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LR-Sum: Summarization for Less-Resourced Languages
Chester Palen-Michel, Constantine Lignos
This preprint describes work in progress on LR-Sum, a new permissively-licensed dataset created with the goal of enabling further research in automatic summarization for less-resou…
MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Ruder +42
African languages are spoken by over a billion people, but are underrepresented in NLP research and development. The challenges impeding progress include the limited availability o…
Borrowing or Codeswitching? Annotating for Finer-Grained Distinctions in Language Mixing
Elena Alvarez Mellado, Constantine Lignos
We present a new corpus of Twitter data annotated for codeswitching and borrowing between Spanish and English. The corpus contains 9,500 tweets annotated at the token level with co…
Detecting Unassimilated Borrowings in Spanish: An Annotated Corpus and Approaches to Modeling
Elena Álvarez-Mellado, Constantine Lignos
This work presents a new resource for borrowing identification and analyzes the performance and errors of several models on this task. We introduce a new annotated corpus of Spanis…
Toward More Meaningful Resources for Lower-resourced Languages
Constantine Lignos, Nolan Holley, Chester Palen-Michel +1
In this position paper, we describe our perspective on how meaningful resources for lower-resourced languages should be developed in connection with the speakers of those languages…
ParaNames: A Massively Multilingual Entity Name Corpus
Jonne Sälevä, Constantine Lignos
We introduce ParaNames, a multilingual parallel name resource consisting of 118 million names spanning across 400 languages. Names are provided for 13.6 million entities which are…
Multilingual Open Text Release 1: Public Domain News in 44 Languages
Chester Palen-Michel, June Kim, Constantine Lignos
We present Multilingual Open Text (MOT), a new multilingual corpus containing text in 44 languages, many of which have limited existing text resources for natural language processi…