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Lorenzo Malandri

5 accepted papers

2025

RE-FIN: Retrieval-based Enrichment for Financial data

COLING 2025industry

Enriching sentences with knowledge from qualitative sources benefits various NLP tasks and enhances the use of labeled data in model training. This is crucial for Financial Sentiment Analysis (FSA), where texts are often brief and contain implied information. We introduce RE-FIN (Retrieval-based Enr…

2022

Contrastive Explanations of Text Classifiers as a Service

NAACL 2022system demonstrations

The recent growth of black-box machine-learning methods in data analysis has increased the demand for explanation methods and tools to understand their behaviour and assist human-ML model cooperation. In this paper, we demonstrate ContrXT, a novel approach that uses natural language explanations to…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2022

The Good, the Bad, and the Explainer: A Tool for Contrastive Explanations of Text Classifiers

IJCAI 2022poster

In the last few years, we have been witnessing the increasing deployment of machine learning-based systems, which act as black boxes whose behaviour is hidden to end-users. As a side-effect, this contributes to increasing the need for explainable methods and tools to support the coordination between…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2021

Skills2Graph: Processing million Job Ads to face the Job Skill Mismatch Problem

IJCAI 2021poster

In this paper, we present Skills2Graph, a tool that, starting from a set of users’ professional skills, identifies the most suitable jobs as they emerge from a large corpus of 2.5M+ Online Job Vacancies (OJVs) posted in three different countries (the United Kingdom, France, and Germany). To this aim…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2020

Financial Sentiment Analysis: An Investigation into Common Mistakes and Silver Bullets

COLING 2020main

The recent dominance of machine learning-based natural language processing methods has fostered the culture of overemphasizing model accuracies rather than studying the reasons behind their errors. Interpretability, however, is a critical requirement for many downstream AI and NLP applications, e.g.…

Cited by 92SourcePDFScholar