Publications

What’s the Catch? Evaluating Temporal Consistency in Vision-Language Models, 2026.
Marek Hradil, Danae Sánchez Villegas.
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Reasoning Dynamics and the Limits of Monitoring Modality Reliance in Vision-Language Models, 2026.
Danae Sánchez Villegas, Samuel Lewis-Lim, Nikolaos Aletras, Desmond Elliott. COLM 2026.
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Beyond Binary Classification: Detecting Fine-Grained Sexism in Social Media Videos, 2026.
Laura De Grazia, Danae Sánchez Villegas, Desmond Elliott, Mireia Farrús, Mariona Taulé. Computational Linguistics 2026.
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ImageChain: Advancing Sequential Image-to-Text Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models. Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2026.
Danae Sánchez Villegas, Ingo Ziegler, Desmond Elliott.
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Movie Facts and Fibs (MF): A Benchmark for Long Movie Understanding. ICLR 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Intelligence: Next Token Prediction & Beyond, 2026.
E. Zaranis, A. Farinhas, S. Santos, B. Canaverde, M. M. Ramos, A. K. Surikuchi, A. Viveiros, B. Liao, E. Bueno-Benito, N. Sivakumaran, P. Vasylenko, S. Yu, S. Sannigrahi, W. Mohammed, B. Peters, D. Sánchez Villegas, E. Stengel-Eskin, G. Attanasio, J. Yoon, S. Frank, A. Suglia, C. Zerva, D. Elliott, M. Dimiccoli, M. Bansal, O. Lanz, R. Bernardi, R. Fernández, S. Pezzelle, V. Niculae, and A. F. T. Martins. EMNLP 2026
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EvalCards: A Framework for Standardized Evaluation Reporting, 2025.
R. Dhar, D. Sánchez Villegas A. Karamolegkou, A. Schiavone, Y. Yuan, X. Chen, J. Li, S. Frank, L. de Grazia, M. Swain, S. Brandl, D. Hershcovich, A. Søgaard, and D. Elliott.
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MuSeD: A Multimodal Spanish Dataset for Sexism Detection in Social Media Videos, 2025.
Laura De Grazia, Pol Pastells, Mauro Vázquez Chas, Desmond Elliott, Danae Sánchez Villegas , Mireia Farrús, Mariona Taulé.
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Evaluating Multimodal Language Models as Visual Assistants for Visually Impaired Users 🏆 SAC Highlight - Human-Centered NLP, In ACL 2025.
Antonia Karamolegkou, Malvina Nikandrou, Georgios Pantazopoulos, Danae Sánchez Villegas, Phillip Rust, Ruchira Dhar, Daniel Hershcovich, Anders Søgaard.
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Political advertising on Facebook: Campaign strategies deployed by major political parties in the UK. ECPR 2024 Panel Digital campaigning: Empirical research and normative implications.
Junyan Zhu, Andrew Barclay, Danae Sánchez Villegas.
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Improving Multimodal Classification of Social Media Posts by Leveraging Image-Text Auxiliary tasks. In EACL 2024 Findings.
Danae Sánchez Villegas, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Nikolaos Aletras.
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A Multimodal Analysis of Influencer Content on Twitter 🏆 Best Area Chair Award – Society & NLP. In AACL 2023.
Danae Sánchez Villegas, Catalina Goanta, Nikolaos Aletras.
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Sheffield’s Submission to the AmericasNLP Shared Task on Machine Translation into Indigenous Languages. 🥇 Best Submission. In Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas 2023.
Edward Gow-Smith, Danae Sánchez Villegas.
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Combining Humor and Sarcasm for Improving Political Parody Detection. In NAACL 2022.
Xiao Ao, Danae Sánchez Villegas, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Nikolaos Aletras.
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Point-of-Interest Type Prediction using Text and Images. In EMNLP 2021.
Danae Sánchez Villegas and Nikolaos Aletras.
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Analyzing Online Political Advertisements. In ACL Findings 2021.
Danae Sánchez Villegas, Saeid Mokaram, Nikolaos Aletras.
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Point-of-Interest Type Inference from Social Media Text. In AACL 2020.
Danae Sánchez Villegas, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Nikolaos Aletras.
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Analyzing Political Parody in Social Media. In ACL 2020.
Antonis Maronikolakis, Danae Sánchez Villegas, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Nikolaos Aletras.
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Beyond Words: Analyzing Social Media with Text and Images. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield.
Danae Sánchez Villegas.
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