Papers by Ali Al-Laith
Development and Evaluation of Pre-trained Language Models for Historical Danish and Norwegian Literary Texts (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | et al., 2019) develop and evaluate the first pre-trained language models specifically tailored for historical Danish and Norwegian texts. |
| Approach: | They develop and evaluate pre-trained language models specifically tailored for historical Danish and Norwegian texts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms models trained on historical Danish and Norwegian literature in two downstream NLP tasks. |
Noise, Novels, Numbers. A Framework for Detecting and Categorizing Noise in Danish and Norwegian Literature (2024.emnlp-main)
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Ali Al-Laith, Daniel Hershcovich, Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Jakob Parby, Alexander Conroy, Timothy Tangherlini
| Challenge: | This study examines the literary perceptions of noise during the Scandinavian "Modern Breakthrough" period (1870-1899). |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for detecting and categorizing noise in literary texts from the late 19th century. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can be applied to Danish and Norwegian literature from the late 19th century. |
Dying or Departing? Euphemism Detection for Death Discourse in Historical Texts (2025.coling-main)
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Ali Al-Laith, Alexander Conroy, Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Bolette Pedersen, Carsten Levisen, Daniel Hershcovich
| Challenge: | euphemisms are a linguistic device used to soften discussions of uncomfortable topics . euphorias are used to refer to death in a less direct manner during a period of secularization . |
| Approach: | They propose to use a corpus of Danish and Norwegian novels to detect death-related euphemisms . they use pre-trained language models to detect euphoric and literal references to death . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on state-of-the-art language models. |