Meriem Beloucif
Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at Department of Linguistics and Philology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 14 17
- E-mail:
- meriem.beloucif@lingfil.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 635
751 26 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
I am an assistant professor in Computational Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University. My current research focuses on neural machine translation and lexical semantics in large models, notably in low-resource languages. Before, I worked on comparative QA at the LT Group at Hamburg University and spent a year at Copenhagen University working on semantic parsing and machine translation. I did my PhD at HKUST, Hong Kong on machine translation.
Keywords
- semantics
- natural language processing
- machine learning
- machine translation
- low-resource languages

Publications
Recent publications
SemRel2024: A Collection of Semantic Textual Relatedness Datasets for 13 Languages
Part of FINDINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, p. 2512-2530, 2024
SemEval-2024 Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness for African and Asian Languages
Part of Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval-2024, p. 1963-1978, 2024
AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages
Part of Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, p. 13968-13981, 2023
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BERTie Bott's Every Flavor Labels: A Tasty Introduction to Semantic Role Labeling for Galician
Part of Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, p. 10892-10902, 2023
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Improving Translation Quality for Low-Resource Inuktitut with Various Preprocessing Techniques
Part of Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, p. 475-479, 2023
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Conference papers
SemRel2024: A Collection of Semantic Textual Relatedness Datasets for 13 Languages
Part of FINDINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, p. 2512-2530, 2024
SemEval-2024 Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness for African and Asian Languages
Part of Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval-2024, p. 1963-1978, 2024
AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages
Part of Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, p. 13968-13981, 2023
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BERTie Bott's Every Flavor Labels: A Tasty Introduction to Semantic Role Labeling for Galician
Part of Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, p. 10892-10902, 2023
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Improving Translation Quality for Low-Resource Inuktitut with Various Preprocessing Techniques
Part of Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, p. 475-479, 2023
Using Wikidata for Enhancing Compositionality in Pre-trained Language Models
Part of Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, p. 170-178, 2023
SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval)
Part of Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), p. 2319-2337, 2023
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Part of Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), p. 1491-1497, 2023
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Overview of Touché 2022: Argument Retrieval
Part of Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction (CLEF 2022), p. 311-336, 2022
Part of LREC 2022, p. 3771-3779, 2022
Probing Pre-trained Language Models for Semantic Attributes and their Values
Part of Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, Virtual Event / Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, 16-20 November, 2021, p. 2554-2559, 2021
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