Dr Carolina Scarton

Books

• Pinheiro V, Gamallo P, Amaro R, Scarton C, Batista F, Silva D, Magro C & Pinto H (2022) Preface.
• Specia L, Scarton C & Paetzold GH (2018) Quality Estimation for Machine Translation. Morgan & Claypool Publishers LLC.
• Specia L, Scarton C & Paetzold GH (2018) Quality Estimation for Machine Translation.

Journal articles

• Alva-Manchego F, Scarton C & Specia L (2021) The (Un)Suitability of Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Text Simplification. Computational Linguistics, 1-29.
• Mejova Y, Petrocchi M & Scarton C (2021) Special Issue on Disinformation, Hoaxes and Propaganda within Online Social Networks and Media. Online Social Networks and Media, 23.
• Alva-Manchego F, Scarton C & Specia L (2020) Data-driven sentence simplification: Survey and benchmark. Computational Linguistics, 135-187. View this article in WRRO
• Scarton C (2020) Horacio Saggion, Automatic Text Simplification. Synthesis lectures on human language technologies, April 2017.. Nat. Lang. Eng., 26, 489-492.
• Toledo CM, Cunha A, Scarton C & Aluísio S (2014) Automatic classification of written descriptions by healthy adults: An overview of the application of natural language processing and machine learning techniques to clinical discourse analysis. Dementia & Neuropsychologia, 8(3), 227-235. View this article in WRRO
• Scarton C & Specia L () A Quantitative Analysis of Discourse Phenomena in Machine Translation. Discours(16).
• Singh I, Scarton C & Bontcheva K () Multistage BiCross Encoder: Team GATE Entry for MLIA Multilingual Semantic Search Task 2.
• Leite JA, Silva DF, Bontcheva K & Scarton C () Toxic Language Detection in Social Media for Brazilian Portuguese: New Dataset and Multilingual Analysis.
• Scarton C, Silva DF & Bontcheva K () Measuring What Counts: The case of Rumour Stance Classification.
• Singh I, Bontcheva K & Scarton C () The False COVID-19 Narratives That Keep Being Debunked: A Spatiotemporal Analysis.
• Jiang Y, Song X, Scarton C, Aker A & Bontcheva K () Categorising Fine-to-Coarse Grained Misinformation: An Empirical Study of COVID-19 Infodemic.
• Leal SE, Duran MS, Scarton CE, Hartmann NS & Aluísio SM () NILC-Metrix: assessing the complexity of written and spoken language in Brazilian Portuguese.

Book reviews

• Scarton C (2019) Horacio Saggion, automatic text simplification. Synthesis lectures on human language technologies, April 2017. 137 pages, ISBN:1627058680 9781627058681. Natural Language Engineering. View this article in WRRO

