Search Results for author: Robert Östling

Found 15 papers, 5 papers with code

A Sentiment-annotated Dataset of English Causal Connectives

1 code implementation COLING (LAW) 2020 Marta Andersson, Murathan Kurfali, Robert Östling

This paper investigates the semantic prosody of three causal connectives: due to, owing to and because of in seven varieties of the English language.

Language Modelling

Disambiguation of Potentially Idiomatic Expressions with Contextual Embeddings

no code implementations COLING (MWE) 2020 Murathan Kurfali, Robert Östling

The unsupervised classification, similarly, yields very impressive results, comparing favorably to the supervised classifier for the majority of the expressions.

Let’s be explicit about that: Distant supervision for implicit discourse relation classification via connective prediction

no code implementations ACL (unimplicit) 2021 Murathan Kurfali, Robert Östling

We sidestep the lack of data through explicitation of implicit relations to reduce the task to two sub-problems: language modeling and explicit discourse relation classification, a much easier problem.

Classification Implicit Discourse Relation Classification +4

Evaluation of really good grammatical error correction

1 code implementation17 Aug 2023 Robert Östling, Katarina Gillholm, Murathan Kurfali, Marie Mattson, Mats Wirén

We find that GPT-3 in a few-shot setting by far outperforms previous grammatical error correction systems for Swedish, a language comprising only 0. 11% of its training data.

Grammatical Error Detection

Language Embeddings Sometimes Contain Typological Generalizations

1 code implementation19 Jan 2023 Robert Östling, Murathan Kurfali

To what extent can neural network models learn generalizations about language structure, and how do we find out what they have learned?

Multilingual Word Embeddings

Probing Multilingual Language Models for Discourse

no code implementations ACL (RepL4NLP) 2021 Murathan Kurfali, Robert Östling

Pre-trained multilingual language models have become an important building block in multilingual natural language processing.

Cross-Lingual Transfer Sentence

Let's be explicit about that: Distant supervision for implicit discourse relation classification via connective prediction

no code implementations6 Jun 2021 Murathan Kurfali, Robert Östling

We sidestep the lack of data through explicitation of implicit relations to reduce the task to two sub-problems: language modeling and explicit discourse relation classification, a much easier problem.

Classification Implicit Discourse Relation Classification +4

Zero-shot transfer for implicit discourse relation classification

1 code implementation30 Jul 2019 Murathan Kurfali, Robert Östling

Automatically classifying the relation between sentences in a discourse is a challenging task, in particular when there is no overt expression of the relation.

Classification General Classification +3

What do Language Representations Really Represent?

no code implementations CL 2019 Johannes Bjerva, Robert Östling, Maria Han Veiga, Jörg Tiedemann, Isabelle Augenstein

If the corpus is multilingual, the same model can be used to learn distributed representations of languages, such that similar languages end up with similar representations.

Language Modelling Translation

Neural machine translation for low-resource languages

no code implementations18 Aug 2017 Robert Östling, Jörg Tiedemann

Neural machine translation (NMT) approaches have improved the state of the art in many machine translation settings over the last couple of years, but they require large amounts of training data to produce sensible output.

Machine Translation NMT +2

Articulation rate in Swedish child-directed speech increases as a function of the age of the child even when surprisal is controlled for

no code implementations10 Jun 2017 Johan Sjons, Thomas Hörberg, Robert Östling, Johannes Bjerva

In earlier work, we have shown that articulation rate in Swedish child-directed speech (CDS) increases as a function of the age of the child, even when utterance length and differences in articulation rate between subjects are controlled for.

Continuous multilinguality with language vectors

no code implementations22 Dec 2016 Robert Östling, Jörg Tiedemann

Most existing models for multilingual natural language processing (NLP) treat language as a discrete category, and make predictions for either one language or the other.

Language Modelling

Inferring the location of authors from words in their texts

no code implementations WS 2015 Max Berggren, Jussi Karlgren, Robert Östling, Mikael Parkvall

This paper describes a series of experiments to determine how positionally annotated microblog posts can be used to learn location-indicating words which then can be used to locate blog texts and their authors.

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