Publications

2024

CoNLL 2024

  • BabyHGRN: Exploring RNNs for Sample-Efficient Language ModelingPatrick Haller, Jonas Golde and Alan AkbikBabyLM 2024 Shared Task

EMNLP 2024

  • Less is More: Parameter-Efficient Selection of Intermediate Tasks for Transfer LearningDavid Schulte, Felix Hamborg and Alan AkbikProceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • NoiseBench: Benchmarking the Impact of Real Label Noise on Named Entity RecognitionElena Merdjanovska, Ansar Aynetdinov and Alan AkbikProceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

ACL 2024

  • Fundus: A Simple-to-Use News Scraper Optimized for High Quality ExtractionsMax Dallabetta, Conrad Dobberstein, Adrian Breiding and Alan AkbikProceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
  • Choose Your Transformer: Improved Transferability Estimation of Transformer Models on Classification TasksLukas Garbaciauskas, Max Ploner and Alan AkbikFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024

NAACL 2024

  • OpinionGPT: Modelling Explicit Biases in Instruction-Tuned LLMsPatrick Haller, Ansar Aynetdinov and Alan AkbikProceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
  • BEAR: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Relational Knowledge in Causal and Masked Language ModelsJacek Wiland, Max Ploner and Alan AkbikFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024

Bioinformatics 2024

  • HunFlair2 in a cross-corpus evaluation of named entity recognition and normalization toolsMario Sänger, Samuele Garda, Xing David Wang, Leon Weber-Genzel, Pia Droop, Benedikt Fuchs, Alan Akbik, Ulf LeserBioinformatics, Volume 40, Issue 10, October 2024

COLING-LREC 2024

  • PECC: Problem Extraction and Coding ChallengesPatrick Haller, Jonas Golde and Alan AkbikProceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation

EACL 2024

  • Large-Scale Label Interpretation Learning for Few-Shot Named Entity RecognitionJonas Golde, Felix Hamborg and Alan AkbikProceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
  • Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning: Is There An Optimal Subset of Parameters to Tune?Max Ploner and Alan AkbikFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024

Miscellaneous

  • TransformerRanker: A Tool for Efficiently Finding the Best-Suited Language Models for Downstream Classification TasksLukas Garbas, Max Ploner and Alan AkbikarXiv preprint
  • LM-Pub-Quiz: A Comprehensive Framework for Zero-Shot Evaluation of Relational Knowledge in Language Models Max Ploner, Jacek Wiland, Sebastian Pohl and Alan AkbikarXiv preprint
  • SemScore: Automated Evaluation of Instruction-Tuned LLMs based on Semantic Textual SimilarityAnsar Aynetdinov and Alan AkbikarXiv preprint

2023

EMNLP 2023

  • CleanCoNLL: A Nearly Noise-Free Named Entity Recognition DatasetSusanna Rücker and Alan AkbikProceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • Fabricator: An Open Source Toolkit for Generating Labeled Training Data with Teacher LLMsJonas Golde, Patrick Haller, Felix Hamborg, Julian Risch and Alan AkbikProceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations

EACL 2023

  • ZELDA: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Supervised Entity DisambiguationMarcel Milich and Alan AkbikProceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - 🏆 Outstanding Paper Award 🏆!

Miscellaneous

  • OpinionGPT: Modelling Explicit Biases in Instruction-Tuned LLMsPatrick Haller, Ansar Aynetdinov and Alan AkbikarXiv preprint

2022(Included Parental Leave)

Miscellaneous

  • Task-Specific Embeddings for Ante-Hoc Explainable Text ClassificationKishaloy Halder, Josip Krapac, Alan Akbik, Anthony Brew, Matti Lyra

NAACL 2022

  • Medical Coding with Biomedical Transformer Ensembles and Zero/Few-shot LearningAngelo Ziletti, Alan Akbik, Christoph Berns, Thomas Herold, Marion Legler, Martina Viell

2021

ACL-IJCNLP 2021

  • Early Detection of Sexual Predators in ChatsMatthias Vogt, Ulf Leser and Alan Akbik

Bioinformatics 2021

  • HunFlair: An easy-to-use tool for state-of-the-art biomedical named entity recognitionLeon Weber, Mario Sänger, Jannes Münchmeyer, Maryam Habibi, Ulf Leser and Alan Akbik

2020(Included Parental Leave)

Miscellaneous

  • FLERT: Document-Level Features for Named Entity RecognitionStefan Schweter and Alan Akbik

COLING 2020

  • Task-Aware Representation of Sentences for Generic Text ClassificationKishaloy Halder, Alan Akbik, Josip Krapac and Roland Vollgraf