Conference proceedings papers

• Singh I, Bontcheva K, Song X & Scarton C (2022) Comparative Analysis of Engagement, Themes, and Causality of Ukraine-Related Debunks and Disinformation (pp 128-143)
• Phelps D, Fan X-R, Gow-Smith E, Madabushi HT, Scarton C & Villavicencio A (2022) Sample Efficient Approaches for Idiomaticity Detection
• Madabushi HT, Gow-Smith E, Garcia M, Scarton C, Idiart M & Villavicencio A (2022) SemEval-2022 Task 2: Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection and Sentence Embedding
• Vincent ST, Barrault L & Scarton C (2022) Controlling Extra-Textual Attributes about Dialogue Participants: A Case Study of English-to-Polish Neural Machine Translation. EAMT 2022 - Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (pp 121-130)
• Vincent S, Barrault L & Scarton C (2022) Controlling Formality in Low-Resource NMT with Domain Adaptation and Re-Ranking: SLT-CDT-UoS at IWSLT2022. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2022) (pp 341-350)
• Tayyar Madabushi H, Gow-Smith E, Garcia M, Scarton C, Idiart M & Villavicencio A (2022) SemEval-2022 Task 2: Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection and Sentence Embedding. Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022), July 2022 - July 2022.
• Singh I, Li Y, Thong M & Scarton C (2022) GateNLP-UShef at SemEval-2022 Task 8: Entity-Enriched Siamese Transformer for Multilingual News Article Similarity. Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022), July 2022 - July 2022.
• Garcia M, Kramer Vieira T, Scarton C, Idiart M & Villavicencio A (2021) Assessing the Representations of Idiomaticity in Vector Models with a Noun Compound Dataset Labeled at Type and Token Levels. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), August 2021 - August 2021.
• Tayyar Madabushi H, Gow-Smith E, Scarton C & Villavicencio A (2021) AStitchInLanguageModels : dataset and methods for the exploration of idiomaticity in pre-trained language models. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021. Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, 7 November 2021 - 11 November 2021. View this article in WRRO
• Santos RLS, Wick-Pedro G, Leal S, Vale OA, Pardo TAS, Bontcheva K & Scarton C (2020) Measuring the Impact of Readability Features in Fake News Detection.. LREC (pp 1404-1413)
• Alva-Manchego FE, Martin L, Bordes A, Scarton C, Sagot B & Specia L (2020) ASSET: A Dataset for Tuning and Evaluation of Sentence Simplification Models with Multiple Rewriting Transformations.. ACL (pp 4668-4679)
• Wick-Pedro G, Santos RLS, Vale OA, Pardo TAS, Bontcheva K & Scarton C (2020) Linguistic Analysis Model for Monitoring User Reaction on Satirical News for Brazilian Portuguese (pp 313-320)
• Scarton C, Madhyastha P & Specia L (2020) Deciding When, How and for Whom to Simplify.. ECAI, Vol. 325 (pp 2172-2179)
• Leite JA, Silva DF, Bontcheva K & Scarton C (2020) Toxic Language Detection in Social Media for Brazilian Portuguese: New Dataset and Multilingual Analysis.. AACL/IJCNLP (pp 914-924)
• Scarton C, Silva DF & Bontcheva K (2020) Measuring What Counts: The Case of Rumour Stance Classification.. AACL/IJCNLP (pp 925-932)
• Alva-Manchego F, Martin L, Bordes A, Scarton C, Sagot B & Specia L (2020) ASSET: A Dataset for Tuning and Evaluation of Sentence Simplification Models with Multiple Rewriting Transformations. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2020 - July 2020. View this article in WRRO
• Alva-Manchego F, Martin L, Scarton C & Specia L (2019) EASSE: easier automatic sentence simplification evaluation. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations (pp 49-54). Hong Kong, China, 3 November 2019 - 7 November 2019. View this article in WRRO
• Alva-Manchego FE, Scarton C & Specia L (2019) Cross-Sentence Transformations in Text Simplification.. WNLP@ACL (pp 181-184)
• Alva-Manchego F, Martin L, Scarton C & Specia L (2019) EASSE: Easier Automatic Sentence Simplification Evaluation. 2019 CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019): PROCEEDINGS OF SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS (pp 49-54)
• Scarton C, Paetzold GH & Specia L (2019) Text simplification from professionally produced corpora. LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (pp 3504-3510)
• Scarton C, Henrique Paetzold G & Specia L (2019) Simpa: A sentence-level simplification corpus for the public administration domain. LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (pp 4333-4338)
• Forcada ML, Scarton C, Specia L, Haddow B & Birch A (2018) Exploring Gap Filling as a Cheaper Alternative to Reading Comprehension Questionnaires when Evaluating Machine Translation for Gisting. Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation, Vol. 1 (pp 192-203), 31 October 2018 - 1 November 2018. View this article in WRRO
• Forcada ML, Scarton C, Specia L, Haddow B & Birch A (2018) Exploring gap filling as a cheaper alternative to reading comprehension questionnaires when evaluating machine translation for gisting. Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers, October 2018 - October 2018.
• Lala C, Madhyastha PS, Scarton C & Specia L (2018) Sheffield Submissions for WMT18 Multimodal Translation Shared Task. Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers, October 2018 - October 2018.
• Ive J, Scarton C, Blain F & Specia L (2018) Sheffield Submissions for the WMT18 Quality Estimation Shared Task. Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers, October 2018 - October 2018.
• Scarton C & Specia L (2018) Learning Simplifications for Specific Target Audiences. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), July 2018 - July 2018.
• Lala C, Madhyastha P, Scarton C & Specia L (2018) Sheffield Submissions for WMT18 Multimodal Translation Shared Task. WMT 2018 - 3rd Conference on Machine Translation, Proceedings of the Conference, Vol. 2 (pp 624-631)
• Ive J, Scarton C, Blain F & Specia L (2018) Sheffield Submissions for the WMT18 Quality Estimation Shared Task. WMT 2018 - 3rd Conference on Machine Translation, Proceedings of the Conference, Vol. 2 (pp 794-800)
• Blain F, Scarton C & Specia L (2017) Bilexical Embeddings for Quality Estimation. Proceedings of the Second Conference on Machine Translation, September 2017 - September 2017.
