Author

Elena-Simona Apostol

h-index 21 View on Semantic Scholar

We have 3 of 78 papers

We haven’t gathered this author’s papers yet. Follow them and we’ll fetch their work.

Not the right person? Other researchers publish under this name.

#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

IROH: Insightful Ranking Of Humor using Multi-Stage Hybrid Retrieval with Rationale-Distilled LLM Judges for JOKER 2026 Track Task 1 English

Our team, VANGUARD, presents IROH (Insightful Ranking of Humor), a three-stage retrieval system for JOKER Task 1 English at CLEF 2026, achieving first place on the leaderboard with 0.6347 MAP. Our pipeline combines hybrid sparse-dense retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, and a LoRA-adapted Large Language Model judge ens...

A. Mocanu, Sebastian Mocanu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică et al. · 0 citations

#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Through the Eyes of the Beholder: Biometric and Demographic Conditioning for Multimodal Sexism Detection

The VANGUARD team proposes a human-centered multimodal framework that analyses and incorporates the psychological and demographic characteristics of human annotators into the detection pipeline and releases the full pipeline and analysis to support reproducible human-centered modeling.

A. Mocanu, Sebastian Mocanu, Ciprian-Octavian Truica et al. · 0 citations

Jun 2026

Cross-lingual Relation Extraction with Large Language Models: Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and Fine-Tuned Evaluation on Romanian

The results show that Romanian incurs a 3 to 5 percentage point drop relative to English in prompt-only settings, that few-shot prompting provides marginal gains over zero-shot, and that QLoRA fine-tuning improves macro F1-Score by more than 22 percentage points in both languages while reducing the cross-lingual gap fr...

Dragoș-Mitruț Vasile, Elena-Simona Apostol, Stefan-Adrian Toma et al. · arXiv.org · 0 citations