--- title: "SemEval 2021 — accepted papers — Elamur Research" description: "SemEval 2021 — accepted papers: 5 papers in the Elamur Research library (Online), with our summaries, ranked by citations." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2021/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2021/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [SemEval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/) / 2021 # SemEval 2021 — accepted papers SemEval 2021 is the 2021 edition of the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), held in Online, August 2021 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 186 papers of it; our library holds 5 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. [**186** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**5** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2021/#works) · [**547** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2021/#works)**Online** where it was held**August 2021** when ## Most cited papers By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original. 1. **[SemEval-2021 Task 6: Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dimitrov-2021-semeval-2021-task-6-detection/)**Dimitar Dimitrov, Bishr Bin Ali, Shaden Shaar et al.*88 citations · our summary* 2. **[SemEval-2021 Task 5: Toxic Spans Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pavlopoulos-2021-semeval-2021-task-5-toxic/)**John Pavlopoulos, Jeffrey Sorensen, Léo Laugier et al.*80 citations · our summary* 3. **[SemEval 2021 Task 7: HaHackathon, Detecting and Rating Humor and Offense](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meaney-2021-semeval-2021-task-7-hahackathon/)**J. A. Meaney, Steven Wilson, Luis Chiruzzo et al.*75 citations · our summary* 4. **[SemEval-2021 Task 1: Lexical Complexity Prediction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shardlow-2021-semeval-2021-task-1-lexical/)**Matthew Shardlow, Richard Evans, Gustavo Henrique Paetzold et al.*59 citations · our summary* 5. **[SemEval-2021 Task 12: Learning with Disagreements](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.41/)**Alexandra Uma, Tommaso Fornaciari, Anca Dumitrache et al.*39 citations* 6. **[SemEval-2021 Task 2: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Word-in-Context Disambiguation (MCL-WiC)](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.3/)**Federico Martelli, Najla Kalach, Gabriele Tola et al.*39 citations* 7. **[SemEval-2021 Task 9: Fact Verification and Evidence Finding for Tabular Data in Scientific Documents (SEM-TAB-FACTS)](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.39/)**Nancy X. R. Wang, Diwakar Mahajan, Marina Danilevsky et al.*36 citations* 8. **[SemEval-2021 Task 11: NLPContributionGraph - Structuring Scholarly NLP Contributions for a Research Knowledge Graph](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.44/)**Jennifer D'Souza, Sören Auer, Ted Pedersen*29 citations* 9. **[SemEval-2021 Task 8: MeasEval – Extracting Counts and Measurements and their Related Contexts](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.38/)**Corey Harper, Jessica Cox, Curt Kohler et al.*27 citations* 10. **[JUST-BLUE at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Predicting Lexical Complexity using BERT and RoBERTa Pre-trained Language Models](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.85/)**Tuqa Bani Yaseen, Qusai Ismail, Sarah Al-Omari et al.*19 citations* ## All accepted papers (186) The most cited first; 5 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[SemEval-2021 Task 6: Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dimitrov-2021-semeval-2021-task-6-detection/)**Dimitar Dimitrov, Bishr Bin Ali, Shaden Shaar et al.*88 citations · our summary* 2. **[SemEval-2021 Task 5: Toxic Spans Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pavlopoulos-2021-semeval-2021-task-5-toxic/)**John Pavlopoulos, Jeffrey Sorensen, Léo Laugier et al.*80 citations · our summary* 3. **[SemEval 2021 Task 7: HaHackathon, Detecting and Rating Humor and Offense](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meaney-2021-semeval-2021-task-7-hahackathon/)**J. A. Meaney, Steven Wilson, Luis Chiruzzo et al.*75 citations · our summary* 4. **[SemEval-2021 Task 1: Lexical Complexity Prediction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shardlow-2021-semeval-2021-task-1-lexical/)**Matthew Shardlow, Richard Evans, Gustavo Henrique Paetzold et al.*59 citations · our summary* 5. **[SemEval-2021 Task 12: Learning with Disagreements](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.41/)**Alexandra Uma, Tommaso Fornaciari, Anca Dumitrache et al.*39 citations* 6. **[SemEval-2021 Task 2: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Word-in-Context Disambiguation (MCL-WiC)](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.3/)**Federico Martelli, Najla Kalach, Gabriele Tola et al.