Search Results for author: John E. Ortega

Found 17 papers, 3 papers with code

WordNet-QU: Development of a Lexical Database for Quechua Varieties

no code implementations COLING 2022 Nelsi Melgarejo, Rodolfo Zevallos, Hector Gomez, John E. Ortega

In the effort to minimize the risk of extinction of a language, linguistic resources are fundamental.

Lexicography Saves Lives (LSL): Automatically Translating Suicide-Related Language

no code implementations20 Dec 2024 Annika Marie Schoene, John E. Ortega, Rodolfo Joel Zevallos, Laura Haaber Ihle

Previous work has used English dictionaries related to suicide to translate into different target languages due to lack of other available resources.

Is Peer-Reviewing Worth the Effort?

1 code implementation18 Dec 2024 Kenneth Church, Raman Chandrasekar, John E. Ortega, Ibrahim Said Ahmad

How effective is peer-reviewing in identifying important papers?

Semantic Role Labeling of NomBank Partitives

no code implementations18 Dec 2024 Adam Meyers, Advait Pravin Savant, John E. Ortega

This article is about Semantic Role Labeling for English partitive nouns (5%/REL of the price/ARG1; The price/ARG1 rose 5 percent/REL) in the NomBank annotated corpus.

Semantic Role Labeling

The Role of Handling Attributive Nouns in Improving Chinese-To-English Machine Translation

no code implementations18 Dec 2024 Lisa Wang, Adam Meyers, John E. Ortega, Rodolfo Zevallos

Translating between languages with drastically different grammatical conventions poses challenges, not just for human interpreters but also for machine translation systems.

Machine Translation Translation

NLP Case Study on Predicting the Before and After of the Ukraine-Russia and Hamas-Israel Conflicts

no code implementations8 Oct 2024 Jordan Miner, John E. Ortega

Our results show that through the use of advanced NLP techniques (both supervised and unsupervised) toxicity and other attributes about language before and after a conflict is predictable with a low error of nearly 1. 2 percent for both conflicts.

On Translating Technical Terminology: A Translation Workflow for Machine-Translated Acronyms

no code implementations26 Sep 2024 Richard Yue, John E. Ortega, Kenneth Ward Church

The typical workflow for a professional translator to translate a document from its source language (SL) to a target language (TL) is not always focused on what many language models in natural language processing (NLP) do - predict the next word in a series of words.

fr-en Machine Translation +1

Predicting Anchored Text from Translation Memories for Machine Translation Using Deep Learning Methods

no code implementations26 Sep 2024 Richard Yue, John E. Ortega

Many CAT tools offer a fuzzy-match algorithm to locate segments (s) in the TM that are close in distance to s'.

Machine Translation Translation

Nollywood: Let's Go to the Movies!

no code implementations2 Jul 2024 John E. Ortega, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, William Chen

Nollywood, based on the idea of Bollywood from India, is a series of outstanding movies that originate from Nigeria.

Evaluating Self-Supervised Speech Representations for Indigenous American Languages

no code implementations5 Oct 2023 Chih-Chen Chen, William Chen, Rodolfo Zevallos, John E. Ortega

The application of self-supervision to speech representation learning has garnered significant interest in recent years, due to its scalability to large amounts of unlabeled data.

Representation Learning Speech Representation Learning

Classification of US Supreme Court Cases using BERT-Based Techniques

1 code implementation17 Apr 2023 Shubham Vatsal, Adam Meyers, John E. Ortega

We compare our results for two classification tasks: (1) a broad classification task with 15 categories and (2) a fine-grained classification task with 279 categories.

Classification named-entity-recognition +5

Addressing Distribution Shift at Test Time in Pre-trained Language Models

no code implementations5 Dec 2022 Ayush Singh, John E. Ortega

However, PLMs have been found to degrade in performance under distribution shift, a phenomenon that occurs when data at test-time does not come from the same distribution as the source training set.

Data Augmentation Test-time Adaptation +1

Enhancing Networking Cipher Algorithms with Natural Language

no code implementations22 Jun 2022 John E. Ortega

This work provides a survey of several networking cipher algorithms and proposes a method for integrating natural language processing (NLP) as a protective agent for them.

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