Marcos Zampieri

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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...

Diptanu Sarkar, et al. ∙

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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 ...

Saurabh Gaikwad, et al. ∙

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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...

Christian D. Newman, et al. ∙

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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...

Skye Morgan, et al. ∙

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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...

Matthew Shardlow, et al. ∙

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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...

Ana-Maria Bucur, et al. ∙

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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 ...

Abhinandan Desai, et al. ∙

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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 ...

Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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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...

Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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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...

Allahsera Auguste Tapo, et al. ∙

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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...

Tommi Jauhiainen, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/18/2021

MUDES: Multilingual Detection of Offensive Spans

The interest in offensive content identification in social media has gro...

Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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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...

Matthew Shardlow, et al. ∙

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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...

Allahsera Auguste Tapo, et al. ∙

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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 ...

Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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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 ...

Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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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...

Marcos Zampieri, et al. ∙

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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...

Farhad Akhbardeh, et al. ∙

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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...

Sara Rosenthal, et al. ∙

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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...

Michael Leventhal, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/16/2020

Offensive Language Identification in Greek

As offensive language has become a rising issue for online communities a...

Zeses Pitenis, et al. ∙

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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...

Matthew Shardlow, et al. ∙

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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...

Mihaela Vela, et al. ∙

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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...

Santanu Pal, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/27/2019

Experiments in Cuneiform Language Identification

This paper presents methods to discriminate between languages and dialec...

Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, et al. ∙

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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...

Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, et al. ∙

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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 ...

Marcos Zampieri, et al. ∙

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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...

Marcos Zampieri, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/12/2018

Classifying Patent Applications with Ensemble Methods

We present methods for the automatic classification of patent applicatio...

Fernando Benites, et al. ∙

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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...

Liviu P. Dinu, et al. ∙

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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...

Alina Maria Ciobanu, et al. ∙

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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...

Marta R. Costa-Jussà, et al. ∙

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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...

Iria del Río, et al. ∙

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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...

Seid Muhie Yimam, et al. ∙

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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...

Tommi Jauhiainen, et al. ∙

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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...

Shervin Malmasi, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/22/2018

RDF2PT: Generating Brazilian Portuguese Texts from RDF Data

The generation of natural language from Resource Description Framework (...

Diego Moussallem, et al. ∙

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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...

Diego Moussallem, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/18/2017

Detecting Hate Speech in Social Media

In this paper we examine methods to detect hate speech in social media, ...

Shervin Malmasi, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/25/2017

Exploring the Use of Text Classification in the Legal Domain

In this paper, we investigate the application of text classification met...

Octavia-Maria Sulea, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/13/2017

Complex Word Identification: Challenges in Data Annotation and System Performance

This paper revisits the problem of complex word identification (CWI) fol...

Marcos Zampieri, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/02/2017

Compiling and Processing Historical and Contemporary Portuguese Corpora

This technical report describes the framework used for processing three ...

Marcos Zampieri, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/13/2017

Linguistic Features of Genre and Method Variation in Translation: A Computational Perspective

In this paper we describe the use of text classification methods to inve...

Ekaterina Lapshninova-Koltunski, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/04/2017

Predicting the Law Area and Decisions of French Supreme Court Cases

In this paper, we investigate the application of text classification met...

Octavia-Maria Sulea, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/22/2017

Native Language Identification on Text and Speech

This paper presents an ensemble system combining the output of multiple ...

Marcos Zampieri, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/03/2017

Including Dialects and Language Varieties in Author Profiling

This paper presents a computational approach to author profiling taking ...

Alina Maria Ciobanu, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/30/2016

Discriminating Similar Languages: Evaluations and Explorations

We present an analysis of the performance of machine learning classifier...

Cyril Goutte, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/30/2016

Modeling Language Change in Historical Corpora: The Case of Portuguese

This paper presents a number of experiments to model changes in a histor...

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