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Sydelle De Souza

2 accepted papers

2025

Behavioural vs. Representational Systematicity in End-to-End Models: An Opinionated Survey

ACL 2025long

A core aspect of compositionality, systematicity is a desirable property in ML models as it enables strong generalization to novel contexts. This has led to numerous studies proposing benchmarks to assess systematic generalization, as well as models and training regimes designed to enhance it. Many…

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2024

Semantics and Sentiment: Cross-lingual Variations in Emoji Use

EMNLP 2024main

Over the past decade, the use of emojis in social media has seen a rapid increase. Despite their popularity and image-grounded nature, previous studies have found that people interpret emojis inconsistently when presented in context and in isolation. In this work, we explore whether emoji semantics…