Explainable Publication Year Prediction of Eighteenth Century Texts with the BERT Model

no code implementations • LChange (ACL) 2022 • Iiro Rastas, Yann Ciarán Ryan, Iiro Tiihonen, Mohammadreza Qaraei, Liina Repo, Rohit Babbar, Eetu Mäkelä, Mikko Tolonen, Filip Ginter

In this paper, we describe a BERT model trained on the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) dataset of digitized documents.

Optical Character Recognition Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Beyond the English Web: Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual and Lightweight Monolingual Classification of Registers

1 code implementation • EACL 2021 • Liina Repo, Valtteri Skantsi, Samuel Rönnqvist, Saara Hellström, Miika Oinonen, Anna Salmela, Douglas Biber, Jesse Egbert, Sampo Pyysalo, Veronika Laippala

We explore cross-lingual transfer of register classification for web documents.

Classification General Classification +1

From Web Crawl to Clean Register-Annotated Corpora

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Veronika Laippala, Samuel R{\"o}nnqvist, Saara Hellstr{\"o}m, Juhani Luotolahti, Liina Repo, Anna Salmela, Valtteri Skantsi, Sampo Pyysalo

However, two critical steps in the development of web corpora remain challenging: the identification of clean text from source HTML and the assignment of genre or register information to the documents.