What do dialect speakers want? a survey of attitudes towards language technology for german dialects

V Blaschke, C Purschke, H Schütze, B Plank - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Natural language processing (NLP) has largely focused on modelling standardized
languages. More recently, attention has increasingly shifted to local, non-standardized …

Culturally Aware and Adapted NLP: A Taxonomy and a Survey of the State of the Art

CC Liu, I Gurevych, A Korhonen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.03930, 2024 - arxiv.org
The surge of interest in culturally aware and adapted Natural Language Processing (NLP)
has inspired much recent research. However, the lack of common understanding of the …

Modular Adaptation of Multilingual Encoders to Written Swiss German Dialect

J Vamvas, N Aepli, R Sennrich - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.14400, 2024 - arxiv.org
Creating neural text encoders for written Swiss German is challenging due to a dearth of
training data combined with dialectal variation. In this paper, we build on several existing …

Bootstrapping Pre-trained Word Embedding Models for Sign Language Gloss Translation

E McGill, L Chiruzzo, H Saggion - Proceedings of the 25th Annual …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
This paper explores a novel method to modify existing pre-trained word embedding models
of spoken languages for Sign Language glosses. These newly-generated embeddings are …

[PDF][PDF] There Is Plenty of Room at the Bottom: Challenges & Opportunities in Low-Resource Non-Standardized Language Varieties

N Aepli - 2024 - zora.uzh.ch
Abstract In 1959, Richard Feynman gave a famous lecture titled There is Plenty of Room at
the Bottom. This lecture is considered the birth of nanotechnology, which has become one of …