• Alva-Manchego FE, Bingel J, Paetzold G, Scarton C & Specia L (2017) Learning How to Simplify From Explicit Labeling of Complex-Simplified Text Pairs.. IJCNLP(1) (pp 295-305)
• Scarton C, Aprosio AP, Tonelli S, Martín-Wanton T & Specia L (2017) MUSST: A Multilingual Syntactic Simplification Tool.. IJCNLP (System Demonstrations) (pp 25-28)
• Graham Y, Ma Q, Baldwin T, Liu Q, Parra C & Scarton C (2017) Improving Evaluation of Document-level Machine Translation Quality Estimation. Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers, April 2017 - April 2017.
• Bojar O, Chatterjee R, Federmann C, Graham Y, Haddow B, Huck M, Jimeno Yepes A, Koehn P, Logacheva V, Monz C , Negri M et al (2016) Findings of the 2016 Conference on Machine Translation. Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation: Volume 2, Shared Task Papers, August 2016 - August 2016.
• Scarton C, Paetzold GH & Specia L (2016) Quality estimation for language output applications. COLING 2016 - 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2016: Tutorial Abstracts (pp 14-17)
• Scarton C & Specia L (2016) A reading comprehension corpus for machine translation evaluation. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016 (pp 3652-3658)
• Scarton C, Beck D, Shah K, Sim Smith K & Specia L (2016) Word embeddings and discourse information for Quality Estimation. Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation: Volume 2, Shared Task Papers, August 2016 - August 2016.
• Tan L, Scarton C, Specia L & van Genabith J (2016) SAARSHEFF at SemEval-2016 Task 1: Semantic Textual Similarity with Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics and (eXtreme) Boosted Tree Ensembles. Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2016), June 2016 - June 2016.
• Aluísio S, Cunha A & Scarton C (2016) Evaluating Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease by Regression and Classification Methods in a Narrative Language Test in Portuguese (pp 109-114)
• Specia L, Paetzold G & Scarton C (2015) Multi-level Translation Quality Prediction with QuEst++. Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2015 System Demonstrations, July 2015 - July 2015.
• Scarton C, Zampieri M, Vela M, van Genabith J & Specia L (2015) Searching for context: A study on document-level labels for translation quality estimation. EAMT 2015 - Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (pp 121-128)
• Scarton C, Tan L & Specia L (2015) USHEF and USAAR-USHEF participation in the WMT15 QE shared task. Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, September 2015 - September 2015.
• Tan L, Scarton C, Specia L & van Genabith J (2015) USAAR-SHEFFIELD: Semantic Textual Similarity with Deep Regression and Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics. Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015), June 2015 - June 2015.
• Scarton C (2015) Discourse and Document-level Information for Evaluating Language Output Tasks. Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, June 2015 - June 2015.
• Scarton C, Tan L & Specia L (2015) Ushef and usaar-ushef participation in the wmt15 quality estimation shared task. 10th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT 2015 at the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2015 - Proceedings (pp 336-341)
• Bojar O, Chatterjee R, Federmann C, Haddow B, Hokamp C, Huck M, Logacheva V, Pecina P, Koehn P, Monz C , Negri M et al (2015) Preface. 10th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT 2015 at the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2015 - Proceedings (pp III)
• Bojar O, Chatterjee R, Federmann C, Haddow B, Huck M, Hokamp C, Koehn P, Logacheva V, Monz C, Negri M , Post M et al (2015) Findings of the 2015 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, September 2015 - September 2015.
• Scarton C, Sanches Duran M & Aluísio SM (2014) Using Cross-Linguistic Knowledge to Build VerbNet-Style Lexicons: Results for a (Brazilian) Portuguese VerbNet (pp 149-160)
• Scarton C & Specia L (2014) Exploring Consensus in Machine Translation for Quality Estimation. Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, June 2014 - June 2014.
• Scarton C, Sun L, Kipper-Schuler K, Duran MS, Palmer M & Korhonen A (2014) Verb Clustering for Brazilian Portuguese (pp 25-39)
• Scarton C & Specia L (2014) Document-level translation quality estimation: Exploring discourse and pseudo-references. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2014 (pp 101-108)
• Scarton C, Sun L, Kipper-Schuler K, Duran MS, Palmer M & Korhonen A (2014) Verb clustering for Brazilian Portuguese. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 8403 LNCS(PART 1) (pp 25-39)
• (2014) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language
• Duran MS, Scarton CE, Aluísio SM & Ramisch C (2013) Identifying Pronominal Verbs: Towards Automatic Disambiguation of the Clitic se in Portuguese. Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Multiword Expressions, MWE 2013 - in conjunction with the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2013 (pp 93-100)
• Scarton C, Gasperin C & Aluisio S (2010) Revisiting the readability assessment of texts in Portuguese. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 6433 LNAI (pp 306-315)
• Scarton C, Oliveira MD, Junior AC, Gasperin C & Aluísio SM (2010) SIMPLIFICA: a tool for authoring simplified texts in Brazilian Portuguese guided by readability assessments.. NAACL (Demos) (pp 41-44)
• Scarton CE, De Almeida DM & Aluísio SM (2009) Text readability analysis with natural language processing tools: The adaptation of coh-metrix metrics for Portuguese. STIL 2009 - 2009 7th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology (pp 53-62)
• Garcia M, Vieira TK, Scarton C, Idiart M & Villavicencio A () Probing for idiomaticity in vector space models. Proceedings of the 16th conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
• Scarton C, Forcada ML, Esplà-Gomis M & Specia L () Estimating post-editing effort: a study on human judgements, task-based and reference-based metrics of MT quality View this article in WRRO
• Villavicencio A, Garcia M, Idiart M, Kramer Vieira T & Scarton C () Assessing Idiomaticity Representations in Vector Models with a Noun Compound Dataset Labeled at Type and Token Levels. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021)

