Professor Nikos Aletras

School of Computer Science

Professor of Natural Language Processing

Head of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) research group

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n.aletras@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 1911

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Professor Nikos Aletras
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
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Profile

Nikos Aletras is a Professor in Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the Computer Science Department at the University of ºù«Ӱҵ, co-affiliated with the Machine Learning (ML) group. Previously, he was a research scientist at Amazon (Core ML and Alexa) and a research associate at UCL, Department of Computer Science, Media Futures Group. He completed a PhD in NLP at the University of ºù«Ӱҵ. His research interests are in NLP, Machine Learning and Data Science. He develops text analysis methods to solve problems in other scientific areas such as (computational) social and legal science.

Research interests
  • NLP
  • Computational Social Science
  • Legal NLP
  • Data Science
  • Machine Learning
Publications

Journal articles

  • Chrysostomou G, Zhao Z, Williams M & Aletras N (2024) . Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 12, 1163-1181. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vickers P, Barrault L, Monti E & Aletras N (2024) We Need to Talk ºù«Ӱҵ Classification Evaluation Metrics in NLP.. CoRR, abs/2401.03831. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yamaguchi A, Villavicencio A & Aletras N (2024) An Empirical Study on Cross-lingual Vocabulary Adaptation for Efficient Generative LLM Inference.. CoRR, abs/2402.10712. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jin M, PreoÅ£iuc-Pietro D, DoÄŸruöz AS & Aletras N (2024) Who is bragging more online? A large scale analysis of bragging in social media. 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings, 17575-17587. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yamaguchi A, Villavicencio A & Aletras N (2024) Vocabulary Expansion for Low-resource Cross-lingual Transfer.. CoRR, abs/2406.11477. RIS download Bibtex download
  • De Clercq O & Aletras N (2024) Introduction. EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of System Demonstrations, IV. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhao Z & Aletras N (2024) Comparing Explanation Faithfulness between Multilingual and Monolingual Fine-tuned Language Models.. CoRR, abs/2403.12809. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chrysostomou G, Zhao Z, Williams M & Aletras N (2024) Investigating Hallucinations in Pruned Large Language Models for Abstractive Summarization.. Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 12, 1163-1181. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Jin M, Song X & Aletras N (2024) Enhancing Data Quality through Simple De-duplication: Navigating Responsible Computational Social Science Research.. CoRR, abs/2410.03545. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Williams M, Chrysostomou G & Aletras N (2024) Self-calibration for Language Model Quantization and Pruning.. CoRR, abs/2410.17170. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Niu P, Bontcheva K & Aletras N (2023) . Expert Systems with Applications, 122791-122791. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lalmas M, Zhang M, Santos R, Yilmaz E, Joho H, Ding W, Hauff C, Aletras N, Jaidka K & Alhoori H (2023) . International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings, v. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Williams M & Aletras N (2023) Frustratingly Simple Memory Efficiency for Pre-trained Language Models via Dynamic Embedding Pruning.. CoRR, abs/2309.08708. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Xue H & Aletras N (2023) . Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Villegas DS, Goanta C & Aletras N (2023) A Multimodal Analysis of Influencer Content on Twitter.. CoRR, abs/2309.03064. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Villegas DS, Preotiuc-Pietro D & Aletras N (2023) Improving Multimodal Classification of Social Media Posts by Leveraging Image-Text Auxiliary tasks.. CoRR, abs/2309.07794. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Song X, Bontcheva K & Aletras N (2023) Examining the Limitations of Computational Rumor Detection Models Trained on Static Datasets.. CoRR, abs/2309.11576. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alajrami A, Margatina K & Aletras N (2023) . Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Goanta C, Aletras N, Chalkidis I, Ranchordás S & Spanakis G (2023) . Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Margatina K, Schick T, Aletras N & Dwivedi-Yu J (2023) . Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Wu BP, Thorne W, Robinson A, Aletras N, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2023) Navigating Prompt Complexity for Zero-Shot Classification: A Study of Large Language Models in Computational Social Science.. CoRR, abs/2305.14310. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chrysostomou G, Zhao Z, Williams M & Aletras N (2023) Lighter, yet More Faithful: Investigating Hallucinations in Pruned Large Language Models for Abstractive Summarization.. CoRR, abs/2311.09335. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Williams M & Aletras N (2023) How Does Calibration Data Affect the Post-training Pruning and Quantization of Large Language Models?. CoRR, abs/2311.09755. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang L, Song H, Aletras N & Lu H (2022) . Pattern Recognition, 108661-108661. