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Readability Measures and Automatic Text Simplification: In the Search of a Construct
Rémi Cardon, A. Seza Doğruöz
Readability is a key concept in the current era of abundant written information. To help making texts more readable and make information more accessible to everyone, a line of rese…
URIEL+: Enhancing Linguistic Inclusion and Usability in a Typological and Multilingual Knowledge Base
Aditya Khan, Mason Shipton, David Anugraha +5
URIEL is a knowledge base offering geographical, phylogenetic, and typological vector representations for 7970 languages. It includes distance measures between these vectors for 40…
Building Multilingual Datasets for Predicting Mental Health Severity through LLMs: Prospects and Challenges
Konstantinos Skianis, John Pavlopoulos, A. Seza Doğruöz
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into various medical fields, including mental health support systems. However, there is a gap in research regarding t…
A Reproducibility Study on Quantifying Language Similarity: The Impact of Missing Values in the URIEL Knowledge Base
Hasti Toossi, Guo Qing Huai, Jinyu Liu +3
In the pursuit of supporting more languages around the world, tools that characterize properties of languages play a key role in expanding the existing multilingual NLP research. I…
Who is bragging more online? A large scale analysis of bragging in social media
Mali Jin, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, A. Seza Doğruöz +1
Bragging is the act of uttering statements that are likely to be positively viewed by others and it is extensively employed in human communication with the aim to build a positive…
Predicting Machine Translation Performance on Low-Resource Languages: The Role of Domain Similarity
Eric Khiu, Hasti Toossi, David Anugraha +6
Fine-tuning and testing a multilingual large language model is expensive and challenging for low-resource languages (LRLs). While previous studies have predicted the performance of…
Representativeness as a Forgotten Lesson for Multilingual and Code-switched Data Collection and Preparation
A. Seza Doğruöz, Sunayana Sitaram, Zheng-Xin Yong
Multilingualism is widespread around the world and code-switching (CSW) is a common practice among different language pairs/tuples across locations and regions. However, there is s…
Learning from Partially Annotated Data: Example-aware Creation of Gap-filling Exercises for Language Learning
Semere Kiros Bitew, Johannes Deleu, A. Seza Doğruöz +2
Since performing exercises (including, e.g., practice tests) forms a crucial component of learning, and creating such exercises requires non-trivial effort from the teacher, there…
The Open-domain Paradox for Chatbots: Common Ground as the Basis for Human-like Dialogue
Gabriel Skantze, A. Seza Doğruöz
There is a surge in interest in the development of open-domain chatbots, driven by the recent advancements of large language models. The "openness" of the dialogue is expected to b…
A Survey of Code-switching: Linguistic and Social Perspectives for Language Technologies
A. Seza Doğruöz, Sunayana Sitaram, Barbara E. Bullock +1
The analysis of data in which multiple languages are represented has gained popularity among computational linguists in recent years. So far, much of this research focuses mainly o…
How "open" are the conversations with open-domain chatbots? A proposal for Speech Event based evaluation
A. Seza Doğruöz, Gabriel Skantze
Open-domain chatbots are supposed to converse freely with humans without being restricted to a topic, task or domain. However, the boundaries and/or contents of open-domain convers…
Resources for Turkish Natural Language Processing: A critical survey
Çağrı Çöltekin, A. Seza Doğruöz, Özlem Çetinoğlu
This paper presents a comprehensive survey of corpora and lexical resources available for Turkish. We review a broad range of resources, focusing on the ones that are publicly avai…
Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey
Dong Nguyen, A. Seza Doğruöz, Carolyn P. Rosé +1
Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature. Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) community in…