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05/04/2023
What changes when you randomly choose BPE merge operations? Not much
We introduce three simple randomized variants of byte pair encoding (BPE...
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12/19/2022
LR-Sum: Summarization for Less-Resourced Languages
This preprint describes work in progress on LR-Sum, a new permissively-l...
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06/10/2022
Borrowing or Codeswitching? Annotating for Finer-Grained Distinctions in Language Mixing
We present a new corpus of Twitter data annotated for codeswitching and ...
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03/30/2022
Detecting Unassimilated Borrowings in Spanish: An Annotated Corpus and Approaches to Modeling
This work presents a new resource for borrowing identification and analy...
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02/28/2022
ParaNames: A Massively Multilingual Entity Name Corpus
This preprint describes work in progress on ParaNames, a multilingual pa...
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02/24/2022
Toward More Meaningful Resources for Lower-resourced Languages
In this position paper, we describe our perspective on how meaningful re...
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01/14/2022
Multilingual Open Text 1.0: Public Domain News in 44 Languages
We present a new multilingual corpus containing text in 44 languages, ma...
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10/29/2021
Overview of ADoBo 2021: Automatic Detection of Unassimilated Borrowings in the Spanish Press
This paper summarizes the main findings of the ADoBo 2021 shared task, p...
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07/29/2021
Addressing Barriers to Reproducible Named Entity Recognition Evaluation
To address what we believe is a looming crisis of unreproducible evaluat...
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04/12/2021
Macro-Average: Rare Types Are Important Too
While traditional corpus-level evaluation metrics for machine translatio...
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04/01/2021
Mining Wikidata for Name Resources for African Languages
This work supports further development of language technology for the la...
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03/23/2021
TMR: Evaluating NER Recall on Tough Mentions
We propose the Tough Mentions Recall (TMR) metrics to supplement traditi...
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03/22/2021
MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages
We take a step towards addressing the under-representation of the Africa...
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03/20/2021