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# Els Lefever

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 2016–2024

Els Lefever wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2016–2024, most of them on [Akkadian and cuneiform NLP](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/akkadian-cuneiform-nlp/), [Part-of-speech tagging](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/); often with [Cynthia Van Hee](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/cynthia-van-hee/), [Véronique Hoste](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/veronique-hoste/), Gustav Ryberg Smidt.

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5023493215) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7755-0591) · [**h-index 24**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5023493215) · [2399 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5023493215) · [246 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023493215) — openalex, 2026-10-18

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Topics: [Akkadian and cuneiform NLP](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/akkadian-cuneiform-nlp/) 1 · [Part-of-speech tagging](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) 1

## Papers

1. **[At the Crossroad of Cuneiform and NLP: Challenges for Fine-grained Part-of-speech Tagging](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/coling-2024-smidt-crossroad-cuneiform-nlp-challenges-fine/)** *(2024)* The authors prepare a corpus of 121 Old Babylonian Akkadian letters from Sippar, annotated by three specialists with PoS tags, citation forms and morphemes in the ORACC style.
2. **[We Usually Don't Like Going to the Dentist: Using Common Sense to Detect Irony on Twitter](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hee-2018-we-usually-don-t-like/)** *(2018)* Most ironic tweets contrast a literal positive evaluation with a situation everyone knows to be bad («working a double on New Year's Eve», «my car won't start»).
3. **[Monday mornings are my fave :) #not Exploring the Automatic Recognition of Irony in English tweets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hee-2016-monday-mornings-are-my-fave/)** *(2016)* 3,000 English tweets collected by #irony, #sarcasm and #not were all labelled by hand with a fine-grained scheme instead of trusting the hashtags: ironic by a polarity clash, other verbal irony, situational irony, or not ironic (2,396 ironic, 604 not; kappa 0.72), with harsh (mocking) irony flagged, and below tweet…

## Co-authors (4)

- [Cynthia Van Hee](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/cynthia-van-hee/) ×2
- [Véronique Hoste](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/veronique-hoste/) ×2
- Gustav Ryberg Smidt
- Katrien de Graef
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