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It's Not a Walk in the Park! Challenges of Idiom Translation in Speech-to-text Systems
Iuliia Zaitova, Badr M. Abdullah, Wei Xue +3
Idioms are defined as a group of words with a figurative meaning not deducible from their individual components. Although modern machine translation systems have made remarkable pr…
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Voice Conversion Improves Cross-Domain Robustness for Spoken Arabic Dialect Identification
Badr M. Abdullah, Matthew Baas, Bernd Möbius +1
Arabic dialect identification (ADI) systems are essential for large-scale data collection pipelines that enable the development of inclusive speech technologies for Arabic language…
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Attention on Multiword Expressions: A Multilingual Study of BERT-based Models with Regard to Idiomaticity and Microsyntax
Iuliia Zaitova, Vitalii Hirak, Badr M. Abdullah +3
This study analyzes the attention patterns of fine-tuned encoder-only models based on the BERT architecture (BERT-based models) towards two distinct types of Multiword Expressions…