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Asad Basheer Sayeed
Professor
Linguistics and Theory of Science unitAbout Asad Basheer Sayeed
See my site at https://asayeed.github.io/
Link to my publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=mcQ2aj8AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
I've been working at the University of Gothenburg since 2017 in the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science, currently Professor of Computational Linguistics.
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Coded Appeals and Political Gains: Exploring the Impact of Racial Dogwhistles on Political
Support
Elina Lindgren, Björn Rönnerstrand, Gregor Rettenegger, Ellen Breitholtz, Robin Cooper, Asad Sayeed
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly - 2026 -
Tracking dogwhistles online and through time using distributional
semantics
Max Boholm, Elina Lindgren, Ellen Breitholtz, Robin Cooper, Gregor Rettenegger, Björn Rönnerstrand, Asad Basheer Sayeed
Journal of Computational Social Science - 2026 -
Who leads? Who follows? Temporal dynamics of political dogwhistles in Swedish online
communities
Max Boholm, Gregor Rettenegger, Ellen Breitholtz, Robin Cooper, Elina Lindgren, Björn Rönnerstrand, Asad Basheer Sayeed
Proceedings of the The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), August 1, 2025, Vienna, Austria / Agostina Calabrese, Christine de Kock, Debora Nozza, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Zeerak Talat, Francielle Vargas (eds.) - 2025 -
Active Curriculum Language Modeling over a Hybrid Pre-training
Method
Eleni Fysikoudi, Sharid Loáiciga, Asad Basheer Sayeed
Proceedings of the First BabyLM Workshop, November 8, 2025, Suzhou, China - 2025 -
Exploring smaller batch sizes for a high-performing BabyLM model
architecture
Sharid Loáiciga, Eleni Fysikoudi, Asad Basheer Sayeed
Proceedings of the First BabyLM Workshop, November 8, 2025, Suzhou, China - 2025 -
Coreference as an Indicator of Context Scope in Multimodal
Narrative
Nikolai Ilinykh, Shalom Lappin, Asad Sayeed, Sharid Loáiciga
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM² 2025), July 31-August 1, 2025, Vienna, Austria - 2025 -
Across the Board: Human–Human Game Learning
Dialogues
Mattias Appelgren, Erik Lagerstedt, Christine Howes, Asad Basheer Sayeed
Proceedings of the 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue – Poster Abstracts - 2025 -
The utility of (political) dogwhistles – a life cycle
perspective
Asad Sayeed, Ellen Breitholtz, Robin Cooper, Elina Lindgren, Gregor Rettenegger, Björn Rönnerstrand
Journal of Language and Politics - 2025 -
Political dogwhistles and semantic change in Swedish
politics
Björn Rönnerstrand, Max Boholm, Ellen Breitholtz, Robin Cooper, Elina Lindgren, Gregor Rettenegger, Asad Basheer Sayeed
INFORMATION COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY - 2025 -
A surprisal oracle for when every layer
counts
Xudong Hong, Asad Sayeed, Sharid Loáiciga
Proceedings of the BabyLM Challenge at the 28th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, November 15-16, 2024, Miami, Florida, USA - 2024 -
Every quantifier scope ambiguity is enabled by a
context
David Pagmar, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, September,11–12, 2024, Trento, Italy. - 2024 -
Using LLMs to generate training data for dialogue system
NLUs
Bogdan Laszlo, Staffan Larsson, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Poster Abstracts, September, 11–12, 2024, Trento, Italy - 2024 -
Summary of the Visually Grounded Story Generation
Challenge
X Hong, Asad Sayeed, V Demberg
Proceedings of the 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference: Generation Challenges, September 23-27, 2024, Tokyo, Japan / Simon Mille, Miruna-Adriana Clinciu (eds.) - 2024 -
Can political dogwhistles be predicted by distributional methods for analysis of lexical semantic
change?
