Papers by Samuel Larkin
EuroGames16: Evaluating Change Detection in Online Conversation (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | a new method for detecting salient changes from on-line conversations is needed . linguistic preprocessing and time series are used to build a time series . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for detecting salient changes from on-line conversations . they use linguistic preprocessing to build a time series and change point detection algorithms to detect salient change. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can detect salient changes in on-line conversations with high accuracy. |
Long to reign over us: A Case Study of Machine Translation and a New Monarch (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | We examine translations between French and English in contexts with ambiguity . with the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, MT systems can produce errors due to linguistic features of both languages and the paucity of references to kings in the training data. |
| Approach: | They examine translations between French and English as they were produced by MT systems . they find that even when human translators would have adequate context, machine translation systems do not always produce the expected output. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model shows that even when human translators have context, machine translation systems do not always produce the expected output. |
The Nunavut Hansard Inuktitut–English Parallel Corpus 3.0 with Preliminary Machine Translation Results (2020.lrec-1)
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Eric Joanis, Rebecca Knowles, Roland Kuhn, Samuel Larkin, Patrick Littell, Chi-kiu Lo, Darlene Stewart, Jeffrey Micher
| Challenge: | Inuktitut language is a member of the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan family . it is spoken in two territories, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories . |
| Approach: | They describe a sentence-aligned Inuktitut–English corpus released in Nunavut . it is the largest parallel corpus of a polysynthetic language released to date . they also describe preliminary experiments on machine translation between the languages . |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus is the largest sentence-aligned corpus of a polysynthetic language or an Indigenous language of the Americas . the alignments were evaluated and the results were compared with other methods . |