Papers by Shafqat Mumtaz Virk
The DReaM Corpus: A Multilingual Annotated Corpus of Grammars for the World’s Languages (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Until recently, language descriptions were available in paper form only, with indexes as the only search aid. |
| Approach: | They propose to digitize a multilingual corpus of language descriptions and annotate it with various meta, word, and text attributes to make searching and analysis easier and more useful. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus is searchable through a couple of well-established corpus infrastructures. |
The DURel Annotation Tool: Human and Computational Measurement of Semantic Proximity, Sense Clusters and Semantic Change (2024.eacl-demo)
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Dominik Schlechtweg, Shafqat Mumtaz Virk, Pauline Sander, Emma Sköldberg, Lukas Theuer Linke, Tuo Zhang, Nina Tahmasebi, Jonas Kuhn, Sabine Schulte Im Walde
| Challenge: | DURel is an open source tool for semantic proximity between word uses. |
| Approach: | They present an open-source tool for the annotation of semantic proximity between word uses. |
| Outcome: | The proposed tool supports standardized human annotation and computational annotation, building on recent advances with Word-in-Context models. |