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2,170 papers

Aalamaram: A Large-Scale Linguistically Annotated Treebank for the Tamil Language

A M Abirami, Wei Qi Leong, Hamsawardhini Rengarajan, D Anitha, R Suganya

MLInitiative@WILDRE7: Hybrid Approaches with Large Language Models for Enhanced Sentiment Analysis in Code-Switched and Code-Mixed Texts

Hariram Veeramani, Surendrabikram Thapa, Usman Naseem

FZZG at WILDRE-7: Fine-tuning Pre-trained Models for Code-mixed, Less-resourced Sentiment Analysis

Gaurish Thakkar, Marko Tadić, Nives Mikelic Preradovic

Creating Corpus of Low Resource Indian Languages for Natural Language Processing: Challenges and Opportunities

Pratibha Dongare

Finding the Causality of an Event in News Articles

Sobha Lalitha Devi, Pattabhi RK Rao

Exploring News Summarization and Enrichment in a Highly Resource-Scarce Indian Language: A Case Study of Mizo

Abhinaba Bala, Ashok Urlana, Rahul Mishra, Parameswari Krishnamurthy

Dharmaśāstra Informatics: Concept Mining System for Socio-Cultural Facet in Ancient India

Arooshi Nigam, Subhash Chandra

Multilingual Bias Detection and Mitigation for Indian Languages

Ankita Maity, Anubhav Sharma, Rudra Dhar, Tushar Abhishek, Manish Gupta

Findings of the WILDRE Shared Task on Code-mixed Less-resourced Sentiment Analysis for Indo-Aryan Languages

Priya Rani, Gaurav Negi, Saroj Jha, Shardul Suryawanshi, Atul Kr. Ojha

EmoMix-3L: A Code-Mixed Dataset for Bangla-English-Hindi for Emotion Detection

Nishat Raihan, Dhiman Goswami, Antara Mahmud, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Marcos Zampieri

Towards Disfluency Annotated Corpora for Indian Languages

Chayan Kochar, Vandan Vasantlal Mujadia, Pruthwik Mishra, Dipti Misra Sharma

Language-Specific Pruning for Efficient Reduction of Large Language Models

Maksym Shamrai

Entity Embellishment Mitigation in LLMs Output with Noisy Synthetic Dataset for Alignment

Svitlana Galeshchuk

LiBERTa: Advancing Ukrainian Language Modeling through Pre-training from Scratch

Mykola Haltiuk, Aleksander Smywiński-Pohl

Eval-UA-tion 1.0: Benchmark for Evaluating Ukrainian (Large) Language Models

Serhii Hamotskyi, Anna-Izabella Levbarg, Christian Hänig

Spivavtor: An Instruction Tuned Ukrainian Text Editing Model

Aman Saini, Artem Chernodub, Vipul Raheja, Vivek Kulkarni

From Bytes to Borsch: Fine-Tuning Gemma and Mistral for the Ukrainian Language Representation

Artur Kiulian, Anton Polishko, Mykola Khandoga, Oryna Chubych, Jack Connor

Fine-Tuning and Retrieval Augmented Generation for Question Answering Using Affordable Large Language Models

Tiberiu Boros, Radu Chivereanu, Stefan Dumitrescu, Octavian Purcaru

The UNLP 2024 Shared Task on Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Ukrainian

Mariana Romanyshyn, Oleksiy Syvokon, Roman Kyslyi

Ukrainian Visual Word Sense Disambiguation Benchmark

Yurii Laba, Yaryna Mohytych, Ivanna Rohulia, Halyna Kyryleyza, Hanna Dydyk-Meush

Automated Extraction of Hypo-Hypernym Relations for the Ukrainian WordNet

Nataliia Romanyshyn, Dmytro Chaplynskyi, Mariana Romanyshyn

Setting up the Data Printer with Improved English to Ukrainian Machine Translation

Yurii Paniv, Dmytro Chaplynskyi, Nikita Trynus, Volodymyr Kyrylov

Instant Messaging Platforms News Multi-Task Classification for Stance, Sentiment, and Discrimination Detection

Taras Ustyianovych, Denilson Barbosa

Introducing NER-UK 2.0: A Rich Corpus of Named Entities for Ukrainian

Dmytro Chaplynskyi, Mariana Romanyshyn

Creating Parallel Corpora for Ukrainian: A German-Ukrainian Parallel Corpus (ParaRook||DE-UK)

Maria Shvedova, Arsenii Lukashevskyi

Introducing the Djinni Recruitment Dataset: A Corpus of Anonymized CVs and Job Postings

