9 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…