2019

NAACL 2019

  • FLAIR: An Easy-to-Use Framework for State-of-the-Art NLPAlan Akbik, Tanja Bergmann, Duncan Blythe, Kashif Rasul, Stefan Schweter and Roland Vollgraf
  • Pooled Contextualized Embeddings for Named Entity RecognitionAlan Akbik, Tanja Bergmann and Roland Vollgraf

NLDL 2019

  • Multilingual Sequence Labeling With One ModelAlan Akbik, Tanja Bergmann and Roland Vollgraf

2018

COLING 2018

  • Contextual String Embeddings for Sequence LabelingAlan Akbik, Duncan Blythe and Roland Vollgraf

LREC 2018

  • ZAP: An Open-Source Multilingual Annotation Projection FrameworkAlan Akbik and Roland Vollgraf
  • FEIDEGGER: A Multi-modal Corpus of Fashion Images and Descriptions in GermanLeonidas Lefakis, Alan Akbik and Roland Vollgraf

2017

EMNLP 2017

  • The Projector: An Interactive Annotation Projection Visualization ToolAlan Akbik and Roland Vollgraf
  • CROWD-IN-THE-LOOP: A Hybrid Approach for Annotating Semantic RolesChenguang Wang, Alan Akbik, Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li, Fei Xia, Anbang Xu

2016

COLING 2016

  • Multilingual Information Extraction with PolyglotIEAlan Akbik, Laura Chiticariu, Marina Danilevsky, Yonas Kbrom, Yunyao Li and Huaiyu Zhu
  • K-SRL: Instance-based Learning for Semantic Role LabelingAlan Akbik and Yunyao Li
  • Multilingual Aliasing for Auto-Generating Proposition BanksAlan Akbik, Xinyu Guan and Yunyao Li

ICIQ 2016

  • Improving Data Quality by Leveraging Statistical Relational LearningLarysa Visengeriyeva, Alan Akbik and Manohar Kaul

EMNLP 2016

  • Towards Semi-Automatic Generation of Proposition Banks for Low-Resource LanguagesAlan Akbik, Vishwajeet Kumar and Yunyao Li

ACL 2016

  • Polyglot: Multilingual Semantic Role Labeling with Unified LabelsAlan Akbik and Yunyao Li

Miscellaneous

  • Exploratory Relation Extraction in Large Multilingual DataAlan Akbik

2015

ACL 2015

  • Generating High Quality Proposition Banks for Multilingual Semantic Role LabelingAlan Akbik, Laura Chiticariu, Marina Danilevsky, Yunyao Li, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan and Huaiyu Zhu
  • SCHNÄPPER: A Web Toolkit for Exploratory Relation ExtractionThilo Michael and Alan Akbik

2014

COLING 2014

  • Proceedings of the First AHA!-Workshop on Information Discovery in TextAlan Akbik and Larysa Visengeriyeva
  • Extracting a Repository of Events and Event References from News ClustersSilvia Julinda, Christoph Boden and Alan Akbik
  • Nerdle: Topic-Specific Question Answering Using Wikia SeedsUmar Maqsud, Sebastian Arnold, Michael Hülfenhaus and Alan Akbik
  • Exploratory Relation Extraction from Large Text CorporaAlan Akbik, Thilo Michael and Christoph Boden

LREC 2014

  • The Weltmodell: A Data-Driven Commonsense Knowledge BaseAlan Akbik and Thilo Michael
  • Freepal: A Large Collection of Deep Lexico-Syntactic Patterns for Relation ExtractionJohannes Kirschnick, Alan Akbik, Holmer Hemsen

2013

IJCNLP 2013

  • Effective Selectional Restrictions for Unsupervised Relation ExtractionAlan Akbik, Larysa Visengeriyeva, Johannes Kirschnick, Alexander Löser

ACL 2013

  • Propminer: A Workflow for Interactive Information Extraction and Exploration using Dependency TreesAlan Akbik, Oresti Konomi and Michail Melnikov

iPres 2013

  • Automatic Preservation Watch using Information Extraction on the WebLuis Faria, Alan Akbik, Barbara Sierman, Marcel Ras, Miguel Ferreira and Jose Carlos Ramalho

GSCL 2013

  • QuoteMine: A Repository of Newsworthy QuotesAlan Akbik, Martin Schenck

2012

COLING 2012

  • Unsupervised Discovery of Relations and Discriminative Extraction PatternsAlan Akbik, Larysa Visengeriyeva, Priska Herger, Holmer Hemsen, Alexander Löser

NAACL-HLT 2012

  • KrakeN: N-ary Facts in Open Information ExtractionAlan Akbik, Alexander Löser

WWW 2009

  • Wanderlust: Extracting Semantic Relations from Natural Language Text Using Dependency Grammar PatternsAlan Akbik, Jürgen Broß