Nazarii Drushchak, Mariana Romanyshyn

A Contemporary News Corpus of Ukrainian (CNC-UA): Compilation, Annotation, Publication

Stefan Fischer, Kateryna Haidarzhyi, Jörg Knappen, Olha Polishchuk, Yuliya Stodolinska

Exploring Boundaries and Intensities in Offensive and Hate Speech: Unveiling the Complex Spectrum of Social Media Discourse

Abinew Ali Ayele, Esubalew Alemneh Jalew, Adem Chanie Ali, Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann

Empowering Users and Mitigating Harm: Leveraging Nudging Principles to Enhance Social Media Safety

Gregor Donabauer, Emily Theophilou, Francesco Lomonaco, Sathya Bursic, Davide Taibi

DoDo Learning: Domain-Demographic Transfer in Language Models for Detecting Abuse Targeted at Public Figures

Angus Redlarski Williams, Hannah Rose Kirk, Liam Burke-Moore, Yi-Ling Chung, Ivan Debono

Offensiveness, Hate, Emotion and GPT: Benchmarking GPT3.5 and GPT4 as Classifiers on Twitter-specific Datasets

Nikolaj Bauer, Moritz Preisig, Martin Volk

Studying Reactions to Stereotypes in Teenagers: an Annotated Italian Dataset

Elisa Chierchiello, Tom Bourgeade, Giacomo Ricci, Cristina Bosco, Francesca D’Errico

FrenchToxicityPrompts: a Large Benchmark for Evaluating and Mitigating Toxicity in French Texts

Caroline Brun, Vassilina Nikoulina

Content Moderation in Online Platforms: A Study of Annotation Methods for Inappropriate Language

Baran Barbarestani, Isa Maks, Piek T.J.M. Vossen

Detecting Hate Speech in Amharic Using Multimodal Analysis of Social Media Memes

Melese Ayichlie Jigar, Abinew Ali Ayele, Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann

Ice and Fire: Dataset on Sentiment, Emotions, Toxicity, Sarcasm, Hate speech, Sympathy and More in Icelandic Blog Comments

Steinunn Rut Friðriksdóttir, Annika Simonsen, Atli Snær Ásmundsson, Guðrún Lilja Friðjónsdóttir, Anton Karl Ingason

Analyzing Offensive Language and Hate Speech in Political Discourse: A Case Study of German Politicians

Maximilian Weissenbacher, Udo Kruschwitz

Using Sarcasm to Improve Cyberbullying Detection

Xiaoyu Guo, Susan Gauch

LLM-Based Synthetic Datasets: Applications and Limitations in Toxicity Detection

Maximilian Schmidhuber, Udo Kruschwitz

ScalarLab@TRAC2024: Exploring Machine Learning Techniques for Identifying Potential Offline Harm in Multilingual Commentaries

Anagha H C, Saatvik M. Krishna, Soumya Sangam Jha, Vartika T. Rao, Anand Kumar M

NJUST-KMG at TRAC-2024 Tasks 1 and 2: Offline Harm Potential Identification

Jingyuan Wang, Jack Depp, Yang Yang

CLTL@HarmPot-ID: Leveraging Transformer Models for Detecting Offline Harm Potential and Its Targets in Low-Resource Languages

Yeshan Wang, Ilia Markov

A Federated Learning Approach to Privacy Preserving Offensive Language Identification

Marcos Zampieri, Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe

The Constant in HATE: Toxicity in Reddit across Topics and Languages

Wondimagegnhue Tsegaye Tufa, Ilia Markov, Piek T.J.M. Vossen

Environmental Impact Measurement in the MentalRiskES Evaluation Campaign

Alba María Mármol-Romero, Adrián Moreno-Muñoz, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, M. Dolores Molina-González, Arturo Montejo-Ráez

A Language Model Trained on Uruguayan Spanish News Text

Juan Pablo Filevich, Gonzalo Marco, Santiago Castro, Luis Chiruzzo, Aiala Rosá

Could We Have Had Better Multilingual LLMs if English Was Not the Central Language?

Ryandito Diandaru, Lucky Susanto, Zilu Tang, Ayu Purwarianti, Derry Tanti Wijaya

Fine-Tuning Open Access LLMs for High-Precision NLU in Goal-Driven Dialog Systems

Lluís Padró, Roser Sauri

Which Domains, Tasks and Languages are in the Focus of NLP Research on the Languages of Europe?

