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Multilingual Word Embeddings for Low-Resource Languages using Anchors and a Chain of Related Languages
Viktor Hangya, Silvia Severini, Radoslav Ralev +2
Very low-resource languages, having only a few million tokens worth of data, are not well-supported by multilingual NLP approaches due to poor quality cross-lingual word representa…
Graph-Based Multilingual Label Propagation for Low-Resource Part-of-Speech Tagging
Ayyoob Imani, Silvia Severini, Masoud Jalili Sabet +2
Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging is an important component of the NLP pipeline, but many low-resource languages lack labeled data for training. An established method for training a POS…
This joke is [MASK]: Recognizing Humor and Offense with Prompting
Junze Li, Mengjie Zhao, Yubo Xie +3
Humor is a magnetic component in everyday human interactions and communications. Computationally modeling humor enables NLP systems to entertain and engage with users. We investiga…
The Better Your Syntax, the Better Your Semantics? Probing Pretrained Language Models for the English Comparative Correlative
Leonie Weissweiler, Valentin Hofmann, Abdullatif Köksal +1
Construction Grammar (CxG) is a paradigm from cognitive linguistics emphasising the connection between syntax and semantics. Rather than rules that operate on lexical items, it pos…
Modeling Content-Emotion Duality via Disentanglement for Empathetic Conversation
Peiqin Lin, Jiashuo Wang, Hinrich Schütze +1
The task of empathetic response generation aims to understand what feelings a speaker expresses on his/her experiences and then reply to the speaker appropriately. To solve the tas…
Don't Forget Cheap Training Signals Before Building Unsupervised Bilingual Word Embeddings
Silvia Severini, Viktor Hangya, Masoud Jalili Sabet +2
Bilingual Word Embeddings (BWEs) are one of the cornerstones of cross-lingual transfer of NLP models. They can be built using only monolingual corpora without supervision leading t…