{"title":"Large scale annotated dataset for code-mix abusive short noisy text","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10579-023-09707-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-023-09707-7","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>With globalization and cultural exchange around the globe, most of the population gained knowledge of at least two languages. The bilingual user base on the Social Media Platform (SMP) has significantly contributed to the popularity of code-mixing. However, apart from multiple vital uses, SMP also suffer with abusive text content. Identifying abusive instances for a single language is a challenging task, and even more challenging for code-mix. The abusive posts detection problem is more complicated than it seems due to its unseemly, noisy data and uncertain context. To analyze these contents, the research community needs an appropriate dataset. A small dataset is not a suitable sample for the research work. In this paper, we have analyzed the dimensions of Devanagari-Roman code-mix in short noisy text. We have also discussed the challenges of abusive instances. We have proposed a cost-effective methodology with 20.38% relevancy score to collect and annotate the code-mix abusive text instances. Our dataset is eight times to the related state-of-the-art dataset. Our dataset ensures the balance with 55.81% instances in the abusive class and 44.19% in the non-abusive class. We have also conducted experiments to verify the usefulness of the dataset. We have performed experiments with traditional machine learning techniques, traditional neural network architecture, recurrent neural network architectures, and pre-trained Large Language Model (LLM). From our experiments, we have observed the suitability of the dataset for further scientific work.</p>","PeriodicalId":49927,"journal":{"name":"Language Resources and Evaluation","volume":"164 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139560843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tiago Timponi Torrent, Ely Edison da Silva Matos, Alexandre Diniz da Costa, Maucha Andrade Gamonal, Simone Peron-Corrêa, Vanessa Maria Ramos Lopes Paiva
{"title":"A flexible tool for a qualia-enriched FrameNet: the FrameNet Brasil WebTool","authors":"Tiago Timponi Torrent, Ely Edison da Silva Matos, Alexandre Diniz da Costa, Maucha Andrade Gamonal, Simone Peron-Corrêa, Vanessa Maria Ramos Lopes Paiva","doi":"10.1007/s10579-023-09714-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-023-09714-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper we present a database management and annotation tool for running an enriched FrameNet database, the FrameNet Brasil WebTool. We demonstrate how the entity-based model of such a tool allows for the addition of two types of data-structure to FrameNet Brasil, both of which aimed at refining the granularity of the semantic representations: the frame element-to-frame and the ternary qualia relations. We report on three proof-of-concept applications of such an enriched database: a domain-specific structured lexicon, a recommendation system for tourists and a post-editing system for domain adaptation in machine translation.</p>","PeriodicalId":49927,"journal":{"name":"Language Resources and Evaluation","volume":"139 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139516379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NewsCom-TOX: a corpus of comments on news articles annotated for toxicity in Spanish","authors":"Mariona Taulé, Montserrat Nofre, Víctor Bargiela, Xavier Bonet","doi":"10.1007/s10579-023-09711-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-023-09711-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, we present the NewsCom-TOX corpus, a new corpus manually annotated for toxicity in Spanish. NewsCom-TOX consists of 4359 comments in Spanish posted in response to 21 news articles on social media related to immigration, in order to analyse and identify messages with racial and xenophobic content. This corpus is multi-level annotated with different binary linguistic categories -stance, target, stereotype, sarcasm, mockery, insult, improper language, aggressiveness and intolerance- taking into account not only the information conveyed in each comment, but also the whole discourse thread in which the comment occurs, as well as the information conveyed in the news article, including their images. These categories allow us to identify the presence of toxicity and its intensity, that is, the level of toxicity of each comment. All this information is available for research purposes upon request. Here we describe the NewsCom-TOX corpus, the annotation tagset used, the criteria applied and the annotation process carried out, including the inter-annotator agreement tests conducted. A quantitative analysis of the results obtained is also provided. NewsCom-TOX is a linguistic resource that will be valuable for both linguistic and computational research in Spanish in NLP tasks for the detection of toxic information.