Michiel T. van der Meer

Publications

• HintsOfTruth: A Multimodal Checkworthiness Detection Dataset with Real and Synthetic Claims

  ACL | 2025

  M. van der Meer, P. Korshunov, S. Marcel, L. van der Plas BibTeX

  @inproceedings{van-der-meer-etal-2025-hintsoftruth, title = "{H}ints{O}f{T}ruth: A Multimodal Checkworthiness Detection Dataset with Real and Synthetic Claims", author = "Van Der Meer, Michiel and Korshunov, Pavel and Marcel, S{\'e}bastien and Van Der Plas, Lonneke", editor = "Che, Wanxiang and Nabende, Joyce and Shutova, Ekaterina and Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = jul, year = "2025", address = "Vienna, Austria", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.1510", doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.1510", pages = "31274--31291", }

• Extracting a Prototypical Argumentative Pattern in Financial Q&As

  LARP | 2025

  G. D'Agostino, M. van der Meer, C. Reed BibTeX

  @inproceedings{dagostino-etal-2025-extracting, title = "Extracting a Prototypical Argumentative Pattern in Financial {Q}{\&}{A}s", author = "D'Agostino, Giulia and Van Der Meer, Michiel and Reed, Chris", editor = "Ilinykh, Nikolai and Appelgren, Mattias and Lagerstedt, Erik", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 CLASP Conference on Language models And RePresentations (LARP)", month = sep, year = "2025", address = "Gothenburg, Sweden", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.clasp-main.5", doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.clasp-main.5", pages = "51--64", }

• Annotator-centric Active Learning for Subjective NLP Tasks

  EMNLP | 2024

  M. van der Meer, N. Falk, P.K. Murukannaiah, E. Liscio BibTeX

  @inproceedings{van-der-meer-etal-2024-annotator, title = "Annotator-Centric Active Learning for Subjective {NLP} Tasks", author = "van der Meer, Michiel and Falk, Neele and Murukannaiah, Pradeep K. and Liscio, Enrico", editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser and Bansal, Mohit and Chen, Yun-Nung", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = nov, year = "2024", address = "Miami, Florida, USA", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.1031", doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.1031", pages = "18537--18555", }

• An Empirical Analysis of Diversity in Argument Summarization

  EACL | 2024

  M. van der Meer, P. Vossen, C.M. Jonker, P.K. Murukannaiah BibTeX

  @inproceedings{van-der-meer-etal-2024-empirical, title = "An Empirical Analysis of Diversity in Argument Summarization", author = "van der Meer, Michiel and Vossen, Piek and Jonker, Catholijn M. and Murukannaiah, Pradeep K.", editor = "Graham, Yvette and Purver, Matthew", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = mar, year = "2024", address = "St. Julian's, Malta", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-long.123", doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.eacl-long.123", pages = "2028--2045", }

• A hybrid intelligence method for argument mining

  Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research | 2024

  M. van der Meer, E. Liscio, C. Jonker, A. Plaat, P. Vossen, P. Murukannaiah BibTeX

  @article{vandermeer2024hybrid, title={A hybrid intelligence method for argument mining}, author={van der Meer, Michiel and Liscio, Enrico and Jonker, Catholijn and Plaat, Aske and Vossen, Piek and Murukannaiah, Pradeep}, journal={Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research}, volume={80}, pages={1187--1222}, year={2024} }

• Facilitating Opinion Diversity through Hybrid NLP Approaches

  NAACL SRW | 2024

  M. van der Meer BibTeX

  @inproceedings{van-der-meer-2024-facilitating, title = "Facilitating Opinion Diversity through Hybrid {NLP} Approaches", author = "van der Meer, Michiel", editor = "Cao, Yang (Trista) and Papadimitriou, Isabel and Ovalle, Anaelia and Zampieri, Marcos and Ferraro, Francis and Swayamdipta, Swabha", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)", month = jun, year = "2024", address = "Mexico City, Mexico", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-srw.29", doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-srw.29", pages = "266--274", }

• Do Differences in Values Influence Disagreements in Online Discussions?

  EMNLP | 2023

  M. van der Meer, P. Vossen, C.M. Jonker, P.K. Murukannaiah BibTeX

  @inproceedings{van-der-meer-etal-2023-differences, title = "Do Differences in Values Influence Disagreements in Online Discussions?", author = "van der Meer, Michiel and Vossen, Piek and Jonker, Catholijn M. and Murukannaiah, Pradeep K.", editor = "Bouamor, Houda and Pino, Juan and Bali, Kalika", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = dec, year = "2023", address = "Singapore", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.992", doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.992", pages = "14752--14766", }

• Leveraging Few-Shot Data Augmentation and Waterfall Prompting for Response Generation

  Proceedings of the Eleventh Dialog System Technology Challenge | 2023

  L. Krause, S. Báez Santamaría, M. van der Meer, U. Khurana BibTeX

  @inproceedings{krause-etal-2023-leveraging, title = "Leveraging Few-Shot Data Augmentation and Waterfall Prompting for Response Generation", author = "Krause, Lea and Baez Santamaria, Selene and van der Meer, Michiel and Khurana, Urja", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eleventh Dialog System Technology Challenge", month = jun, year = "2023", address = "Prague, Czech Republic", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.dstc-1.1", pages = "1--8", }

• Reason Against the Machine: Future Directions for Mass Online Deliberation

  Frontiers in Political Science | 2022

  R. Shortall, A. Itten, M. van der Meer, P.K. Murukannaiah, C.M. Jonker BibTeX

  @article{shortall2022reason, title={Reason Against the Machine: Future Directions for Mass Online Deliberation}, author={Shortall, Ruth and Itten, Anatol and van der Meer, Michiel and Murukannaiah, Pradeep K and Jonker, Catholijn M}, journal={Frontiers in Political Science}, volume={4}, year={2022} }

