Niels Vanhasbroeck
Author directory2026
FLAME: A New Dataset on FLemish Accounts of Momentary Experiences
Ratna Kandala | Niels Vanhasbroeck | Katie Hoemann
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Ratna Kandala | Niels Vanhasbroeck | Katie Hoemann
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
We introduce FLAME (FLemish Accounts of Momentary Experiences), a corpus of nearly 25,000 personal narratives in Belgian-Dutch (Flemish), collected through experience sampling to support Natural Language Processing (NLP) research on an underrepresented variety. Such everyday narratives are rich in culturally grounded themes, but their informal register and low-resource setting make thematic extraction hard. Comparing K-Means, LDA, and BERTopic, we find that human evaluation favors BERTopic, which produces the most coherent, culturally resonant topics. FLAME, thereby, offers a new resource for studying everyday language use in a low-resource variety.