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EACL 2023

712 papers

Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2023

Noëmi Aepli, Çağrı Çöltekin, Rob van der Goot, Tommi Jauhiainen, Mourhaf Kazzaz

SIDLR: Slot and Intent Detection Models for Low-Resource Language Varieties

Sang Yun Kwon, Gagan Bhatia, ElMoatez Billah Nagoudi, Alcides Alcoba Inciarte, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Using Ensemble Learning in Language Variety Identification

Mihaela Gaman

Two-stage Pipeline for Multilingual Dialect Detection

Ankit Vaidya, Aditya Kane

VarDial in the Wild: Industrial Applications of LID Systems for Closely-Related Language Varieties

Fritz Hohl, Soh-eun Shim

Dialect Representation Learning with Neural Dialect-to-Standard Normalization

Olli Kuparinen, Yves Scherrer

DiatopIt: A Corpus of Social Media Posts for the Study of Diatopic Language Variation in Italy

Alan Ramponi, Camilla Casula

The Use of Khislavichi Lect Morphological Tagging to Determine its Position in the East Slavic Group

Ilia Afanasev

Lemmatization Experiments on Two Low-Resourced Languages: Low Saxon and Occitan

Aleksandra Miletic, Janine Siewert

Fine-Tuning BERT with Character-Level Noise for Zero-Shot Transfer to Dialects and Closely-Related Languages

Aarohi Srivastava, David Chiang

Dialect and Variant Identification as a Multi-Label Classification Task: A Proposal Based on Near-Duplicate Analysis

Gabriel Bernier-Colborne, Cyril Goutte, Serge Leger

A Measure for Linguistic Coherence in Spatial Language Variation

Alfred Lameli, Andreas Schönberg

Comparing and Predicting Eye-tracking Data of Mandarin and Cantonese

Junlin Li, Bo Peng, Yu-Yin Hsu, Emmanuele Chersoni

BENCHić-lang: A Benchmark for Discriminating between Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian

Peter Rupnik, Taja Kuzman, Nikola Ljubešić

Reconstructing Language History by Using a Phonological Ontology. An Analysis of German Surnames

Hanna Fischer, Robert Engsterhold

Get to Know Your Parallel Data: Performing English Variety and Genre Classification over MaCoCu Corpora

Taja Kuzman, Peter Rupnik, Nikola Ljubešić

PALI: A Language Identification Benchmark for Perso-Arabic Scripts

Sina Ahmadi, Milind Agarwal, Antonios Anastasopoulos

Variation and Instability in Dialect-Based Embedding Spaces

Jonathan Dunn

Temporal Domain Adaptation for Historical Irish

Oksana Dereza, Theodorus Fransen, John P. McCrae

Does Manipulating Tokenization Aid Cross-Lingual Transfer? A Study on POS Tagging for Non-Standardized Languages

Verena Blaschke, Hinrich Schütze, Barbara Plank

Murreviikko - A Dialectologically Annotated and Normalized Dataset of Finnish Tweets

Olli Kuparinen

Optimizing the Size of Subword Vocabularies in Dialect Classification

Vani Kanjirangat, Tanja Samardžić, Ljiljana Dolamic, Fabio Rinaldi

Analyzing Zero-Shot transfer Scenarios across Spanish variants for Hate Speech Detection

Galo Castillo-lópez, Arij Riabi, Djamé Seddah

The UNLP 2023 Shared Task on Grammatical Error Correction for Ukrainian

Oleksiy Syvokon, Mariana Romanyshyn

RedPenNet for Grammatical Error Correction: Outputs to Tokens, Attentions to Spans

Bohdan Didenko, Andrii Sameliuk

A Low-Resource Approach to the Grammatical Error Correction of Ukrainian

Frank Palma Gomez, Alla Rozovskaya, Dan Roth

Comparative Study of Models Trained on Synthetic Data for Ukrainian Grammatical Error Correction

