Program

Program

Workshop Program

Sunday, December 13, 2020 - From 2pm to 7pm CET


14:00–14:30- Opening Remarks and Shared Task Report

  • 14:05–14:25 - A REPORT ON THE VARDIAL EVALUATION CAMPAIGN 2020 - Mihaela Gaman, Dirk Hovy, Radu Tudor Ionescu, Heidi Jauhiainen, Tommi Jauhiainen, Krister Lindén, Nikola Ljubešic, Niko Partanen, Christoph Purschke, Yves Scherrer and Marcos Zampieri

14:30–15:30 - Invited Talk by Barbara Plank

TACKLING THE LONG TAIL IN NLP: TRANSFER TO LOW_RESOURCE LANGUAGES, VARIETIES AND DIALECTS

Abstract: The lack of publicly available training and evaluation data for low-resource languages, varieties and dialects hampers progress in Natural Language Processing (NLP), leaving the majority of the world's languages, varieties and speakers behind. As key NLP tasks such as part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition or intent and slot filling in task-oriented dialogue systems require abundant training data, it is desirable to reuse existing data in high-resource languages to develop models for low-resource scenarios. Transfer learning (TL) and multi-task learning (MTL) can help remedy this problem. In this talk, I will discuss TL and MTL methods to tackle this challenge and present some of our (on-going) work on NLP for low-resource languages, including Danish and a case study on a very low-resource dialect.

16:00 - 17:00 - Oral presentations

  • 16:00–16:15 - ASR FOR NON-STANDARDISED LANGUAGES WITH DIALECTAL VARIATION: THE CASE OF SWISS GERMAN - Iuliia Nigmatulina, Tannon Kew and Tanja Samardzic

  • 16:15–16:30 - LSDC - A COMPREHENSIVE DATASET FOR LOW SAXON DIALECT CLASSIFICATION - Janine Siewert, Yves Scherrer, Martijn Wieling and Jörg Tiedemann

  • 16:30–16:45 - MACHINE-ORIENTED NMT ADAPTATION FOR ZERO-SHOT NLP TASKS: COMPARING THE USEFULNESS OF CLOSE AND DISTANT LANGUAGES - Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Matteo Negri and Marco Turchi

  • 16:45–17:00 - CHARACTER ALIGNMENT IN MORPHOLOGICALLY COMPLEX TRANSLATION SETS FOR RELATED LANGUAGES - Michael Gasser, Binyam Ephrem Seyoum and Nazareth Amlesom Kifle

17:30-18:30 - Poster presentations (list below)

18:30–19:00 - Discussion and Closing


Poster Presentations


A DUAL-ENCODING SYSTEM FOR DIALECT CLASSIFICATION

Petru Rebeja and Dan Cristea

A FOUR-DIALECT TREEBANK FOR OCCITAN: BUILDING PROCESS AND PARSING EXPERIMENTS

Aleksandra Miletic, Myriam Bras, Marianne Vergez-Couret, Louise Esher, Clamença Poujade and Jean Sibille

A TOKENIZATION SYSTEM FOR THE KURDISH LANGUAGE

Sina Ahmadi

APPLYING MULTILINGUAL AND MONOLINGUAL TRANSFORMER-BASED MODELS FOR DIALECT IDENTIFICATION

Cristian Popa and Vlad Ștefănescu

BILINGUAL LEXICON INDUCTION ACROSS ORTHOGRAPHICALLY-DISTINCT UNDER-RESOURCED DRAVIDIAN LANGUAGES

Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Navaneethan Rajasekaran, Mihael Arcan, Kevin McGuinness, Noel E. O'Connor and John P. McCrae

BUILDING A CORPUS FOR THE ZAZA–GORANI LANGUAGE FAMILY

Sina Ahmadi

CHALLENGES IN NEURAL LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION: NRC AT VARDIAL 2020

Gabriel Bernier-Colborne and Cyril Goutte

COMBINING DEEP LEARNING AND STRING KERNELS FOR THE LOCALIZATION OF SWISS GERMAN TWEETS

Mihaela Gaman and Radu Tudor Ionescu

DEALING WITH DIALECTAL VARIATION IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BASQUE HISTORICAL CORPUS

Ainara Estarrona, Izaskun Etxeberria, Ricardo Etxepare, Manuel Padilla-Moyano and Ander Soraluze

DIALECT IDENTIFICATION UNDER DOMAIN SHIFT: EXPERIMENTS WITH DISCRIMINATING ROMANIAN AND MOLDAVIAN

Çağrı Çöltekin

DISCRIMINATING BETWEEN STANDARD ROMANIAN AND MOLDAVIAN TWEETS USING FILTERED CHARACTER NGRAMS

Andrea Ceolin and Hong Zhang

EXPERIMENTS IN LANGUAGE VARIETY GEOLOCATION AND DIALECT IDENTIFICATION

Tommi Jauhiainen, Heidi Jauhiainen and Krister Lindén

EXPLORING THE POWER OF ROMANIAN BERT FOR DIALECT IDENTIFICATION

George-Eduard Zaharia, Andrei-Marius Avram, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel and Traian Rebedea

GEOLOCATION OF TWEETS WITH A BILSTM REGRESSION MODEL

Piyush Mishra

HELJU@VARDIAL 2020: SOCIAL MEDIA VARIETY GEOLOCATION WITH BERT MODELS

Yves Scherrer and Nikola Ljubešić

NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION FOR TRANSLATING INTO CROATIAN AND SERBIAN

Maja Popović, Alberto Poncelas, Marija Brkic and Andy Way

RECYCLING AND COMPARING MORPHOLOGICAL ANNOTATION MODELS FOR ARMENIAN DIACHRONIC-VARIATIONAL CORPUS PROCESSING

Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Victoria Khurshudyan and Anaïd Donabédian-Demopoulos

REDISCOVERING THE SLAVIC CONTINUUM IN REPRESENTATIONS EMERGING FROM NEURAL MODELS OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION

Badr M. Abdullah, Jacek Kudera, Tania Avgustinova, Bernd Möbius and Dietrich Klakow

TOWARDS AUGMENTING LEXICAL RESOURCES FOR SLANG AND AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH

Alyssa Hwang, William R. Frey and Kathleen McKeown

URALIC LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION (ULI) 2020 SHARED TASK DATASET AND THE WANCA 2017 CORPORA

Tommi Jauhiainen, Heidi Jauhiainen, Niko Partanen and Krister Lindén

VULGARIS: ANALYSIS OF A CORPUS FOR MIDDLE-AGE VARIETIES OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE

Andrea Zugarini, Matteo Tiezzi and Marco Maggini

ZHAW-INIT - SOCIAL MEDIA GEOLOCATION AT VARDIAL 2020

Fernando Benites, Manuela Hürlimann, Pius von Däniken and Mark Cieliebak