2023

Joseph Marvin Imperial, Ekaterina Kochmar. Automatic Readability Assessment for Closely Related Languages. To appear at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023). Toronto, Canada. [paper][code]

Ramon Rodriguez, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Myron Darrel Montefalcon, Jay Rhald Padilla, Arlene Trillanes, Mideth Abisado. Comparative Thematic Analysis of Reflections from Physical and Virtual Internship Experiences of Computing Undergraduates Students. In Proceedings of the  International Conference on Information and Education Technology (ICIET 2023). [link]

2022

Lamar Clarence Cruz, Jessica Nicole dela Cruz, Shane Francis Maglangit, Mico Magtira, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Ramon Rodriguez. Is Twitter an Echo Chamber? Connecting Online Public Sentiments to Actual Results From the 2019 Philippine Midterm Elections. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP 2022). Singapore. [link]

Lloyd Lois Antonie Reyes, Michael Antonio Ibañez, Ranz Sapinit, Mohammed Hussien, Joseph Marvin Imperial. On Applicability of Neural Language Models for Readability Assessment in Filipino. In Proceedings of the  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2022). Durham, United Kingdom. [pdf]

Lloyd Lois Antonie Reyes, Michael Antonio Ibañez, Ranz Sapinit, Mohammed Hussien, Joseph Marvin Imperial. A Baseline Readability Model for Cebuano. In Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022). [pdf] [code]

Joseph Marvin Imperial. Uniform Complexity for Text Generation. Submitted for review. [pdf][code]

Joseph Marvin Imperial. NU HLT at CMCL 2022 Shared Task: Multilingual and Crosslingual Prediction of Human Reading Behavior in Universal Language Space. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2022) co-located at ACL 2022 in Dublin, Ireland. [pdf][code]

2021

Joseph Marvin Imperial and Ethel Ong. Under the Microscope: Interpreting Readability Assessment Models for Filipino. In Proceedings of the 35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 2021). [pdf]

Rachel Edita Roxas, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Angelica De La Cruz. Science Mapping of Publications in Natural Language Processing in the Philippines: 2006 to 2020. In Proceedings of the 35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC 2021). [pdf]

Michael Ibanez, Ranz Sapinit, Lloyd Antonie Reyes, Mohammed Hussien, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Ramon Rodriguez. Audio-Based Hate Speech Classification from Online Short-Form Videos. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Asian Language Information Processing (IALP 2021). [pdf]

Myron Darrel Montefalcon,  Jay Rhald Padilla, Joshua Lois Paulino, Jeline Go, Ramon Llabanes Rodriguez,  Joseph Marvin Imperial. Understanding Facial Expressions Expressing Hate from Online Short-Form Videos. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on E-Society, E-Education and E-Technology (ICSET 2021). BEST PAPER AWARD. [link] [pdf]

Rommel Urbano, Angelic Angeles, Ma. Nikki Quintos, Jeffrey Angelo Ajero, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Ramon Rodriguez. A BERT-based Hate Speech Classifier from Transcribed Online Short-Form Videos. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on E-Society, E-Education and E-Technology (ICSET 2021). [link] [pdf]

Joseph Marvin Imperial, Manolito Octaviano Jr., Jesvir Zuniega, Angelica De La Cruz, Rachel Edita Roxas. Deploying Kalahok 1.0: Profiling Disaster-Stricken Communities Towards Intervention Initiatives. In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC 2021). [link] [pdf]

Joseph Marvin Imperial. BERT Embeddings for Automatic Readability Assessment. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021). [pdf]

Joseph Marvin Imperial and Ethel Ong. A Simple Post-Processing Technique for Improving Readability Assessment of Texts using Word Mover's Distance. Submitted for review. [pdf]

Joseph Marvin Imperial and Ethel Ong. Diverse Linguistic Features for Assessing Reading Difficulty of Educational Filipino Texts. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2021). [pdf]