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Li W & Aletras N (2022) Improving Graph-Based Text Representations with Character and Word Level N-grams.. CoRR, abs/2210.05999. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Niu P & Aletras N (2022) Identifying and Characterizing Active Citizens who Refute Misinformation in Social Media.. CoRR, abs/2204.10080. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y & Aletras N (2020) . PeerJ Computer Science, 6. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fomicheva M, Sun S, Yankovskaya L, Blain F, Guzmán F, Fishel M, Aletras N, Chaudhary V & Specia L (2020) . Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 8, 539-555. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maronikolakis A, Sánchez Villegas D, Preotiuc-Pietro D & Aletras N (2020) . Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N, Baldwin T, Lau J & Stevenson M (2017) . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(1), 154-167. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N, Tsarapatsanis D, PreoÅ£iuc-Pietro D & Lampos V (2016) . PeerJ Computer Science, 2. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gonzalez-Agirre A, Rigau G, Agirre E, Aletras N & Stevenson M (2016) . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(7), 1624-1638. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N, Stevenson M & Clough P (2012) . Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage, 5(4). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dommett K, Mensah SA, Zhu J, Stafford T & Aletras N () . Journal of Political Marketing, 1-19. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chrysostomou G & Aletras N () . Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 36(10), 10545-10553. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsarapatsanis D & Aletras N () On the Ethical Limits of Natural Language Processing on Legal Text. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chrysostomou G & Aletras N () Improving the Faithfulness of Attention-based Explanations with Task-specific Information for Text Classification. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Villegas DS, Mokaram S & Aletras N () Analyzing Online Political Advertisements. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mensah S, Sun K & Aletras N () An Empirical Study on Leveraging Position Embeddings for Target-oriented Opinion Words Extraction. RIS download Bibtex download
  • PreoÅ£iuc-Pietro D, Volkova S, Lampos V, Bachrach Y & Aletras N () . PLoS ONE, 10(9). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jin M & Aletras N () Complaint Identification in Social Media with Transformer Networks. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yamaguchi A, Chrysostomou G, Margatina K & Aletras N () Frustratingly Simple Pretraining Alternatives to Masked Language Modeling. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chrysostomou G & Aletras N () Enjoy the Salience: Towards Better Transformer-based Faithful Explanations with Word Salience. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Villegas DS & Aletras N () Point-of-Interest Type Prediction using Text and Images. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fomicheva M, Specia L & Aletras N () Translation Error Detection as Rationale Extraction. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Villegas DS, PreoÅ£iuc-Pietro D & Aletras N () Point-of-Interest Type Inference from Social Media Text. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Fergadiotis M, Kotitsas S, Malakasiotis P, Aletras N & Androutsopoulos I () An Empirical Study on Large-Scale Multi-Label Text Classification Including Few and Zero-Shot Labels. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Fergadiotis M, Malakasiotis P, Aletras N & Androutsopoulos I () LEGAL-BERT: The Muppets straight out of Law School. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Fergadiotis M, Tsarapatsanis D, Aletras N, Androutsopoulos I & Malakasiotis P () Paragraph-level Rationale Extraction through Regularization: A case study on European Court of Human Rights Cases. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jin M & Aletras N () Modeling the Severity of Complaints in Social Media. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chrysostomou G & Aletras N () Variable Instance-Level Explainability for Text Classification. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Margatina K, Barrault L & Aletras N () Bayesian Active Learning with Pretrained Language Models. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Margatina K, Vernikos G, Barrault L & Aletras N () Active Learning by Acquiring Contrastive Examples. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Jana A, Hartung D, Bommarito M, Androutsopoulos I, Katz DM & Aletras N () LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English. RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Jin M, Preotiuc-Pietro D, Dogruöz AS & Aletras N (2024) Who Is Bragging More Online? A Large Scale Analysis of Bragging in Social Media.. LREC/COLING (pp 17575-17587) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Soun R, Neerkaje A, Sawhney R, Aletras N & Nakov P (2024) RISE: Robust Early-exiting Internal Classifiers for Suicide Risk Evaluation. 