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Standard-to-Dialect Transfer Trends Differ across Text and Speech: A Case Study on Intent and Topic Classification in German Dialects
Verena Blaschke, Miriam Winkler, Barbara Plank
Research on cross-dialectal transfer from a standard to a non-standard dialect variety has typically focused on text data. However, dialects are primarily spoken, and non-standard…
Make Every Letter Count: Building Dialect Variation Dictionaries from Monolingual Corpora
Robert Litschko, Verena Blaschke, Diana Burkhardt +2
Dialects exhibit a substantial degree of variation due to the lack of a standard orthography. At the same time, the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to process dialects rema…
A Multi-Dialectal Dataset for German Dialect ASR and Dialect-to-Standard Speech Translation
Verena Blaschke, Miriam Winkler, Constantin Förster +2
Although Germany has a diverse landscape of dialects, they are underrepresented in current automatic speech recognition (ASR) research. To enable studies of how robust models are t…
Add Noise, Tasks, or Layers? MaiNLP at the VarDial 2025 Shared Task on Norwegian Dialectal Slot and Intent Detection
Verena Blaschke, Felicia Körner, Barbara Plank
Slot and intent detection (SID) is a classic natural language understanding task. Despite this, research has only more recently begun focusing on SID for dialectal and colloquial v…
Improving Dialectal Slot and Intent Detection with Auxiliary Tasks: A Multi-Dialectal Bavarian Case Study
Xaver Maria Krückl, Verena Blaschke, Barbara Plank
Reliable slot and intent detection (SID) is crucial in natural language understanding for applications like digital assistants. Encoder-only transformer models fine-tuned on high-r…
Cross-Dialect Information Retrieval: Information Access in Low-Resource and High-Variance Languages
Robert Litschko, Oliver Kraus, Verena Blaschke +1
A large amount of local and culture-specific knowledge (e.g., people, traditions, food) can only be found in documents written in dialects. While there has been extensive research…