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# SemEval 2020 — accepted papers

SemEval 2020 is the 2020 edition of the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), held in Barcelona (online), December 2020 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 300 papers of it; our library holds 6 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**300** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**6** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2020/#works) · [**1,789** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2020/#works)**Barcelona (online)** where it was held**December 2020** when

## Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

1. **[SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/martino-2020-semeval-2020-task-11-detection/)**Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Henning Wachsmuth et al. · 🏆 Best Task Honorable Mention*200 citations · our summary*
2. **[SemEval-2020 Task 4: Commonsense Validation and Explanation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2020-semeval-2020-task-4-commonsense/)**Cunxiang Wang, Shuailong Liang, Yili Jin et al. · 🏆 Best Task Honorable Mention*82 citations · our summary*
3. **[SemEval-2020 Task 7: Assessing Humor in Edited News Headlines ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.98/)**Nabil Hossain, John Krumm, Michael Gamon et al. · 🏆 Best Task*65 citations*
4. **[ApplicaAI at SemEval-2020 Task 11: On RoBERTa-CRF, Span CLS and Whether Self-Training Helps Them ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.187/)**Dawid Jurkiewicz, Łukasz Borchmann, Izabela Kosmala et al. · 🏆 Best Paper*44 citations*
5. **[SESAM at SemEval-2020 Task 8: Investigating the Relationship between Image and Text in Sentiment Analysis of Memes ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.102/)**Lisa Bonheme, Marek Grzes · 🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention*18 citations*

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[SemEval-2020 Task 12: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media (OffensEval 2020) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.188/)**Marcos Zampieri, Preslav Nakov, Sara Rosenthal et al.*378 citations*
2. **[KUISAIL at SemEval-2020 Task 12: BERT-CNN for Offensive Speech Identification in Social Media](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/safaya-2020-kuisail-semeval-2020-task-12/)**Ali Safaya, Moutasem Abdullatif, Deniz Yuret*294 citations · our summary*
3. **[SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/martino-2020-semeval-2020-task-11-detection/)**Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Henning Wachsmuth et al. · 🏆 Best Task Honorable Mention*200 citations · our summary*
4. **[SemEval-2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schlechtweg-2020-semeval-2020-task-1-unsupervised/)**Dominik Schlechtweg, Barbara McGillivray, Simon Hengchen et al.*172 citations · our summary*
5. **[SemEval-2020 Task 8: Memotion Analysis- the Visuo-Lingual Metaphor!](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2020-semeval-2020-task-8-memotion/)**Chhavi Sharma, Deepesh Bhageria, William Scott et al.*169 citations · our summary*
6. **[SemEval-2020 Task 9: Overview of Sentiment Analysis of Code-Mixed Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/patwa-2020-semeval-2020-task-9-overview/)**Parth Patwa, Gustavo Aguilar, Sudipta Kar et al.*150 citations · our summary*
7. **[SemEval-2020 Task 4: Commonsense Validation and Explanation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2020-semeval-2020-task-4-commonsense/)**Cunxiang Wang, Shuailong Liang, Yili Jin et al. · 🏆 Best Task Honorable Mention*82 citations · our summary*
8. **[UHH-LT at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Fine-Tuning of Pre-Trained Transformer Networks for Offensive Language Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.213/)**Gregor Wiedemann, Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann*73 citations*
9. **[SemEval-2020 Task 7: Assessing Humor in Edited News Headlines ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.98/)**Nabil Hossain, John Krumm, Michael Gamon et al. · 🏆 Best Task*65 citations*
10. **[ApplicaAI at SemEval-2020 Task 11: On RoBERTa-CRF, Span CLS and Whether Self-Training Helps Them ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.187/)**Dawid Jurkiewicz, Łukasz Borchmann, Izabela Kosmala et al. · 🏆 Best Paper*44 citations*

