CALCS 2021 Shared Task: Machine Translation for Code-Switched Data [PDF]
To date, efforts in the code-switching literature have focused for the most part on language identification, POS, NER, and syntactic parsing. In this paper, we address machine translation for code-switched social media data. We create a community shared task. We provide two modalities for participation: supervised and unsupervised.
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Tennessee Williams, Iranian Cinema, and Bakhtinian Dialogism: A Comparative Study of A Streetcar Named Desire and Biganeh [PDF]
The history of literary adaptation is as long as the history of cinema itself. Given the undeniable fact that literary classics guaranteed a large number of viewers, it is no surprise that the first filmmakers turned to literature to gain their materials
Afsaneh Asghari astaneh+2 more
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Enhancing Syntactic Complexity of EFL Learners' Essays Through Creative Thinking Skills [PDF]
This study aimed at investigating the probable effect of teaching three divergent creative thinking techniques on both EFL students' creative thinking skill and syntactic complexity of their essays.
Leila Seidinejad, Zohreh Nafissi
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Investigating Thanking Speech Act in Ilami Kurdish [PDF]
This study aimed at investigating the speech act of condolence in Ilami Kurdish in the light of Austin (1962) and Searle (1969) speech acts theories. A discourse completion test (DCT) was developed to collect the data.
Reza Khany+2 more
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L2 and L3 Syntactic Development in the Light of Generative Models: An Educational Perspective [PDF]
This study explored the syntactic acquisition by Persian monolingual and Kurdish-Persian bilingual learners of English as a second and third language and the effect of instruction on beginner learners' syntactic acquisition with reference to UG-based non-
Mohsen Kamangar+2 more
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Bridging the Domain Gap for Stance Detection for the Zulu language [PDF]
Misinformation has become a major concern in recent last years given its spread across our information sources. In the past years, many NLP tasks have been introduced in this area, with some systems reaching good results on English language datasets.
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Image Classification for Arabic: Assessing the Accuracy of Direct English to Arabic Translations [PDF]
Image classification is an ongoing research challenge. Most of the available research focuses on image classification for the English language, however there is very little research on image classification for the Arabic language. Expanding image classification to Arabic has several applications.
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Translation Method of Emotional Expression in Daniel Keyes’ The Minds of Billy Milligan
This study examines the English to Indonesian translation of emotional expressions depicted in Daniel Keyes’s novel “The Minds of Billy Milligan” and its Indonesian translation “24 Wajah Billy.” The primary objectives are to describe the emotional ...
Ayuning Wanodya+2 more
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Publishing scientific papers, particularly research articles (RAs), has become a requirement and essential component for academicsâ life. As a result, there is a growing need for academics to produce research articles for international publications ...
Athirah Jihan Khairani+2 more
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Developing neural machine translation models for Hungarian-English [PDF]
I train models for the task of neural machine translation for English-Hungarian and Hungarian-English, using the Hunglish2 corpus. The main contribution of this work is evaluating different data augmentation methods during the training of NMT models. I propose 5 different augmentation methods that are structure-aware, meaning that instead of randomly ...
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