🧑‍🔬 Gavin Abercrombie

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓Heriot-Watt UniversityEdinburgh · United Kingdom2021–2026 · 43 paperscurrent🎓University of ManchesterManchester · United Kingdom2018–2022 · 7 papers🎓Bocconi UniversityMilan · Italy2022–2023 · 3 papers🏢MetaMenlo Park · United States2021–2022 · 2 papers🎓University of CopenhagenCopenhagen · Denmark2016 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Concepts, shelves and topics

Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them.

📅 Works by year

2020s

2010s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. SemEval-2023 Task 11: Learning with Disagreements (LeWiDi) (2023 · 100 citations)
   Annotators of subjective NLP tasks such as hate speech or offensiveness detection often disagree, and merging their labels into one "gold" answer misrepresents the data.
2. Putting Sarcasm Detection into Context: The Effects of Class Imbalance and Manual Labelling on Supervised Machine Classification of Twitter Conversations (2016 · 85 citations)
   The paper argues that typical sarcasm detection experiments are unrealistic in two ways. They use evenly split datasets even though sarcasm is uncommon, and they rely on hashtags like #sarcasm as labels, which are noisy and capture only some kinds of sarcasm. To test how much these choices matter, the authors built a…

All works

4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. SemEval-2023 Task 11: Learning with Disagreements (LeWiDi)International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)Elisa Leonardelli, Gavin Abercrombie, Dina Almanea, et al.2023 · 100 citations
2. Putting Sarcasm Detection into Context: The Effects of Class Imbalance and Manual Labelling on Supervised Machine Classification of Twitter ConversationsACL Student Research WorkshopGavin Abercrombie, Dirk Hovy2016 · 85 citations
3. A Rule-based Shallow-transfer Machine Translation System for Scots and EnglishProceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16) · original ↗ · no summary yetAbercrombie, Gavin2016 · 3 citations
4. Counterspeech Generation using Small Language ModelsProceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop) · original ↗ · no summary yetAbubakar Sadiq Muhammad, Simona Frenda, Gavin Abercrombie2026

🤝 Co-authors here

9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Alexandra Uma
• Barbara Plank
• Dina Almanea
• Dirk Hovy
• Elisa Leonardelli
• Massimo Poesio
• Tommaso Fornaciari
• Valerio Basile
• Verena Rieser

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• ACL Student Research Workshop: ACL Student Research Workshop 2016
• International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval): SemEval 2023
• Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)
• Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 91 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 18 citing papers with a page here →.

Updated 24 October 2026

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