5 papers
Sebastian, Basti, Wastl?! Recognizing Named Entities in Bavarian Dialectal Data
Siyao Peng, Zihang Sun, Huangyan Shan +4
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task to extract key information from texts, but annotated resources are scarce for dialects. This paper introduces the first dialect…
MaiBaam: A Multi-Dialectal Bavarian Universal Dependency Treebank
Verena Blaschke, Barbara Kovačić, Siyao Peng +2
Despite the success of the Universal Dependencies (UD) project exemplified by its impressive language breadth, there is still a lack in `within-language breadth': most treebanks fo…
Exploring the Robustness of Task-oriented Dialogue Systems for Colloquial German Varieties
Ekaterina Artemova, Verena Blaschke, Barbara Plank
Mainstream cross-lingual task-oriented dialogue (ToD) systems leverage the transfer learning paradigm by training a joint model for intent recognition and slot-filling in English a…
Does Manipulating Tokenization Aid Cross-Lingual Transfer? A Study on POS Tagging for Non-Standardized Languages
Verena Blaschke, Hinrich Schütze, Barbara Plank
One of the challenges with finetuning pretrained language models (PLMs) is that their tokenizer is optimized for the language(s) it was pretrained on, but brittle when it comes to…
A Survey of Corpora for Germanic Low-Resource Languages and Dialects
Verena Blaschke, Hinrich Schütze, Barbara Plank
Despite much progress in recent years, the vast majority of work in natural language processing (NLP) is on standard languages with many speakers. In this work, we instead focus on…