Programme

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14:00 Opening Session

14:10-15:10 Session 1: Speech (Chair: Shyam Agrawal)

14:10-14:25 (on-site) Unsupervised Word Segmentation from Discrete Speech Units in Low-Resource Settings (paper | slides)
- Marcely Zanon Boito, Bolaji Yusuf, Lucas Ondel, Aline Villavicencio and Laurent Besacier
14:25-14:40 (on-site) An Open Source Web Reader for Under-Resourced Languages (paper | slides)
- Judy Fong, Þorsteinn Daði Gunnarsson, Sunneva Þorsteinsdóttir, Gunnar Thor Örnólfsson and Jon Gudnason
14:40-14:55 (on-site) Text-to-Speech for Under-Resourced Languages: Phoneme Mapping and Source Language Selection in Transfer Learning (paper | slides)
- Phat Do, Matt Coler, Jelske Dijkstra and Esther Klabbers
14:55-15:10 (online) ReadAlong Studio: Practical Zero-Shot Text-Speech Alignment for Indigenous Language Audiobooks (paper | slides)
- Patrick Littell, Eric Joanis, Aidan Pine, Marc Tessier, David Huggins Daines and Delasie Torkornoo

15:10-16:00 Keynote Speech (Chair: Steven Bird)

Sovereignty for Under-resourced Languages
- Keoni Mahelona (slides: part 1 | part 2 | part 3)

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-17:45 Session 2: Data (Chair: Jordi Armengol-Estapé)

16:30-16:45 (online) Corpus Creation for Sentiment Analysis in Code-Mixed Tulu Text (paper | slides)
- Asha Hegde, Mudoor Devadas Anusha, Sharal Coelho, Hosahalli Lakshmaiah Shashirekha and Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi
16:45-17:00 (on-site) Crowd-sourcing for Less-resourced Languages: Lingua Libre for Polish (paper | slides)
- Mathilde Hutin and Marc Allassonnière-Tang
17:00-17:15 (on-site) Tupían Language Resources: Data, Tools, Analyses – (paper | edited version | slides)
- Lorena Martín Rodríguez, Tatiana Merzhevich, Wellington Silva, Tiago Tresoldi, Carolina Aragon and Fabrício F. Gerardi
17:15-17:30 (on-site) Quality versus Quantity: Building Catalan-English MT Resources (paper | slides)
- Ona de Gibert Bonet, Ksenia Kharitonova, Blanca Calvo Figueras, Jordi Armengol-Estapé and Maite Melero
17:30-17:45 (online) A Sentiment Corpus for South African Under-Resourced Languages in a Multilingual Context (paper | edited version | slides)
- Ronny Mabokela and Tim Schlippe

9:00-10:00 Session 3: MT4All (Chair: Maite Melero)

9:00-9:15 General overview of unsupervised MT for under resourced languages (slides)
- Jordi Armengol
9:15-9:30 Technical approach in MT4All (slides)
- Iakes Goenaga
9:30-9:45 MT4All generated resources and Shared Task scope and results (slides)
- Ona de Gibert
9:45-10:00 CUNI Submission to MT4All Shared Task (paper | slides)
- Ivana Kvapilíková and Ondrej Bojar

10:00-10:30 Session 4: General Issues (Chair: Maite Melero)

10:00-10:15 (on-site) Resource: Indicators on the Presence of Languages in Internet (paper | slides)
- Daniel Pimienta

10:15-10:30 (on-site) Language Technologies for Low Resource Languages: Sociolinguistic and Multilingual Insights (paper)
- A. Seza Doğruöz and Sunayana Sitaram

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:45 Session 5: NLP (Chair: Sakriani Sakti)

