Publications

In progress

Kushal Tatariya*, Artur Kulmizev*, Wessel Poelman, Esther Ploeger, Marcel Bollmann, Johannes Bjerva, Jiaming Luo, Heather Lent & Miryam de Lhoneux. How Good Is Your Wikipedia? Auditing Data Quality for Low-resource and Multilingual NLP Pre-print, under review [papercode]

2025

Kushal Tatariya*, Wessel Poelman* & Miryam de Lhoneux. On the Interplay Between Positional Encodings, Morphological Complexity, and Word Order Flexibility In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL)

Wessel Poelman*, Thomas Bauwens* & Miryam de Lhoneux. Confounding Factors in Relating Model Performance to Morphology In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) [papercodeextended abstract at MRL] – Oral Presentation

Robin Kokot & Wessel Poelman. Type and Complexity Signals in Multilingual Question Representations In Proceedings of the 5th Multilingual Representation Learning Workshop at EMNLP 2025 (MRL) [papercodedataset]

Esther Ploeger, Wessel Poelman, Andreas Holck Høeg-Petersen, Anders Schlichtkrull, Miryam de Lhoneux & Johannes Bjerva. A Principled Framework for Evaluating on Typologically Diverse Languages In Computational Linguistics (CL) [paperpostercode]

Wessel Poelman & Miryam de Lhoneux. The Roles of English in Evaluating Multilingual Language Models In Proceedings of the Joint Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa / Baltic-HLT) [paperposter]

2024

Esther Ploeger*, Wessel Poelman*, Miryam de Lhoneux & Johannes Bjerva. What is ‘‘Typological Diversity’’ in NLP? In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) [paperposterslidescodeblog mentionextended abstract at SIGTYP] – Oral Presentation

Phillip Schneider, Wessel Poelman, Michael Rovatsos & Florian Matthes. Engineering Conversational Search Systems: A Review of Applications, Architectures, and Functional Components In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI at ACL 2024 [paperslides] – Won an Outstanding Paper Award

Pieter Fivez, Walter Daelemans, Tim Van Cruys, Yury Kashnitsky, Savvas Chamezopoulos, Hadi Mohammadi, Anastasia Giachanou, Ayoub Bagheri, Wessel Poelman, Juraj Vladika, Esther Ploeger, Johannes Bjerva, Florian Matthes & Hans Halteren. The CLIN33 Shared Task on the Detection of Text Generated by Large Language Models In Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal [paperslidescode]

2023

Mahdi Dhaini, Wessel Poelman & Ege Erdogan. Detecting ChatGPT: A Survey of the State of Detecting ChatGPT-Generated Text In Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing [paperslides]

2023

Wessel Poelman, Rik van Noord & Johan Bos. Transparent Semantic Parsing with Universal Dependencies Using Graph Transformations In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) [paperposterslidescodemaster thesis]

Frank van den Berg*, Gijs Danoe*, Esther Ploeger*, Wessel Poelman*, Lukas Edman & Tommaso Caselli. RUG-1-Pegasussers at SemEval-2022 Task 3: Data Generation Methods to Improve Recognizing Appropriate Taxonomic Word Relations In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval) [paperposterslidescode]