About

I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing at George Mason University.

My research interests are in computational linguistics and natural language processing. My research aims to enhance our understanding of human language and communication while, in turn, developing more robust and safer NLP systems in various domains such as education and healthcare.

Below is a list with selected publications. For a full list of publications please check Google Scholar.

Recent Selected Publications

mHumanEval - A Multilingual Benchmark to Evaluate Large Language Models for Code Generation
Nishat Raihan, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Marcos Zampieri
NAACL (2025) pdf

Large Language Models in Computer Science Education: A Systematic Literature Review
Nishat Raihan, Mohammed Latif Siddiq, Joanna CS Santos, Marcos Zampieri
SIGCSE (2025) pdf

Annotator Reliability Through In-Context Learning
Sujan Dutta, Deepak Pandita, Tharindu Weerasooriya, Marcos Zampieri, Christopher Homan, Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh
AAAI (2025) pdf

A Survey of Multimodal Sarcasm Detection
Shafkat Farabi, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Diptesh Kanojia, Yu Kong, Marcos Zampieri
IJCAI (2024) pdf

Language Variety Identification with True Labels
Marcos Zampieri, Kai North, Tommi Jauhiainen, Mariano Felice, Neha Kumari, Nishant Nair, Yash Bangera
LREC-COLING (2024) pdf

Native Language Identification in Texts: A Survey
Dhiman Goswami, Sharanya Thilagan, Kai North, Shervin Malmasi, Marcos Zampieri
NAACL (2024) pdf

Target-Based Offensive Language Identification
Marcos Zampieri, Skye Morgan, Kai North, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Austin Simmmons, Paridhi Khandelwal, Sara Rosenthal, Preslav Nakov
ACL (2023) pdf

Vicarious Offense and Noise Audit of Offensive Speech Classifiers
Tharindu Weerasooriya, Sujan Dutta, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri, Christopher Homan, Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh
EMNLP (2023) pdf

ALEXSIS-PT: A New Resource for Portuguese Lexical Simplification
Kai North, Marcos Zampieri, Tharindu Ranasinghe
COLING (2022) pdf

Handling Extreme Class Imbalance in Technical Logbook Datasets
Farhad Akhbardeh, Cecilia O. Alm, Marcos Zampieri, Travis Desell
ACL (2021) pdf

Multilingual Offensive Language Identification with Cross-lingual Embeddings
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri
EMNLP (2020) pdf

Predicting the Type and Target of Offensive Posts in Social Media
Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Preslav Nakov, Sara Rosenthal, Noura Farra, Ritesh Kumar
NAACL (2019) pdf

Books

		Automatic Language Identification in Texts Tommi Jauhiainen, Marcos Zampieri, Timothy Baldwin, Krister Lindén Synthetisis Lectures on Human Language Technologies Springer (2024)
		Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects: A Computational Perspective Marcos Zampieri, Preslav Nakov (Editors) Studies in Natural Language Processing Cambridge University Press (2021)