In this paper, we describe SemEval-2013 Task 4: the definition, the data, the evaluation and the results. The task is to capture some of the meaning of English noun compounds via paraphrasing. Given a two-word noun compound, the participat…

SemEval-2010 Task 8: Multi-Way Classification of Semantic Relations Between Pairs of Nominals Open

Iris Hendrickx, Su‐Nam Kim, Zornitsa Kozareva, Preslav Nakov, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha , et al. · 2019

In response to the continuing research interest in computational semantic analysis, we have proposed a new task for SemEval-2010: multi-way classification of mutually exclusive semantic relations between pairs of nominals. The task is desi…

SemEval-2010 Task 8: Multi-Way Classification of Semantic Relations Between Pairs of Nominals Open

Iris Hendrickx, Su Nam Kim, Zornitsa Kozareva, Preslav Nakov, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha , et al. · 2019

SemEval-2 Task 8 focuses on Multi-way classification of semantic relations between pairs of nominals. The task was designed to compare different approaches to semantic relation classification and to provide a standard testbed for future re…

Uncovering the language of wine experts Open

Ilja Croijmans, Iris Hendrickx, Els Lefever, Asifa Majid, Antal van den Bosch · 2019

Talking about odors and flavors is difficult for most people, yet experts appear to be able to convey critical information about wines in their reviews. This seems to be a contradiction, and wine expert descriptions are frequently received…

Predicting life expectancy with a long short-term memory recurrent neural network using electronic medical records Open

Merijn Beeksma, Suzan Verberne, Antal van den Bosch, Enny Das, Iris Hendrickx , et al. · 2019

A Multilingual Wikified Data Set of Educational Material Open

Iris Hendrickx, Eirini Takoulidou, Thanasis Naskos, Katia Lida Kermanidis, Vilelmini Sosoni , et al. · 2018

We present a parallel wikified data set of parallel texts in eleven language pairs from the educational domain. English sentences are lined up to sentences in eleven other languages (BG, CS, DE, EL, HR, IT, NL, PL, PT, RU, ZH) where names …

A Multi- versus a Single-classifier Approach for the Identification of Modality in the Portuguese Language Open

João Sequeira, Teresa Gonçalves, Paulo Quaresma, Amália Mendes, Iris Hendrickx · 2018

This work presents a comparative study between two different approaches to build an automatic classification system for Modality values in the Portuguese language. One approach uses a single multi-class classifier with the full dataset tha…

Discovering the language of wine reviews: A text mining account Open

Els Lefever, Iris Hendrickx, Ilja Croijmans, Antal van den Bosch, Asifa Majid · 2018

It is widely held that smells and flavors are impossible to put into words. In this paper we test this claim by seeking predictive patterns in wine reviews, which ostensibly aim to provide guides to perceptual content. Wine reviews have pr…

A Memory-Based Lemmatizer for Ancient Greek Open

Corien Bary, Peter Berck, Iris Hendrickx · 2017

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Creating a reference data set for the summarization of discussion forum threads Open

Suzan Verberne, Emiel Krahmer, Iris Hendrickx, Sander Wubben, Antal van den Bosch · 2017

Annotating Speech, Attitude and Perception Reports Open

Corien Bary, Leopold Hess, K. Thijs, Peter Berck, Iris Hendrickx · 2017

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PaperClip: Automated Dossier Reorganizing Open

Wessel Stoop, Iris Hendrickx, Tom van Ees · 2017

Unraveling reported dreams with text analytics Open

Iris Hendrickx, Louis Onrust, Florian Kunneman, Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Wessel Stoop , et al. · 2016

We investigate what distinguishes reported dreams from other personal narratives. The continuity hypothesis, stemming from psychological dream analysis work, states that most dreams refer to a person's daily life and personal concerns, sim…

Overview of the SBS 2016 Mining Track Open

Toine Bogers, Iris Hendrickx, Marijn Koolen, Suzan Verberne · 2016

In this paper we present an overview of the mining track in the Social Book Search (SBS) lab 2016. The mining track addressed two tasks: (1) classifying forum posts as book search requests, and (2) linking book title mentions in forum post…

Modality annotation for Portuguese: from manual annotation to automatic labeling Open

Amália Mendes, Iris Hendrickx, Luciana Ávila, Paulo Quaresma, Teresa Gonçalves , et al. · 2016

We investigate modality in Portuguese and we combine a linguistic perspective with an application-oriented perspective on modality. We design an annotation scheme reflecting theoretical linguistic concepts and apply this schema to a small …

Enhancing Access to Online Education: Quality Machine Translation of MOOC Content Open

Valia Kordoni, Antal van den Bosch, Katia Lida Kermanidis, Vilelmini Sosoni, Kostadin Cholakov , et al. · 2016

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