8 papers
Syntax as a Rosetta Stone: Universal Dependencies for In-Context Coptic Translation
Abhishek Purushothama, Emma Thronson, Alexia Guo +1
Low-resource machine translation requires methods that differ from those used for high-resource languages. This paper proposes a novel in-context learning approach to support low-r…
LLMBridge: An LLM Pipeline for End-to-end Referential Bridging Resolution in English
Lauren Levine, Amir Zeldes
In this paper, we introduce LLMBridge, a new LLM based system for the task of end-to-end referential bridging resolution in English. Our bridging resolution pipeline combines heuri…
GUMBridge: a Corpus for Varieties of Bridging Anaphora
Lauren Levine, Amir Zeldes
Bridging is an anaphoric phenomenon where the referent of an entity in a discourse is dependent on a previous, non-identical entity for interpretation, such as in "There is 'a hous…
Subjectivity in the Annotation of Bridging Anaphora
Lauren Levine, Amir Zeldes
Bridging refers to the associative relationship between inferable entities in a discourse and the antecedents which allow us to understand them, such as understanding what "the doo…
Building UD Cairo for Old English in the Classroom
Lauren Levine, Junghyun Min, Amir Zeldes
In this paper we present a sample treebank for Old English based on the UD Cairo sentences, collected and annotated as part of a classroom curriculum in Historical Linguistics. To…
A UD Treebank for Bohairic Coptic
Amir Zeldes, Nina Speransky, Nicholas Wagner +1
Despite recent advances in digital resources for other Coptic dialects, especially Sahidic, Bohairic Coptic, the main Coptic dialect for pre-Mamluk, late Byzantine Egypt, and the c…
Unifying the Scope of Bridging Anaphora Types in English: Bridging Annotations in ARRAU and GUM
Lauren Levine, Amir Zeldes
Comparing bridging annotations across coreference resources is difficult, largely due to a lack of standardization across definitions and annotation schemas and narrow coverage of…
Lacuna Language Learning: Leveraging RNNs for Ranked Text Completion in Digitized Coptic Manuscripts
Lauren Levine, Cindy Tung Li, Lydia Bremer-McCollum +2
Ancient manuscripts are frequently damaged, containing gaps in the text known as lacunae. In this paper, we present a bidirectional RNN model for character prediction of Coptic cha…