Joseph Marvin Imperial, Rachel Edita Roxas, Angelica De La Cruz, and Emmanuel Malaay. Cross-Textual Analysis of COVID-19 Tweets: On Themes and Trends Over Time. In Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT 2021). London, United Kingdom. [link] [pdf]

2020

Joseph Marvin Imperial and Ethel Ong.  Exploring Hybrid Linguistic Feature Sets to Measure Filipino Text Readability. In Proceedings of the International Asian Language Processing (IALP 2020). Monash University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [link] [pdf]

Clark Emmanuel Paulo, Arvin Ken Ramirez, David Clarence Reducindo Rannie Mark Mateo, Joseph Marvin Imperial. A Simple Disaster-Related Knowledge Base for Intelligent Agents. In Proceedings of 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 2020). Hanoi, Vietnam. [pdf]

Joseph Marvin Imperial and Ethel Ong.  Semi-Automatic Construction of Sight Words Dictionary for Filipino Text Readability. In Proceedings of Principles and Practice of Data and Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (PKAW2020). Yokohama, Japan. [link] [pdf]

Joseph Marvin Imperial, Ethel Ong. Application of Lexical Features Towards Improvement of Filipino Readability Identification of Children's Literature. In Proceedings of Philippine Computer Science Congress (PCSC 2020). Baguio City, Philippines. [pdf]

2019

Joseph Marvin Imperial, Rachel Edita Roxas, Erica Mae Campos, Jemelee Oandasan, Reyniel Caraballo, Ferry Winsley Sabdani, Ani Rosa Almario. Developing a machine learning-based grade level classifier for Filipino children’s literature. In Proceedings of the International Asian Language Processing (IALP) 2019. Shanghai, China. [link] [pdf]

Joseph Marvin Imperial, Czeritonnie Gail Ya-On, Jennifer Ureta. An experimental Tagalog Finite State Automata spellchecker with Levenshtein edit-distance feature. In Proceedings of the International Asian Language Processing (IALP) 2019. Shanghai, China. [link] [pdf]

Joseph Marvin Imperial, Czeritonnie Gail Ya-On, Gregory Cu. Motif search using Gibbs sampling: Notes on effectiveness in a distributed environment. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment, and Management (HNICEM) 2019. Laoag City, Philippines. [link] [pdf]

Lovely Joy Fajardo, Niño Joshua Sorillo, Jaycel Garlit, Cia Dennise Tomines, Mideth B Abisado, Joseph Marvin R Imperial, Ramon L Rodriguez, Bernie S Fabito. Doctor’s Cursive Handwriting Recognition System Using Deep Learning. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment, and Management (HNICEM) 2019. Laoag City, Philippines. [link] [pdf]

Joseph Marvin Imperial, Jeyrome Orosco, Shiela Mae Mazo, Lany Maceda. Sentiment Analysis of Typhoon Related Tweets using Standard and Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks. In Proceedings of National Natural Language Processing Research Symposium. [pdf]

2018

Erica Mae Campos, Reyniel Caraballo, Jemelee Oandasan, Ferry Winsley Sabdani and Joseph Marvin Imperial. Introducing FiTReX: A Machine-Learning Based Filipino Text Readability Index for Children's Literature. Presented at the NU Inter-School Computing Research Colloquium 2018. BEST PAPER AWARD.

Joseph Marvin Imperial, Jeyrome Orosco, Shiela Mae Mazo, Lany Maceda. Sentiment Analysis of Typhoon Related Tweets using Standard Recurrent Neural Networks. Presented at the NU Inter-School Computing Research Colloquium 2018. BEST PRESENTER AWARD.

Joseph Marvin Imperial, Jeyrome Orosco, Shiela Mae Mazo, Lany Maceda. Sentiment Analysis of Typhoon Related Tweets using Standard and Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks. Presented at the Bicol University University-Wide Research and Development Colloquium 2018. BEST PAPER AWARD - GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS CATEGORY.