Diego Alves, Marko Tadić, Georg Rehm

Surveying the Technology Support of Languages

Annika Grützner-Zahn, Federico Gaspari, Maria Giagkou, Stefanie Hegele, Andy Way

Work in Progress: Text-to-speech on Edge Devices for Te Reo Māori and ‘Ōlelo Hawaiʻi

Tūreiti Keith

Why the Unexpected? Dissecting the Political and Economic Bias in Persian Small and Large Language Models

Ehsan Barkhordar, Surendrabikram Thapa, Ashwarya Maratha, Usman Naseem

ViHealthNLI: A Dataset for Vietnamese Natural Language Inference in Healthcare

Huyen Nguyen, Quyen The Ngo, Thanh-Ha Do, Tuan-Anh Hoang

UzABSA: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for the Uzbek Language

Sanatbek Gayratovich Matlatipov, Jaloliddin Rajabov, Elmurod Kuriyozov, Mersaid Aripov

Unsupervised Outlier Detection for Language-Independent Text Quality Filtering

Jón Daðason, Hrafn Loftsson

UniDive: A COST Action on Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology

Agata Savary, Daniel Zeman, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Anabela Barreiro, Olesea Caftanatov

Uncovering Social Changes of the Basque Speaking Twitter Community During COVID-19 Pandemic

Joseba Fernandez de Landa, Iker García-Ferrero, Ander Salaberria, Jon Ander Campos

Tracing Linguistic Heritage: Constructing a Somali-Italian Terminological Resource through Explorers’ Notebooks and Contemporary Corpus Analysis

Silvia Piccini, Giuliana Elizabeth Vilela Ruiz, Andrea Bellandi, Enrico Carniani

The First Parallel Corpus and Neural Machine Translation Model of Western Armenian and English

Ari Nubar Boyacıoğlu, Jan Niehues

TELP – Text Extraction with Linguistic Patterns

João Cordeiro, Purificação Moura Silvano, António Leal, Sebastião Pais

Tandem Long-Short Duration-based Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition

Dalai Mengke, Yan Meng, Peter Mihajlik

Solving Failure Modes in the Creation of Trustworthy Language Technologies

Gianna Leoni, Lee Steven, Tūreiti Keith, Keoni Mahelona, Peter-Lucas Jones

Seeding Alignment between Language Technology and Indigenous Methodologies: A Decolonizing Framework for Endangered Language Revitalization

Craig John Carpenter, John Lyon, Miles Thorogood, Jeannette C. Armstrong

Robust Guidance for Unsupervised Data Selection: Capturing Perplexing Named Entities for Domain-Specific Machine Translation

Seunghyun Ji, Hagai Raja Sinulingga, Darongsae Kwon

Resource Acquisition for Understudied Languages: Extracting Wordlists from Dictionaries for Computer-assisted Language Comparison

Frederic Blum, Johannes Englisch, Alba Hermida Rodriguez, Rik van Gijn, Johann-Mattis List

Residual Dropout: A Simple Approach to Improve Transformer’s Data Efficiency

Carlos Escolano, Francesca De Luca Fornaciari, Maite Melero

Quantifying the Ethical Dilemma of Using Culturally Toxic Training Data in AI Tools for Indigenous Languages

Pedro Henrique Domingues, Claudio Santos Pinhanez, Paulo Cavalin, Julio Nogima

Prompting towards Alleviating Code-Switched Data Scarcity in Under-Resourced Languages with GPT as a Pivot

Michelle Terblanche, Kayode Olaleye, Vukosi Marivate

Philippine Languages Database: A Multilingual Speech Corpora for Developing Systems for Low-Resource Languages

Rowena Cristina L. Guevara, Rhandley D. Cajote, Michael Gringo Angelo R. Bayona, Crisron Rudolf G. Lucas

PersianEmo: Enhancing Farsi-Dari Emotion Analysis with a Hybrid Transformer and Recurrent Neural Network Model

Mohammad Ali Hussiny, Mohammad Arif Payenda, Lilja Øvrelid

NLP for Arbëresh: How an Endangered Language Learns to Write in the 21st Century

Giulio Cusenza, Çağrı Çöltekin

Nepal Script Text Recognition Using CRNN CTC Architecture

Swornim Nakarmi, Sarin Sthapit, Arya Shakya, Rajani Chulyadyo, Bal Krishna Bal

Multilingual Self-supervised Visually Grounded Speech Models

Huynh Phuong Thanh Nguyen, Sakriani Sakti

Bi-dialectal ASR of Armenian from Naturalistic and Read Speech

Malajyan Arthur, Victoria Khurshudyan, Karen Avetisyan, Hossep Dolatian, Damien Nouvel

