YAMEN AJJOUR




Yamen is a research scientist interested in human-centered NLP.
Research interests
- Perspectivist NLP: Integrating all human perspectives in NLP methodology
- Human-LLM Collaboration: Enabling effective collaboration between LLMs and Humans in applications such as data annotation
- Priming: Sampling strategies to optimize LLMs in a task-specific or instance-specific way
Awards
- Best Paper Award at the 2019 German Conference of Artifical Intelligence
- Outstanding Reviewer Award at EACL 2023
Talks
- Computational Argumentation in 2022 at Scads AI Summer School
- Instruction Fine-tuning using Alpaca in 2024 at PyData Meetup
Chair
- Argmining 2024
- ACL 2025
Publications
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023. Kroatien: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. p. 1411–1427.
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review
EACL 2023 : 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of EACL 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023. p. 1381-1397.
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review
45th International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022). ed. / Enrique Amigó; Pablo Castells; Julio Gonzalo; Ben Carterette; J. Shane Culpepper; Gabriella Kazai. ACM DL, 2022. p. 2393-2399.
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review
15th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2022). ed. / K. Selcuk Candan; Huan Liu; Leman Akoglu; Xin Luna Dong; Jiliang Tang. ACM DL, 2022. p. 66-74.
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review
Same Side Stance Classification Shared Task 2019. ed. / Yamen Ajjour; Khalid Al-Khatib; Philipp Cimiano; Roxanne El Baff; Basil Ell; Benno Stein; Henning Wachsmuth. 2021. p. 8-11 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2921).
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review
Same Side Stance Classification Shared Task 2019: Proceedings of the Same Side Stance Classification Shared Task organized as a part of the 6th Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining 2019) and co-located with the the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL19) . 2021. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2921).
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript › Research
2021. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2921).
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer review
Advances in Information Retrieval: 43rd European Conference on IR Research, Proceedings. ed. / Djoerd Hiemstra; Marie-Francine Moens; Josiane Mothe; Raffaele Perego; Martin Potthast; Fabrizio Sebastiani. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021. p. 574-582 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12657 LNCS).
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review
CLEF 2021 Working Notes: Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2021 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum Bucharest, Romania, September 21st to 24th, 2021.. 2021. p. 2258-2284 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2936).
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research
Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. 12th International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2021). ed. / K. Selçuk Candan; Bogdan Ionescu; Lorraine Goeuriot; Henning Müller; Alexis Joly; Maria Maistro; Florina Piroi; Guglielmo Faggioli; Nicola Ferro. Vol. 12880 Berlin Heidelberg New York: Springer, 2021. p. 450-467 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review
8th Workshop on Argument Mining, ArgMining 2021 - Proceedings. ed. / Khalid Al-Khatib; Yufang Hou; Manfred Stede. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021. p. 175-183.
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review
Same Side Stance Classification Shared Task 2019: Proceedings of the Same Side Stance Classification Shared Task organized as a part of the 6th Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining 2019) and co-located with the the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL19) . 2021. p. 1-7 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2921).
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review
Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction: 11th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2020, Proceedings. ed. / Avi Arampatzis; Evangelos Kanoulas; Theodora Tsikrika; Stefanos Vrochidis; Hideo Joho; Christina Lioma; Carsten Eickhoff; Aurélie Névéol; Aurélie Névéol; Linda Cappellato; Nicola Ferro. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2020. p. 384-395 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12260 LNCS).
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review
CLEF 2020 Working Notes: Working Notes of CLEF 2020 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum. 2020. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2696).
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review
KI 2019: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 42nd German Conference on AI, Proceedings. ed. / Christoph Benzmüller; Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Berlin Heidelberg New York: Springer Verlag, 2019. p. 48-59 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11793 LNAI).
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP). ed. / Kentaro Inui; Jing Jiang; Vincent Ng; Xiaojun Wan. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019. p. 2922-2932.
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (System Demonstrations). ed. / Eduardo Blanco; Wei Lu. Brüssel: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018. p. 60-65.
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review
IEEE VIS 2018. IEEE, 2018.
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining. ed. / Ivan Habernal; Iryna Gurevych; Kevin Ashley; Clair Cardie; Nancy Green; Diane Litman; Georgios Petasis; Chris Reed; Noam Slonim; Vern Walker. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017. p. 118-128.
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review
2017. Paper presented at 26th Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2017, Gaithersburg, United States.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › Research › peer review