YAMEN AJJOUR
Yamen Ajjour, Ph.D.
Yamen Ajjour, Ph.D.
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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
Webis at TREC 2017: Open Search and Core Tracks. / Hagen, Matthias; Ajjour, Yamen; Kiesel, Johannes et al.
2017. Paper presented at 26th Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2017, Gaithersburg, United States.
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2017. Paper presented at 26th Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2017, Gaithersburg, United States.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › Research › peer review
Building an Argument Search Engine for the Web. / Wachsmuth, Henning; Potthast, Martin; Al-Khatib, Khalid et al.
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining. ed. / Ivan Habernal; Iryna Gurevych; Kevin Ashley; Claire Cardie; Nancy Green; Diane Litman; Georgios Petasis; Chris Reed; Noam Slonim; Vern Walker. Copenhagen: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017. p. 49-59.
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Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining. ed. / Ivan Habernal; Iryna Gurevych; Kevin Ashley; Claire Cardie; Nancy Green; Diane Litman; Georgios Petasis; Chris Reed; Noam Slonim; Vern Walker. Copenhagen: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017. p. 49-59.
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review
“PageRank” for Argument Relevance. / Wachsmuth, Henning; Stein, Benno; Ajjour, Yamen.
Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Long Papers. ed. / Phil Blunsom; Alexander Koller; Mirella Lapata. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017. p. 1117-1127.
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Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Long Papers. ed. / Phil Blunsom; Alexander Koller; Mirella Lapata. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017. p. 1117-1127.
Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer review