Papers by Manex Serras
BaSCo: An Annotated Basque-Spanish Code-Switching Corpus for Natural Language Understanding (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Basque-Spanish code-switching is a widespread phenomenon among bilingual speakers in the Basque Country. |
| Approach: | They propose to use annotated utterances to train bilingual chatbots in Basque and Spanish to cover the phenomenon of code-switching. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus is the first with annotated linguistic resources encompassing Basque-Spanish code-switching. |
Exploiting In-Domain Bilingual Corpora for Zero-Shot Transfer Learning in NLU of Intra-Sentential Code-Switching Chatbot Interactions (2022.emnlp-industry)
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Maia Aguirre, Manex Serras, Laura García-sardiña, Jacobo López-fernández, Ariane Méndez, Arantza Del Pozo
| Challenge: | Multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world . CS is a frequent habit in both spoken and written informal communications . |
| Approach: | They evaluate the efficacy of cross-lingual transfer learning with mBERT for NLU on a Basque-Spanish CS chatbot corpus. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms models trained on Basque and Spanish without CS on a basque-Spanish chatbot corpus. |
ES-Port: a Spontaneous Spoken Human-Human Technical Support Corpus for Dialogue Research in Spanish (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | ES-Port is a spontaneous spoken human-human dialogue corpus in Spanish that consists of 1170 dialogues from calls to the technical support department of a telecommunications provider. |
| Approach: | They describe the compilation process from transcription to anonymisation of sensitive data contained in the transcriptions. |
| Outcome: | The ES-Port corpus is a human-human dialogue corpus that consists of 1170 calls to the technical support department of a telecommunications provider. |