Y’all should read this! Identifying Plurality in Second-Person Personal Pronouns in English Texts (D19-55)
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| Challenge: | Various languages, such as Spanish, Hebrew, or French, have different words to distinguish between singular "you" and plural "you". |
| Approach: | They train a model to distinguish between the single/plural ‘you’ in English using in-domain training. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves reasonable accuracy, but there is room for improvement in the domain-transfer scenario. |
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