Publications

Conference paper

Krause, L., Heemskerk, E., de Boer, V., & Cheah, W. S. (2026, April 20). Towards Polyvocal Metadata Collection for Colonial Collections: a Pilot Study in Kuching, Malaysia. DH Benelux 2026, Maastricht, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19663429

Bakker, J., & Kamps, J. (2024, November). Cochrane-auto: An Aligned Dataset for the Simplification of Biomedical Abstracts. The Third Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2024), Miami, Florida, USA. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.tsar-1.5

Bakker, J., Yüksel, G., & Kamps, J. (2024, September). University of Amsterdam at the CLEF 2024 SimpleText Track. Working Notes of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2024), Grenoble, France. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14886987

Bakker, J., & Kamps, J. (2024, May). Beyond Sentence-level Text Simplification: Reproducibility Study of Context-Aware Document Simplification. The Workshop on DeTermIt! Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual Context @ LREC-COLING 2024 (DeTermIt), Torino, Italia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14886721

Bram Bakker and Iris Hendrickx (2025, November 21). Evaluation of large language models on hierarchical entity matching for cultural heritage metadata. Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, 3:1180–1197. https://doi.org/10.63744/UKsLY7DKNPvA

Peeters, S., Romein, C. A., & Weber, A. (2025, November 21). Towards a NAvigator Tool for Dutch Verbaal-Archives: Leveraging Nineteenth-Century Archival Logic for Keyword Search. Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, 3, 1169–1179. https://doi.org/10.63744/byky4ladhcbb

Jan Bakker and Jaap Kamps. 2025. Section-Level Simplification of Biomedical Abstracts. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 13819–13833, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.697/

Taiki Papandreou, Jan Bakker, and Jaap Kamps. 2025. Medical Text Simplification From Jargon Detection to Jargon-Aware Prompting. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2025), pages 36–46, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2025.tsar-1.3/

Bram Bakker, Xiaomeng Wang (2025, October 25-26). Improving Text-to-image Retrieval of News Articles, Class-aware Fine-tuning of CLIP and the Use of Lead Text. MediaEval 2025 Workshop, Dublin, Ireland. https://2025.multimediaeval.com/paper16.pdf

Xiaomeng Wang, Bram Bakker (2025, October 25-26). Diffusion-Based Approaches for NewsImage Generation: A Comparative Study of SDXL Variants. MediaEval 2025 Workshop, Dublin, Ireland. https://2025.multimediaeval.com/paper17.pdf

Bruno N. Sotic and Jaap Kamps (2025, September 15). What Makes a User Click on a News Item? Understanding News Values of Visual Content in News Recommendation. Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries: 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2025, Tampere, Finland, September 23–26, 2025, Proceedings. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 321–339. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05409-8_19

Kreefft-Libiu A., Helms F., Selçuk C., Bakker J. and Kamp J. (2025, September 9-12). University of Amsterdam at the CLEF 2025 JOKER Track (Vol. 4038, pages 2821-2828) CEUR-WS. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4038/paper_224.pdf

Bakker J., Vendeville B., Ermakova L. and Kamps J. (2025, September 9-12). Overview of the CLEF 2025 SimpleText Task 1: Simplify Scientific Text (Vol. 4038, pages 4167-4185). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4038/paper_344.pdf

Vendeville B.,Bakker J., Azarbonyad H., Ermakova L. and Kamps J. (2025, September 9-12). Overview of the CLEF 2025 SimpleText Task 2: : Identify and Avoid Hallucination (Vol. 4038, pages 4186-4204). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4038/paper_345.pdf

Papandreou T., Bakker J., Kamps J. (2025, September 9-12). University of Amsterdam at the CLEF 2025 SimpleText Track (Vol. 4038, pages 4356-4362) CEUR-WS. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4038/paper_359.pdf

Karlgren, J., Engels, M. I., Barrett, M., Gunti, R. R., Hoveyda, M., Nadalic Sotic, B., Kamps, J., Koistinen, M., & Zosa, E. (2025, September 9-12). Overview and Joint Report of the Robustness and Consistency Task of the ELOQUENT 2025 Lab for Evaluating Generative Language Model Quality: Notebook for the ELOQUENT Lab at CLEF 2025. In CLEF 2025 Working Notes (Vol. 4038, pages 1306-1319). CEUR-WS. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4038/paper_104.pdf

Sotić, Bruno N., & Kamps, J. (2025, September 9-12). Evaluating the Influence of Stylistic Prompt Variations on Semantic Interpretation. In CLEF 2025 Working Notes (Vol. 4038, pages 1443-1448). CEUR-WS. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4038/paper_115.pdf

Ermakova, L., Azarbonyad, H., Bakker, J., Vendeville, B., & Kamps, J. (2025, September). Overview of the CLEF 2025 SimpleText Track: Simplify Scientific Text (and Nothing More). Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2025), Madrid, Spain. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-04354-2_23

Liana Ermakova, Hosein Azarbonyad, Jan Bakker, Benjamin Vendeville, and Jaap Kamps. 2025. Simplification de Textes Scientifiques (et Rien de Plus). Rapport sur l’Action CLEF 2025 SimpleText. In Actes de la 20e Conférence en Recherche d’Information et Applications (CORIA), pages 230–232, Marseille, France. ATALA \\& ARIA. https://aclanthology.org/2025.jeptalnrecital-coria.20/

Ermakova, L., Azarbonyad, H., Bakker, J., Vendeville, B., & Kamps, J. (2025, April). CLEF 2025 SimpleText Track: Simplify Scientific Text (and Nothing More). 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88720-8_63

Bakker, J., Papandreou-Lazos, T., & Kamps, J. (2024, November). Biomedical Text Simplification Models Trained on Aligned Abstracts and Lay Summaries. The Thirty-Third Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2024), Gaithersburg, MD, USA. https://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec33/papers/UAmsterdam.plaba.pdf