Findings of the VarDial evaluation campaign 2023

N Aepli, Ç Çöltekin, R Van Der Goot… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This report presents the results of the shared tasks organized as part of the VarDial
Evaluation Campaign 2023. The campaign is part of the tenth workshop on Natural …

A parallel corpus for Vietnamese central-northern dialect text transfer

T Le, A Luu - Findings of the Association for Computational …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
The Vietnamese language embodies dialectal variants closely attached to the nation's three
macro-regions: the Northern, Central and Southern regions. As the northern dialect forms …

We're Calling an Intervention: Taking a Closer Look at Language Model Adaptation to Different Types of Linguistic Variation

A Srivastava, D Chiang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.07304, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present a suite of interventions and experiments that allow us to understand language
model adaptation to text with linguistic variation (eg, nonstandard or dialectal text). Our …

BERTwich: Extending BERT's Capabilities to Model Dialectal and Noisy Text

A Srivastava, D Chiang - Findings of the Association for …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Real-world NLP applications often deal with nonstandard text (eg, dialectal, informal, or
misspelled text). However, language models like BERT deteriorate in the face of dialect …

Towards Equitable Natural Language Understanding Systems for Dialectal Cohorts: Debiasing Training Data

K Abboud, G Oz - Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Despite being widely spoken, dialectal variants of languages are frequently considered low
in resources due to lack of writing standards and orthographic inconsistencies. As a result …