• What values should an agent align with? An empirical comparison of general and context-specific values

  Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems | 2022

  E. Liscio, M. van der Meer, L.C. Siebert, C.M. Jonker, P.K. Murukannaiah BibTeX

  @article{liscio2022values, title={What values should an agent align with? An empirical comparison of general and context-specific values}, author={Liscio, Enrico and van der Meer, Michiel and Siebert, Luciano Cavalcante and Jonker, Catholijn M and Murukannaiah, Pradeep K}, journal={Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems}, volume={36}, number={1}, pages={23}, year={2022} }

• Interactive grounded language understanding in a collaborative environment: IGLU 2021

  NeurIPS 2021 Competitions and Demonstrations Track | 2022

  K. Naszadi, Z. Li, M. Aliannejadi, S. Mohanty, M. ter Hoeve, M. Bontev, et al. BibTeX

  @inproceedings{naszadi2022interactive, title={Interactive grounded language understanding in a collaborative environment: IGLU 2021}, author={Naszadi, Kata and Li, Zhengxiang and Aliannejadi, Mohammad and Mohanty, Shrestha and ter Hoeve, Maartje and Bontev, Mikhail and others}, booktitle={NeurIPS 2021 Competitions and Demonstrations Track}, pages={146--161}, year={2022} }

• Hyena: A hybrid method for extracting arguments from opinions

  HHAI2022: Augmenting Human Intellect | 2022

  M. van der Meer, E. Liscio, C.M. Jonker, A. Plaat, P. Vossen BibTeX

  @inproceedings{vandermeer2022hyena, title={Hyena: A hybrid method for extracting arguments from opinions}, author={van der Meer, Michiel and Liscio, Enrico and Jonker, Catholijn M and Plaat, Aske and Vossen, Piek}, booktitle={HHAI2022: Augmenting Human Intellect}, pages={17--31}, year={2022} }

• Will it blend? mixing training paradigms & prompting for argument quality prediction

  Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Argument Mining | 2022

  M. van der Meer, M. Reuver, U. Khurana, L. Krause, S.B. Santamaria BibTeX

  @inproceedings{van-der-meer-etal-2022-will, title = "Will It Blend? Mixing Training Paradigms {\&} Prompting for Argument Quality Prediction", author = "van der Meer, Michiel and Reuver, Myrthe and Khurana, Urja and Krause, Lea and Baez Santamaria, Selene", editor = "Lapesa, Gabriella and Schneider, Jodi and Jo, Yohan and Saha, Sougata", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Argument Mining", month = oct, year = "2022", address = "Online and in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea", publisher = "International Conference on Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.argmining-1.8", doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.argmining-1.8", pages = "95--103", }

• Axies: Identifying and Evaluating Context-Specific Values

  AAMAS | 2021

  E. Liscio, M. van der Meer, L.C. Siebert, C.M. Jonker, N. Mouter, P.K. Murukannaiah BibTeX

  @inproceedings{liscio2021axies, title={Axies: Identifying and Evaluating Context-Specific Values}, author={Liscio, Enrico and van der Meer, Michiel and Siebert, Luciano Cavalcante and Jonker, Catholijn M and Mouter, Niek and Murukannaiah, Pradeep K}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems}, pages={799--808}, year={2021} }

• A Collaborative Platform for Identifying Context-Specific Values

  AAMAS | 2021

  E. Liscio, M. van der Meer, C.M. Jonker, P.K. Murukannaiah BibTeX

  @inproceedings{liscio2021collaborative, title={A Collaborative Platform for Identifying Context-Specific Values}, author={Liscio, Enrico and van der Meer, Michiel and Jonker, Catholijn M and Murukannaiah, Pradeep K}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems}, year={2021} }

• Exploiting language instructions for interpretable and compositional reinforcement learning

  arXiv preprint | 2020

  M. van der Meer, M. Pirotta, E. Bruni BibTeX

  @article{vandermeer2020exploiting, title={Exploiting language instructions for interpretable and compositional reinforcement learning}, author={van der Meer, Michiel and Pirotta, Matteo and Bruni, Elia}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.04418}, year={2020} }

• The roasted tomato challenge for a humanoid robot

  International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions | 2016

  C. Lagrand, M. van der Meer, A. Visser BibTeX

  @inproceedings{lagrand2016roasted, title={The roasted tomato challenge for a humanoid robot}, author={Lagrand, Caitlin and van der Meer, Michiel and Visser, Arnoud}, booktitle={2016 International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions}, year={2016} }

• Autonomous robot soccer matches

  BNAIC2016 Proceedings | 2016

  C. Lagrand, P. de Kok, S. Negrijn, M. van der Meer, A. Visser BibTeX

  @inproceedings{lagrand2016autonomous, title={Autonomous robot soccer matches}, author={Lagrand, Caitlin and de Kok, Patrick and Negrijn, Sander and van der Meer, Michiel and Visser, Arnoud}, booktitle={BNAIC2016 Proceedings}, pages={237--238}, year={2016} }

• Hunting a robot controlled by an artificial brain

  Proceedings of the 27th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence | 2015

  M. van Harmelen, M. van der Meer, M. Boon, J. Gerbscheid, A. Visser BibTeX

  @inproceedings{vanharmelen2015hunting, title={Hunting a robot controlled by an artificial brain}, author={van Harmelen, Marin and van der Meer, Michiel and Boon, Maarten and Gerbscheid, Jonathan and Visser, Arnoud}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 27th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, year={2015} }