Thank you Kristen Sheets for the action shot of e'lena 'alβ̞aɾeð me'ʝ̞að̞o's presentation at #ACL2022NLP! For those who missed it: Underline (requires conf. registration): underline.io/events/284/ses… Paper: aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.… Code: github.com/lirondos/coalas Models: huggingface.co/models?other=a…

Today at #ACL2022NLP, Constantine Lignos will be presenting our lab's position paper "Toward More Meaningful Resources for Lower-resourced Languages". In-person at 10:45am, virtual encore at 7pm (Dublin time).

Manuel Mager Manuel Mager (Turatemai) is now on the main stage at #acl2022nlp talking about AmericasNLP and his motivation for doing research on NLP for indigenous languages

Interested in high-quality multilingual text in lower-resourced languages? Come by BLT Lab @ Brandeis's poster at #LREC2022 at 9:30 today (P17) to learn about Multilingual Open Text (MOT), which has public domain text in 44 languages (for 13 of which we provide more text than Wikipedia).

If you are at #LREC2022 don't forget to check out our work with Constantine Lignos on annotating a corpus of Spa-Eng Twitter data accounting for the distinction between lexical borrowing vs codeswitching. Today at 17:15 in the auditorium 📄 Paper [pdf] lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lr…

Was that a codeswitch or "just" a borrowing? How do you even tell the difference? Come to the #LREC2022 auditorium at 17:15 to hear about work e'lena 'alβ̞aɾeð me'ʝ̞að̞o and are I are doing to try to annotate both at once for Spanish-English twitter data. Paper: lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lr…

Please join the #LREC2022 DCLRL workshop (dclrl.github.io) tomorrow, organized by lab members Constantine Lignos, @cpalenmichel, and Jonne Sälevä!

Interested in hearing about the challenges of working with lower-resourced languages from four researchers in the field? Come join the #DCLRL2022 workshop at tomorrow at 9:10-9:40am for a panel with A. Seza Doğruöz, @MathHtn, @heather_nlp, and Linda Wiechetek. #LREC2022

Imane Guellil presenting “Ara-Women-Hate: An Annotated Corpus Dedicated to Hate Speech Detection against Women in the Arabic Community” #DCLRL2022 #LREC2022

Felix Burkhardt presenting “SyntAct: A Synthesized Database of Basic Emotions” #DCLRL2022 #LREC2022

Erik Körner remotely presenting “Crawling Under-Resourced Languages - A Portal for Community-Contributed Corpus Collection” #DCLRL2022 #LREC2022

Linda Achilles remotely presenting “Data Sets of Eating Disorders by Categorizing Reddit and Tumblr Posts: A Multilingual Comparative Study Based on Empirical Findings of Texts and Images” #DCLRL2022 #LREC2022

Aparna Dutta presenting “Word-level Language Identification Using Subword Embeddings for Code-mixed Bangla-English Social Media Data” #DCLRL2022 #LREC2022

Muxuan Liu remotely presenting “Construction and Validation of a Japanese Honorific Corpus Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics” #DCLRL2022 #LREC2022

Eirini Chrysovalantou Giannikouri remotely presenting “Fine-grained Entailment: Resources for Greek NLI and Precise Entailment” #DCLRL2022 #LREC2022

Salomon Kabongo remotely presenting “LiSTra Automatic Speech Translation: English to Lingala Case Study” #DCLRL2022 #DCLRL2022

Chaak-ming Lau remotely presenting “Words.hk: A Comprehensive Cantonese Dictionary Dataset with Definitions, Translations and Transliterated Examples” #DCLRL2022 #LREC2022

Do models understand the structure of memes? Today at NAACL HLT 2027 SRW, Brandeis University GSAS CL MS students Ben Lambright and Jordan Youner will present work with me on a new corpus and models for meme understanding. Poster at 4pm (Exhibit Hall). Code/data: github.com/BenLambright/M…