ZHAW-InIT - Social Media Geolocation at VarDial 2020

no code implementations • VarDial (COLING) 2020 • Fernando Benites, Manuela Hürlimann, Pius von Däniken, Mark Cieliebak

We describe our approaches for the Social Media Geolocation (SMG) task at the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2020.

Dialect Transfer for Swiss German Speech Translation

no code implementations • 13 Oct 2023 • Claudio Paonessa, Yanick Schraner, Jan Deriu, Manuela Hürlimann, Manfred Vogel, Mark Cieliebak

This paper investigates the challenges in building Swiss German speech translation systems, specifically focusing on the impact of dialect diversity and differences between Swiss German and Standard German.

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STT4SG-350: A Speech Corpus for All Swiss German Dialect Regions

no code implementations • 30 May 2023 • Michel Plüss, Jan Deriu, Yanick Schraner, Claudio Paonessa, Julia Hartmann, Larissa Schmidt, Christian Scheller, Manuela Hürlimann, Tanja Samardžić, Manfred Vogel, Mark Cieliebak

We train an ASR model on the training set and achieve an average BLEU score of 74. 7 on the test set.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +4

Missing Information, Unresponsive Authors, Experimental Flaws: The Impossibility of Assessing the Reproducibility of Previous Human Evaluations in NLP

no code implementations • 2 May 2023 • Anya Belz, Craig Thomson, Ehud Reiter, Gavin Abercrombie, Jose M. Alonso-Moral, Mohammad Arvan, Anouck Braggaar, Mark Cieliebak, Elizabeth Clark, Kees Van Deemter, Tanvi Dinkar, Ondřej Dušek, Steffen Eger, Qixiang Fang, Mingqi Gao, Albert Gatt, Dimitra Gkatzia, Javier González-Corbelle, Dirk Hovy, Manuela Hürlimann, Takumi Ito, John D. Kelleher, Filip Klubicka, Emiel Krahmer, Huiyuan Lai, Chris van der Lee, Yiru Li, Saad Mahamood, Margot Mieskes, Emiel van Miltenburg, Pablo Mosteiro, Malvina Nissim, Natalie Parde, Ondřej Plátek, Verena Rieser, Jie Ruan, Joel Tetreault, Antonio Toral, Xiaojun Wan, Leo Wanner, Lewis Watson, Diyi Yang

We report our efforts in identifying a set of previous human evaluations in NLP that would be suitable for a coordinated study examining what makes human evaluations in NLP more/less reproducible.

SDS-200: A Swiss German Speech to Standard German Text Corpus

1 code implementation • LREC 2022 • Michel Plüss, Manuela Hürlimann, Marc Cuny, Alla Stöckli, Nikolaos Kapotis, Julia Hartmann, Malgorzata Anna Ulasik, Christian Scheller, Yanick Schraner, Amit Jain, Jan Deriu, Mark Cieliebak, Manfred Vogel

We present SDS-200, a corpus of Swiss German dialectal speech with Standard German text translations, annotated with dialect, age, and gender information of the speakers.

Speech Synthesis Translation

GLAD: Groningen Lightweight Authorship Detection

1 code implementation • 6 Sep 2015 • Manuela Hürlimann, Benno Weck, Esther van den Berg, Simon Šuster, and Malvina Nissim

We present a simple and effective approach to authorship verification for Dutch, English, Spanish and Greek, which can be easily ported to yet other languages. We train a binary linear classifier both on the features describing known and unknown documents individually, and on the joint features comparing these two types of documents.

Authorship Verification Position