Publications (& Presentations)

2024
  • Regina Stodden. 2024 (to appear). "Reproduction & Benchmarking of German Text Simplification Systems". In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual Context (DeTermIt!), Turin, Italy. [bib][pdf][code]
  • Regina Stodden, and Phillip Nguyen. 2024 (to appear). "Can text simplification help to increase the acceptance of e-participation?". In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology (DELITE2024), Turin, Italy. [bib][pdf][code]
  • Heidrun Dorgeloh, Lea Kawaletz, Simon David Stein, Regina Stodden, and Stefan Conrad. 2024. "Using Discourse Connectives to Test Genre Bias in Masked Language Models". In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib][pdf][code]
2023
  • Regina Stodden, Laura Kallmeyer, Lea Kawaletz, and Heidrun Dorgeloh. 2023. "Using Masked Language Model Probabilities of Connectives for Stance Detection in English Discourse". In Proceedings of The 10th International Workshop on Argmument Mining, Singapore (hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib][pdf][code]
  • Regina Stodden, Momen Omar, and Laura Kallmeyer. 2023. "DEplain: A German Parallel Corpus with Intralingual Translations into Plain Language for Sentence and Document Simplification". In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 16441–16463, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib][pdf][data][models]
  • Christine Albrecht, Christian Bellebaum, Abhijeet Gupta, Laura Kallmeyer, Omar Momen, Regina Stodden, Ruben van de Vijver. 2023. "Predicting word learning from feedback-locked event-related potentials during learning with Feed-forward neural networks – the role of data preprocessing". psyarxiv. [preprint]
  • Arne Lohmann, Regina Stodden, Laura Kallmeyer, Julia Henkel and Katja Biermann-Ruben. 2023. "Do Parkinson’s Disease patients exhibit a reduced use of action words? – A semantic vector analysis of action verb usage in spontaneous production". At 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Düsseldorf, Germany. [abstract]
2022
  • David Arps, Jan Kels, Florian Krämer, Yunus Renz, Regina Stodden, and Wiebke Petersen. 2022. "HHUplexity at Text Complexity DE Challenge 2022". In Proceedings of the GermEval 2022 Workshop on Text Complexity Assessment of German Text, pages 27–32, Potsdam, Germany. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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  • Phillip Nguyen and Regina Stodden. 2022. "The Influence of Procedural Management on Acceptance of E-Participation — an Experimental Study on the Effect of Automatic Text Simplification and Employee Responsiveness". Presentation at the Annual Conference of the European Group for Public Adminstration 2022 (EGPA 2022), Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Regina Stodden and Laura Kallmeyer. 2022. "TS-ANNO: An Annotation Tool to Build, Annotate and Evaluate Text Simplification Corpora" In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations (ACL 2022: Demos), Dublin, Ireland. [bib][pdf][code][demo]
2021
  • Regina Stodden. 2021. "When the Scale is Unclear – Analysis of the Interpretation of Rating Scales in Human Evaluation of Text Simplification" In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Current Trends in Text Simplification (CTTS 2021), online. [bib][pdf][code][presentation]
  • Regina Stodden and Gayatri Venugopal. 2021. RS_GV at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Sense Relative Lexical Complexity Prediction. In Proceedings of The 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2021), Bangkok, Thailand (online). [bib][pdf][code]
  • Regina Stodden. 2021. "Leichte Sprache als Forschungsprojekt" (Engl.: "Easy Language as research project"). In the 8th newsletter of the department of participation counselling ("Fachstelle Teilhabeberatung"). [html]
  • Regina Stodden. 2021. "Differences between German and English Text Simplification". In Computational Linguistics Poster Session of the 43rd annual meeting of DGfS, Freiburg, Germany (online). [pdf]
  • Regina Stodden. 2021. Accessibility and comprehensibility of user-generated content: Challenges and chances for easy-to-understand languages. In Proceedings of the Swiss Conference on Barrier-free Communication (BfC 2020), Poster Session. Winterthur, Switzerland (online). [bib][pdf]
2020
  • Regina Stodden and Laura Kallmeyer. 2020. A multi-lingual and cross-domain analysis of features for text simplification. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI), Marseille, France. [bib][pdf][code]
  • Regina Stodden, and Behrang QasemiZadeh, and Laura Kallmeyer. 2020. Do you Feel Certain about your Annotation? A Web-based Semantic Frame Annotation Tool Considering Annotators’ Concerns and Behaviors. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), Demo Session. Marseille, France. [bib][pdf][code]
2019
  • Jakub Waszczuk, and Rafael Ehren, Regina Stodden, and Laura Kallmeyer. 2019. A Neural Graph-based Approach to Verbal MWE Identification. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019), pages 114-124, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics. [pdf] [bib]
  • Behrang QasemiZadeh, Miriam R. L. Petruck, Regina Stodden, Laura Kallmeyer, and Marie Candito. 2019. SemEval-2019 Task-2: Unsupervised Lexical Frame Induction. In Proceedings of The 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2019), pages 16-30, Minneapolis, Minnsota, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics. [pdf] [bib]
2018
  • Regina Stodden, Behrang QasemiZadeh, and Laura Kallmeyer. 2018. TRAPACC and TRAPACCs at PARSEME Shared Task 2018: Neural transition tagging of verbal multiword expressions. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018), pages 268–274, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics. [pdf] [bib]
  • Haydar Akyürek, Cora Scholl, Regina Stodden, Tobias Siebenlist, and Agnes Mainka. 2018. Maturity and usability of open data in North Rhine-Westphalia. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Governance in the Data Age (DGO 18).. [pdf] [bib]
  • Franziska Zimmer, Haydar Akyürek, Dennis Gelfart, Haffsa Mariami, Katrin Scheibe, Regina Stodden, Kaja J. Fietkiewicz, and Wolfgang G. Stock. 2018. An evaluation of the social news aggregator Reddit. In Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Social Media, 21-22 June 2018, Limerick, Ireland (pp. 364-373). Reading, UK: Academic Conferences and Publishing.