Papers by Jonathan Mutal
Normalizing without Modernizing: Keeping Historical Wordforms of Middle French while Reducing Spelling Variants (2024.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | a new method to normalize orthographic variations of historical documents is needed for digital humanities and diachronic studies. |
| Approach: | They propose to normalize orthographic wordforms found in Middle French archives . authors say it improves accuracy and accuracy over a strong baseline . |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods normalize orthographic variations of historical documents without modernizing them. |
A Concept Based Approach for Translation of Medical Dialogues into Pictographs (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Pictographs have been found to improve patient comprehension of medical information or instructions. |
| Approach: | They propose a system that automatically translates French speech into pictographs . the system is based on a semantic gloss that serves as pivot between spontaneous language and pictograms based in the ontology of the UMLS . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system achieves an F0.5 score on unseen data, with 71% of glosses transmitting intended meaning. |