2024

  • Alaçam, Ö., Hoeken, S., and Zarrieß, S. (2024). Eyes Don’t Lie: Subjective Hate Annotation and Detection with Gaze. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 187–205, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.11
  • Hoeken, S., Zarrieß, S. and Alaçam, Ö. (2024). Hateful Word in Context Classification. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 172–186, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.10
  • Alaçam, Ö., Utescher, R, , and Zarrieß, S. (2024). WikiScenes with Descriptions: Aligning Paragraphs and Sentences with Images in Wikipedia Articles.} In Proceedings of the 13th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2024), pages 93–105, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2024.starsem-1.8
  • Aggarwal,P., Mehrabanian, J., Huang, W., Alaçam, Ö. and Zesch. T.. 2024. Text or Image? What is More Important in Cross-Domain Generalization Capabilities of Hate Meme Detection Models?. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024, pages 104–117, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-eacl.8

2023

  • Hoeken, S., Spliethoff, S., Schwandt, S., Zarrieß, S. and Alaçam, Ö.. (2023) Towards Detecting Lexical Change of Hate Speech in Historical Data. In the proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2023. https://aclanthology.org/2023.lchange-1.11
  • Hoeken, S., Alaçam, Ö., Fokkens, A. and Sommerauer, P. (2023) Methodological Insights in Detecting Subtle Semantic Shifts with Contextualized and Static Language Models. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 (pp. 3662-3675). https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.237
  • Hoeken, S., Zarrieß, S. and Alaçam, Ö. (2023) Identifying Slurs and Lexical Hate Speech via Light-Weight Dimension Projection in Embedding Space. In the proceedings of 13th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis. pages 278–289, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2023.wassa-1.25

2022

  • Alaçam, Ö., Ruppert, E.,Malhorta, G., Biemann, C and Zarrieß, Sina. (2022). Modeling Referential Gaze in Task-oriented Settings of Varying Referential Complexity. Findings of AACL 2022.(pp.197–210). https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-aacl.19
  • Alaçam, Ö., Schüz, S., Wegrzyn, M., Kißler, J. and Zarrieß, Sina. (2022) Exploring Semantic Spaces for Detecting Clustering and Switching in Verbal Fluency.  In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2022), (pp. 178–191). https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.16
  • Voigt, H., Alaçam, Ö., Meuschke, M., Lawonn, K., and Zarrieß, S. (2022). The Why and The How: A Survey on Natural Language Interaction in Visualization. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (pp. 348-374). https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.27
  • Wang, X., Schneider, F., and Ala{\c{c}}am, Ö., Chaudhury, P. and Biemann, C. (2022). MOTIF: Contextualized Images for Complex Words to Improve Human Reading. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference on LREC. Marseille, France. (pp. 2468–2477)

2021

  • Alaçam, Ö., Malhotra, G., Ruppert, E., & Biemann, C. (2021, October). Gaze-based Multimodal Meaning Recovery for Noisy/Complex Environments. In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 673-681). https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3462244.3481002
  • Alaçam, Ö. (2021). Situation-Specific Multimodal Feature Adaptation. In the online proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing, EACL 2021

2020

  • Alaçam, Ö., Ruppert, E., Salama, A.R, Staron, T. and Menzel, W. (2020). Eye4Ref: A Multimodal Eye Movement Dataset of Referentially Complex Situations. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pp. 2396–2404. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.292.pdf
  • Alaçam, Ö., Li, X., Staron, T. and Menzel, W. (2020). Crossmodal Language Comprehension- Psycholinguistic Insights and Computational Approaches. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Vol. 14:2. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2020.00002

2019

  • Alaçam, Ö. (2019) Enhancing natural language understanding through cross-modal interaction:Meaning recovery from acoustically noisy speech. In Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa) (Turku, Finland: Association for Computational Linguistics), 2019: https://aclweb.org/anthology/W19-6128/
  • Alaçam, Ö., Menzel,W., and Staron, T. (2019). How does visual complexity in uence predictive language processing in a situated context? In Proceedings of the 15th KONVENS – Bridging the gap between NLP and human understanding (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)

2018

  • Alaçam, Ö., Menzel, W. and Staron, T. (abstract). Syntactic and Semantic Disambiguation in a Situated Language Setting. EuroCogsci, 2019. Bochum.

  • Salama, A. R., Alaçam, Ö. and Menzel, W. (2018). Text Completion using Context-Integrated DependencyParsing. In the Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP, ACL 2018. https://aclweb.org/anthology/W18-3005/

  • Staron, T., Alaçam, Ö. And Menzel, W. (2018). Incorporating Contextual Information for Language-Independent, Dynamic Disambiguation Tasks. In the Proceedings of the 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). https://aclweb.org/anthology/L18-1567/

  • Alaçam, Ö., Staron, T. and Menzel,W. (2018). A multimodal data-set for systematic analyses of linguistic ambiguities in situated contexts. Information Management and Big Data, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer. (106-122), 10.1007/978-3-319-90596-9.

2017

  • Alaçam, Ö. and Habel, C. (2017). Negation in Gesture Accompanying Speech: A Cross-Modal Study. Journal of Multimodal Communication Studies. Vol. 4, issue 1-2.