## All accepted papers (300)

The most cited first; 6 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[SemEval-2020 Task 12: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media (OffensEval 2020) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.188/)**Marcos Zampieri, Preslav Nakov, Sara Rosenthal et al.*378 citations*
2. **[KUISAIL at SemEval-2020 Task 12: BERT-CNN for Offensive Speech Identification in Social Media](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/safaya-2020-kuisail-semeval-2020-task-12/)**Ali Safaya, Moutasem Abdullatif, Deniz Yuret*294 citations · our summary*
3. **[SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/martino-2020-semeval-2020-task-11-detection/)**Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Henning Wachsmuth et al. · 🏆 Best Task Honorable Mention*200 citations · our summary*
4. **[SemEval-2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schlechtweg-2020-semeval-2020-task-1-unsupervised/)**Dominik Schlechtweg, Barbara McGillivray, Simon Hengchen et al.*172 citations · our summary*
5. **[SemEval-2020 Task 8: Memotion Analysis- the Visuo-Lingual Metaphor!](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2020-semeval-2020-task-8-memotion/)**Chhavi Sharma, Deepesh Bhageria, William Scott et al.*169 citations · our summary*
6. **[SemEval-2020 Task 9: Overview of Sentiment Analysis of Code-Mixed Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/patwa-2020-semeval-2020-task-9-overview/)**Parth Patwa, Gustavo Aguilar, Sudipta Kar et al.*150 citations · our summary*
7. **[SemEval-2020 Task 4: Commonsense Validation and Explanation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2020-semeval-2020-task-4-commonsense/)**Cunxiang Wang, Shuailong Liang, Yili Jin et al. · 🏆 Best Task Honorable Mention*82 citations · our summary*
8. **[UHH-LT at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Fine-Tuning of Pre-Trained Transformer Networks for Offensive Language Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.213/)**Gregor Wiedemann, Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann*73 citations*
9. **[SemEval-2020 Task 7: Assessing Humor in Edited News Headlines ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.98/)**Nabil Hossain, John Krumm, Michael Gamon et al. · 🏆 Best Task*65 citations*
10. **[ApplicaAI at SemEval-2020 Task 11: On RoBERTa-CRF, Span CLS and Whether Self-Training Helps Them ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.187/)**Dawid Jurkiewicz, Łukasz Borchmann, Izabela Kosmala et al. · 🏆 Best Paper*44 citations*
11. **[Galileo at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Multi-lingual Learning for Offensive Language Identification Using Pre-trained Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.189/)**Shuohuan Wang, Jiaxiang Liu, Xuan Ouyang et al.*38 citations*
12. **[IITK at SemEval-2020 Task 8: Unimodal and Bimodal Sentiment Analysis of Internet Memes ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.150/)**Vishal Keswani, Sakshi Singh, Suryansh Agarwal et al.*34 citations*
13. **[UPB at SemEval-2020 Task 8: Joint Textual and Visual Modeling in a Multi-Task Learning Architecture for Memotion Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.160/)**George-Alexandru Vlad, George-Eduard Zaharia, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel et al.*30 citations*
14. **[Kungfupanda at SemEval-2020 Task 12: BERT-Based Multi-TaskLearning for Offensive Language Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.272/)**Wenliang Dai, Tiezheng Yu, Zihan Liu et al.*27 citations*
15. **[Aschern at SemEval-2020 Task 11: It Takes Three to Tango: RoBERTa, CRF, and Transfer Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.191/)**Anton Chernyavskiy, Dmitry Ilvovsky, Preslav Nakov*26 citations*
16. **[SemEval-2020 Task 3: Graded Word Similarity in Context ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.3/)**Carlos Santos Armendariz, Matthew Purver, Senja Pollak et al.*25 citations*
17. **[NLPDove at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Improving Offensive Language Detection with Cross-lingual Transfer ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.206/)**Hwijeen Ahn, Jimin Sun, Chan Young Park et al.*24 citations*
18. **[ALT at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Arabic and English Offensive Language Identification in Social Media ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.249/)**Sabit Hassan, Younes Samih, Hamdy Mubarak et al.*23 citations*
19. **[LISAC FSDM-USMBA Team at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Overcoming AraBERT's pretrain-finetune discrepancy for Arabic offensive language identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.275/)**Hamza Alami, Said Ouatik El Alaoui, Abdessamad Benlahbib et al.*23 citations*
20. **[SemEval-2020 Task 5: Counterfactual Recognition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.40/)**Xiaoyu Yang, Stephen Obadinma, Huasha Zhao et al.*23 citations*
21. **[UWB at SemEval-2020 Task 1: Lexical Semantic Change Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.30/)**Ondřej Pražák, Pavel Přibáň, Stephen Taylor et al.*23 citations*
22. **[Hitachi at SemEval-2020 Task 11: An Empirical Study of Pre-Trained Transformer Family for Propaganda Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.228/)**Gaku Morio, Terufumi Morishita, Hiroaki Ozaki et al.*22 citations*
23. **[SemEval-2020 Task 10: Emphasis Selection for Written Text in Visual Media ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.184/)**Amirreza Shirani, Franck Dernoncourt, Nedim Lipka et al.*20 citations*
24. **[Discovery Team at SemEval-2020 Task 1: Context-sensitive Embeddings Not Always Better than Static for Semantic Change Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.6/)**Matej Martinc, Syrielle Montariol, Elaine Zosa et al.*19 citations*
25. **[Kk2018 at SemEval-2020 Task 9: Adversarial Training for Code-Mixing Sentiment Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.103/)**Jiaxiang Liu, Xuyi Chen, Shikun Feng et al.*19 citations*

