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IROH: Insightful Ranking Of Humor using Multi-Stage Hybrid Retrieval with Rationale-Distilled LLM Judges for JOKER 2026 Track Task 1 English
Ana-Maria Luisa Mocanu, Sebastian Mocanu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică +2
Our team, VANGUARD, presents IROH (Insightful Ranking of Humor), a three-stage retrieval system for JOKER Task 1 English at CLEF 2026, achieving first place on the leaderboard with…
Through the Eyes of the Beholder: Biometric and Demographic Conditioning for Multimodal Sexism Detection
Ana-Maria Luisa Mocanu, Sebastian Mocanu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică +1
Detecting sexism on the internet is a fundamentally subjective task; our team, VANGUARD, addresses this challenge in the EXIST 2026 Task 2 by proposing a human-centered multimodal…
Cross-lingual Relation Extraction with Large Language Models: Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and Fine-Tuned Evaluation on Romanian
Dragos-Mitrut Vasile, Elena-Simona Apostol, Stefan-Adrian Toma +2
Relation extraction (RE) for low-resource languages is typically constrained by the lack of annotated corpora. We investigate the feasibility of cross-lingual RE for Romanian by co…
ACAT: A Collaborative Platform for Efficient Aspect-Based Sentiment Dataset Annotation
Ana-Maria Luisa Mocanu, Ciprian-Octavian Truica, Elena-Simona Apostol
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) requires high-quality datasets to train reliable models. However, existing annotation tools treat output as flat files, leaving researchers t…
CleanNews: a Network-aware Fake News Mitigation Architecture for Social Media
Maria-Diana Cotelin, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol
With the widespread use of the internet and handheld devices, social media now holds a power similar to that of old newspapers. People use social media platforms for quick and acce…
GETAE: Graph information Enhanced deep neural NeTwork ensemble ArchitecturE for fake news detection
Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Marius Marogel +1
In today's digital age, fake news has become a major problem that has serious consequences, ranging from social unrest to political upheaval. To address this issue, new methods for…
StopHC: A Harmful Content Detection and Mitigation Architecture for Social Media Platforms
Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Ana-Teodora Constantinescu, Elena-Simona Apostol
The mental health of social media users has started more and more to be put at risk by harmful, hateful, and offensive content. In this paper, we propose \textsc{StopHC}, a harmful…
Large-Scale Graphs Community Detection using Spark GraphFrames
Elena-Simona Apostol, Adrian-Cosmin Cojocaru, Ciprian-Octavian Truică
With the emergence of social networks, online platforms dedicated to different use cases, and sensor networks, the emergence of large-scale graph community detection has become a s…
Advancements in eHealth Data Analytics through Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning
Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică
The healthcare environment is commonly referred to as "information-rich" but also "knowledge poor". Healthcare systems collect huge amounts of data from various sources: lab report…
Efficient Machine Learning Ensemble Methods for Detecting Gravitational Wave Glitches in LIGO Time Series
Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică
The phenomenon of Gravitational Wave (GW) analysis has grown in popularity as technology has advanced and the process of observing gravitational waves has become more precise. Alth…
Semantic Change Detection for the Romanian Language
Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Victor Tudose, Elena-Simona Apostol
Automatic semantic change methods try to identify the changes that appear over time in the meaning of words by analyzing their usage in diachronic corpora. In this paper, we analyz…
ATESA-BÆRT: A Heterogeneous Ensemble Learning Model for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Elena-Simona Apostol, Alin-Georgian Pisică, Ciprian-Octavian Truică
The increasing volume of online reviews has made possible the development of sentiment analysis models for determining the opinion of customers regarding different products and ser…
A Distributed Automatic Domain-Specific Multi-Word Term Recognition Architecture using Spark Ecosystem
Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Neculai-Ovidiu Istrate, Elena-Simona Apostol
Automatic Term Recognition is used to extract domain-specific terms that belong to a given domain. In order to be accurate, these corpus and language-dependent methods require larg…
Advanced Medical Image Representation for Efficient Processing and Transfer in Multisite Clouds
Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică
An important topic in medical research is the process of improving the images obtained from medical devices. As a consequence, there is also a need to improve medical image resolut…
MisRoBÆRTa: Transformers versus Misinformation
Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol
Misinformation is considered a threat to our democratic values and principles. The spread of such content on social media polarizes society and undermines public discourse by disto…
SimpLex: a lexical text simplification architecture
Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Andrei-Ionut Stan, Elena-Simona Apostol
Text simplification (TS) is the process of generating easy-to-understand sentences from a given sentence or piece of text. The aim of TS is to reduce both the lexical (which refers…
CONTAIN: A Community-based Algorithm for Network Immunization
Elena-Simona Apostol, Özgur Coban, Ciprian-Octavian Truică
Network immunization is an automated task in the field of network analysis that involves protecting a network (modeled as a graph) from being infected by an undesired arbitrary dif…
MCWDST: a Minimum-Cost Weighted Directed Spanning Tree Algorithm for Real-Time Fake News Mitigation in Social Media
Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Radu-Cătălin Nicolescu +1
The widespread availability of internet access and handheld devices confers to social media a power similar to the one newspapers used to have. People seek affordable information o…
DANES: Deep Neural Network Ensemble Architecture for Social and Textual Context-aware Fake News Detection
Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Panagiotis Karras
The growing popularity of social media platforms has simplified the creation and distribution of news articles but also creates a conduit for spreading fake news. In consequence, t…
ContCommRTD: A Distributed Content-based Misinformation-aware Community Detection System for Real-Time Disaster Reporting
Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Adrian Paschke
Real-time social media data can provide useful information on evolving hazards. Alongside traditional methods of disaster detection, the integration of social media data can consid…
EDSA-Ensemble: an Event Detection Sentiment Analysis Ensemble Architecture
Alexandru Petrescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol +1
As global digitization continues to grow, technology becomes more affordable and easier to use, and social media platforms thrive, becoming the new means of spreading information a…
TextBenDS: a generic Textual data Benchmark for Distributed Systems
Ciprian-Octavian Truica, Elena Apostol, Jérôme Darmont +1
Extracting top-k keywords and documents using weighting schemes are popular techniques employed in text mining and machine learning for different analysis and retrieval tasks. The…
The Forgotten Document-Oriented Database Management Systems: An Overview and Benchmark of Native XML DODBMSes in Comparison with JSON DODBMSes
Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Jérôme Darmont +1
In the current context of Big Data, a multitude of new NoSQL solutions for storing, managing, and extracting information and patterns from semi-structured data have been proposed a…