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most citedUnsupervised Translation of German--Lower Sorbian: Exploring Training and Novel Transfer Methods on a Low-Resource Language

4 citations · 7 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2021

Multilingual Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation with Denoising Adapters

Ahmet Üstün, Alexandre Bérard, Laurent Besacier +1

We consider the problem of multilingual unsupervised machine translation, translating to and from languages that only have monolingual data by using auxiliary parallel language pai…

cs.CL20214 cited

Unsupervised Translation of German--Lower Sorbian: Exploring Training and Novel Transfer Methods on a Low-Resource Language

Lukas Edman, Ahmet Üstün, Antonio Toral +1

This paper describes the methods behind the systems submitted by the University of Groningen for the WMT 2021 Unsupervised Machine Translation task for German--Lower Sorbian (DE--D…

cs.CL2021

On the Difficulty of Translating Free-Order Case-Marking Languages

Arianna Bisazza, Ahmet Üstün, Stephan Sportel

Identifying factors that make certain languages harder to model than others is essential to reach language equality in future Natural Language Processing technologies. Free-order c…

cs.CL2021

From Masked Language Modeling to Translation: Non-English Auxiliary Tasks Improve Zero-shot Spoken Language Understanding

Rob van der Goot, Ibrahim Sharaf, Aizhan Imankulova +6

The lack of publicly available evaluation data for low-resource languages limits progress in Spoken Language Understanding (SLU). As key tasks like intent classification and slot f…

cs.CL2021

On the Effectiveness of Dataset Embeddings in Mono-lingual,Multi-lingual and Zero-shot Conditions

Rob van der Goot, Ahmet Üstün, Barbara Plank

Recent complementary strands of research have shown that leveraging information on the data source through encoding their properties into embeddings can lead to performance increas…

cs.CL2020

FiSSA at SemEval-2020 Task 9: Fine-tuned For Feelings

Bertelt Braaksma, Richard Scholtens, Stan van Suijlekom +2

In this paper, we present our approach for sentiment classification on Spanish-English code-mixed social media data in the SemEval-2020 Task 9. We investigate performance of variou…