Yarik Menchaca Resendiz and Roman Klinger. Mopo: Multi-objective prompt optimization for affective text generation. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 2025. International Committee on Computational Linguistics. accepted. [ bib ]

Enrica Troiano, Sofie Labat, Marco Stranisci, Rossana Damiano, Viviana Patti, and Roman Klinger. Dealing with controversy: An emotion and coping strategy corpus based on role playing. In Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, and Yun-Nung Chen, editors, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, pages 1634--1658, Miami, Florida, USA, November 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | arXiv | http | .pdf ]

Aswathy Velutharambath, Amelie Wuehrl, and Roman Klinger. How entangled is factuality and deception in German? In Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, and Yun-Nung Chen, editors, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, pages 9538--9554, Miami, Florida, USA, November 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | arXiv | http | .pdf ]

Christopher Bagdon, Prathamesh Karmalkar, Harsha Gurulingappa, and Roman Klinger. “you are an expert annotator”: Automatic best--worst-scaling annotations for emotion intensity modeling. In Kevin Duh, Helena Gomez, and Steven Bethard, editors, Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 7917--7929, Mexico City, Mexico, June 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | http ]

Amelie Wuehrl, Dustin Wright, Roman Klinger, and Isabelle Augenstein. Understanding fine-grained distortions in reports of scientific findings. In Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, and Vivek Srikumar, editors, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, pages 6175--6191, Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting, August 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | arXiv | http | .pdf ]

Eileen Wemmer, Sofie Labat, and Roman Klinger. EmoProgress: Cumulated emotion progression analysis in dreams and customer service dialogues. In Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, and Nianwen Xue, editors, Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 5660--5677, Torino, Italy, May 2024. ELRA and ICCL. [ bib | http | .pdf ]

Aswathy Velutharambath, Amelie Wührl, and Roman Klinger. Can factual statements be deceptive? the DeFaBel corpus of belief-based deception. In Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, and Nianwen Xue, editors, Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 2708--2723, Torino, Italy, May 2024. ELRA and ICCL. [ bib | arXiv | http | .pdf ]

Amelie Wührl, Yarik Menchaca Resendiz, Lara Grimminger, and Roman Klinger. What makes medical claims (un)verifiable? analyzing entity and relation properties for fact verification. In Yvette Graham and Matthew Purver, editors, Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2046--2058, St. Julian's, Malta, March 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | arXiv | http | .pdf ]

Yarik Menchaca Resendiz and Roman Klinger. Affective natural language generation of event descriptions through fine-grained appraisal conditions. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | arXiv | http | .pdf ]

Roman Klinger. Emotionsklassifikation in Texten unter Berücksichtigung des Komponentenprozessmodells. In Sylvia Jaki and Stefan Steiger, editors, Digitale Hate Speech, pages 131--154. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2023. [ bib | DOI | http ]

Flor Miriam Plaza-del Arco, María-Teresa Martín-Valdivia, and Roman Klinger. Natural language inference prompts for zero-shot emotion classification in text across corpora. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 6805--6817, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, October 2022. International Committee on Computational Linguistics. [ bib | arXiv | http | .pdf ]

Isabelle Mohr, Amelie Wührl, and Roman Klinger. Covert: A corpus of fact-checked biomedical covid-19 tweets. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 244--257, Marseille, France, June 2022. European Language Resources Association. [ bib | arXiv | http | .pdf ]

Amelie Wührl and Roman Klinger. Recovering patient journeys: A corpus of biomedical entities and relations on twitter (bear). In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4439--4450, Marseille, France, June 2022. European Language Resources Association. [ bib | arXiv | http | .pdf ]

Enrica Troiano, Laura Ana Maria Oberlaender, Maximilian Wegge, and Roman Klinger. x-envent: A corpus of event descriptions with experiencer-specific emotion and appraisal annotations. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 1365--1375, Marseille, France, June 2022. European Language Resources Association. [ bib | arXiv | http | .pdf ]

Emils Kadikis, Vaibhav Srivastav, and Roman Klinger. Embarrassingly simple performance prediction for abductive natural language inference. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 6031--6037, Seattle, United States, July 2022. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | arXiv | http ]

Sean Papay, Roman Klinger, and Sebastian Pado. Constraining linear-chain CRFs to regular languages. In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2022. [ bib | arXiv | http ]

