--- title: "Gavin Abercrombie — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2016–2023), h-index 18 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gavin-abercrombie/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gavin-abercrombie/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Gavin Abercrombie # Gavin Abercrombie Gavin Abercrombie has 2 papers in our library, in 2016–2023, most of them on [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/); often with [Alexandra Uma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexandra-uma/), [Barbara Plank](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barbara-plank/), [Dina Almanea](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dina-almanea/). 2 papers in our library · 2016–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5042583293) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6546-3562) · [**h-index 18**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5042583293) · [102 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5042583293) · [989 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5042583293&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gavin-abercrombie/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 91 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gavin-abercrombie/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4736](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/48/#star-4736) 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=Gavin+Abercrombie) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Gavin+Abercrombie) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Gavin+Abercrombie) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Gavin+Abercrombie) ## Affiliations [🎓**Heriot-Watt University** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2021–2026 · 43 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/heriot-watt-university/) · [🎓**University of Manchester** Manchester · United Kingdom 2018–2022 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-manchester/) · [🎓**Bocconi University** Milan · Italy 2022–2023 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bocconi-university/) · [🏢**Meta** Menlo Park · United States 2021–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/) · [🎓**University of Copenhagen** Copenhagen · Denmark 2016 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-copenhagen/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper Gavin Abercrombie's papers of 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/leonardelli-2023-semeval-2023-task-11-learning/) ### 2010s [**2016** 1 paper Gavin Abercrombie's papers of 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abercrombie-2016-putting-sarcasm-detection-into-context/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[SemEval-2023 Task 11: Learning with Disagreements (LeWiDi)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/leonardelli-2023-semeval-2023-task-11-learning/)** *(2023 · 100 citations)* Annotators of subjective NLP tasks such as hate speech or offensiveness detection often disagree, and merging their labels into one "gold" answer misrepresents the data. 2. **[Putting Sarcasm Detection into Context: The Effects of Class Imbalance and Manual Labelling on Supervised Machine Classification of Twitter Conversations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abercrombie-2016-putting-sarcasm-detection-into-context/)** *(2016 · 85 citations)* The paper argues that typical sarcasm detection experiments are unrealistic in two ways. They use evenly split datasets even though sarcasm is uncommon, and they rely on hashtags like #sarcasm as labels, which are noisy and capture only some kinds of sarcasm. To test how much these choices matter, the authors built a… ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[SemEval-2023 Task 11: Learning with Disagreements (LeWiDi)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/leonardelli-2023-semeval-2023-task-11-learning/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Elisa Leonardelli, Gavin Abercrombie, Dina Almanea, et al.*2023 · 100 citations* 2. **[Putting Sarcasm Detection into Context: The Effects of Class Imbalance and Manual Labelling on Supervised Machine Classification of Twitter Conversations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abercrombie-2016-putting-sarcasm-detection-into-context/) [ACL Student Research Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl-student-research-workshop/)**Gavin Abercrombie, Dirk Hovy*2016 · 85 citations* 3. **[A Rule-based Shallow-transfer Machine Translation System for Scots and English ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L16-1092/) Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16) · no summary yet**Abercrombie, Gavin*2016 · 3 citations* 4. **[Counterspeech Generation using Small Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.52/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop) · no summary yet**Abubakar Sadiq Muhammad, Simona Frenda, Gavin Abercrombie*2026* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alexandra Uma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexandra-uma/) - [Barbara Plank](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barbara-plank/) - [Dina Almanea](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dina-almanea/) - [Dirk Hovy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dirk-hovy/) - [Elisa Leonardelli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elisa-leonardelli/) - [Massimo Poesio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/massimo-poesio/) - [Tommaso Fornaciari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tommaso-fornaciari/) - [Valerio Basile](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valerio-basile/) - [Verena Rieser](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/verena-rieser/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [ACL Student Research Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl-student-research-workshop/): [ACL Student Research Workshop 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl-student-research-workshop/2016/) - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2023/) - Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop) - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 91 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [18 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gavin-abercrombie/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026