Research

My main research line focuses on several aspects of Natural Language Processing. These aspects involve poetry, morphology and phonology. But I also collaborate in projects about legal language, multimodal communication and Digital Humanities, in general. In what follows, you can see my list of publications and posters:

Publications:

  • 2026
  • [paper][poster]Bart Jongejan, Manex Agirrezabal, Costanza Navarretta and Patrizia Paggio, (2026) Visualising motion energy in videorecorded online meetings, Abstract in Symposium Series on Multimodal Communication, Leuven, Belgium
  • [paper]Patrizia Paggio, Manex Agirrezabal, Giulia Di Cristina, Bart Jongejan, Costanza Navarretta, (2026) Multimodal Entrainment and Feedback in Online Group Meetings, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026)
  • [paper]Thomas Hildebrandt, Hugo-Andrés López-Acosta, Konstantinos Varvoutas, Henrik Palmer Olsen, Marieke Anne Heyl, Manex Aguirrezabal Zabaleta, Bolette Pedersen, Daniel Hershcovich, Ilias Chalkidis, Ali Mohammed Ali Al-Laith, Amogh Raina, Tilman Zuckmantel, Morten Marquard, Søren Debois, Håkon Normann, Leif Storgaard, Ghita Thiesen, Jim Foli, Jakob Eiby, (2026) XHAILe: Explainable Hybrid AI for Computational Law and Accurate Legal Chatbots, 38th edition of the International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
  • Agirrezabal M., (2026) Analyzing poetic aspects and their interaction, Abstract at Plotting Poetry 9: Discord and Dissonance, Caen, France
  • Nykrog, N., Agirrezabal, M., (2026) Analysing Irregularity Consistently: A Scansion Model for Early Modern Danish Verse (1500–1700), Abstract at Plotting Poetry 9: Discord and Dissonance, Caen, France
  • Bekker-Nielsen Dunbar, M., Agirrezabal. M., (2026) Who is Sylvia? A comparison of plays by Albee and Rattigan, Abstract at Digital Humanities in the Nordic and the Baltic Countries 2026, Aarhus, Denmark
  • Agirrezabal. M., Vrieland, S., Kandzha, I., (2026) The effect of translatorial signals in the source language recognition, Abstract at Digital Humanities in the Nordic and the Baltic Countries 2026, Aarhus, Denmark
  • Nykrog, N., Agirrezabal. M. (2026) Developing an Automatic Scansion Model for Early Modern Danish Verse, Abstract at Digital Humanities in the Nordic and the Baltic Countries 2026, Aarhus, Denmark
  • 2025
  • [paper]Agirrezabal, M. and Gonçalo Oliveira, H., (2025) Refining Metrical Constraints in LLM-Generated Poetry with Feedback, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity ICCC'25, Campinas, Brazil.
  • Agirrezabal M., (2025) Automatic Scansion of Basque Poetry: Many Questions and Few Answers (yet), Abstract at Plotting Poetry: Skeletons in the Closet, Prague, Czechia.
  • Agirrezabal M., (2025) When Danes Prayed in German, Abstract at Session "From Digital to Distant Diplomatics, II: Computational Linguistics and Text Analysis", at the International Medieval Congress 2025, Leeds, United Kingdom.
  • Agirrezabal M., (2025) ChronoScansion: A Neural Model for the Scansion of English Poetry, Abstract at Digital Humanities in the Nordic and the Baltic Countries 2025, Tartu, Estonia.
  • 2024
  • [paper]Dunbar, M. Bekker-Nielsen, Agirrezabal, M., Bekker-Nielsen, T. (2024) Getting to Grippe With Influenza: An Investigation of Why the Disease Is Called That, Computational Humanities Research (CHR 2024), Aarhus, Denmark
  • [paper]Agirrezabal, M. (2024) Creating an Aligned Corpus of Sound and Text: The Multimodal Corpus of Shakespeare and Milton, UNPUBLISHEDLink to the corpus
  • [paper]Paggio, P., Agirrezabal, M., Jongejan, B. (2024) Movement entrainment in online meetings, Abstract in Symposium Series on Multimodal Communication, Frankfurt, Germany
  • [paper]Agirrezabal, M., Gonçalo Oliveira, H. (2024) Zero-Shot Metrical Poetry Generation with Open Language Models: a Quantitative Analysis, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity ICCC'24, Jönköping, Sweden. Link to the repository
  • [paper]Paggio, P., Agirrezabal, M., Navarretta, C., Vitasovic, L. (2024) Multimodal behaviour in an online environment: The GEHM Zoom corpus collection, LREC-COLING 2024, Turin, Italy. Link to the corpus
  • 2023
  • [SLIDES]Agirrezabal, Manex (2023), Recent years on automatic poetry generation: my own thoughts, Keynote Talk at SPELLL 2023 (Second International Conference on Speech and Language Technologies for Low-Resource Languages)
  • [paper]Agirrezabal, M., Boldsen, S., Hollenstein, N. (2023), The Hidden Folk: Linguistic Properties encoded in Multilingual Contextual Character Representations, Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL)
  • [paper]Agirrezabal, M., Gonçalo Oliveira, H., Ormazabal, A. (2023) Erato: Automatizing Poetry Evaluation, Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2023)
  • [paper]Agirrezabal, M., Paggio, P., Navarretta, C., Jongejan, B. (2023) Multimodal Detection and Classification of Head Movements in Face-to-Face Conversations: Exploring Models, Features and Their Interaction, Gesture and Speech in Interaction 2023
  • [paper]Aduriz, I., Agirrezabal, M., Agirre, E., Alegria, I., Arregi, X., Arriola, J.M., Artola, X., de Ilarraza, A.D., Estarrona, A., Etxeberria, I. and Ezeiza, N., Morfologia Konputazionala Euskaraz, 35 urte1. Miren Azkarateri, p.15
  • [paper]Krog, N., Agirrezabal, M. (2023), Diane Simmons at SemEval-2023 Task 5: Is it possible to make good clickbait spoilers using a Zero-Shot approach? Check it out!, Clickbait Spoiling Shared Task, Semeval 2023
  • [paper]Agirrezabal, M. (2023), Exploring the Distinction: Investigating the Recognition of Automatic Text Generation Systems and Differentiating Human Text from Language Models, Autextification Shared Task at IberLEF 2023, SEPLN 2023
  • [paper]Agirrezabal, M. (2023) KUCST at CheckThat 2023: How good can we be with a generic model?, Non-official non-published paper about CheckThat 2023 approach for subjectivity and political bias detection