Amelie Wührl and Roman Klinger. Claim detection in biomedical twitter posts as a prerequisite for fact-checking. In Proceedings of the BioCreative VII Challenge Evaluation Workshop, 2021. [ bib | arXiv | .pdf ]

Bao Minh Doan Dang, Laura Oberländer, and Roman Klinger. Emotion stimulus detection in German news headlines. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2021), pages 73--85, Düsseldorf, Germany, 6--9 September 2021. KONVENS 2021 Organizers. [ bib | arXiv | http ]

Felix Casel, Amelie Heindl, and Roman Klinger. Emotion recognition under consideration of the emotion component process model. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2021), pages 49--61, Düsseldorf, Germany, 6--9 September 2021. KONVENS 2021 Organizers. [ bib | arXiv | http ]

Jan Hofmann, Enrica Troiano, Kai Sassenberg, and Roman Klinger. Appraisal theories for emotion classification in text. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 125--138, Barcelona, Spain (Online), December 2020. International Committee on Computational Linguistics. [ bib | DOI | arXiv | http | .pdf ]

Enrica Troiano, Roman Klinger, and Sebastian Padó. Lost in back-translation: Emotion preservation in neural machine translation. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 4340--4354, Barcelona, Spain (Online), December 2020. International Committee on Computational Linguistics. [ bib | DOI | http ]

Laura Ana Maria Oberländer and Roman Klinger. Token sequence labeling vs. clause classification for English emotion stimulus detection. In Proceedings of the Ninth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, pages 58--70, Barcelona, Spain (Online), December 2020. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | arXiv | http ]

Sean Papay, Roman Klinger, and Sebastian Padó. Dissecting span identification tasks with performance prediction. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 4881--4895, Online, November 2020. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | DOI | arXiv | http ]

Roman Klinger, Evgeny Kim, and Sebastian Padó. Emotion analysis for literary studies. In Reflektierte algorithmische Textanalyse, pages 237 -- 268. De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston, 2020. [ bib | DOI | http ]

Thomas Haider, Steffen Eger, Evgeny Kim, Roman Klinger, and Winfried Menninghaus. PO-EMO: Conceptualization, annotation, and modeling of aesthetic emotions in German and English poetry. In Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 1652--1663, Marseille, France, May 2020. European Language Resources Association. [ bib | arXiv | http | .pdf ]

Laura Ana Maria Bostan, Evgeny Kim, and Roman Klinger. GoodNewsEveryone: A corpus of news headlines annotated with emotions, semantic roles, and reader perception. In Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 1554--1566, Marseille, France, May 2020. European Language Resources Association. [ bib | arXiv | http | .pdf ]

Valentino Sabbatino, Laura Ana Maria Bostan, and Roman Klinger. Automatic section recognition in obituaries. In Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 817--825, Marseille, France, May 2020. European Language Resources Association. [ bib | arXiv | http | .pdf ]

Deniz Cevher, Sebastian Zepf, and Roman Klinger. Towards multimodal emotion recognition in german speech events in cars using transfer learning. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2019): Long Papers, pages 79--90, Erlangen, Germany, 2019. German Society for Computational Linguistics & Language Technology. [ bib | arXiv | .pdf | .pdf ]

Enrica Troiano, Sebastian Padó, and Roman Klinger. Crowdsourcing and validating event-focused emotion corpora for German and English. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 4005--4011, Florence, Italy, July 2019. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | arXiv | http | .pdf ]

Evgeny Kim and Roman Klinger. Frowning Frodo, wincing Leia, and a seriously great friendship: Learning to classify emotional relationships of fictional characters. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), pages 647--653, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2019. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | arXiv | http | .pdf ]

Robert McHardy, Heike Adel, and Roman Klinger. Adversarial training for satire detection: Controlling for confounding variables. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), pages 660--665, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2019. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | arXiv | http | .pdf ]

Heike Adel, Laura Ana Maria Bostan, Sean Papay, Sebastian Padó, and Roman Klinger. DERE: A task and domain-independent slot filling framework for declarative relation extraction. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, Brussels, Belgium, October, November 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | http ]

Florian Strohm and Roman Klinger. An empirical analysis of the role of amplifiers, downtoners, and negations in emotion classification in microblogs. In The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, Special Track on Sentiment, Emotion, and Credibility of Information in Social Data, DSAA, Turin, Italy, October 2018. IEEE. [ bib | DOI | arXiv | .pdf ]

