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Pre-training Data Quality and Quantity for a Low-Resource Language: New Corpus and BERT Models for Maltese
Kurt Micallef, Albert Gatt, Marc Tanti +2
Multilingual language models such as mBERT have seen impressive cross-lingual transfer to a variety of languages, but many languages remain excluded from these models. In this pape…
Analysis of Data Augmentation Methods for Low-Resource Maltese ASR
Andrea DeMarco, Carlos Mena, Albert Gatt +3
Recent years have seen an increased interest in the computational speech processing of Maltese, but resources remain sparse. In this paper, we consider data augmentation techniques…
On the Language-specificity of Multilingual BERT and the Impact of Fine-tuning
Marc Tanti, Lonneke van der Plas, Claudia Borg +1
Recent work has shown evidence that the knowledge acquired by multilingual BERT (mBERT) has two components: a language-specific and a language-neutral one. This paper analyses the…
Annotating for Hate Speech: The MaNeCo Corpus and Some Input from Critical Discourse Analysis
Stavros Assimakopoulos, Rebecca Vella Muskat, Lonneke van der Plas +1
This paper presents a novel scheme for the annotation of hate speech in corpora of Web 2.0 commentary. The proposed scheme is motivated by the critical analysis of posts made in re…
MASRI-HEADSET: A Maltese Corpus for Speech Recognition
Carlos Mena, Albert Gatt, Andrea DeMarco +4
Maltese, the national language of Malta, is spoken by approximately 500,000 people. Speech processing for Maltese is still in its early stages of development. In this paper, we pre…
The societal and ethical relevance of computational creativity
Michele Loi, Eleonora Viganò, Lonneke van der Plas
In this paper, we provide a philosophical account of the value of creative systems for individuals and society. We characterize creativity in very broad philosophical terms, encomp…