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Investigating Language and Retrieval Bias in Multilingual Previously Fact-Checked Claim Detection

Vykopal, I., Karamolegkou, A., Kopcan, J., Peng, Q., Javurek, T., Gregor, M., Simko, M. – Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

Soft Language Prompts for Language Transfer

Vykopal, I., Ostermann, S., Simko M. – Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) – NACL 2025, 2025

skLEP: A Slovak General Language Understanding Benchmark

Suppa, M., Ridzik A., Hládek, D., Javůrek, T., Ondrejová, V., Sásiková, K., Tamajka, M. and Simko, M. – Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, 2025

When the Dictionary Strikes Back: A Case Study on Slovak Migration Location Term Extraction and NER via Rule-Based vs. LLM Methods

Blšták, M., Kopčan J., Suppa, M., Havran, S., Findor, A., Takac, M. and Simko, M. – Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing (Slavic NLP 2025), 2025

Large Language Models for Multilingual Previously Fact-Checked Claim Detection

Vykopal, I., Pikuliak, M., Ostermann, S., Anikina, T., Gregor, M., Šimko, M. – Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025

Beyond Image-Text Matching: Verb Understanding in Multimodal Transformers Using Guided Masking

Beňová, I., Košecká, J., Gregor, M., Tamajka, M., Veselý, M., Šimko, M. – SOFSEM 2025: Theory and Practice of Computer Science, 2025

Multimodal and Multilingual Fact-Checked Article Retrieval

Papadopoulos, S., Beňová, I., Kula, S., Gregor, M., Karantaidis, G., Javůrek, T., Šimko, M., Papadopoulos, S. – Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR ’25), 2025

SemEval-2025 Task 7: Multilingual and Crosslingual Fact-Checked Claim Retrieval

Peng, Q., Moro, R., Gregor, M., Srba, I., Ostermann, S., Simko, M., Podrouzek, J., Mesarčík, M., Kopčan, J., Søgaard, A. – Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), 2025

Assessing Web Search Credibility and Response Groundedness in Chat Assistants

Vykopal, I., Pikuliak, M., Ostermann, S., Simko, M. – Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

Women Are Beautiful, Men Are Leaders: Gender Stereotypes in Machine Translation and Language Modeling

Pikuliak, M., Hrckova, A., Oresko, S., Šimko, M. – Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024

ChatGPT as Your n-th Annotator: Experiments in Leveraging Large Language Models for Social Science Text Annotation in Slovak Language

Endre Hamerlik, Marek Šuppa, Miroslav Blšták, Jozef Kubík, Martin Takáč, Marián Šimko, and Andrej Findor. – Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences, 2024

Report on the Current State of Societal Biases in Slovak AI

Pikuliak, M., Oreško, Š., Burda, K., Gavorník, A., Mesarčík, M., Hrčková, A., Kottulová, J., Szapuová, M., Podroužek, J., Šimko, M. – , 2023

Optimizing Post-hoc Explainability Algorithm for Finding Faithful and Understandable Explanations for a Combination of Model, Task and Data

Tamajka, M., Vesely, M., Simko, M. – International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2022

Evaluation of End-to-End Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Methods employing Novel Benchmark Dataset DAORA

Pecar, S., Daudert, T., Simko, M. – Intelligent Data Analysis, 2022

Average Is Not Enough: Caveats of Multilingual Evaluation

Pikuliak, M., Simko, M. – Proceedings of the The 2nd Workshop on Multi-lingual Representation Learning, 2022

SlovakBERT: Slovak Masked Language Model

Pikuliak, M., Grivalsky, S., Konopka, M., Blstak, M., Tamajka, M., Bachraty, V., Simko, M., Balazik, P., Trnka, M., Uhlarik F. – Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP , 2022

Cross-lingual Learning for Text Processing: A Survey

Pikuliak, M., Simko, M., Bielikova, M. – Expert Systems with Applications, 2021

Hate speech operationalization: a preliminary examination of hate speech indicators and their structure

Papcunova, J., Martoncik, M., Fedakova, D., Kentos, M. Bozoganova, M., Srba, I., Moro, R., Pikuliak, M., Simko, M., Adamkovic, M. – Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2021

Exploiting Subjectivity Knowledge Transfer for End-to-End Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Pecar, S., Simko, M. – International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, 2021

Exploring Parameter Sharing Techniques for Cross-Lingual and Cross-Task Supervision

Pikuliak, M., Simko, M. – International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, 2020

Addressing False Information and Abusive Language in Digital Space Using Intelligent Approaches

Machova, K., Srba, I., Sarnovsky, M., Paralic, J., Maslej Kresanova, V., Hrckova, A., Kompan, M., Simko, M., Blaho, R., Chuda, D., Bielikova, M., Navrat, P. – Towards Digital Intelligence Society. DISA 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer, 2020

Automatic Text Generation in Slovak Language

Vasko, D., Pecar, S., Simko, M. – SOFSEM 2020: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. SOFSEM 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2020

Combining Cross-lingual and Cross-task Supervision for Zero-shot Learning

Pikuliak, M., Simko, M. – International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, 2020

Lightweight Domain Modeling for Adaptive Web-Based Educational System

Simko, M., Bielikova, M. – Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. 2019

MISDEED – Odhaľovanie medicínskych dezinformácií s využitím tvrdení a expertov

Moro, R., Srba, I., Tomlein, M., Bielikova, M., Chuda, D., Lacko, P., Simko, M., Simko, J., Sevcech, J., Hrckova, A. – Data a Znalosti & WIKT 2019. Košice: Technická univerzita…

Towards Combining Multitask and Multilingual Learning

Pikuliak, M., Simko, M., Bielikova, M. – SOFSEM 2019: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2019

A Combined Approach to Automatic Taxonomy Extraction

Pecar, S., Simko, M. – 14th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP), 2019.

Improving Sentiment Classification in Slovak Language

Pecar, S., Simko, M., Bielikova, M. – 7th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language, 2019.

NL-FIIT at IEST-2018: Emotion Recognition utilizing Neural Networks and Multi-level Preprocessing

Pecar, S., Farkas, M., Simko, M., Lacko, P., Bielikova, M – Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis ACL, 2018

Sentiment Analysis of Customer Reviews: Impact of Text Pre-processing

Pecar, S., Simko, M., Bielikova, M. – World Symposium on Digital Intelligence for Systems and Machines, 2018