10 papers
The Growing Gains and Pains of Iterative Web Corpora Crawling: Insights from South Slavic CLASSLA-web 2.0 Corpora
Taja Kuzman Pungeršek, Peter Rupnik, Vít Suchomel +1
Crawling national top-level domains has proven to be highly effective for collecting texts in less-resourced languages. This approach has been recently used for South Slavic langua…
Mići Princ -- A Little Boy Teaching Speech Technologies the Chakavian Dialect
Nikola Ljubešić, Peter Rupnik, Tea Perinčić
This paper documents our efforts in releasing the printed and audio book of the translation of the famous novel The Little Prince into the Chakavian dialect, as a computer-readable…
Supercharging Agenda Setting Research: The ParlaCAP Dataset of 28 European Parliaments and a Scalable Multilingual LLM-Based Classification
Taja Kuzman Pungeršek, Peter Rupnik, Daniela Širinić +1
This paper introduces ParlaCAP, a large-scale dataset for analyzing parliamentary agenda setting across Europe, and proposes a cost-effective method for building domain-specific po…
Charting the European LLM Benchmarking Landscape: A New Taxonomy and a Set of Best Practices
Špela Vintar, Taja Kuzman Pungeršek, Mojca Brglez +1
While new benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) are being developed continuously to catch up with the growing capabilities of new models and AI in general, using and evaluati…
State of the Art in Text Classification for South Slavic Languages: Fine-Tuning or Prompting?
Taja Kuzman Pungeršek, Peter Rupnik, Ivan Porupski +2
Until recently, fine-tuned BERT-like models provided state-of-the-art performance on text classification tasks. With the rise of instruction-tuned decoder-only models, commonly kno…
ParlaSpeech 3.0: Richly Annotated Spoken Parliamentary Corpora of Croatian, Czech, Polish, and Serbian
Nikola Ljubešić, Peter Rupnik, Ivan Porupski +1
ParlaSpeech is a collection of spoken parliamentary corpora currently spanning four Slavic languages - Croatian, Czech, Polish and Serbian - all together 6 thousand hours in size.…