Danae Sanchez Villegas — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Evaluating Multimodal Language Models as Visual Assistants for Visually Impaired Users

Antonia Karamolegkou, Malvina Nikandrou, Georgios Pantazopoulos, Danae Sanchez Villegas, Phillip Rust, Ruchira Dhar +2

ACL 2025long

This paper explores the effectiveness of Multimodal Large Language models (MLLMs) as assistive technologies for visually impaired individuals. We conduct a user survey to identify adoption patterns and key challenges users face with such technologies. Despite a high adoption rate of these models, ou…

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2022

Combining Humor and Sarcasm for Improving Political Parody Detection

Xiao Ao, Danae Sanchez Villegas, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Nikolaos Aletras

NAACL 2022long

Parody is a figurative device used for mimicking entities for comedic or critical purposes. Parody is intentionally humorous and often involves sarcasm. This paper explores jointly modelling these figurative tropes with the goal of improving performance of political parody detection in tweets. To th…

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