Papers by Paula Miguel
Annotating Arguments in a Corpus of Opinion Articles (2022.lrec-1)
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Gil Rocha, Luís Trigo, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Rui Sousa-Silva, Paula Carvalho, Bruno Martins, Miguel Won
| Challenge: | Argument annotation is the process of exposing and justifying one's points of view, with the aim of conveying a logical reasoning through a set of semantically related propositions. |
| Approach: | They propose to use argumentative discourse units to annotate arguments in Portuguese using a multi-layered process to analyze the annotations produced. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model exploits the best practices identified in previous studies while fostering the potential use of the resulting annotated corpus for new purposes. |
Exploring Large Language Models for Hate Speech Detection in Rioplatense Spanish (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Hate speech detection deals with many language variants, slang, nuances, and cultural nuances. |
| Approach: | They propose to use large language models to detect hate speech in Rioplatense Spanish . they compare their results to those of a state-of-the-art BERT classifier . |
| Outcome: | The proposed models show lower precision than the state-of-the-art classifier, but are sensitive to highly nuanced cases. |