2015

  • Alaçam, Ö., Habel, C.  and Acartürk, C. 2015. Switching Reference-frame Preferences during Verbally Assisted Haptic-graph Comprehension. In the Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (Cognitive Processing: DOI :10.1007/s10339-015-0730-9)
  • Alaçam, Ö., Acartürk, C. and Habel, C. 2015. Haptic exploration patterns in virtual line-graph comprehension. In A. Marcus (Ed.): Design, User Experience and Usability (DUXU/HCII 2015), Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

2014

  • Alaçam, Ö., Acartürk, C.  & Habel, C. (2014). Referring Expressions in Discourse about Haptic Line Graphs . In Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. (pp. 7-17). SemDial 2014 – DialWatt. Verena Rieser & Phillipe Muller (eds).
  • Acartürk, C., Alaçam, Ö., & Habel, C. (2014). Developing a Verbal Assistance System for Line Graph Comprehension. In A. Marcus (Ed.): Design, User Experience and Usability (DUXU/HCII 2014), Part II, LNCS 8518. (pp. 373–382). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
  • Kerzel, M., Alaçam, Ö., Habel, C., &  Acartürk, C. (2014). Producing Verbal Descriptions for Haptic Line-Graph Explorations. In Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. SemDial 2014 – DialWatt. Verena Rieser & Phillipe Muller (eds.)
  • Alaçam, Ö., Habel, C. & Acatürk, C. (2014). Verbally Assisted Haptic Graph Comprehension: The Role of Taking Initiative in a Joint Activity. In the online Proceedings from the 2st European Symposium on Multimodal Communication, University of Tartu, Estonia, August 6-8, 2014.
  • Alaçam, Ö., Habel, C. & Acatürk, C. (2014). Perspective Alignment during the Course of Verbally Assisted Haptic Graph Comprehension. In the online Proceedings of the RefNet Workshop 2014 on Psychological and Computational Models of Reference Comprehension and Production. Edinburgh, UK. 31 August 2014.

2013

  • Alaçam, Ö., Habel, C., Acartürk, C. (2013) Towards designing audio assistance for comprehending haptic graphs: A Multimodal Perspective. In C. Stephanidis & M. Antona (Eds.), Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Heidelberg: Springer
  • Alaçam, Ö., Habel, C., Acartürk, C. (2013) Investigation of Haptic Line-Graph Comprehension Through Co-Production of Gesture and Language. Tilburg Gesture Research Meeting, Tilburg
  • Habel, C., Alaçam, Ö., Acartürk, C. (2013). Verbally assisted comprehension of haptic linegraphs: referring expressions in a collaborative activity. In Proceedings of the CogSci 2013 Workshop on Production of Referring Expressions, Berlin.
  • Alaçam, Ö., Habel, C., Acartürk, C. (2013). Gesture and Language Production in Communication through Bar Graphs. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX. pp. 1714–1719. Cognitive Science Society

2012

  • Acartürk, C., Alacam, O. (2012). Gestures in Communication through Line Graphs. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX. pp. 66–71. Cognitive Science Society.
  • Alaçam, Ö., Acartürk, C. (2012) Work in Progress: Annotating Gestures in Communication through Graphs. Proceedings of the Graduate Symposium of 7th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Canterbury, UK. pp. 5–7.

2011

  • Alacam O. and Cakir, M. P. (2011). An investigation of the effect of event, task and visualization structures on graph comprehension using fNIR and eye tracking methodology. Front. Hum. Neurosci. Conference Abstract: XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI). doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2011.207.00481

2010

  • Alaçam Ö., Hohenberger A., and Çağıltay, K.(2010) .Effects of Graph Type in the Comprehension of Cyclic Events.  In A. Goel, M. Jamnik, N. Narayanan (Eds.), Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6170 (pp. 279-281): Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. Presented at Graduate Symposium and Poster Session at Diagram 2010, Portland, USA. [URL]
  • Alaçam Ö., Hohenberger A., and Çağıltay, K.(2010) .The Effect of Graph Design Type on Word Preferences  In the Description of Trend and Cyclic Events. Poster presented at the Poster Session presented at CogSci 2010 , Portland, USA. [URL]
  • Alaçam Ö. (2010). Comparison Strategies of Different Event Types in Different Graph Types (MS. Thesis – The Department of Cognitive Science, Informatics Institute, Middle East Technical University, Ankara) [URL]

2007-2009

  • Alaçam, Ö., Hohenberger, A. E. and Çağıltay, K. .(2009) .Comparison Strategies of Different Event Types in Different Graph Types. In Proceedings of 15th European Conference on Eye Movements, p.94 , Southampton, UK, 2009. University of Southampton [URL].
  • Alaçam, Ö., and Dalcı, M.(2009). A Usability Study of Web Maps with Eye Tracking Tool: The Effects of Iconic Representation of Information (Accepted by HCI International 2009, San Diego, USA, Published in Lecture Notes In Computer Science; Vol. 5610, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Part I: New Trends, San Diego, CA ) [article]
  • Acarturk,C., Habel, C., Cagiltay, K., and Alacam, O. (2008). Multimodal comprehension of language and graphics: Graphs with and without annotations. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 1(3):2, 1-15
  • Acarturk, C., Habel, C., Cagiltay, K., & Alacam, O. (2008). Learning from text and graphs: The role of annotations and sensory modality. In A. Maes & S. Ainsworth (Eds.), Proceedings EARLI Special Interest Group Text and Graphics. Exploiting the Opportunities Learning with Textual, Graphical and Multimodal Representations (pp. 13-16). [PDF]
  • Acarturk, C., Habel, C., Cagiltay, K. & Alacam, O.(2007). Multimodal Comprehension of Language and Graphics. Poster presented at ECEM 2007, 14th European Conference on Eye Movements,19-23 2007, Potsdam, Germany.