Publications | Wessel Poelman

In progress

QQ: A Toolkit for Language Identifiers and Metadata

Wessel Poelman, Yiyi Chen & Miryam de Lhoneux.

Pre-print, under review.

2026

How Good Is Your Wikipedia? Auditing Data Quality for Low-resource and Multilingual NLP

Kushal Tatariya*, Artur Kulmizev*, Wessel Poelman, Esther Ploeger, Marcel Bollmann, Johannes Bjerva, Jiaming Luo, Heather Lent & Miryam de Lhoneux.

To appear in ACL 2026

paper• code

Form and Meaning in Intrinsic Multilingual Evaluations

Wessel Poelman & Miryam de Lhoneux.

EACL 2026 – Oral Presentation

paper• poster• slides

TIPA: Typologically Informed Parameter Aggregation

Stef Accou & Wessel Poelman.

EACL Findings 2026

paper• code

2025

On the Interplay Between Positional Encodings, Morphological Complexity, and Word Order Flexibility

Kushal Tatariya*, Wessel Poelman* & Miryam de Lhoneux.

IJCNLP-AACL 2025

paper• poster• slides

Confounding Factors in Relating Model Performance to Morphology

Wessel Poelman*, Thomas Bauwens* & Miryam de Lhoneux.

EMNLP 2025 – Oral Presentation – Nominated for Paper Award

paper• poster• slides• code• extended abstract at MRL

Type and Complexity Signals in Multilingual Question Representations

Robin Kokot & Wessel Poelman.

MRL 2025

paper• code• dataset

A Principled Framework for Evaluating on Typologically Diverse Languages

Esther Ploeger, Wessel Poelman, Andreas Holck Høeg-Petersen, Anders Schlichtkrull, Miryam de Lhoneux & Johannes Bjerva.

Computational Linguistics

paper• poster• code

The Roles of English in Evaluating Multilingual Language Models

Wessel Poelman & Miryam de Lhoneux.

NoDaLiDa / Baltic-HLT 2025

paper• poster

2024

What is ''Typological Diversity'' in NLP?

Esther Ploeger*, Wessel Poelman*, Miryam de Lhoneux & Johannes Bjerva.

EMNLP 2024 – Oral Presentation

paper• poster• slides• code• blog mention• extended abstract at SIGTYP

Engineering Conversational Search Systems: A Review of Applications, Architectures, and Functional Components

Phillip Schneider, Wessel Poelman, Michael Rovatsos & Florian Matthes.

NLP4ConvAI 2024 – Won an Outstanding Paper Award

paper• slides

The CLIN33 Shared Task on the Detection of Text Generated by Large Language Models

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.

Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal

paper• slides• code