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05/31/2023
Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2023
This report presents the results of the shared tasks organized as part o...
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05/19/2023
Deep Learning Approaches to Lexical Simplification: A Survey
Lexical Simplification (LS) is the task of replacing complex for simpler...
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03/08/2023
Lexical Complexity Prediction: An Overview
The occurrence of unknown words in texts significantly hinders reading c...
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03/02/2023
Language Variety Identification with True Labels
Language identification is an important first step in many IR and NLP ap...
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02/06/2023
Findings of the TSAR-2022 Shared Task on Multilingual Lexical Simplification
We report findings of the TSAR-2022 shared task on multilingual lexical ...
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01/29/2023
Vicarious Offense and Noise Audit of Offensive Speech Classifiers
This paper examines social web content moderation from two key perspecti...
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12/01/2022
SOLD: Sinhala Offensive Language Dataset
The widespread of offensive content online, such as hate speech and cybe...
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11/22/2022
Predicting the Type and Target of Offensive Social Media Posts in Marathi
The presence of offensive language on social media is very common motiva...
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11/18/2022
Overview of the HASOC Subtrack at FIRE 2022: Offensive Language Identification in Marathi
The widespread of offensive content online has become a reason for great...
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09/19/2022
ALEXSIS-PT: A New Resource for Portuguese Lexical Simplification
Lexical simplification (LS) is the task of automatically replacing compl...
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09/12/2022
Lexical Simplification Benchmarks for English, Portuguese, and Spanish
Even in highly-developed countries, as many as 15-30% of the population ...
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09/10/2021
FBERT: A Neural Transformer for Identifying Offensive Content
Transformer-based models such as BERT, XLNET, and XLM-R have achieved st...
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09/08/2021
Cross-lingual Offensive Language Identification for Low Resource Languages: The Case of Marathi
The widespread presence of offensive language on social media motivated ...
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09/01/2021
An Ensemble Approach for Annotating Source Code Identifiers with Part-of-speech Tags
This paper presents an ensemble part-of-speech tagging approach for sour...
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07/30/2021
WLV-RIT at GermEval 2021: Multitask Learning with Transformers to Detect Toxic, Engaging, and Fact-Claiming Comments
This paper addresses the identification of toxic, engaging, and fact-cla...
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06/01/2021
SemEval-2021 Task 1: Lexical Complexity Prediction
This paper presents the results and main findings of SemEval-2021 Task 1...
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05/31/2021
An Exploratory Analysis of the Relation Between Offensive Language and Mental Health
In this paper, we analyze the interplay between the use of offensive lan...
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05/18/2021
LCP-RIT at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Exploring Linguistic Features for Lexical Complexity Prediction
This paper describes team LCP-RIT's submission to the SemEval-2021 Task ...
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05/12/2021
Multilingual Offensive Language Identification for Low-resource Languages
Offensive content is pervasive in social media and a reason for concern ...
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04/09/2021
WLV-RIT at SemEval-2021 Task 5: A Neural Transformer Framework for Detecting Toxic Spans
In recent years, the widespread use of social media has led to an increa...
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03/31/2021
Domain-specific MT for Low-resource Languages: The case of Bambara-French
Translating to and from low-resource languages is a challenge for machin...
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03/09/2021
Comparing Approaches to Dravidian Language Identification
This paper describes the submissions by team HWR to the Dravidian Langua...
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02/18/2021
MUDES: Multilingual Detection of Offensive Spans
The interest in offensive content identification in social media has gro...
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02/17/2021
Predicting Lexical Complexity in English Texts
The first step in most text simplification is to predict which words are...
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11/10/2020
Neural Machine Translation for Extremely Low-Resource African Languages: A Case Study on Bambara
Low-resource languages present unique challenges to (neural) machine tra...
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11/01/2020
WLV-RIT at HASOC-Dravidian-CodeMix-FIRE2020: Offensive Language Identification in Code-switched YouTube Comments
This paper describes the WLV-RIT entry to the Hate Speech and Offensive ...
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10/11/2020
Multilingual Offensive Language Identification with Cross-lingual Embeddings
Offensive content is pervasive in social media and a reason for concern ...
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06/12/2020
SemEval-2020 Task 12: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media (OffensEval 2020)
We present the results and main findings of SemEval-2020 Task 12 on Mult...
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05/25/2020
MaintNet: A Collaborative Open-Source Library for Predictive Maintenance Language Resources
Maintenance record logbooks are an emerging text type in NLP. They typic...
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04/29/2020
A Large-Scale Semi-Supervised Dataset for Offensive Language Identification
The use of offensive language is a major problem in social media which h...
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03/31/2020
Assessing Human Translations from French to Bambara for Machine Learning: a Pilot Study
We present novel methods for assessing the quality of human-translated a...
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03/16/2020
Offensive Language Identification in Greek
As offensive language has become a rising issue for online communities a...
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03/16/2020
CompLex — A New Corpus for Lexical Complexity Predicition from Likert Scale Data
Predicting which words are considered hard to understand for a given tar...
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08/16/2019
Improving CAT Tools in the Translation Workflow: New Approaches and Evaluation
This paper describes strategies to improve an existing web-based compute...
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08/16/2019
UDS--DFKI Submission to the WMT2019 Similar Language Translation Shared Task
In this paper we present the UDS-DFKI system submitted to the Similar La...
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04/27/2019
Experiments in Cuneiform Language Identification
This paper presents methods to discriminate between languages and dialec...
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04/16/2019
UTFPR at SemEval-2019 Task 5: Hate Speech Identification with Recurrent Neural Networks
In this paper we revisit the problem of automatically identifying hate s...
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03/19/2019
SemEval-2019 Task 6: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media (OffensEval)
This paper presents the results and main findings of the shared task on ...
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02/25/2019
Predicting the Type and Target of Offensive Posts in Social Media
As offensive content has become pervasive in social media, there has bee...
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11/12/2018
Classifying Patent Applications with Ensemble Methods
We present methods for the automatic classification of patent applicatio...
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08/14/2018
Classifier Ensembles for Dialect and Language Variety Identification
In this paper we present ensemble-based systems for dialect and language...
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07/09/2018
Discriminating between Indo-Aryan Languages Using SVM Ensembles
In this paper we present a system based on SVM ensembles trained on char...
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07/02/2018
A Neural Approach to Language Variety Translation
In this paper we present the first neural-based machine translation syst...
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04/30/2018
A Portuguese Native Language Identification Dataset
In this paper we present NLI-PT, the first Portuguese dataset compiled f...
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04/24/2018
A Report on the Complex Word Identification Shared Task 2018
We report the findings of the second Complex Word Identification (CWI) s...
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04/22/2018
Automatic Language Identification in Texts: A Survey
Language identification (LI) is the problem of determining the natural l...
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03/14/2018
Challenges in Discriminating Profanity from Hate Speech
In this study we approach the problem of distinguishing general profanit...
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02/22/2018
RDF2PT: Generating Brazilian Portuguese Texts from RDF Data
The generation of natural language from Resource Description Framework (...
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02/22/2018
LIDIOMS: A Multilingual Linked Idioms Data Set
In this paper, we describe the LIDIOMS data set, a multilingual RDF repr...
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12/18/2017