Theses / Dissertations

• Scarton CE VerbNet.Br: construção semiautomática de um léxico verbal online e independente de domínio para o português do Brasil.

Preprints

• Goldsack T, Zhang Z, Lin C & Scarton C (2022) Making Science Simple: Corpora for the Lay Summarisation of Scientific Literature.
• Li Y, Scarton C, Song X & Bontcheva K (2022) Classifying COVID-19 vaccine narratives, arXiv.
• Singh I, Li Y, Thong M & Scarton C (2022) GateNLP-UShef at SemEval-2022 Task 8: Entity-Enriched Siamese Transformer for Multilingual News Article Similarity, arXiv.
• Vincent ST, Barrault L & Scarton C (2022) Controlling Formality in Low-Resource NMT with Domain Adaptation and Re-Ranking: SLT-CDT-UoS at IWSLT2022, arXiv.
• Vincent ST, Barrault L & Scarton C (2022) Controlling Extra-Textual Attributes about Dialogue Participants: A Case Study of English-to-Polish Neural Machine Translation, arXiv.
• Gow-Smith E, Madabushi HT, Scarton C & Villavicencio A (2022) Improving Tokenisation by Alternative Treatment of Spaces.
• Madabushi HT, Gow-Smith E, Scarton C & Villavicencio A (2021) AStitchInLanguageModels: Dataset and Methods for the Exploration of Idiomaticity in Pre-Trained Language Models, arXiv.
• Singh I, Bontcheva K & Scarton C (2021) The False COVID-19 Narratives That Keep Being Debunked: A Spatiotemporal Analysis, arXiv.
• Jiang Y, Song X, Scarton C, Aker A & Bontcheva K (2021) Categorising Fine-to-Coarse Grained Misinformation: An Empirical Study of COVID-19 Infodemic, arXiv.
• Singh I, Scarton C & Bontcheva K (2021) Multistage BiCross encoder for multilingual access to COVID-19 health information, arXiv.
• Leite JA, Silva DF, Bontcheva K & Scarton C (2020) Toxic Language Detection in Social Media for Brazilian Portuguese: New Dataset and Multilingual Analysis, arXiv.
• Scarton C, Silva DF & Bontcheva K (2020) Measuring What Counts: The case of Rumour Stance Classification, arXiv.
• Alva-Manchego F, Martin L, Bordes A, Scarton C, Sagot B & Specia L (2020) ASSET: A Dataset for Tuning and Evaluation of Sentence Simplification Models with Multiple Rewriting Transformations, arXiv.
• Scarton C, Forcada ML, Esplà-Gomis M & Specia L (2019) Estimating post-editing effort: a study on human judgements, task-based and reference-based metrics of MT quality, arXiv.
• Alva-Manchego F, Martin L, Scarton C & Specia L (2019) EASSE: Easier Automatic Sentence Simplification Evaluation, arXiv.
• Forcada ML, Scarton C, Specia L, Haddow B & Birch A (2018) Exploring Gap Filling as a Cheaper Alternative to Reading Comprehension Questionnaires when Evaluating Machine Translation for Gisting, arXiv.
• Jiang Y, Song X, Scarton C, Singh I, Aker A & Bontcheva K () Categorising Fine-to-Coarse Grained Misinformation: An Empirical Study of the COVID-19 Infodemic, Research Square Platform LLC.