Maksym Bondarenko, Artem Yushko, Andrii Shportko, Andrii Fedorych

UA-GEC: Grammatical Error Correction and Fluency Corpus for the Ukrainian Language

Oleksiy Syvokon, Olena Nahorna, Pavlo Kuchmiichuk, Nastasiia Osidach

Creating a POS Gold Standard Corpus of Modern Ukrainian

Vasyl Starko, Andriy Rysin

The Parliamentary Code-Switching Corpus: Bilingualism in the Ukrainian Parliament in the 1990s-2020s

Olha Kanishcheva, Tetiana Kovalova, Maria Shvedova, Ruprecht von Waldenfels

Exploring Word Sense Distribution in Ukrainian with a Semantic Vector Space Model

Nataliia Cheilytko, Ruprecht von Waldenfels

Silver Data for Coreference Resolution in Ukrainian: Translation, Alignment, and Projection

Pavlo Kuchmiichuk

Extension Multi30K: Multimodal Dataset for Integrated Vision and Language Research in Ukrainian

Nataliia Saichyshyna, Daniil Maksymenko, Oleksii Turuta, Andriy Yerokhin, Andrii Babii

Abstractive Summarization for the Ukrainian Language: Multi-Task Learning with Hromadske.ua News Dataset

Svitlana Galeshchuk

The Evolution of Pro-Kremlin Propaganda From a Machine Learning and Linguistics Perspective

Veronika Solopova, Christoph Benzmüller, Tim Landgraf

GPT-2 Metadata Pretraining Towards Instruction Finetuning for Ukrainian

Volodymyr Kyrylov, Dmytro Chaplynskyi

Learning Word Embeddings for Ukrainian: A Comparative Study of FastText Hyperparameters

Nataliia Romanyshyn, Dmytro Chaplynskyi, Kyrylo Zakharov

Contextual Embeddings for Ukrainian: A Large Language Model Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation

Yurii Laba, Volodymyr Mudryi, Dmytro Chaplynskyi, Mariana Romanyshyn, Oles Dobosevych

Introducing UberText 2.0: A Corpus of Modern Ukrainian at Scale

Dmytro Chaplynskyi

On the Nature of Discrete Speech Representations in Multilingual Self-supervised Models

Badr M. Abdullah, Mohammed Maqsood Shaik, Dietrich Klakow

Gradual Language Model Adaptation Using Fine-Grained Typology

Marcell Richard Fekete, Johannes Bjerva

Language-Agnostic Measures Discriminate Inflection and Derivation

Coleman Haley, Edoardo M. Ponti, Sharon Goldwater

Grambank’s Typological Advances Support Computational Research on Diverse Languages

Hannah J. Haynie, Damian Blasi, Hedvig Skirgård, Simon J. Greenhill, Quentin D. Atkinson

Multilingual BERT has an Accent: Evaluating English Influences on Fluency in Multilingual Models

Isabel Papadimitriou, Kezia Lopez, Dan Jurafsky

CoToHiLi at SIGTYP 2023: Ensemble Models for Cognate and Derivative Words Detection

Liviu P. Dinu, Ioan-Bogdan Iordache, Ana Sabina Uban

ÚFAL Submission for SIGTYP Supervised Cognate Detection Task

Tomasz Limisiewicz

Findings of the SIGTYP 2023 Shared task on Cognate and Derivative Detection For Low-Resourced Languages

Priya Rani, Koustava Goswami, Adrian Doyle, Theodorus Fransen, Bernardo Stearns

Does Topological Ordering of Morphological Segments Reduce Morphological Modeling Complexity? A Preliminary Study on 13 Languages

Andreas Shcherbakov, Ekaterina Vylomova

Revisiting Dependency Length and Intervener Complexity Minimisation on a Parallel Corpus in 35 Languages

Andrew Thomas Dyer

Information-Theoretic Characterization of Vowel Harmony: A Cross-Linguistic Study on Word Lists

