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Classifying Patent Applications with Ensemble Methods
Fernando Benites, Shervin Malmasi, Marcos Zampieri
We present methods for the automatic classification of patent applications using an annotated dataset provided by the organizers of the ALTA 2018 shared task - Classifying Patent A…
Classifier Ensembles for Dialect and Language Variety Identification
Liviu P. Dinu, Alina Maria Ciobanu, Marcos Zampieri +1
In this paper we present ensemble-based systems for dialect and language variety identification using the datasets made available by the organizers of the VarDial Evaluation Campai…
Discriminating between Indo-Aryan Languages Using SVM Ensembles
Alina Maria Ciobanu, Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi +2
In this paper we present a system based on SVM ensembles trained on characters and words to discriminate between five similar languages of the Indo-Aryan family: Hindi, Braj Bhasha…
A Neural Approach to Language Variety Translation
Marta R. Costa-jussà, Marcos Zampieri, Santanu Pal
In this paper we present the first neural-based machine translation system trained to translate between standard national varieties of the same language. We take the pair Brazilian…
A Portuguese Native Language Identification Dataset
Iria del Río, Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi
In this paper we present NLI-PT, the first Portuguese dataset compiled for Native Language Identification (NLI), the task of identifying an author's first language based on their s…
A Report on the Complex Word Identification Shared Task 2018
Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann, Shervin Malmasi +5
We report the findings of the second Complex Word Identification (CWI) shared task organized as part of the BEA workshop co-located with NAACL-HLT'2018. The second CWI shared task…
Automatic Language Identification in Texts: A Survey
Tommi Jauhiainen, Marco Lui, Marcos Zampieri +2
Language identification (LI) is the problem of determining the natural language that a document or part thereof is written in. Automatic LI has been extensively researched for over…
Challenges in Discriminating Profanity from Hate Speech
Shervin Malmasi, Marcos Zampieri
In this study we approach the problem of distinguishing general profanity from hate speech in social media, something which has not been widely considered. Using a new dataset anno…
RDF2PT: Generating Brazilian Portuguese Texts from RDF Data
Diego Moussallem, Thiago Castro Ferreira, Marcos Zampieri +4
The generation of natural language from Resource Description Framework (RDF) data has recently gained significant attention due to the continuous growth of Linked Data. A number of…
LIDIOMS: A Multilingual Linked Idioms Data Set
Diego Moussallem, Mohamed Ahmed Sherif, Diego Esteves +2
In this paper, we describe the LIDIOMS data set, a multilingual RDF representation of idioms currently containing five languages: English, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian.…