11:00-11:15 (online) Sentiment Analysis for Hausa: Classifying Students’ Comments (paper | slides)
- Ochilbek Rakhmanov and Tim Schlippe
11:15-11:30 (online) Nepali Encoder Transformers: An Analysis of Auto Encoding Transformer Language Models for Nepali Text Classification – (paper | edited version | slides)
- Utsav Maskey, Manish Bhatta, Shiva Bhatt, Sanket Dhungel and Bal Krishna Bal
11:30-11:45 (on-site) CoSwID, a Code Switching Identification Method Suitable for Under-Resourced Languages (paper | slides)
- Laurent Kevers
11:45-12:00 (online) A Neural Network Approach to Create Minangkabau-Indonesia Bilingual Dictionary (paper | slides)
- Kartika Resiandi, Yohei Murakami and Arbi Haza Nasution
12:00-12:15 (on-site) Machine Translation from Standard German to Alemannic Dialects (paper | slides)
- Louisa Lambrecht, Felix Schneider and Alexander Waibel
12:15-12:30 (on-site) Question Answering Classification for Amharic Social Media Community Based Questions (paper | slides)
- Tadesse Destaw, Seid Muhie Yimam, Abinew Ayele and Chris Biemann
12:30-12:45 (online) Automatic Detection of Morphological Processes in the Yorùbá Language (paper | slides)
- Tunde Adegbola

12:45-14:00 Lunch Break

(SIGUL) Evaluating Unsupervised Approaches to Morphological Segmentation for Wolastoqey (paper | poster)
- Diego Bear and Paul Cook
(SIGUL) Baseline English and Maltese-English Classification Models for Subjectivity Detection, Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Analysis, Sarcasm Detection, and Irony Detection (paper)
- Keith Cortis and Brian Davis
(SIGUL) Building Open-source Speech Technology for Low-resource Minority Languages with SáMi as an Example – Tools, Methods and Experiments (paper | poster | handout)
- Katri Hiovain-Asikainen and Sjur Moshagen
(SIGUL) Investigating the Quality of Static Anchor Embeddings from Transformers for Under-Resourced Languages (paper | poster)
- Pranaydeep Singh, Orphee De Clercq and Els Lefever
(SIGUL) Introducing YakuToolkit. Yakut Treebank and Morphological Analyzer (paper | poster)
- Tatiana Merzhevich and Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi
(SIGUL) A Language Model for Spell Checking of Educational Texts in Kurdish (Sorani) (paper | poster)
- Roshna Abdulrahman and Hossein Hassani
(SIGUL) SimRelUz: Similarity and Relatedness Scores as a Semantic Evaluation Dataset for Uzbek Language (paper | poster)
- Ulugbek Salaev, Elmurod Kuriyozov and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
(SIGUL) ENRICH4ALL: A First Luxembourgish BERT Model for a Multilingual Chatbot (paper | poster)
- Dimitra Anastasiou, Radu Ion, Valentin Badea, Olivier Pedretti, Patrick Gratz, Hoorieh Afkari, Valerie Maquil, Anders Ruge

(MWE) Annotating “Particles” in Multiword Expressions in te reo Māori for a Part-of-Speech Tagger (paper)
- Aoife Finn, Suzanne Duncan, Peter-Lucas Jones, Gianna Leoni and Keoni Mahelona
(MWE) Metaphor Detection for Low Resource Languages: From Zero-Shot to Few-Shot Learning in Middle High German (paper)
- Felix Schneider, Sven Sickert, Phillip Brandes, Sophie Marshall and Joachim Denzler
(MWE) ~~Automatic Bilingual Phrase Dictionary Construction from GIZA++ Output~~ RETRACTED
- ~~Albina Khusainova, Vitaly Romanov and Adil Khan~~
(MWE) A BERT’s Eye View: Identification of Irish Multiword Expressions Using Pre-trained Language Models (paper)
- Abigail Walsh, Teresa Lynn and Jennifer Foster
(MWE) Enhancing the PARSEME Turkish Corpus of Verbal Multiword Expressions (paper)
- Yagmur Ozturk, Najet Hadj Mohamed, Adam Lion-Bouton and Agata Savary
(MWE) German Light Verb Constructions in Business Process Models (non-archival) (paper)
- Kristin Kutzner and Ralf Laue (published at LREC main)