We are proud to present our recent research on NLP for Bavarian / NLP fi Bairisch!
Dialects were a blind spot for NLP research, as it has focused largely on the ‘standard’ language variant(s). We aim to contribute to closing this gap in this project.
Accepted works to appear at LREC-COLING 2024 in Turin this year:
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Siyao Peng, Zihang Sun, Huangyan Shan, Marie Kolm, Verena Blaschke, Ekaterina Artemova and Barbara Plank. Sebastian, Basti, Wastl?! Recognizing Named Entities in Bavarian Dialectal Data. In LREC-COLING 2024.
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Verena Blaschke, Barbara Kovačić, Siyao Peng, Hinrich Schütze and Barbara Plank. MaiBaam: A Multi-Dialectal Bavarian Universal Dependency Treebank. In LREC-COLING 2024.
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Miriam Winkler, Virginija Juozapaityte, Rob van der Goot and Barbara Plank. Slot and Intent Detection Resources for Bavarian and Lithuanian: Assessing Translations vs Natural Queries to Digital Assistants. In LREC-COLING 2024.