  • 2022
  • [paper]Ormazabal, A., Artetxe, M., Agirrezabal, M., Soroa, A., Agirre E. (2023), PoeLM: A meter-and rhyme-controllable language model for unsupervised poetry generation, in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
  • [paper]Boldsen, S., Agirrezabal, M., & Hollenstein, N. (2022, May). Interpreting Character Embeddings With Perceptual Representations: The Case of Shape, Sound, and Color. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp. 6819-6836).
  • [paper]Grabe, I., Zhu, J., & Agirrezabal, M. (2022). Fashion Style Generation: Evolutionary Search with Gaussian Mixture Models in the Latent Space. In International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (Part of EvoStar) (pp. 84-100). Springer, Cham.
  • [paper]Agirrezabal, M., & Amann, J. (2022, May). KUCST@ LT-EDI-ACL2022: Detecting Signs of Depression from Social Media Text. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (pp. 245-250).

  • 2021
  • [paper]Paggio, P., Navarretta, C., Jongejan, B., Agirrezabal, M. (2021). Towards a Methodology Supporting Semiautomatic Annotation of Head Movements in Video-recorded Conversations. The Joint 15th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) and 3rd Designing Meaning Representations (DMR) Workshop
  • [paper] Morris, D. J., Agirrezabal, M., Brännström, K. J. & Aaby Gade, P. (2021). Lateralized Readiness Potentials Recorded with Near-Threshold Auditory Stimuli in Subjects Simulating Hearing loss. Journal of Audiology and Neurotology
  • [paper] Wiemerslage, A., McCarthy, A., Erdmann, A., Nicolai, G., Agirrezabal, M., Silfverberg, M., Hulden, M., Kann, K. (2021). Findings of the SIGMORPHON 2021 Shared Task on Unsupervised Morphological Paradigm Clustering. Proceedings of the Seventeenth SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology. pp. 72-81
  • [paper] Amann, J. & Agirrezabal, M. (2021). From meaning to perception - exploring the space between word and odor perception embeddings. First International Workshop on Multisensory Data & Knowledge. LDK 2021.
  • [paper] Agirrezabal M. (2021). The Flipped Classroom model for teaching Conditional Random Fields in an NLP course. Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP. Association for Computational Linguistics.