*39 citations* 7. **[SemEval-2021 Task 9: Fact Verification and Evidence Finding for Tabular Data in Scientific Documents (SEM-TAB-FACTS)](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.39/)**Nancy X. R. Wang, Diwakar Mahajan, Marina Danilevsky et al.*36 citations* 8. **[SemEval-2021 Task 11: NLPContributionGraph - Structuring Scholarly NLP Contributions for a Research Knowledge Graph](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.44/)**Jennifer D'Souza, Sören Auer, Ted Pedersen*29 citations* 9. **[SemEval-2021 Task 8: MeasEval – Extracting Counts and Measurements and their Related Contexts](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.38/)**Corey Harper, Jessica Cox, Curt Kohler et al.*27 citations* 10. **[JUST-BLUE at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Predicting Lexical Complexity using BERT and RoBERTa Pre-trained Language Models](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.85/)**Tuqa Bani Yaseen, Qusai Ismail, Sarah Al-Omari et al.*19 citations* 11. **[MinD at SemEval-2021 Task 6: Propaganda Detection using Transfer Learning and Multimodal Fusion](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.150/)**Junfeng Tian, Min Gui, Chenliang Li et al.*19 citations* 12. **[HITSZ-HLT at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Ensemble Sequence Labeling and Span Boundary Detection for Toxic Span Detection](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.63/)**Qinglin Zhu, Zijie Lin, Yice Zhang et al.*17 citations* 13. **[SarcasmDet at SemEval-2021 Task 7: Detect Humor and Offensive based on Demographic Factors using RoBERTa Pre-trained Model](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.64/)**Dalya Faraj, Malak Abdullah*15 citations* 14. **[WLV-RIT at SemEval-2021 Task 5: A Neural Transformer Framework for Detecting Toxic Spans](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.111/)**Tharindu Ranasinghe, Diptanu Sarkar, Marcos Zampieri et al.*14 citations* 15. **[SemEval-2021 Task 4: Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.4/)**Boyuan Zheng, Xiaoyu Yang, Yu-Ping Ruan et al.*13 citations* 16. **[Volta at SemEval-2021 Task 6: Towards Detecting Persuasive Texts and Images using Textual and Multimodal Ensemble](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.149/)**Kshitij Gupta, Devansh Gautam, Radhika Mamidi*13 citations* 17. **[Alpha at SemEval-2021 Task 6: Transformer Based Propaganda Classification](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.8/)**Zhida Feng, Jiji Tang, Jiaxiang Liu et al.*12 citations* 18. **[NLRG at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Toxic Spans Detection Leveraging BERT-based Token Classification and Span Prediction Techniques](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.27/)**Gunjan Chhablani, Abheesht Sharma, Harshit Pandey et al.*12 citations* 19. **[UIUC_BioNLP at SemEval-2021 Task 11: A Cascade of Neural Models for Structuring Scholarly NLP Contributions](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.45/)**Haoyang Liu, M. Janina Sarol, Halil Kilicoglu*12 citations* 20. **[CONNER: A Cascade Count and Measurement Extraction Tool for Scientific Discourse](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.176/)**Jiarun Cao, Yuejia Xiang, Yunyan Zhang et al.*11 citations* 21. **[AStarTwice at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Toxic Span Detection Using RoBERTa-CRF, Domain Specific Pre-Training and Self-Training](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.118/)**Thakur Ashutosh Suman, Abhinav Jain*10 citations* 22. **[Alejandro Mosquera at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Exploring Sentence and Word Features for Lexical Complexity Prediction](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.68/)**Alejandro Mosquera*10 citations* 23. **[DeepBlueAI at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Lexical Complexity Prediction with A Deep Ensemble Approach](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.72/)**Chunguang Pan, Bingyan Song, Shengguang Wang et al.*10 citations* 24. **[LIORI at SemEval-2021 Task 8: Ask Transformer for measurements](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.178/)**Adis Davletov, Denis Gordeev, Nikolay Arefyev et al.*10 citations* 25. **[LeCun at SemEval-2021 Task 6: Detecting Persuasion Techniques in Text Using Ensembled Pretrained Transformers and Data Augmentation](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.148/)**Dia Abujaber, Ahmed Qarqaz, Malak A. Abdullah*10 citations* [See all 186 papers in SemEval 2021 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2021/papers/) ## Papers with our summary in our library (5) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[SemEval-2021 Task 5: Toxic Spans Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pavlopoulos-2021-semeval-2021-task-5-toxic/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**John Pavlopoulos, Jeffrey Sorensen, Léo Laugier, et al.