</p>","PeriodicalId":49927,"journal":{"name":"Language Resources and Evaluation","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139497797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toxic comment classification and rationale extraction in code-mixed text leveraging co-attentive multi-task learning","authors":"Kiran Babu Nelatoori, Hima Bindu Kommanti","doi":"10.1007/s10579-023-09708-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-023-09708-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Detecting toxic comments and rationale for the offensiveness of a social media post promotes moderation of social media content. For this purpose, we propose a Co-Attentive Multi-task Learning (CA-MTL) model through transfer learning for low-resource Hindi-English (commonly known as Hinglish) toxic texts. Together, the cooperative tasks of rationale/span detection and toxic comment classification create a strong multi-task learning objective. A task collaboration module is designed to leverage the bi-directional attention between the classification and span prediction tasks. The combined loss function of the model is constructed using the individual loss functions of these two tasks. Although an English toxic span detection dataset exists, one for Hinglish code-mixed text does not exist as of today. Hence, we developed a dataset with toxic span annotations for Hinglish code-mixed text. The proposed CA-MTL model is compared against single-task and multi-task learning models that lack the co-attention mechanism, using multilingual and Hinglish BERT variants. The F1 scores of the proposed CA-MTL model with HingRoBERTa encoder for both tasks are significantly higher than the baseline models. <i>Caution:</i> This paper may contain words disturbing to some readers.</p>","PeriodicalId":49927,"journal":{"name":"Language Resources and Evaluation","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139460881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-layered semantic annotation and the formalisation of annotation schemas for the investigation of modality in a Latin corpus","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10579-023-09706-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-023-09706-8","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>This paper stems from the project <em>A World of Possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language</em> (WoPoss) which involves a corpus-based approach to the study of modality in the history of the Latin language. Linguistic annotation and, in particular, the semantic annotation of modality is a keystone of the project. Besides the difficulties intrinsic to any annotation task dealing with semantics, our annotation scheme involves multiple layers of annotation that are interconnected, adding complexity to the task. Considering the intricacies of our fine-grained semantic annotation, we needed to develop well-documented schemas in order to control the consistency of the annotation, but also to enable an efficient reuse of our annotated corpus. This paper presents the different elements involved in the annotation task, and how the description and the relations between the different linguistic components were formalised and documented, combining schema languages with XML documentation.</p>","PeriodicalId":49927,"journal":{"name":"Language Resources and Evaluation","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139375818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AC-IQuAD: Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata","authors":"Kerenza Doxolodeo, Adila Alfa Krisnadhi","doi":"10.1007/s10579-023-09702-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-023-09702-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Constructing a question-answering dataset can be prohibitively expensive, making it difficult for researchers to make one for an under-resourced language, such as Indonesian. We create a novel Indonesian Question Answering dataset that is produced automatically end-to-end. The process uses Context Free Grammar, the Wikipedia Indonesian Corpus, and the concept of the proxy model. The dataset consists of 134 thousand simple questions and 60 thousand complex questions. It achieved competitive grammatical and model accuracy compared to the translated dataset but suffers from some issues due to resource constraints.</p>","PeriodicalId":49927,"journal":{"name":"Language Resources and Evaluation","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139093771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"KurdiSent: a corpus for kurdish sentiment analysis","authors":"Soran Badawi, Arefeh Kazemi, Vali Rezaie","doi":"10.1007/s10579-023-09716-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-023-09716-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Language is essential for communication and the expression of feelings and sentiments. As technology advances, language has become increasingly ubiquitous in our lives. One of the most critical research areas in natural language processing (NLP) is sentiment analysis, which aims to identify and extract opinions and attitudes from text. Sentiment analysis is particularly useful for understanding public opinion on products, services, and topics of interest. While sentiment analysis systems are well-developed for English, this differs for other languages, such as Kurdish. This is because less-resourced languages have fewer NLP resources, including annotated datasets. To bridge this gap, this paper introduces KurdiSent, the first manually annotated dataset for Kurdish sentiment analysis. KurdiSent consists of over 12,000 instances labeled as positive, negative, or