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Cross-Lingual Legal QA for Vietnamese Labour Law: Retrieval, Translation, and Verifier-Guided Correction
Nguyen Minh Chi, Mo El-Haj, Nguyen Ha Thanh +2
Cross-lingual legal question answering must retrieve statutes across languages while preventing unsupported legal claims. We introduce a bilingual evaluation suite of 231 Vietnames…
GaelEval: Benchmarking LLM Performance for Scottish Gaelic
Peter Devine, William Lamb, Beatrice Alex +5
Multilingual large language models (LLMs) often exhibit emergent 'shadow' capabilities in languages without official support, yet their performance on these languages remains uneve…
Structured Prompting for Arabic Essay Proficiency: A Trait-Centric Evaluation Approach
Salim Al Mandhari, Hieu Pham Dinh, Mo El-Haj +1
This paper presents a novel prompt engineering framework for trait specific Automatic Essay Scoring (AES) in Arabic, leveraging large language models (LLMs) under zero-shot and few…
FreeTxt-Vi: A Benchmarked Vietnamese-English Toolkit for Segmentation, Sentiment, and Summarisation
Hung Nguyen Huy, Mo El-Haj, Dawn Knight +1
FreeTxt-Vi is a free and open source web based toolkit for creating and analysing bilingual Vietnamese English text collections. Positioned at the intersection of corpus linguistic…
Creating a Hybrid Rule and Neural Network Based Semantic Tagger using Silver Standard Data: the PyMUSAS framework for Multilingual Semantic Annotation
Andrew Moore, Paul Rayson, Dawn Archer +10
Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) has been widely evaluated using the semantic frameworks of WordNet, BabelNet, and the Oxford Dictionary of English. However, for the UCREL Semantic…
HealthcareNLP: where are we and what is next?
Lifeng Han, Paul Rayson, Suzan Verberne +2
This tutorial focused on Healthcare Domain Applications of NLP, what we have achieved around HealthcareNLP, and the challenges that lie ahead for the future. Existing reviews in th…
AraFinNews: Arabic Financial Summarisation with Domain-Adapted LLMs
Mo El-Haj, Paul Rayson
We introduce AraFinNews, the largest publicly available Arabic financial news dataset to date, comprising 212,500 article-headline pairs spanning a decade of reporting from 2015 to…
Overview of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025)
Hansi Hettiarachchi, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Paul Rayson +5
The first Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025) was held in conjunction with the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING…
A Comparative Study on Automatic Coding of Medical Letters with Explainability
Jamie Glen, Lifeng Han, Paul Rayson +1
This study aims to explore the implementation of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) techniques to automate the coding of medical letters with visualised ex…