[See all 300 papers in SemEval 2020 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2020/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (6)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[KUISAIL at SemEval-2020 Task 12: BERT-CNN for Offensive Speech Identification in Social Media](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/safaya-2020-kuisail-semeval-2020-task-12/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Ali Safaya, Moutasem Abdullatif, Deniz Yuret*2020 · 410 citations*
2. **[SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/martino-2020-semeval-2020-task-11-detection/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Henning Wachsmuth, et al.*2020 · 371 citations*
3. **[SemEval-2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schlechtweg-2020-semeval-2020-task-1-unsupervised/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Dominik Schlechtweg, Barbara McGillivray, Simon Hengchen, et al.*2020 · 351 citations*
4. **[SemEval-2020 Task 8: Memotion Analysis- the Visuo-Lingual Metaphor!](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2020-semeval-2020-task-8-memotion/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Chhavi Sharma, Deepesh Bhageria, William Scott, et al.*2020 · 260 citations*
5. **[SemEval-2020 Task 9: Overview of Sentiment Analysis of Code-Mixed Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/patwa-2020-semeval-2020-task-9-overview/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Parth Patwa, Gustavo Aguilar, Sudipta Kar, et al.*2020 · 240 citations*
6. **[SemEval-2020 Task 4: Commonsense Validation and Explanation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2020-semeval-2020-task-4-commonsense/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Cunxiang Wang, Shuailong Liang, Yili Jin, et al.*2020 · 157 citations*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Lexical semantics & word embeddings (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) · [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) · [Historical linguistics & language change (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/)

## Fields

[Computer Science (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Social Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Amitava Das**2 works here · 500 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amitava-das/) · [🧑‍🔬**Bjorn Gamback**2 works here · 500 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bjorn-gamback/) · [🧑‍🔬**Srinivas PYKL**2 works here · 500 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srinivas-pykl/) · [🧑‍🔬**Tanmoy Chakraborty**2 works here · 500 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tanmoy-chakraborty/) · [🧑‍🔬**Deniz Yuret**1 work here · 410 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deniz-yuret/) · [🧑‍🔬**Alberto Barrón-Cedeño**1 work here · 371 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alberto-barron-cedeno/) · [🧑‍🔬**Giovanni Da San Martino**1 work here · 371 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-da-san-martino/) · [🧑‍🔬**Henning Wachsmuth**1 work here · 371 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/henning-wachsmuth/) · [🧑‍🔬**Preslav Nakov**1 work here · 371 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/preslav-nakov/) · [🧑‍🔬**Rostislav Petrov**1 work here · 371 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rostislav-petrov/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dominik Schlechtweg**1 work here · 351 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dominik-schlechtweg/) · [🧑‍🔬**Haim Dubossarsky**1 work here · 351 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haim-dubossarsky/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi** Delhi · India 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indraprastha-institute-of-information-technology-delhi/) · [🎓**Norwegian University of Science and Technology** Trondheim · Norway 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/norwegian-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🏢**Wipro** Bengaluru · India 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/wipro/) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City** Sri City Pvt Ltd-SEZ · India 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-information-technology-sri-city/) · [🎓**University of Stuttgart** Stuttgart · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-stuttgart/) · [🎓**Singapore University of Technology and Design** Singapore · Singapore 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/singapore-university-of-technology-and-design/) · [🎓**Sun Yat-sen University** Guangzhou · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sun-yat-sen-university/) · [🎓**Queen's University** Kingston · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/queen-s-university/) · [🎓**Paderborn University** Paderborn · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/paderborn-university/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🎓**Westlake University** Hangzhou · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/westlake-university/) · [🔬**The Alan Turing Institute** London · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/the-alan-turing-institute/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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