Julius Steuer, Johann-Mattis List, Badr M. Abdullah, Dietrich Klakow

Cross-lingual Transfer Learning with Persian

Sepideh Mollanorozy, Marc Tanti, Malvina Nissim

Corpus-based Syntactic Typological Methods for Dependency Parsing Improvement

Diego Alves, Božo Bekavac, Daniel Zeman, Marko Tadić

A Crosslinguistic Database for Combinatorial and Semantic Properties of Attitude Predicates

Deniz Özyıldız, Ciyang Qing, Floris Roelofsen, Maribel Romero, Wataru Uegaki

Trimming Phonetic Alignments Improves the Inference of Sound Correspondence Patterns from Multilingual Wordlists

Frederic Blum, Johann-Mattis List

The Denglisch Corpus of German-English Code-Switching

Doreen Osmelak, Shuly Wintner

Using Modern Languages to Parse Ancient Ones: a Test on Old English

Luca Brigada Villa, Martina Giarda

Identifying the Correlation Between Language Distance and Cross-Lingual Transfer in a Multilingual Representation Space

Fred Philippy, Siwen Guo, Shohreh Haddadan

Multilingual End-to-end Dependency Parsing with Linguistic Typology knowledge

Chinmay Choudhary, Colm O’riordan

You Can Have Your Data and Balance It Too: Towards Balanced and Efficient Multilingual Models

Tomasz Limisiewicz, Dan Malkin, Gabriel Stanovsky

Natural Language Processing in Ethiopian Languages: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities

Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Israel Abebe Azime, Abinew Ali Ayele, Moges Ahmed Mehamed

Investigating Sentiment-Bearing Words- and Emoji-based Distant Supervision Approaches for Sentiment Analysis

Ronny Mabokela, Mpho Roborife, Turguy Celik

Vowels and the Igala Language Resources

Mahmud Momoh

Comparing methods of orthographic conversion for Bàsàá, a language of Cameroon

Alexandra O’Neil, Daniel Swanson, Robert Pugh, Francis Tyers, Emmanuel Ngue Um

Towards a Swahili Universal Dependency Treebank: Leveraging the Annotations of the Helsinki Corpus of Swahili

Kenneth Steimel, Sandra Kübler

Evaluating the Sesotho rule-based syllabification system on Sepedi and Setswana words

Johannes Sibeko, Mmasibidi Setaka

Analyzing political formation through historical isiXhosa text analysis: Using frequency analysis to examine emerging African Nationalism in South Africa

Jonathan Schoots

IsiXhosa Intellectual Traditions Digital Archive: Digitizing isiXhosa texts from 1870-1914

Jonathan Schoots, Amandla Ngwendu, Jacques De Wet, Sanjin Muftic

Deep learning and low-resource languages: How much data is enough? A case study of three linguistically distinct South African languages

Roald Eiselen, Tanja Gaustad

A Corpus-Based List of Frequently Used Words in Sesotho

Johannes Sibeko, Orphee De Clercq

SpeechReporting Corpus: annotated corpora of West African traditional narratives

Ekaterina Aplonova, Izabela Jordanoska, Timofey Arkhangelskiy, Tatiana Nikitina

Preparing the Vuk’uzenzele and ZA-gov-multilingual South African multilingual corpora

Richard Lastrucci, Jenalea Rajab, Matimba Shingange, Daniel Njini, Vukosi Marivate

Unsupervised Cross-lingual Word Embedding Representation for English-isiZulu

Derwin Ngomane, Rooweither Mabuya, Jade Abbott, Vukosi Marivate

Automatic Spell Checker and Correction for Under-represented Spoken Languages: Case Study on Wolof

Thierno Ibrahima Cissé, Fatiha Sadat

A MWE lexicon formalism optimised for observational adequacy

Adam Lion-Bouton, Agata Savary, Jean-Yves Antoine

A Survey of MWE Identification Experiments: The Devil is in the Details

Carlos Ramisch, Abigail Walsh, Thomas Blanchard, Shiva Taslimipoor

Annotation of lexical bundles with discourse functions in a Spanish academic corpus