Laura Ana Maria Bostan and Roman Klinger. An analysis of annotated corpora for emotion classification in text. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 2104--2119. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018. [ bib | http ]

Evgeny Kim and Roman Klinger. Who feels what and why? annotation of a literature corpus with semantic roles of emotions. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 1345--1359. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018. [ bib | http ]

Jeremy Barnes, Roman Klinger, and Sabine Schulte im Walde. Projecting embeddings for domain adaption: Joint modeling of sentiment analysis in diverse domains. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 818--830. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018. [ bib | arXiv | http ]

Matthias Hartung, Hendrik ter Horst, Frank Grimm, Tim Diekmann, Roman Klinger, and Philipp Cimiano. Santo: A web-based annotation tool for ontology-driven slot filling. In Proceedings of ACL 2018, System Demonstrations, pages 68--73, Melbourne, Australia, July 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | http ]

Jeremy Barnes, Roman Klinger, and Sabine Schulte im Walde. Bilingual sentiment embeddings: Joint projection of sentiment across languages. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2483--2493, Melbourne, Australia, July 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | arXiv | http ]

Hendrik Ter Horst, Matthias Hartung, Roman Klinger, Nicole Brazda, Hans Werner Müller, and Philipp Cimiano. Assessing the impact of single and pairwise slot constraints in a factor graph model for template-based information extraction. In Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 23rd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2018, Paris, France, June 13-15, 2018, Proceedings, Cham, 2018. Springer International Publishing. ###bp###. [ bib | http | .pdf ]

Camilo Thorne and Roman Klinger. On the semantic similarity of disease mentions in medline and twitter. In Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 23rd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2018, Paris, France, June 13-15, 2018, Proceedings, Cham, 2018. Springer International Publishing. [ bib | http | .pdf ]

Matthias Hartung, Roman Klinger, Franziska Schmidtke, and Lars Vogel. Identifying right-wing extremism in german twitter profiles: A classification approach. In Flavius Frasincar, Ashwin Ittoo, Le Minh Nguyen, and Elisabeth Métais, editors, Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 22nd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2017, Liège, Belgium, June 21-23, 2017, Proceedings, pages 320--325, Cham, 2017. Springer International Publishing. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf ]

Mario Sänger, Ulf Leser, and Roman Klinger. Fine-grained opinion mining from mobile app reviews with word embedding features. In Flavius Frasincar, Ashwin Ittoo, Le Minh Nguyen, and Elisabeth Métais, editors, Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 22nd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2017, Liège, Belgium, June 21-23, 2017, Proceedings, pages 3--14, Cham, 2017. Springer International Publishing. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf ]

Roman Klinger. Does optical character recognition and caption generation improve emotion detection in microblog posts? In Flavius Frasincar, Ashwin Ittoo, Le Minh Nguyen, and Elisabeth Métais, editors, Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 22nd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2017, Liège, Belgium, June 21-23, 2017, Proceedings, pages 313--319, Cham, 2017. Springer International Publishing. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf ]

Hanna Kicherer, Marcel Dittrich, Lukas Grebe, Christian Scheible, and Roman Klinger. What you use, not what you do: Automatic classification of recipes. In Flavius Frasincar, Ashwin Ittoo, Le Minh Nguyen, and Elisabeth Métais, editors, Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 22nd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2017, Liège, Belgium, June 21-23, 2017, Proceedings, pages 197--209, Cham, 2017. Springer International Publishing. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf ]

Fotis Aisopos, Magdalini Kardara, Philipp Senger, Roman Klinger, Athanasios Papaoikonomou, Konstantinos Tserpes, Michael Gardner, and Theodora A. Varvarigou. E-government and policy simulation in intelligent virtual environments. In Karl-Heinz Krempels and José Cordeiro, editors, WEBIST, pages 129--135. SciTePress, 2012. [ bib | http | .pdf ]

Harsha Gurulingappa, Roman Klinger, Martin Hofmann-Apitius, and Juliane Fluck. An empirical evaluation of resources for the identification of diseases and adverse effects in biomedical literature. In 2nd Workshop on Building and evaluating resources for biomedical text mining (7th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference), Valetta, Malta, May 2010. [ bib | .pdf ]

