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most citedDiachronic word embeddings and semantic shifts: a survey

141 citations · 274 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

cs.CL2025

Fluent Alignment with Disfluent Judges: Post-training for Lower-resource Languages

David Samuel, Lilja Øvrelid, Erik Velldal +1

We propose a post-training method for lower-resource languages that preserves the fluency of language models even when aligned by disfluent reward models. Preference optimization i…

cs.CL2025

NorEval: A Norwegian Language Understanding and Generation Evaluation Benchmark

Vladislav Mikhailov, Tita Enstad, David Samuel +4

This paper introduces NorEval, a new and comprehensive evaluation suite for large-scale standardized benchmarking of Norwegian generative language models (LMs). NorEval consists of…

cs.CL2025

The Impact of Copyrighted Material on Large Language Models: A Norwegian Perspective

Javier de la Rosa, Vladislav Mikhailov, Lemei Zhang +16

The use of copyrighted materials in training language models raises critical legal and ethical questions. This paper presents a framework for and the results of empirically assessi…

cs.CL2024

Small Languages, Big Models: A Study of Continual Training on Languages of Norway

David Samuel, Vladislav Mikhailov, Erik Velldal +4

Training large language models requires vast amounts of data, posing a challenge for less widely spoken languages like Norwegian and even more so for truly low-resource languages l…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

NorBench -- A Benchmark for Norwegian Language Models

David Samuel, Andrey Kutuzov, Samia Touileb +5

We present NorBench: a streamlined suite of NLP tasks and probes for evaluating Norwegian language models (LMs) on standardized data splits and evaluation metrics. We also introduc…

cs.CL2023

Interpretable Word Sense Representations via Definition Generation: The Case of Semantic Change Analysis

Mario Giulianelli, Iris Luden, Raquel Fernandez +1

We propose using automatically generated natural language definitions of contextualised word usages as interpretable word and word sense representations. Given a collection of usag…