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Connecting Ideas in Lower-Resource Scenarios: NLP for National Varieties, Creoles, and Other Low-resource Languages

Despite excellent results on benchmarks over a small subset of languages, large language models struggle to process text from languages situated in 'lower-resource' scenarios such as dialects/sociolects (national or social varieties of a language), …

Edit Distances and Their Applications to Downstream Tasks in Research and Commercial Contexts

The tutorial describes the concept of edit distances applied to research and commercial contexts. We use Translation Edit Rate (TER), Levenshtein, Damerau-Levenshtein, Longest Common Subsequence and n-gram distances to demonstrate the frailty of …

Connecting Ideas in 'Lower-Resource' Scenarios: NLP for National Varieties, Creoles and Other Low-resource Scenarios

Despite excellent results on benchmarks over a small subset of languages, large language models struggle to process text from languages situated in 'lower-resource' scenarios such as dialects/sociolects (national or social varieties of a language), …

Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation

The focus of this tutorial is to cover the breadth of the literature on recent advances in Unsupervised Machine Translation. The tutorial will help the audience in getting started with unsupervised machine translation. The tutorial will span over …