Publications

A full and continuously updated list is available on my Google Scholar profile.

2026

TextLens & LeTTuce: Automated Corpus Annotation and Multilingual Tagging as a Service [PDF]
Cynthia Van Hee, Jonas Doumen, Vincent Prins, Pranaydeep Singh, Vincent Vandeghinste, Els Lefever
Proceedings of the 15th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026)
Lost in Activations: A Neuron-level Analysis of Encoders for Cross-Lingual Emotion Detection [PDF]
Pranaydeep Singh, Orphée De Clercq, Els Lefever
Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL 2026)
Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2026) [Link]
Jeremy Barnes, Valentin Barriere, Orphée De Clercq, Roman Klinger, Célia Nouri, Debora Nozza, Pranaydeep Singh (editors)
Co-located with EACL 2026, Rabat

EnerGIZAr: Leveraging GIZA++ for Effective Tokenizer Initialization [PDF]
Pranaydeep Singh, Eneko Agirre, Gorka Azkune, Orphée De Clercq, Els Lefever
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Unlocking Domain Knowledge: Model Adaptation for Non-Normative Dutch [Link]
Florian Debaene, Aaron Maladry, Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever, Veronique Hoste
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, Vol. 14, 279-306
Bridging the Gap: Adapting English & Multilingual Language Models for LOTE
Pranaydeep Singh
Doctoral dissertation, Ghent University
LeTTuce PoS-Tagger: A Sprout of Innovation in Multilingual NLP
Cynthia Van Hee, Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever
DH Benelux 2025

Findings of the WASSA 2024 EXALT Shared Task on Explainability for Cross-Lingual Emotion in Tweets [PDF]
Aaron Maladry, Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever
14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA)
Lemmatisation of Medieval Greek: Against the Limits of Transformer’s Capabilities? [PDF]
Colin Swaelens, Pranaydeep Singh, Ilse De Vos, Els Lefever
Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
Catching Feelings: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Fanfiction Comments about Greek Myth [PDF]
Julia Neugarten, Tess Dejaeghere, Pranaydeep Singh, Amanda Robin Hemmons, Julie M. Birkholz
Computational Humanities Research Conference (CHR 2024)
Exploring Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Methodologies for Literary-Historical Research Purposes [PDF]
Tess Dejaeghere, Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever, Julie Birkholz
3rd Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA)
Benchmarking Zero-Shot Text Classification for Dutch [Link]
Loic De Langhe, Aaron Maladry, Bram Vanroy, Luna De Bruyne, Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever, Orphée De Clercq
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, Vol. 13, 63-90
On the Creation of Multilingual Information Extraction Workflows for Literary-Historical Texts with Generative LLMs
Tess Dejaeghere, Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever, Julie Birkholz
CLARIN Annual Conference Proceedings

Misery Loves Complexity: Exploring Linguistic Complexity in the Context of Emotion Detection [PDF]
Pranaydeep Singh, Luna De Bruyne, Orphée De Clercq, Els Lefever
Findings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Too Many Cooks Spoil the Model: Are Bilingual Models for Slovene Better than a Large Multilingual Model? [PDF]
Pranaydeep Singh, Aaron Maladry, Els Lefever
9th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing (BSNLP)
Distilling Monolingual Models from Large Multilingual Transformers [PDF]
Pranaydeep Singh, Orphée De Clercq, Els Lefever
Electronics, Special Issue on AI for Text Understanding

When the Student Becomes the Master: Learning Better and Smaller Monolingual Models from mBERT [PDF]
Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)
How Language-Dependent is Emotion Detection? Evidence from Multilingual BERT [PDF]
Luna De Bruyne, Pranaydeep Singh, Orphée De Clercq, Els Lefever, Veronique Hoste
2nd Workshop on Multi-lingual Representation Learning (MRL)
Investigating the Quality of Static Anchor Embeddings from Transformers for Under-Resourced Languages [PDF]
Pranaydeep Singh, Orphée De Clercq, Els Lefever
1st Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL)
Combining Language Models and Linguistic Information to Label Entities in Memes [PDF]
Pranaydeep Singh, Aaron Maladry, Els Lefever
Workshop on Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situations (CONSTRAINT)
SentEMO: A Multilingual Adaptive Platform for Aspect-based Sentiment and Emotion Analysis [PDF]
Ellen De Geyndt, Orphée De Clercq, Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, Pranaydeep Singh, Olivier Parent, Veronique Hoste
12th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA)

A Pilot Study for BERT Language Modelling and Morphological Analysis for Ancient and Medieval Greek [PDF]
Pranaydeep Singh, Gorik Rutten, Els Lefever
5th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL)
LT3 at SemEval-2021 Task 6: Using Multi-Modal Compact Bilinear Pooling to Combine Visual and Textual Understanding in Memes [PDF]
Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever
15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)
Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis for German: Analyzing “Talk of Literature” Surrounding Literary Prizes on Social Media [Link]
Lore De Greve, Pranaydeep Singh, Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, Gunther Martens
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, Vol. 11, 85-104

Sentiment Analysis for Hinglish Code-mixed Tweets by means of Cross-lingual Word Embeddings [PDF]
Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever
4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching (CALCS)
LT3 at SemEval-2020 Task 9: Cross-lingual Embeddings for Sentiment Analysis of Hinglish Social Media Text [PDF]
Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever
14th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)
LT3 at SemEval-2020 Task 8: Multi-Modal Multi-Task Learning for Memotion Analysis [PDF]
Pranaydeep Singh, Nina Bauwelinck, Els Lefever
14th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)
Identifying Cognates in English-Dutch and French-Dutch by means of Orthographic Information and Cross-lingual Word Embeddings [PDF]
Els Lefever, Sofie Labat, Pranaydeep Singh
12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)
Multi-domain Document Layout Understanding Using Few-Shot Object Detection [PDF]
Pranaydeep Singh, Srikrishna Varadarajan, Ankit Narayan Singh, Muktabh Mayank Srivastava
International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR)
Does BERT Understand Sentiment? Leveraging Comparisons Between Contextual and Non-Contextual Embeddings to Improve Aspect-Based Sentiment Models [PDF]
Natesh Reddy, Pranaydeep Singh, Muktabh Mayank Srivastava
Pre-print on arXiv