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cs.CL2026

Language Ideologies in a Multilingual Society: An LLM-based Analysis of Luxembourgish News Comments

Emilia Milano, Alistair Plum, Yves Scherrer +1

Detecting language ideologies is a valuable yet complex task for understanding how identities are constructed through discourse. In Luxembourg's multicultural and multilingual soci…

cs.CL2026

ltzGLUE: Luxembourgish General Language Understanding Evaluation

Alistair Plum, Felicia Körner, Anne-Marie Lutgen +8

This paper presents ltzGLUE, the first Natural Language Understanding (NLU) benchmark for Luxembourgish (LTZ) based on the popular GLUE benchmark for English. Although NLU tasks ar…

cs.CL2026

Variation is the Norm: Embracing Sociolinguistics in NLP

Anne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum, Verena Blaschke +2

In Natural Language Processing (NLP), variation is typically seen as noise and "normalised away" before processing, even though it is an integral part of language. Conversely, stud…

cs.CL2026

A Subword Embedding Approach for Variation Detection in Luxembourgish User Comments

Anne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum, Christoph Purschke

This paper presents an embedding-based approach to detecting variation without relying on prior normalisation or predefined variant lists. The method trains subword embeddings on r…

cs.CL2025

Identity-Aware Large Language Models require Cultural Reasoning

Alistair Plum, Anne-Marie Lutgen, Christoph Purschke +1

Large language models have become the latest trend in natural language processing, heavily featuring in the digital tools we use every day. However, their replies often reflect a n…

cs.CL2024

Text Generation Models for Luxembourgish with Limited Data: A Balanced Multilingual Strategy

Alistair Plum, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Christoph Purschke

This paper addresses the challenges in developing language models for less-represented languages, with a focus on Luxembourgish. Despite its active development, Luxembourgish faces…

cs.CL2024

Neural Text Normalization for Luxembourgish using Real-Life Variation Data

Anne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum, Christoph Purschke +1

Orthographic variation is very common in Luxembourgish texts due to the absence of a fully-fledged standard variety. Additionally, developing NLP tools for Luxembourgish is a diffi…

cs.CL2024

LuxBank: The First Universal Dependency Treebank for Luxembourgish

Alistair Plum, Caroline Döhmer, Emilia Milano +2

The Universal Dependencies (UD) project has significantly expanded linguistic coverage across 161 languages, yet Luxembourgish, a West Germanic language spoken by approximately 400…

cs.CL2024

Guided Distant Supervision for Multilingual Relation Extraction Data: Adapting to a New Language

Alistair Plum, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Christoph Purschke

Relation extraction is essential for extracting and understanding biographical information in the context of digital humanities and related subjects. There is a growing interest in…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

What Do Dialect Speakers Want? A Survey of Attitudes Towards Language Technology for German Dialects

Verena Blaschke, Christoph Purschke, Hinrich Schütze +1

Natural language processing (NLP) has largely focused on modelling standardized languages. More recently, attention has increasingly shifted to local, non-standardized languages an…