*2021 · 172 citations* 2. **[SemEval-2021 Task 1: Lexical Complexity Prediction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shardlow-2021-semeval-2021-task-1-lexical/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Matthew Shardlow, Richard Evans, Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, et al.*2021 · 155 citations* 3. **[SemEval 2021 Task 7: HaHackathon, Detecting and Rating Humor and Offense](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meaney-2021-semeval-2021-task-7-hahackathon/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**J. A. Meaney, Steven Wilson, Luis Chiruzzo, et al.*2021 · 141 citations* 4. **[SemEval-2021 Task 6: Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dimitrov-2021-semeval-2021-task-6-detection/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Dimitar Dimitrov, Bishr Bin Ali, Shaden Shaar, et al.*2021 · 75 citations* 5. **[Lotus at SemEval-2021 Task 2: Combination of BERT and Paraphrasing for English Word Sense Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ranjbar-2021-lotus-semeval-2021-task-2/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Niloofar Ranjbar, Hossein Zeinali*2021 · 4 citations* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Word sense disambiguation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Bias, fairness & safety (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Vision & language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [English (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Fields [Computer Science (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Psychology (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [🧑‍🔬**Ion Androutsopoulos**1 work here · 172 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ion-androutsopoulos/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jeffrey Sorensen**1 work here · 172 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeffrey-sorensen/) · [🧑‍🔬**John Pavlopoulos**1 work here · 172 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-pavlopoulos/) · [🧑‍🔬**Gustavo Paetzold**1 work here · 155 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gustavo-paetzold/) · [🧑‍🔬**Marcos Zampieri**1 work here · 155 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marcos-zampieri/) · [🧑‍🔬**Matthew Shardlow**1 work here · 155 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-shardlow/) · [🧑‍🔬**Richard Evans**1 work here · 155 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-evans/) · [🧑‍🔬**Adam Lopez**1 work here · 141 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-lopez/) · [🧑‍🔬**Luis Chiruzzo**1 work here · 141 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luis-chiruzzo/) · [🧑‍🔬**Steven Wilson**1 work here · 141 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-wilson/) · [🧑‍🔬**Walid Magdy**1 work here · 141 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walid-magdy/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dimitar Dimitrov**1 work here · 75 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dimitar-dimitrov/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🎓**University of Wolverhampton** Wolverhampton · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wolverhampton/) · [🎓**Manchester Metropolitan University** Manchester · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/manchester-metropolitan-university/) · [🎓**Télécom Paris** Palaiseau · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/telecom-paris/) · [🎓**Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná** Curitiba · Brazil 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidade-tecnologica-federal-do-parana/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Rochester Institute of Technology** Rochester · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rochester-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Stockholm University** Stockholm · Sweden 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stockholm-university/) · [🎓**Universidad de la República de Uruguay** Montevideo · Uruguay 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidad-de-la-republica-de-uruguay/) · [🔬**The Alan Turing Institute** London · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/the-alan-turing-institute/) · [🎓**Institut Polytechnique de Paris** Palaiseau · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/institut-polytechnique-de-paris/) · [🎓**Athens University of Economics and Business** Athens · Greece 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/athens-university-of-economics-and-business/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [← previous SemEval 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2020/) - [next → SemEval 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2022/) - [↑ back to SemEval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)