neutral. The corpus covers the Sorani dialect of Kurdish, the most widely spoken dialect. To ensure the quality of KurdiSent, the dataset was trained on machine learning and deep learning classifiers. The experimental results indicated that XLM-R outperformed all machine learning and deep learning classifiers, with an accuracy of 85%, compared to 81% for the best machine learning classifier. KurdiSent is a valuable resource for the NLP community, as it will enable researchers to develop and improve sentiment analysis systems for Kurdish. The corpus will facilitate a better understanding of public opinion in Kurdish-speaking communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":49927,"journal":{"name":"Language Resources and Evaluation","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139083544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Syntactic annotation for Portuguese corpora: standards, parsers, and search interfaces","authors":"Pablo Faria, Charlotte Galves, Catarina Magro","doi":"10.1007/s10579-023-09699-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-023-09699-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the last two decades, four Portuguese syntactically annotated corpora were built along the lines initially defined for the <i>Penn Parsed Historical Corpora</i> (Santorini, 2016). They cover the old, the middle, the classical and the modern periods of European Portuguese, as well as the nineteenth and twentieth century Brazilian Portuguese, and include different textual genres and oral discourse excerpts. Together they provide a fundamental resource for the study of variation and change in Portuguese. In the last years, an effort was made to maximally unify the annotation scheme applied to those corpora, in such a way that the searches done on one corpus could be done in exactly the same manner on the others. This effort resulted in the Portuguese Syntactic Annotation Manual (Magro & Galves, 2019). In this paper, we present the syntactic annotation for the Portuguese Corpora. We describe the functioning of ParsPort, a rule-based parser which makes use of the revision mode of the query language Corpus Search (Randall, 2005–2015). We argue that ParsPort is more efficient to our annotation efforts than the probabilistic parser developed by Bikel (2004), previously used for the syntactic annotation of the Portuguese Corpora. Finally we mention recent advances towards more user-friendly tools for syntactic searches.</p>","PeriodicalId":49927,"journal":{"name":"Language Resources and Evaluation","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139056467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linguistic annotation of Byzantine book epigrams","authors":"Colin Swaelens, Ilse De Vos, Els Lefever","doi":"10.1007/s10579-023-09703-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-023-09703-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we explore the feasibility of developing a part-of-speech tagger for not-normalised, Byzantine Greek epigrams. Hence, we compared three different transformer-based models with embedding representations, which are then fine-tuned on a fine-grained part-of-speech tagging task. To train the language models, we compiled two data sets: the first consisting of Ancient and Byzantine Greek texts, the second of Ancient, Byzantine and Modern Greek. This allowed us to ascertain whether Modern Greek contributes to the modelling of Byzantine Greek. For the supervised task of part-of-speech tagging, we collected a training set of existing, annotated (Ancient) Greek texts. For evaluation, a gold standard containing 10,000 tokens of unedited Byzantine Greek poems was manually annotated and validated through an inter-annotator agreement study. The experimental results look very promising, with the BERT model trained on all Greek data achieving the best performance for fine-grained part-of-speech tagging.</p>","PeriodicalId":49927,"journal":{"name":"Language Resources and Evaluation","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138632327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jörg Tiedemann, Mikko Aulamo, Daria Bakshandaeva, Michele Boggia, Stig-Arne Grönroos, Tommi Nieminen, Alessandro Raganato, Yves Scherrer, Raúl Vázquez, Sami Virpioja
{"title":"Democratizing neural machine translation with OPUS-MT","authors":"Jörg Tiedemann, Mikko Aulamo, Daria Bakshandaeva, Michele Boggia, Stig-Arne Grönroos, Tommi Nieminen, Alessandro Raganato, Yves Scherrer, Raúl Vázquez, Sami Virpioja","doi":"10.1007/s10579-023-09704-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-023-09704-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper presents the OPUS ecosystem with a focus on the development of open machine translation models and tools, and their integration into end-user applications, development platforms and professional workflows. We discuss our ongoing mission of increasing language coverage and translation quality, and also describe work on the development of modular translation models and speed-optimized compact solutions for real-time translation on regular desktops and small devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":49927,"journal":{"name":"Language Resources and Evaluation","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138631759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}