Mixat: A Data Set of Bilingual Emirati-English Speech

Maryam Khalifa Al Ali, Hanan Aldarmaki

Managing Fine-grained Metadata for Text Bases in Extremely Low Resource Languages: The Cases of Two Regional Languages of France

Marianne Vergez-Couret, Delphine Bernhard, Michael Nauge, Myriam Bras, Pablo Ruiz Fabo

Man or Machine: Evaluating Spelling Error Detection in Danish Newspaper Corpora

Eckhard Bick, Jonas Nygaard Blom, Marianne Rathje, Jørgen Schack

Language Models on a Diet: Cost-Efficient Development of Encoders for Closely-Related Languages via Additional Pretraining

Nikola Ljubešić, Vít Suchomel, Peter Rupnik, Taja Kuzman, Rik van Noord

Labadain-30k+: A Monolingual Tetun Document-Level Audited Dataset

Gabriel de Jesus, Sérgio Nunes

Italian-Ligurian Machine Translation in Its Cultural Context

Christopher R. Haberland, Jean Maillard, Stefano Lusito

Investigating Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages: Using Bavarian as a Case Study

Wan-hua Her, Udo Kruschwitz

Inter-language Transfer Learning for Visual Speech Recognition toward Under-resourced Environments

Fumiya Kondo, Satoshi Tamura

Indonesian-English Code-Switching Speech Recognition Using the Machine Speech Chain Based Semi-Supervised Learning

Rais Vaza Man Tazakka, Dessi Lestari, Ayu Purwarianti, Dipta Tanaya, Kurniawati Azizah

Improving Noisy Student Training for Low-resource Languages in End-to-End ASR Using CycleGAN and Inter-domain Losses

Chia-Yu Li, Ngoc Thang Vu

Improving Legal Judgement Prediction in Romanian with Long Text Encoders

Mihai Masala, Traian Rebedea, Horia Velicu

Improving Language Coverage on HeLI-OTS

Tommi Jauhiainen, Krister Lindén

Fostering the Ecosystem of Open Neural Encoders for Portuguese with Albertina PT* Family

Rodrigo Santos, João Rodrigues, Luís Gomes, João Ricardo Silva, António Branco

Forget NLI, Use a Dictionary: Zero-Shot Topic Classification for Low-Resource Languages with Application to Luxembourgish

Fred Philippy, Shohreh Haddadan, Siwen Guo

Exploring Text Classification for Enhancing Digital Game-Based Language Learning for Irish

Leona Mc Cahill, Thomas Baltazar, Sally Bruen, Liang Xu, Monica Ward

Evaluating Icelandic Sentiment Analysis Models Trained on Translated Data

Ólafur A. Jóhannsson, Birkir H. Arndal, Eysteinn Ö. Jónsson, Stefan Olafsson, Hrafn Loftsson

Developing Infrastructure for Low-Resource Language Corpus Building

Hedwig G. Sekeres, Wilbert Heeringa, Wietse de Vries, Oscar Yde Zwagers, Martijn Wieling

CorpusArièja: Building an Annotated Corpus with Variation in Occitan

Clamença Poujade, Myriam Bras, Assaf Urieli

BK3AT: Bangsamoro K-3 Children’s Speech Corpus for Developing Assessment Tools in the Bangsamoro Languages

Kiel D. Gonzales, Jazzmin R. Maranan, Francis Paolo D. Santelices, Edsel Jedd M. Renovalles, Nissan D. Macale

Bidirectional English-Nepali Machine Translation(MT) System for Legal Domain

Shabdapurush Poudel, Bal Krishna Bal, Praveen Acharya

Beyond Error Categories: A Contextual Approach of Evaluating Emerging Spell and Grammar Checkers

Þórunn Arnardóttir, Svanhvít Lilja Ingólfsdóttir, Haukur Barri Símonarson, Hafsteinn Einarsson, Anton Karl Ingason

BERTbek: A Pretrained Language Model for Uzbek

Elmurod Kuriyozov, David Vilares, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Assessing Pre-Built Speaker Recognition Models for Endangered Language Data

Gina-Anne Levow

Advancing Generative AI for Portuguese with Open Decoder Gervásio PT*

Rodrigo Santos, João Ricardo Silva, Luís Gomes, João Rodrigues, António Branco

A Novel Corpus for Automated Sexism Identification on Social Media

Lutfiye Seda Mut Altin, Horacio Saggion

A Bit of a Problem: Measurement Disparities in Dataset Sizes across Languages

Catherine Arnett, Tyler A. Chang, Benjamin Bergen