4 papers
Indirect Question Answering in English, German and Bavarian: A Challenging Task for High- and Low-Resource Languages Alike
Miriam Winkler, Verena Blaschke, Barbara Plank
Indirectness is a common feature of daily communication, yet is underexplored in NLP research for both low-resource as well as high-resource languages. Indirect Question Answering…
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…
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…
Sign Language Sense Disambiguation
Jana Grimm, Miriam Winkler, Oliver Kraus +1
This project explores methods to enhance sign language translation of German sign language, specifically focusing on disambiguation of homonyms. Sign language is ambiguous and unde…