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings (pp 14134-14145) RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2024) Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2024 - System Demonstrations, St. Julians, Malta, March 17-22, 2024. EACL (Demonstrations) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Wu BP, Thorne W, Robinson A, Aletras N, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2024) Navigating Prompt Complexity for Zero-Shot Classification: A Study of Large Language Models in Computational Social Science.. LREC/COLING (pp 12074-12086) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Villegas DS, Preotiuc-Pietro D & Aletras N (2024) Improving Multimodal Classification of Social Media Posts by Leveraging Image-Text Auxiliary Tasks.. EACL (Findings) (pp 1126-1137) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Song X, Bontcheva K & Aletras N (2024) Examining the Limitations of Computational Rumor Detection Models Trained on Static Datasets.. LREC/COLING (pp 6739-6751) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Williams M & Aletras N (2024) On the Impact of Calibration Data in Post-training Quantization and Pruning.. ACL (1) (pp 10100-10118) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhao Z & Aletras N (2024) Comparing Explanation Faithfulness between Multilingual and Monolingual Fine-tuned Language Models.. NAACL-HLT (pp 3226-3244) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tonolini F, Aletras N, Massiah J & Kazai G (2024) Bayesian Prompt Ensembles: Model Uncertainty Estimation for Black-Box Large Language Models.. ACL (Findings) (pp 12229-12272) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Jin M, Song X & Aletras N (2024) Enhancing Data Quality through Simple De-duplication: Navigating Responsible Computational Social Science Research.. EMNLP (pp 12477-12492) RIS download Bibtex download
  • De Clercq O & Aletras N (2024) Introduction. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 18TH CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN CHAPTER OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS: SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS (pp IV-IV) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sun K, Zhang R, Samuel M, Nikolaos A, Mao Y & Liu X (2023) . Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Bontcheva K & Aletras N (2023) It’s about Time: Rethinking Evaluation on Rumor Detection Benchmarks using Chronological Splits. EACL 2023 - 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of EACL 2023 (pp 724-731) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Shi Z, Tonolini F, Aletras N, Yilmaz E, Kazai G & Jiao Y (2023) . Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, July 2023 - July 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Margatina K & Aletras N (2023) . Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, July 2023 - July 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mensah S, Sun K & Aletras N (2023) . Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), July 2023 - July 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhao Z & Aletras N (2023) . Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Vol. 1 (pp 4732-4745). Toronto, Canada, 9 July 2023 - 9 July 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Feng Y, Jiao Y, Prasad A, Aletras N, Yilmaz E & Kazai G (2023) . Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), July 2023 - July 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Bontcheva K & Aletras N (2023) . Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023, May 2023 - May 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tonolini F, Aletras N, Jiao Y & Kazai G (2023) Robust Weak Supervision with Variational Auto-Encoders. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 202 (pp 34394-34408) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Xue H & Aletras N (2023) Pit One Against Many: Leveraging Attention-head Embeddings for Parameter-efficient Multi-head Attention.. EMNLP (Findings) (pp 10355-10373) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alajrami A, Margatina K & Aletras N (2023) Understanding the Role of Input Token Characters in Language Models: How Does Information Loss Affect Performance?. EMNLP (pp 9085-9108) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Margatina K, Schick T, Aletras N & Dwivedi-Yu J (2023) Active Learning Principles for In-Context Learning with Large Language Models.. EMNLP (Findings) (pp 5011-5034) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Goanta C, Aletras N, Chalkidis I, Ranchordás S & Spanakis G (2023) Regulation and NLP (RegNLP): Taming Large Language Models.. EMNLP (pp 8712-8724) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhao Z & Aletras N (2023) Incorporating Attribution Importance for Improving Faithfulness Metrics.. ACL (1) (pp 4732-4745) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Villegas DS, Goanta C & Aletras N (2023) A Multimodal Analysis of Influencer Content on Twitter.. IJCNLP (1) (pp 225-240) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vickers P, Barrault L, Monti E & Aletras N (2023) We Need to Talk ºù«Ӱҵ Classification Evaluation Metrics in NLP.. IJCNLP (1) (pp 498-510) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sawhney R, Agarwal S, Neerkaje AT, Aletras N, Nakov P & Flek L (2022) . Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Niu P & Aletras N (2022) . 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fomicheva M, Specia L & Aletras N (2022) . Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, May 2022 - May 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Margatina K, Barrault L & Aletras N (2022) . Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), May 2022 - May 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Jana A, Hartung D, Bommarito M, Androutsopoulos I, Katz D & Aletras N (2022) . Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), May 2022 - May 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alajrami A & Aletras N (2022) . Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), May 2022 - May 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bose T, Aletras N, Illina I & Fohr D (2022) . Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, May 2022 - May 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jin M, Preotiuc-Pietro D, DoÄŸruöz AS & Aletras N (2022) . Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), May 2022 - May 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chrysostomou G & Aletras N (2022) . Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), May 2022 - May 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ao X, Sanchez Villegas D, Preotiuc-Pietro D & Aletras N (2022) . Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, July 2022 - July 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Xue H & Aletras N (2022) HashFormers: Towards Vocabulary-independent Pre-trained Transformers. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2022 (pp 7862-7874) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fomicheva M, Specia L & Aletras N (2022) Translation Error Detection as Rationale Extraction.. ACL (Findings) (pp 4148-4159) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhao Z, Chrysostomou G, Bontcheva K & Aletras N (2022) On the Impact of Temporal Concept Drift on Model Explanations. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022 (pp 4068-4083) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhao Z, Chrysostomou G, Bontcheva K & Aletras N (2022) . Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, December 2022 - December 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2022) Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop, NLLP@EMNLP 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid), December 8, 2022. NLLP@EMNLP RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Jana A, Hartung D, II MJB, Androutsopoulos I, Katz DM & Aletras N (2022) LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English.. ACL (1) (pp 4310-4330) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bose T, Aletras N, Illina I & Fohr D (2022) Domain Classification-based Source-specific Term Penalization for Domain Adaptation in Hate-speech Detection. Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING, Vol. 29(1) (pp 6656-6666) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alajrami A & Aletras N (2022) How does the pre-training objective affect what large language models learn about linguistic properties?. ACL (2) (pp 131-147) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bose T, Aletras N, Illina I & Fohr D (2022) Dynamically Refined Regularization for Improving Cross-corpora Hate Speech Detection.. ACL (Findings) (pp 372-382) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bose T, Aletras N, Illina I & Fohr D (2022) Domain Classification-based Source-specific Term Penalization for Domain Adaptation in Hate-speech Detection.. COLING (pp 6656-6666) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Li W & Aletras N (2022) Improving Graph-Based Text Representations with Character and Word Level N-grams.. AACL/IJCNLP (2) (pp 228-233) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Li M, Chen J, Mensah S, Aletras N, Yang X & Ye Y (2022) . Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, December 2022 - December 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chrysostomou G & Aletras N (2022) An Empirical Study on Explanations in Out-of-Domain Settings.. ACL (1) (pp 6920-6938) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ao X, Villegas DS, Preotiuc-Pietro D & Aletras N (2022) Combining Humor and Sarcasm for Improving Political Parody Detection.. NAACL-HLT (pp 1800-1807) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jin M, Preotiuc-Pietro D, Dogruöz AS & Aletras N (2022) Automatic Identification and Classification of Bragging in Social Media.. ACL (1) (pp 3945-3959) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gajbhiye A, Fomicheva M, Alva-Manchego F, Blain F, Obamuyide A, Aletras N & Specia L (2021) . Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (pp 5091-5099). Bangkok, Thailand (virtual conference), 1 August 2021 - 6 August 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sánchez Villegas D & Aletras N (2021) . Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, November 2021 - November 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yamaguchi A, Chrysostomou G, Margatina K & Aletras N (2021) . Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, November 2021 - November 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chrysostomou G & Aletras N (2021) . Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, November 2021 - November 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Margatina K, Vernikos G, Barrault L & Aletras N (2021) . Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, November 2021 - November 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N, Androutsopoulos I, Barrett L, Goantă C, Preotiuc-Pietro D, Agnoloni T, Ash E, Baldwin B, Blair-Stanek A, Borchmann L , Chalkidis I et al (2021) Introduction. Natural Legal Language Processing, NLLP 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Workshop (pp III) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Fergadiotis M, Tsarapatsanis D, Aletras N, Androutsopoulos I & Malakasiotis P (2021) Paragraph-level Rationale Extraction through Regularization: A case study on European Court of Human Rights Cases.. NAACL-HLT (pp 226-241) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jin M & Aletras N (2021) Modeling the Severity of Complaints in Social Media.. NAACL-HLT (pp 2264-2274) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsarapatsanis D & Aletras N (2021) On the Ethical Limits of Natural Language Processing on Legal Text.. ACL/IJCNLP (Findings) (pp 3590-3599) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gajbhiye A, Fomicheva M, Alva-Manchego F, Blain F, Obamuyide A, Aletras N & Specia L (2021) Knowledge Distillation for Quality Estimation.. ACL/IJCNLP (Findings) (pp 5091-5099) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vickers P, Aletras N, Monti E & Barrault L (2021) In Factuality: Efficient Integration of Relevant Facts for Visual Question Answering.. ACL/IJCNLP (2) (pp 468-475) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chrysostomou G & Aletras N (2021) Improving the Faithfulness of Attention-based Explanations with Task-specific Information for Text Classification.. ACL/IJCNLP (1) (pp 477-488) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Villegas DS, Mokaram S & Aletras N (2021) Analyzing Online Political Advertisements.. ACL/IJCNLP (Findings) (pp 3669-3680) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mensah S, Sun K & Aletras N (2021) An Empirical Study on Leveraging Position Embeddings for Target-oriented Opinion Words Extraction. EMNLP 2021 - 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings (pp 9174-9179) RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2021) Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021, NLLP@EMNLP 2021, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November 10, 2021. NLLP@EMNLP RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chrysostomou G & Aletras N (2021) Enjoy the Salience: Towards Better Transformer-based Faithful Explanations with Word Salience.. EMNLP (1) (pp 8189-8200) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Margatina K, Vernikos G, Barrault L & Aletras N (2021) Active Learning by Acquiring Contrastive Examples.. EMNLP (1) (pp 650-663) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yamaguchi A, Chrysostomou G, Margatina K & Aletras N (2021) Frustratingly Simple Pretraining Alternatives to Masked Language Modeling.. EMNLP (1) (pp 3116-3125) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Villegas DS & Aletras N (2021) Point-of-Interest Type Prediction using Text and Images.. EMNLP (1) (pp 7785-7797) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mensah S, Sun K & Aletras N (2021) An Empirical Study on Leveraging Position Embeddings for Target-oriented Opinion Words Extraction.. EMNLP (1) (pp 9174-9179) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gargett A, Firth R & Aletras N (2020) . 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 10 December 2020 - 13 December 2020. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Blain F, Aletras N & Specia L (2020) Quality In, Quality Out: Learning from Actual Mistakes.. EAMT (pp 145-153) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maronikolakis A, Villegas DS, Preotiuc-Pietro D & Aletras N (2020) Analyzing Political Parody in Social Media.. ACL (pp 4373-4384) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N, Androutsopoulos I, Barrett L, Meyers A & Preotiuc-Pietro D (2020) Introduction to the nllp 2020workshop. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2645 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alokaili A, Aletras N & Stevenson M (2020) Automatic Generation of Topic Labels.. SIGIR (pp 1965-1968) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Fergadiotis M, Malakasiotis P, Aletras N & Androutsopoulos I (2020) LEGAL-BERT: "Preparing the Muppets for Court'".. EMNLP (Findings) (pp 2898-2904) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Fergadiotis M, Kotitsas S, Malakasiotis P, Aletras N & Androutsopoulos I (2020) An Empirical Study on Large-Scale Multi-Label Text Classification Including Few and Zero-Shot Labels.. EMNLP (1) (pp 7503-7515) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jin M & Aletras N (2020) Complaint Identification in Social Media with Transformer Networks.. COLING (pp 1765-1771) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Villegas DS, Preotiuc-Pietro D & Aletras N (2020) Point-of-Interest Type Inference from Social Media Text.. AACL/IJCNLP (pp 804-810) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Fergadiotis M, Malakasiotis P, Aletras N & Androutsopoulos I (2020) LEGAL-BERT: The Muppets straight out of Law School. FINDINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, EMNLP 2020 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alokaili A, Aletras N & Stevenson M (2020) . Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Fergadiotis E, Malakasiotis P, Aletras N & Androutsopoulos I (2019) . Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2019, June 2019 - June 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Androutsopoulos I & Aletras N (2019) . Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp 4317-4323). Florence, Italy, 28 July 2019 - 2 August 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • PreoÅ£iuc-Pietro D, Gaman M & Aletras N (2019) . Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp 5008-5019). Florence, Italy, 28 July 2019 - 2 August 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Karmakharm T, Aletras N & Bontcheva K (2019) . Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations, November 2019 - November 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Preotiuc-Pietro D, Gaman M & Aletras N (2019) Automatically Identifying Complaints in Social Media.. ACL (1) (pp 5008-5019) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Androutsopoulos I & Aletras N (2019) Neural Legal Judgment Prediction in English. 57TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL 2019) (pp 4317-4323) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsakalidis A, Aletras N, Cristea AI & Liakata M (2018) . CIKM '18 Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (pp 367-376), 22 October 2018 - 26 October 2018. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N & Chamberlain BP (2018) . Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (pp 20-24), 9 July 2018 - 12 July 2018. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsakalidis A, Aletras N, Cristea AI & Liakata M (2018) Nowcasting the Stance of Social Media Users in a Sudden Vote: The Case of the Greek Referendum.. CIKM (pp 367-376) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sorodoc I, Lau JH, Aletras N & Baldwin T (2017) . Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers, April 2017 - April 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N & Mittal A (2017) . Advances in Information Retrieval : 39th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2017, Aberdeen, UK, April 8-13, 2017, Proceedings (pp 500-505). Aberdeen, UK, 8 April 2017 - 13 April 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lampos V, Aletras N, Geyti JK, Zou B & Cox IJ (2016) (pp 689-695) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N (2015) . Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Topic Models: Post-Processing and Applications RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N, Lau JH, Baldwin T & Stevenson M (2015) . Proceedings of the 24th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - CIKM '15, 18 October 2015 - 23 October 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N & Stevenson M (2015) . Proceedings of the Fourth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, June 2015 - June 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • PreoÅ£iuc-Pietro D, Lampos V & Aletras N (2015) . Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (pp 1754-1764) RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2015) Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Topic Models: Post-Processing and Applications, TM 2015, Melbourne, Australia, October 19, 2015. TM@CIKM RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N & Stevenson M (2014) . Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014), Vol. 2 (pp 631-636) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N & Stevenson M (2014) . Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, volume 2: Short Papers, April 2014 - April 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N, Baldwin T, Lau JH & Stevenson M (2014) . IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 8 September 2014 - 12 September 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lampos V, Aletras N, Preotiuc-Pietro D & Cohn T (2014) Predicting and Characterising User Impact on Twitter. Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics RIS download Bibtex download
  • Agirre E, Aletras N, Clough PD, Fernando S, Goodale P, Hall MM, Soroa A & Stevenson M (2013) PATHS: A System for Accessing Cultural Heritage Collections.. ACL (Conference System Demonstrations) (pp 151-156) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Agirre E, Aletras N, Gonzalez-Agirre A, Rigau G & Stevenson M (2013) UBC UOS-TYPED: Regression for Typed-similarity. *SEM 2013 - 2nd Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Vol. 1 (pp 132-137) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N & Stevenson M (2013) Evaluating topic coherence using distributional semantics. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics, IWCS 2013 - Long Papers RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N & Stevenson M (2013) Representing topics using images. NAACL HLT 2013 - 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Main Conference (pp 158-167) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Agirre E, Aletras N, Gonzalez-Agirre A, Rigau G & Stevenson M (2013) UBC UOS-TYPED: Regression for Typed-similarity. SEM 2013 - 2nd Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Proceedings of the Main Conference and the Shared Task: Semantic Textual SimilaritySEM 2013 - 2nd Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Proceedings of the Main Conference and the Shared Task: Semantic Textual Similarity (pp 132-137) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hall M, Agirre E, Aletras N, Bergheim R, Chandrinos K, Clough P, Fernando S, Fernie K, Goodale P, Griffiths J , Lopez de Lacalle O et al (2012) PATHS - Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage Spaces. Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2012. Cyprus RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N & Stevenson M (2012) Computing Similarity between Cultural Heritage Items using Multimodal Features. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (pp 85-93). Avignon, France RIS download Bibtex download
  • Goodale P, Clough P, Ford N, Hall M, Stevenson M, Fernando S, Aletras N, Fernie K, Archer P & De Polo A (2012) User-centred design to support exploration and path creation in cultural heritage collections. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 909 (pp 75-78) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yamaguchi A, Villavicencio A & Aletras N () An empirical study on cross-lingual vocabulary adaptation for efficient language model inference. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024. Miami, Florida, 12 November 2024 - 12 November 2024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wood G & Demirbag M () RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints

  • Williams M, Chrysostomou G & Aletras N (2024) Self-calibration for Language Model Quantization and Pruning. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Jin M, Song X & Aletras N (2024) Enhancing Data Quality through Simple De-duplication: Navigating Responsible Computational Social Science Research, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yamaguchi A, Villavicencio A & Aletras N (2024) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jin M, PreoÅ£iuc-Pietro D, DoÄŸruöz AS & Aletras N (2024) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhao Z & Aletras N (2024) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yamaguchi A, Villavicencio A & Aletras N (2024) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vickers P, Barrault L, Monti E & Aletras N (2024) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Williams M & Aletras N (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chrysostomou G, Zhao Z, Williams M & Aletras N (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alajrami A, Margatina K & Aletras N (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Xue H & Aletras N (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Goanta C, Aletras N, Chalkidis I, Ranchordas S & Spanakis G (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Song X, Bontcheva K & Aletras N (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Williams M & Aletras N (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Villegas DS, PreoÅ£iuc-Pietro D & Aletras N (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Villegas DS, Goanta C & Aletras N (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Feng Y, Jiao Y, Prasad A, Aletras N, Yilmaz E & Kazai G (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Margatina K, Schick T, Aletras N & Dwivedi-Yu J (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Wu BP, Thorne W, Robinson A, Aletras N, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Shi Z, Tonolini F, Aletras N, Yilmaz E, Kazai G & Jiao Y (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Margatina K & Aletras N (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mensah S, Sun K & Aletras N (2023) Trading Syntax Trees for Wordpieces: Target-oriented Opinion Words Extraction with Wordpieces and Aspect Enhancement, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhao Z & Aletras N (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sun K, Zhang R, Mensah S, Aletras N, Mao Y & Liu X (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Bontcheva K & Aletras N (2023) It's about Time: Rethinking Evaluation on Rumor Detection Benchmarks using Chronological Splits, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhao Z, Chrysostomou G, Bontcheva K & Aletras N (2022) On the Impact of Temporal Concept Drift on Model Explanations. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Xue H & Aletras N (2022) HashFormers: Towards Vocabulary-independent Pre-trained Transformers. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Li W & Aletras N (2022) Improving Graph-Based Text Representations with Character and Word Level N-grams. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bose T, Aletras N, Illina I & Fohr D (2022) Domain Classification-based Source-specific Term Penalization for Domain Adaptation in Hate-speech Detection. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ao X, Villegas DS, PreoÅ£iuc-Pietro D & Aletras N (2022) Combining Humor and Sarcasm for Improving Political Parody Detection. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Niu P & Aletras N (2022) Identifying and Characterizing Active Citizens who Refute Misinformation in Social Media, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Li M, Chen J, Mensah S, Aletras N, Yang X & Ye Y (2022) A Hierarchical N-Gram Framework for Zero-Shot Link Prediction, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bose T, Aletras N, Illina I & Fohr D (2022) Dynamically Refined Regularization for Improving Cross-corpora Hate Speech Detection, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alajrami A & Aletras N (2022) How does the pre-training objective affect what large language models learn about linguistic properties?. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jin M, PreoÅ£iuc-Pietro D, DoÄŸruöz AS & Aletras N (2022) Automatic Identification and Classification of Bragging in Social Media, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chrysostomou G & Aletras N (2022) An Empirical Study on Explanations in Out-of-Domain Settings, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Jana A, Hartung D, Bommarito M, Androutsopoulos I, Katz DM & Aletras N (2021) LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mensah S, Sun K & Aletras N (2021) An Empirical Study on Leveraging Position Embeddings for Target-oriented Opinion Words Extraction, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gajbhiye A, Fomicheva M, Alva-Manchego F, Blain F, Obamuyide A, Aletras N & Specia L (2021) Knowledge Distillation for Quality Estimation, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Villegas DS, Mokaram S & Aletras N (2021) Analyzing Online Political Advertisements, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsarapatsanis D & Aletras N (2021) On the Ethical Limits of Natural Language Processing on Legal Text, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chrysostomou G & Aletras N (2021) Improving the Faithfulness of Attention-based Explanations with Task-specific Information for Text Classification, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Margatina K, Barrault L & Aletras N (2021) On the Importance of Effectively Adapting Pretrained Language Models for Active Learning, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chrysostomou G & Aletras N (2021) Flexible Instance-Specific Rationalization of NLP Models, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Fergadiotis M, Tsarapatsanis D, Aletras N, Androutsopoulos I & Malakasiotis P (2021) Paragraph-level Rationale Extraction through Regularization: A case study on European Court of Human Rights Cases, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jin M & Aletras N (2021) Modeling the Severity of Complaints in Social Media, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jin M & Aletras N (2020) Complaint Identification in Social Media with Transformer Networks, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Fergadiotis M, Malakasiotis P, Aletras N & Androutsopoulos I (2020) LEGAL-BERT: The Muppets straight out of Law School, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Fergadiotis M, Kotitsas S, Malakasiotis P, Aletras N & Androutsopoulos I (2020) An Empirical Study on Large-Scale Multi-Label Text Classification Including Few and Zero-Shot Labels, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Villegas DS, PreoÅ£iuc-Pietro D & Aletras N (2020) Point-of-Interest Type Inference from Social Media Text, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alokaili A, Aletras N & Stevenson M (2020) Automatic Generation of Topic Labels, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fomicheva M, Sun S, Yankovskaya L, Blain F, Guzmán F, Fishel M, Aletras N, Chaudhary V & Specia L (2020) Unsupervised Quality Estimation for Neural Machine Translation, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maronikolakis A, Villegas DS, Preotiuc-Pietro D & Aletras N (2020) Analyzing Political Parody in Social Media, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Preotiuc-Pietro D, Gaman M & Aletras N (2019) Automatically Identifying Complaints in Social Media, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Androutsopoulos I & Aletras N (2019) Neural Legal Judgment Prediction in English, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alokaili A, Aletras N & Stevenson M (2019) Re-Ranking Words to Improve Interpretability of Automatically Generated Topics, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang L, Song H & Lu H (2018) Graph Node-Feature Convolution for Representation Learning. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsakalidis A, Aletras N, Cristea AI & Liakata M (2018) Nowcasting the Stance of Social Media Users in a Sudden Vote: The Case of the Greek Referendum, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N & Chamberlain BP (2018) Predicting Twitter User Socioeconomic Attributes with Network and Language Information, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aletras N & Mittal A (2016) Labeling Topics with Images using Neural Networks, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chalkidis I, Fergadiotis M, Malakasiotis P, Aletras N & Androutsopoulos I () Extreme Multi-Label Legal Text Classification: A case study in EU Legislation. RIS download Bibtex download
Grants

