--- title: "Els Lefever — papers and cards" description: "Els Lefever: 3 paper cards in the Research library (2016–2024), with what each paper is about, the ideas Mova took from it, and the co-authors." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/els-lefever/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/els-lefever/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Els Lefever # Els Lefever 3 paper cards in the Research library · 2016–2024 Els Lefever wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2016–2024, most of them on [Akkadian and cuneiform NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/akkadian-cuneiform-nlp/), [Part-of-speech tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/); often with [Cynthia Van Hee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cynthia-van-hee/), [Véronique Hoste](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/veronique-hoste/), Gustav Ryberg Smidt. [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5023493215) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7755-0591) · [**h-index 23**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5023493215) · [2382 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5023493215) · [246 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023493215) — openalex-snapshot, 2026-10-14 The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Els+Lefever) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Els+Lefever) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Els+Lefever) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Els+Lefever) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=Els+Lefever) Topics: [Akkadian and cuneiform NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/akkadian-cuneiform-nlp/) 1 · [Part-of-speech tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) 1 ## Papers 1. **[At the Crossroad of Cuneiform and NLP: Challenges for Fine-grained Part-of-speech Tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/coling-2024-smidt-crossroad-cuneiform-nlp-challenges-fine/)** *(2024)* The authors prepare a corpus of 121 Old Babylonian Akkadian letters from Sippar, annotated by three specialists with PoS tags, citation forms and morphemes in the ORACC style. 2. **[We Usually Don't Like Going to the Dentist: Using Common Sense to Detect Irony on Twitter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hee-2018-we-usually-don-t-like/)** *(2018)* Most ironic tweets contrast a literal positive evaluation with a situation everyone knows to be bad («working a double on New Year's Eve», «my car won't start»). 3. **[Monday mornings are my fave :) #not Exploring the Automatic Recognition of Irony in English tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hee-2016-monday-mornings-are-my-fave/)** *(2016)* 3,000 English tweets collected by #irony, #sarcasm and #not were all labelled by hand with a fine-grained scheme instead of trusting the hashtags: ironic by a polarity clash, other verbal irony, situational irony, or not ironic (2,396 ironic, 604 not; kappa 0.72), with harsh (mocking) irony flagged, and below tweet… ## Co-authors (4) - [Cynthia Van Hee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cynthia-van-hee/) ×2 - [Véronique Hoste](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/veronique-hoste/) ×2 - Gustav Ryberg Smidt - Katrien de Graef ## More papers in the library (2) Pages of the Research library: our summary, the ideas, references and who cites each. - [SemEval-2018 Task 3: Irony Detection in English Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hee-2018-semeval-2018-task-3-irony/) — Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, Véronique Hoste · 2018 - [Exploring the Realization of Irony in Twitter Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hee-2016-exploring-realization-irony-twitter-data/) — Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, Véronique Hoste · 2016