Max Boholm, Björn Rönnerstrand, Ellen Breitholtz, Robin Cooper, Elina Lindgren, Gregor Rettenegger, Asad Sayeed
LChange 2024 - 5th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2024, Proceedings of the Workshop - 2024 -
Good Looking: How Gaze Patterns affect Users' Perceptions of an Interactive Social
Robot
Vidya Somashekarappa, Christine Howes, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, ARSO - 2024 -
Visually Grounded Story Generation
Challenge
X Hong, K Mehra, Asad Sayeed, V Demberg
Proceedings of the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference: Generation Challenges, September 11-15, 2023, Prague, Czechia - 2023 -
What are they looking at? Automatic Simultaneous Dyadic Gaze Detection from
Videos
Vidya Somashekarappa, Aram Karimi, Christine Howes, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, July 21–29, 2023, Sidney / M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.) - 2023 -
Neural Network Implementation of Gaze-Target Prediction for Human-Robot
Interaction
Vidya Somashekarappa, Asad Sayeed, Christine Howes
IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, RO-MAN - 2023 -
Political dogwhistles and community divergence in semantic
change
Max Boholm, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change - 2023 -
A surprisal oracle for active curriculum language
modeling
Xudong Hong, Sharid Loáiciga, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the BabyLM Challenge at the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, December 6-7, 2023, Singapore / Alex Warstadt, Aaron Mueller, Leshem Choshen, Ethan Wilcox, Chengxu Zhuang, Juan Ciro, Rafael Mosquera, Bhargavi Paranjabe, Adina Williams, Tal Linzen, Ryan Cotterell (Editors) - 2023 -
Visual Coherence Loss for Coherent and Visually Grounded Story
Generation
Xudong Hong, Vera Demberg, Asad Sayeed, Qiankun Zheng, Bernt Schiele
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - 2023 -
Visual Writing Prompts: Character-Grounded Story Generation with Curated Image
Sequences
X. D. Hong, Asad Sayeed, K. Mehra, V. Demberg, B. Schiele
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics - 2023 -
Thematic Fit Bits: Annotation Quality and Quantity Interplay for Event Participant
Representation
Yuval Marton, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 20-25 June 2022, Marseille, France - 2022 -
Distributional properties of political dogwhistle representations in Swedish
BERT
Niclas Hertzberg, Robin Cooper, Elina Lindgren, Björn Rönnerstrand, Gregor Rettenegger, Ellen Breitholtz, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), 14 July 2022, Seattle, Washington (Hybrid). - 2022 -
Where’s the Learning in Representation Learning for Compositional Semantics and the Case of Thematic
Fit
Mughilan Muthupari, Samrat Halder, Asad Sayeed, Yuval Marton
Proceedings of the Fifth BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, December 8, 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid) / Jasmijn Bastings, Yonatan Belinkov, Yanai Elazar, Dieuwke Hupkes, Naomi Saphra, Sarah Wiegreffe (Editors) - 2022 -
Mutual gaze detection and estimation: towards human-robot
interaction
Vidya Somashekarappa, Christine Howes, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the 26th Workshop On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, August, 22-24, 2022, Dublin - 2022 -
Reanalysis, probability, and the faculty of
language
Asad Sayeed
Probabilistic approaches to linguistic theory / edited by Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Rasmus Blanck, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Shalom Lappin, Aleksandre Maskharashvili. - 2022 -
Proceedings of the 2022 CLASP Conference on
(Dis)embodiment
Simon Dobnik, Julian Grove, Asad Sayeed
2022 -
Semantic shift in social
networks
Bill Noble, Asad Sayeed, R. Fernández, Staffan Larsson
Proceedings of *SEM 2021: The Tenth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, August 5 - 6, 2021 Bangkok, Thailand - 2021 -
A deep gaze into social and referential
interaction
Vidya Somashekarappa, Christine Howes, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 26–29 July 2021 Vienna, Austria - 2021 -
What do you mean by negotiation? Annotating social media discussions about word
meaning
Bill Noble, Kate Viloria, Staffan Larsson, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the 25th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, September 20–22, 2021, Potsdam / The Internet - 2021 -
Building Sense Representations in Danish by Combining Word Embeddings with Lexical
Resources
I. Olsen, B Pedersen, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the 2020 Globalex Workshop on Linked Lexicography. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020), Marseille, 11–16 May 2020 - 2020 -
An Annotation Approach for Social and Referential Gaze in
Dialogue
Vidya Somashekarappa, Christine Howes, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 11-16, 2020, Marseille, France - 2020 -
Exploiting Cross-Lingual Hints to Discover Event
Pronouns
Sharid Loáiciga, C. Hardmeier, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, and Stelios Piperidis (eds.), Marseille, France, 11–16 May 2020 - 2020 -
A reinforcement-learning approach to efficient
communication
Mikael Kågebäck, E. Carlsson, D. Dubhashi, Asad Sayeed
PLoS ONE - 2020 -
Diverse and Relevant Visual Storytelling with Scene Graph
Embeddings
X. Hong, R. Shetty, Asad Sayeed, K. Mehra, Vera Demberg, B. Schiele
The 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), online, November 19-20, 2020 - 2020 -
Eye Gaze in Interaction: Towards an Annotation Scheme for
Dialogue
Vidya Somashekarappa, Christine Howes, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, London, 4-6 September 2019- Poster Abstracts - 2019 -
Towards a Formal Model of Word Meaning
Negotiation
Bill Noble, Asad Sayeed, Staffan Larsson
Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Poster Abstracts - 2019 -
Usability in the Larger Reality: A Contrarian Argument for the Importance of Social and Political
Considerations
Asad Sayeed
2019 -
Verb-Second Effect on Quantifier Scope
Interpretation
Asad Sayeed, M Lindemann, Vera Demberg
Proceedings of the workshop on cognitive modeling and computational linguistics, 2019 conference of the North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - 2019 -
A Hybrid Model for Globally Coherent Story
Generation
F Zhai, Vera Demberg, P Shkadzko, W Shi, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the second workshop on storytelling, 57th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - 2019 -
Learning distributed event representations with a multi-task
approach
X. Hong, Asad Sayeed, V. Demberg
Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, New Orleans, June 5-6, 2018. - 2018 -
DeepColor: Reinforcement Learning optimizes information efficiency and well-formedness in color name
partitioning
M. Kågebäck, D. Dubhashi, Asad Sayeed
CogSci 2018, 40th annual Cognitive Science Society meeting, Madison Wisconsin USA, July 25-28 2018 - 2018 -
Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2018). January 7, 2018, Salt Lake City,
Utah.
Asad Sayeed, C. Jacobs, T. Linzen, M. van Schijndel
2018 -
Towards an annotation framework for incremental scope specification
update
Asad Sayeed
CLASP Papers in Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference on Logic and Machine Learning in Natural Language (LaML 2017), Gothenburg, 12–13 June 2017 / Simon Dobnik and Shalom Lappin (eds.) - 2017