Eleonora Guzzi, Margarita Alonso-Ramos, Marcos Garcia, Marcos García Salido

Are Frequent Phrases Directly Retrieved like Idioms? An Investigation with Self-Paced Reading and Language Models

Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Marco S. G. Senaldi, Philippe Blache, Alessandro Lenci

Automatic Generation of Vocabulary Lists with Multiword Expressions

John Lee, Adilet Uvaliyev

Detecting Idiomatic Multiword Expressions in Clinical Terminology using Definition-Based Representation Learning

François Remy, Alfiya Khabibullina, Thomas Demeester

Enriching Multiword Terms in Wiktionary with Pronunciation Information

Lenka Bajčetić, Thierry Declerck, Gilles Sérasset

Graph-based multi-layer querying in Parseme Corpora

Bruno Guillaume

Idioms, Probing and Dangerous Things: Towards Structural Probing for Idiomaticity in Vector Space

Filip Klubička, Vasudevan Nedumpozhimana, John Kelleher

Investigating the Effects of MWE Identification in Structural Topic Modelling

Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Sebastianus Bruinsma, Mia-Marie Hammarlin

PARSEME corpus release 1.3

Agata Savary, Cherifa Ben Khelil, Carlos Ramisch, Voula Giouli, Verginica Barbu Mititelu

Predicting Compositionality of Verbal Multiword Expressions in Persian

Mahtab Sarlak, Yalda Yarandi, Mehrnoush Shamsfard

Romanian Multiword Expression Detection Using Multilingual Adversarial Training and Lateral Inhibition

Andrei Avram, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel

Token-level Identification of Multiword Expressions using Pre-trained Multilingual Language Models

Raghuraman Swaminathan, Paul Cook

Evaluating Sentence Alignment Methods in a Low-Resource Setting: An English-YorùBá Study Case

Edoardo Signoroni, Pavel Rychlý

Findings from the Bambara - French Machine Translation Competition (BFMT 2023)

Ninoh Agostinho Da Silva, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Alexander Antonov, Panga Azazia Kamate, Moussa Coulibaly

Measuring the Impact of Data Augmentation Methods for Extremely Low-Resource NMT

Annie Lamar, Zeyneb Kaya

Investigating Lexical Replacements for Arabic-English Code-Switched Data Augmentation

Injy Hamed, Nizar Habash, Slim Abdennadher, Ngoc Thang Vu

Improving Neural Machine Translation of Indigenous Languages with Multilingual Transfer Learning

Wei-rui Chen, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Language-Family Adapters for Low-Resource Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Alexandra Chronopoulou, Dario Stojanovski, Alexander Fraser

A Simplified Training Pipeline for Low-Resource and Unsupervised Machine Translation

Àlex R. Atrio, Alexis Allemann, Ljiljana Dolamic, Andrei Popescu-Belis

PEACH: Pre-Training Sequence-to-Sequence Multilingual Models for Translation with Semi-Supervised Pseudo-Parallel Document Generation

Alireza Salemi, Amirhossein Abaskohi, Sara Tavakoli, Azadeh Shakery, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh

Multilingual Bidirectional Unsupervised Translation through Multilingual Finetuning and Back-Translation

Bryan Li, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Ajay Patel, Chris Callison-Burch

Train Global, Tailor Local: Minimalist Multilingual Translation into Endangered Languages

Zhong Zhou, Jan Niehues, Alexander Waibel

Named Entity Annotation Projection Applied to Classical Languages

Tariq Yousef, Chiara Palladino, Gerhard Heyer, Stefan Jänicke

Towards a More In-Depth Detection of Political Framing

Qi Yu

Wartime Media Monitor (WarMM-2022): A Study of Information Manipulation on Russian Social Media during the Russia-Ukraine War

Maxim Alyukov, Maria Kunilovskaya, Andrei Semenov