3 papers
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 +1
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…
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…