  • 2020
  • [paper] Agirrezabal, M. (2020). KU-CST at the Profiling Fake News spreaders Shared Task. Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2020. CLEF 2020 Labs and Workshops, Notebook Papers: CEUR-WS.org.
  • [paper] Agirrezabal, M., & Wedekind, J. (2020, July). KU-CST at the SIGMORPHON 2020 Task 2 on Unsupervised Morphological Paradigm Completion. In Proceedings of the 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology (pp. 111-116).
  • [paper] Paggio, P., Agirrezabal, M., Jongejan, B., & Navarretta, C. (2020, May). Automatic Detection and Classification of Head Movements in Face-to-Face Conversations. In Proceedings of LREC2020 Workshop" People in language, vision and the mind"(ONION2020) (pp. 15-21).

  • 2019
  • [paper] Boldsen, S., & Agirrezabal, M. (2019). The Seemingly (Un) systematic Linking Element in Danish. In Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (pp. 376-380). Turku, Finland
  • [paper] Boldsen S., Agirrezabal M., Paggio P., (2019) "Identifying Temporal Trends Based on Perplexity and Clustering: Are We Looking at Language Change?", Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, Florence, Italy
  • [paper] Agirrezabal, M., Altuna, B., Gil-Vallejo, L., Goikoetxea, J., & Gonzalez-Dios, I. (2019). "Creating vocabulary exercises through NLP", In Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries (pp. 18-32), Copenhagen, Denmark
  • [paper] Navarretta, C., Agirrezabal, M., Maegaard, B. (2019). "The fourth Digital Humanities Conference", In Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries (pp. 1-8), Copenhagen, Denmark

  • 2018
  • Paggio, P., Jongejan, B., Agirrezabal, M., & Navarretta, C. (2018). "Detecting head movements in video-recorded dyadic conversations". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Boulder, Colorado (USA)
  • Agirrezabal, M., Ping Ping Tse, A. (2018) "Gender Processing in Second Language Acquisition", Learning Language in Humans and Machines. Paris
  • Ping Ping Tse, A., Agirrezabal, M. (2018) "Top-Down Processing of Gender in Natural Second Language Acquisition Setting". International Conference on Predictive Processing. Donostia/San Sebastian
  • Agirrezabal, M. (2018). "KU-CST at CoNLL–SIGMORPHON 2018 Shared Task: a Tridirectional Model". In Proceedings of the CoNLL–SIGMORPHON 2018 Shared Task: Universal Morphological Reinflection (pp. 28-32), Brussels, Belgium
  • Pedersen B., Agirrezabal M., Nimb S., Olsen I., Olsen S., (2018) "Towards a principled approach to sense clustering–a case study of wordnet and dictionary senses in Danish", Global Wordnet Conference 2018, Singapore

  • 2017 and earlier
  • Agirrezabal M., Hulden M., Alegria I., (2017) "A comparison of Feature-based and Neural Scansion of Poetry", RANLP 2017, варна, Bulgaria
  • Agirrezabal M. (2017) "Automatic Scansion of Poetry", PhD Thesis
  • Agirrezabal M., Alegria I., Hulden M. (2017) Poesiaren eskantsio automatikoa: bi hizkuntzen azterketa. Ikergazte, Iruñea
  • Agirrezabal M., Hulden M., Alegria I., (2016) "Machine Learning for metrical analysis of English poetry", Coling 2016, Osaka, Japan
  • Gamallo P., Alegria I., Pichel Campos J.R., Agirrezabal M. (2016) Comparing two basic methods for discriminating between similar languages and varieties
  • Agirrezabal M., Hulden M., Arrieta B., Astigarraga A., (2016) "ZeuScansion: A Tool for Scansion of English Poetry", Journal of Language Modelling
  • Agirrezabal M., Gonzalez-Dios I., Lopez-Gazpio I. ,(2015) "Euskararen Sorkuntza Automatikoa: lehen urratsak", Ikergazte, Durango
  • Astigarraga A., Jauregi E., Lazkano E., Agirrezabal M., (2014) "Textual Coherence in a Verse-Maker Robot", Human-Computer Systems Interaction: Backgrounds and Applications 3, Springer International Publishing
  • Agirrezabal M., Heinz J., Hulden M., Arrieta B., (2014) "Assigning stress to out-of-vocabulary words: three approaches", International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas (NV), USA, Article
  • Manex Agirrezabal, Bertol Arrieta, Aitzol Astigarraga, Mans Hulden, (2014) "1986-2013 arteko Bertsolari Txapelketa Nagusien analisi estatistikoa", Euskal Herriko Bertsozale elkartea, Artikulua bertsozale elkartean
  • Manex Agirrezabal, Bertol Arrieta, Aitzol Astigarraga, Mans Hulden, (2013) "Bota bertsoa, eta guk aztertuko dugu: Azken urteetako Bertsolari Txapelketa Nagusien analisia", Elhuyar zientzia eta teknika p. 46-49, Artikulua Elhuyarren
  • Osinalde M., Astigarraga A., Rodriguez I., Agirrezabal M., (2013) "Towards Basque Oral Poetry Analysis: A Machine Learning Approach", Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Hissar, Bulgaria
  • Agirrezabal M., Arrieta B., Hulden M., Astigarraga A., (2013) "POS-tag based poetry generation with WordNet", Proceedings of the 14th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, ACL 2013, Sofia
  • Agirrezabal M., Hulden M., Arrieta B., Astigarraga A., (2013) "ZeuScansion: a tool for scansion of English poetry", Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing, St. Andrews
  • Perez-de-Vinaspre O., Oronoz M., Agirrezabal M., Lersundi M., (2013) "A Finite-State Approach to Translate SNOMED CT Terms into Basque Using Medical Prefixes and Suffixes",Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing, St. Andrews
  • A Astigarraga, M Agirrezabal, E Lazkano, E Jauregi, B Sierra, (2013) "Bertsobot: the first minstrel robot", The 6th International Conference on Human System Interaction (HSI), Gdansk
  • Agirrezabal M., Alegria I., Hulden M., (2012) “Using foma for language-based games”, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Games and NLP, JapTAL 2012, Kanazawa.
  • Agirrezabal M. (2012) Bertsobot: lehen urratsak. Master tesia. Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
  • Agirrezabal M., Alegria I., Arrieta B., Hulden M., (2012) “Finite-state technology in a verse-making tool”, Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing, Donostia-San Sebastián.
  • Agirrezabal M., Alegria I., Arrieta B., Hulden M., (2012) “BAD: An assistant tool for making verses in Basque”, Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences and Humanities, EACL 2012, Avignon.
  • Agirrezabal M. (2011) "Bertsotarako Arbel Digitala". Karrera Bukaerako Proiektua. Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Posters:

  • Agirrezabal M. (2020). The Flipped Classroom model for teaching Conditional Random Fields in an NLP course. Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  • Agirrezabal, M., & Wedekind, J. (2020, July). KU-CST at the SIGMORPHON 2020 Task 2 on Unsupervised Morphological Paradigm Completion. In Proceedings of the 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology (pp. 111-116). Link to poster
  • Boldsen S., Agirrezabal M., Paggio P., (2019) "Identifying Temporal Trends Based on Perplexity and Clustering: Are We Looking at Language Change?", Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, Florence, Italy Link to poster
  • Ping Ping Tse A., Agirrezabal M., (2018) Top-Down Processing of Gender in Natural Second Language Acquisition Setting, 1st International Conference on Predictive Processing, Donostia-San Sebastian Link to poster
  • Agirrezabal M., Ping Ping Tse A., (2018) Gender Processing in Second Language Acquisition, Learning Language in Humans and Machines (L2HM), Paris Link to poster
  • Paggio, P., Jongejan, B., Agirrezabal, M., & Navarretta, C. (2018). "Detecting head movements in video-recorded dyadic conversations". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Boulder, Colorado (USA)
  • Agirrezabal, M. (2018). "KU-CST at CoNLL–SIGMORPHON 2018 Shared Task: a Tridirectional Model". In Proceedings of the CoNLL–SIGMORPHON 2018 Shared Task: Universal Morphological Reinflection (pp. 28-32), Brussels, Belgium
  • Agirrezabal M., Hulden M., Alegria I., (2016) "Machine Learning for metrical analysis of English poetry", Coling 2016, Osaka, Japan
  • Osinalde M., Astigarraga A., Rodriguez I., Agirrezabal M., (2013) "Towards Basque Oral Poetry Analysis: A Machine Learning Approach", Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Hissar, Bulgaria
  • Agirrezabal M., Arrieta B., Hulden M., Astigarraga A., (2013) "POS-tag based poetry generation with WordNet", 14th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, ACL 2013, Sofia
  • Agirrezabal M., Alegria I., Arrieta B., Hulden M., (2012) "Finite-state technology in a verse-making tool", 10th International Workshop on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing, Donostia-San Sebastián.
  • Agirrezabal M., Alegria I., Hulden M. (2012) "Using foma for language-based games". 1st Workshop on Games and NLP (GAMNLP-12)
  • Agirrezabal M., Alegria I., Arrieta B., Hulden M., (2012) "BAD: An assistant tool for making verses in Basque", Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences and Humanities, EACL 2012, Avignon.