Current Grants

  • Efficient Deployment of Large Language Models for Industrial Applications, Industrial, 07/2024 - 07/2025, £30,360, as PI

  • AdSoLve: , RAI (EPSRC), 05/2024 - 03/2028, £3,498,789, as Co-PI

  • ESPERANTO: , Horizon 2020, 01/2021 - 12/2025, £38,070, as co-PI

  • , EPSRC, 04/2019 - 09/2027, £5,508,850, as Co-PI

Previous Grants

  • SAI: , EPSRC, 02/2021 - 01/2024, £366,348, as PI

  • Understanding online political advertising: perceptions, uses and regulation, Leverhulme, 01/2021 - 07/2024, £395,011, as Co-PI

  • Responsible AI for Inclusive, Democratic Societies: , ESRC, 02/2020 - 01/2024, £508,135, as Co-PI

  • , EC H2020, 01/2019 - 12/2021, £473,113, as Co-PI

  • Innovation Next Generation Services Through Collaborative Design, ESRC, 12/2018 - 11/2020, £284,926, as Co-PI

  • Journalist-in-the-Loop Machine Learning as a Service for Rumour Analysis, Google, 11/2018 - 12/2019, £44,642, as Co-PI

  • Alexa Fellowship, Amazon, 08/2018 - 08/2021, £73,000, as PI