Papers by Verena Lyding
Creating Expert Knowledge by Relying on Language Learners: a Generic Approach for Mass-Producing Language Resources by Combining Implicit Crowdsourcing and Language Learning (2020.lrec-1)
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Lionel Nicolas, Verena Lyding, Claudia Borg, Corina Forascu, Karën Fort, Katerina Zdravkova, Iztok Kosem, Jaka Čibej, Špela Arhar Holdt, Alice Millour, Alexander König, Christos Rodosthenous, Federico Sangati, Umair ul Hassan, Anisia Katinskaia, Anabela Barreiro, Lavinia Aparaschivei, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner
| Challenge: | Lack of wide-coverage and high-quality LRs is a longstanding issue in natural language processing (NLP) however, there are no large initiatives of similar scale for creating new LR or improving existing ones. |
| Approach: | They propose a generic approach to combine implicit crowdsourcing and language learning to mass-produce language resources (LRs) they describe its core paradigm that consists in pairing specific types of LRs with specific exercises . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach can be used in several learning scenarios to produce a multitude of NLP resources and alleviate the long-standing issue of the lack of LRs. |
Transc&Anno: A Graphical Tool for the Transcription and On-the-Fly Annotation of Handwritten Documents (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Transc&Anno is a web-based collaboration tool for linguists to facilitate the transcription of text images and their shallow on-the-fly annotation. |
| Approach: | They propose a web-based collaboration tool that allows the transcription of text images and their shallow on-the-fly annotation. |
| Outcome: | The Transc&Anno tool can be used for any type of corpora requiring transcription and shallow on-the-fly annotation resulting in inline XML. |
Using Crowdsourced Exercises for Vocabulary Training to Expand ConceptNet (2020.lrec-1)
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Christos Rodosthenous, Verena Lyding, Federico Sangati, Alexander König, Umair ul Hassan, Lionel Nicolas, Jolita Horbacauskiene, Anisia Katinskaia, Lavinia Aparaschivei
| Challenge: | Language resources (LRs) are expensive to create and maintain, and this makes it difficult to create or extend LRs. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a Telegram chatbot interface to gather knowledge on word relations suitable for expanding ConceptNet with new words. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model allows to gather 12,000 answers from learners on different question types over 16 days and shows that it is a potential tool for crowdsourcing and fostering vocabulary skills. |
Digital Language Infrastructures – Documenting Language Actors (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing language infrastructures focus on large institutions, but smaller institutions could benefit from them. |
| Approach: | They propose to reach out to smaller local language actors on a local scope . they highlight the need to connect these institutions to existing infrastructures . |
| Outcome: | The proposed project aims to reach out to smaller local language actors on a local scope and discuss challenges related to this ambition. |