Sun, sand, and stimulating research ☀️🌴
NLP community, look out - we are heading to Palma de Mallorca 😎 👉 for LREC 2026.
Talented PhD students Jakob Fehle, Nils Constantin Hellwig, and Niklas Donhauser from "Media Informatics Regensburg", supervised by Christian Wolff, have been very busy over the past few months. Udo Kruschwitz joined the team, making this a collaborative effort between Media Informatics and Information Science Regensburg.
The result? Three conference papers and one workshop paper - all accepted at LREC 2026 🎉
Here is what we will be presenting:
📄 “LLM-as-an-Annotator: Training Lightweight Models with LLM-Annotated Examples for Aspect Sentiment Tuple Prediction”
By Nils Constantin Hellwig, Jakob Fehle, Udo Kruschwitz, and Christian Wolff
PDF: https://doi.org/10.63317/43srcdyc52cd (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)
📄 “AnnoABSA: A Web-Based Annotation Tool for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Retrieval-Augmented Suggestions”
By Nils Constantin Hellwig, Jakob Fehle, Udo Kruschwitz, and Christian Wolff
PDF: https://doi.org/10.63317/56mac6pxbke6 (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)
📄 “Zero-Shot to Full-Resource: Cross-lingual Transfer Strategies for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis”
By Jakob Fehle, Nils Constantin Hellwig, Udo Kruschwitz and Christian Wolff
PDF: https://doi.org/10.63317/3fpqpgsdobd6 (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)
📄 RESOURCEFUL-2026 Workshop Paper:
“Annotation Quality in Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: A Case Study Comparing Experts, Students, Crowdworkers, and Large Language Models”
By Niklas Donhauser, Jakob Fehle, Nils Constantin Hellwig, Markus Weinberger, Udo Kruschwitz, and Christian Wolff
We are excited to exchange ideas and share what we have been working on.
If you are at LREC 2026, come say hi, join the discussion, and check out our work - we would love to connect! 🇪🇸 🤝
#SentimentAnalysis #AspectBasedSentimentAnalysis
#NaturalLanguageProcessing #NLP
#LargeLanguageModels #LLMs
#MachineLearning #AI
#PhDResearch #AIResearch
#LREC #LREC2026 #LanguageResourcesAndEvaluationConference #PalmaDeMallorca
#ResearchSuccess #ResearchPapersAccepted
#MediaInformaticsRegensburg
#InformationScienceRegensburg #StayInformed
