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Language Ideologies in a Multilingual Society: An LLM-based Analysis of Luxembourgish News Comments
Emilia Milano, Alistair Plum, Yves Scherrer +1
Detecting language ideologies is a valuable yet complex task for understanding how identities are constructed through discourse. In Luxembourg's multicultural and multilingual soci…
ltzGLUE: Luxembourgish General Language Understanding Evaluation
Alistair Plum, Felicia Körner, Anne-Marie Lutgen +8
This paper presents ltzGLUE, the first Natural Language Understanding (NLU) benchmark for Luxembourgish (LTZ) based on the popular GLUE benchmark for English. Although NLU tasks ar…
Variation is the Norm: Embracing Sociolinguistics in NLP
Anne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum, Verena Blaschke +2
In Natural Language Processing (NLP), variation is typically seen as noise and "normalised away" before processing, even though it is an integral part of language. Conversely, stud…
MUNIChus: Multilingual News Image Captioning Benchmark
Yuji Chen, Alistair Plum, Hansi Hettiarachchi +4
The goal of news image captioning is to generate captions by integrating news article content with corresponding images, highlighting the relationship between textual context and v…
Towards Simulating Social Media Users with LLMs: Evaluating the Operational Validity of Conditioned Comment Prediction
Nils Schwager, Simon Münker, Alistair Plum +1
The transition of Large Language Models (LLMs) from exploratory tools to active "silicon subjects" in social science lacks extensive validation of operational validity. This study…
A Subword Embedding Approach for Variation Detection in Luxembourgish User Comments
Anne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum, Christoph Purschke
This paper presents an embedding-based approach to detecting variation without relying on prior normalisation or predefined variant lists. The method trains subword embeddings on r…