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Invited Talk
Presenters: Nikola Ljubešić, Tanja Samardžić
Title: Together we are stronger: Collaborative development of language resources and technologies for South Slavic languages
Abstract: Developing language resources and technologies for South Slavic languages with small number of speakers and suboptimal socio-economic conditions is a formidable challenge. In this talk, we will share lessons learned during our over-a-decade-long efforts to enhance Croatian and Serbian language resources and technologies. Our success stems from four key factors: 1) prioritising a bottom-up approach over relying on top-down institutional support, 2) using the Web as the primary source of linguistic data, 3) fostering collaboration among researchers working on different South Slavic languages, and 4) keeping abreast of technological advancements that benefit our under-resourced development scenario. To conclude, we will discuss future prospects given the latest technological breakthroughs in language modeling.
The programme is also available here in PDF format.
Time Schedule
| 9:00 - 9:10 | Introduction |
| 9:10 - 10:30 | Regular papers I 9:10 - 9:30 - Resources and Few-shot Learners for In-context Learning in Slavic Languages Michal Štefánik, Marek Kadlčík, Piotr Gramacki and Petr Sojka 9:30 - 9:50 - Information Extraction from Polish Radiology Reports Using Language Models Aleksander Obuchowski, Barbara Klaudel and Patryk Jasik 9:50 - 10:10 - Dispersing the clouds of doubt: can cosine similarity of word embeddings help identify relation-level metaphors in Slovene? Mojca Brglez 10:10 - 10:30 - Named Entity Recognition for Low-Resource Languages - Profiting from Language Families Sunna Torge, Andrei Politov, Christoph Lehmann, Bochra Saffar and Ziyan Tao |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15 - 12:45 | Regular papers II 11:15 - 11:35 - Too Many Cooks Spoil the Model: Are Bilingual Models for Slovene Better than a Large Multilingual Model? Pranaydeep Singh, Aaron Maladry and Els Lefever 11:35 - 11:55 - On Experiments of Detecting Persuasion Techniques in Polish and Russian Online News: Preliminary Study [Online] Nikolaos Nikolaidis, Nicolas Stefanovitch and Jakub Piskorski 12:05 - 12:25 - Can BERT eat RuCoLA? Topological Data Analysis to Explain [Online] Irina Proskurina, Ekaterina Artemova and Irina Piontkovskaya 12:25 - 12:45 - Automatic text simplification of Russian texts using control tokens Anna Dmitrieva |
| 12:45 - 14:15 | Lunch break |
| 14:15 - 15:15 | Invited Talk Together we are stronger: Collaborative development of language resources and technologies for South Slavic languages Nikola Ljubešić, Tanja Samardžić |
| 15:15 - 15:20 | Shared Task overview Slav-NER: the 4th Cross-lingual Challenge on Recognition, Normalization, Classification, and Linking of Named Entities across Slavic languages Roman Yangarber, Jakub Piskorski, Anna Dmitrieva, Michał Marcińczuk, Pavel Přibáň, Piotr Rybak and Josef Steinberger |
| 15:20 - 15:45 | Pitch presentations: short papers and shared task papers MAUPQA: Massive Automatically-created Polish Question Answering Dataset [Online] Piotr Rybak TrelBERT: A pre-trained encoder for Polish Twitter [Online] Wojciech Szmyd, Alicja Kotyla, Michał Zobniów, Piotr Falkiewicz, Jakub Bartczuk and Artur Zygadło Croatian Film Review Dataset (Cro-FiReDa): A Sentiment Annotated Dataset of Film Reviews Gaurish Thakkar, Nives Mikelic Preradovic and Marko Tadić Machine-translated texts from English to Polish show a potential for typological explanations in Source Language Identification Damiaan Reijnaers and Elize Herrewijnen Target Two Birds With One SToNe: Entity-Level Sentiment and Tone Analysis in Croatian News Headlines Ana Barić, Laura Majer, David Dukić, Marijana Grbeša-Zenzerović and Jan Snajder Is German secretly a Slavic language? What BERT probing can tell us about language groups Aleksandra Mysiak and Jacek Cyranka Analysis of Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition in South-Slavic Languages Nikola Ivačič, Thi Hong Hanh Tran, Boshko Koloski, Senja Pollak and Matthew Purver WikiGoldSK: Annotated Dataset, Baselines and Few-Shot Learning Experiments for Slovak Named Entity Recognition David Suba, Marek Suppa, Jozef Kubik, Endre Hamerlik and Martin Takac Measuring Gender Bias in West Slavic Language Models Sandra Martinková, Karolina Stanczak and Isabelle Augenstein Exploring the Use of Foundation Models for Named Entity Recognition and Lemmatization Tasks in Slavic Languages Gabriela Pałka and Artur Nowakowski Large Language Models for Multilingual Slavic Named Entity Linking Rinalds Vīksna, Inguna Skadiņa, Daiga Deksne and Roberts Rozis |
| 15:45 - 16:30 | Poster session open & Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Poster session - part II |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Findings papers 17:00 - 17:20 - Going beyond research datasets: Novel intent discovery in the industry setting [Online] Aleksandra Chrabrowa, Tsimur Hadeliya, Dariusz Kajtoch, Robert Mroczkowski and Piotr Rybak 17:20 - 17:40 - MLASK: Multimodal Summarization of Video-based News Articles Mateusz Krubiński and Pavel Pecina Regular papers III 17:40 - 18:00 - Comparing domain-specific and domain-general BERT variants for inferred real-world knowledge through rare grammatical features in Serbian Sofia Lee and Jelke Bloem |
| 18:00 | End of the workshop |