Harsha Gurulingappa, Bernd Müller, Roman Klinger, Heinz-Theo Mevissen, Martin Hofmann-Apitius, Juliane Fluck, and Christoph M. Friedrich. Patent retrieval in chemistry based on semantically tagged named entities. In Ellen M. Voorhees and Lori P. Buckland, editors, The Eighteenth Text RETrieval Conference (TREC 2009) Proceedings, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]

Roman Klinger. Automatically selected skip edges in conditional random fields for named entity recognition. In Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2011, pages 580--585, Hissar, Bulgaria, September 2011. RANLP 2011 Organising Committee. [ bib | http ]

Roman Klinger and Philipp Cimiano. The USAGE review corpus for fine grained multi lingual opinion analysis. In Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, and Stelios Piperidis, editors, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 2211--2218, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2014. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). ACL Anthology Identifier: L14-1656. [ bib | http | .pdf ]

Roman Klinger and Philipp Cimiano. Instance selection improves cross-lingual model training for fine-grained sentiment analysis. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 153--163, Beijing, China, July 2015. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | http ]

Roman Klinger and Philipp Cimiano. Bi-directional inter-dependencies of subjective expressions and targets and their value for a joint model. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 848--854, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | http ]

Roman Klinger and Christoph M. Friedrich. User's choice of precision and recall in named entity recognition. In Galia Angelova, Kalina Bontcheva, Ruslan Mitkov, Nicolas Nicolov, and Nicolai Nikolov, editors, Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), pages 192--196, Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2009. [ bib | http ]

Roman Klinger and Christoph M. Friedrich. Feature subset selection in conditional random fields for named entity recognition. In Galia Angelova, Kalina Bontcheva, Ruslan Mitkov, Nicolas Nicolov, and Nicolai Nikolov, editors, Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), pages 185--191, Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2009. ###nombp###. [ bib | http ]

Roman Klinger, Christoph M. Friedrich, Juliane Fluck, and Martin Hofmann-Apitius. Named Entity Recognition with Combinations of Conditional Random Fields. In Proceedings of the Second BioCreative Challenge Evaluation Workshop, pages 89--91, Madrid, Spain, April 2007. [ bib | .pdf ]

Roman Klinger and Günter Rudolph. Evolutionary Composition of Music with Learned Melody Evaluation. In Nikos Mastorakis and Antonella Cecchi, editors, Conference on COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS and CYBERNETICS (CIMMACS '06), pages 234--239, Venice, Italy, November 2006. ###bsp###. [ bib ]

Roman Klinger, Philipp Senger, Sumit Madan, and Michal Jacovi. Online communities support policy-making: The need for data analysis. In Efthimios Tambouris, Ann Macintosh, and Øystein Sæbø, editors, Electronic Participation, volume 7444 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 132--143. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. [ bib | DOI | http ]

Jennifer Ling and Roman Klinger. An empirical, quantitative analysis of the differences between sarcasm and irony. In Harald Sack, Giuseppe Rizzo, Nadine Steinmetz, Dunja Mladenić, Sören Auer, and Christoph Lange, editors, The Semantic Web: ESWC 2016 Satellite Events, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29 -- June 2, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, pages 203--216. Springer International Publishing, 2016. ###bp###. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf ]

Bernd Müller, Roman Klinger, Harsha Gurulingappa, Heinz-Theodor Mevissen, Martin Hofmann-Apitius, Juliane Fluck, and Christoph M. Friedrich. Abstracts versus full texts and patents: A quantitative analysis of biomedical entities. In Proceedings of the 1st IRF Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2010. [ bib | http ]

John Philip McCrae, Philipp Cimiano, and Roman Klinger. Orthonormal explicit topic analysis for cross-lingual document matching. In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1732--1740, Seattle, Washington, USA, October 2013. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | http ]

Mario Sänger, Ulf Leser, Steffen Kemmerer, Peter Adolphs, and Roman Klinger. SCARE ― The Sentiment Corpus of App Reviews with Fine-grained Annotations in German. In Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, and Stelios Piperidis, editors, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), Paris, France, may 2016. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [ bib | .html | .pdf ]

Christian Scheible, Roman Klinger, and Sebastian Padó. Model architectures for quotation detection. In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1736--1745, Berlin, Germany, August 2016. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | http ]