I work at the KU Leuven as a PhD student in the LAGoM group from Miryam de Lhoneux.
My research focuses on multilingual natural language processing, in particular: incorporating under-used resources, evaluation and sampling.
Before coming to Belgium, I worked at the Technical University of Munich in Germany for half a year as a research associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter).
Before that, I completed a master’s in Information Science at the University of Groningen and worked for about two years as a machine learning engineer at Web-IQ.
You can find more details on my [cv].
Feel free to reach out if you’re interested in collaborating: contact “apenstaartje” wesselpoelman.nl
I occasionally write posts about (strange) things I find interesting.
Here, for example, you can find a list of ’egregious’ acronyms in research I’ve come across.
Let me know if you’ve encountered one yourself, I’ll add it to the list if it’s egregious enough.
Publications
In progress
Esther Ploeger*, Wessel Poelman*, Miryam de Lhoneux & Johannes Bjerva (2024). What is ‘Typological Diversity’ in NLP? Preprint. Under review.[pdf][code]
2024
Phillip Schneider, Wessel Poelman, Michael Rovatsos & Florian Matthes (2024). Engineering Conversational Search Systems: A Review of Applications, Architectures, and Functional Components. NLP4ConvAI @ ACL. [pdf]
Wessel Poelman*, Esther Ploeger*, Miryam de Lhoneux & Johannes Bjerva (2024). A call for consistency in reporting typological diversity. SIGTYP @ EACL.[pdf][poster][slides]
Pieter Fivez, Walter Daelemans, Tim Van de Cruys, Yury Kashnitsky, Savvas Chamezopoulos, Hadi Mohammadi, Anastasia Giachanou, Ayoub Bagheri, Wessel Poelman, Juraj Vladika, Esther Ploeger, Johannes Bjerva, Florian Matthes & Hans van Halteren (2024). The CLIN33 Shared Task on the Detection of Text Generated by Large Language Models. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal (CLIN).[pdf][slides][code]
2023
Mahdi Dhaini, Wessel Poelman & Ege Erdogan (2023). Detecting ChatGPT: A Survey of the State of Detecting ChatGPT-Generated Text. RANLP Student Research Workshop.[pdf][slides]
2022
Wessel Poelman, Rik van Noord & Johan Bos (2022). Transparent Semantic Parsing with Universal Dependencies Using Graph Transformations. COLING. [pdf][poster][slides][code]
Frank van den Berg*, Gijs Danoe*, Esther Ploeger*, Wessel Poelman*, Lukas Edman, & Tommaso Caselli (2022). RUG-1-Pegasussers at SemEval-2022 Task 3: Data Generation Methods to Improve Recognizing Appropriate Taxonomic Word Relations. SemEval @ NAACL. [pdf][poster][slides][code]
Theses
Wessel Poelman (2022). Language-Neutral Semantic Parsing Using Graph Transformations on Universal Dependencies. MSc thesis, University of Groningen. [pdf][code]
Wessel Poelman (2020). Context & Common Knowledge: Using an entity linker and knowledge base to detect hard entities in need of an explanation. BSc thesis, University of Groningen.[pdf][code]
Wessel Poelman (2020). Privacystatements van zoekmachinebedrijven onder de loep. BA thesis, University of Groningen.[pdf]