17th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora

Program: Monday, 20 May, 2024

All timings are in Italian time (CEST = Central European Summer Time: UTC+2)

09:00–10:30	Session 1
09:00–09:30	On a Novel Application of Wasserstein-Procrustes for Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Alignment of Embeddings Guillem Ramírez, Rumen Dangovski, Preslav Nakov and Marin Soljacic
09:30–10:00	Modeling Diachronic Change in English Scientific Writing over 300+ Years with Transformer-based Language Model Surprisal Julius Steuer, Marie-Pauline Krielke, Stefan Fischer, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Marius Mosbach and Dietrich Klakow
10:00–10:30	PORTULAN ExtraGLUE Datasets and Models: Kick-starting a Benchmark for the Neural Processing of Portuguese Tomás Freitas Osório, Bernardo Leite, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Luís Gomes, João Rodrigues, Rodrigo Santos and António Branco
10:30–11:00	Coffee break
11:00–12:00	Invited Talk
11:00–12:00	The Way Towards Massively Multilingual Language Models (slides) François Yvon
12:00–13:00	Session 2
12:00–12:30	Quality and Quantity of Machine Translation References for Automatic Metrics Vilém Zouhar and Ondřej Bojar
12:30–13:00	Exploring the Necessity of Visual Modality in Multimodal Machine Translation using Authentic Datasets Zi Long, ZhenHao Tang, Xianghua Fu, Jian Chen, Shilong Hou and Jinze Lyu
13:00–14:00	Lunch break
14:00–16:00	Session 3
14:00–14:30	Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models in Adaptive Machine Translation for Generic Text and Subtitles Abdelhadi Soudi, Mohamed Hannani, Kristof Van Laerhoven and Eleftherios Avramidis
14:30–15:00	INCLURE: a Dataset and Toolkit for Inclusive French Translation Paul Lerner and Cyril Grouin
15:00–15:30	BnPC: A Gold Standard Corpus for Paraphrase Detection in Bangla, and its Evaluation Sourav Saha, Zeshan Ahmed Nobin, Mufassir Ahmad Chowdhury, Md. Shakirul Hasan Khan Mobin, Mohammad Ruhul Amin and Sudipta Kar
15:30–16:00	Booster presentations poster authors
16:00–16:30	Coffee break
16:30–18:00	Poster session
	Creating Clustered Comparable Corpora from Wikipedia with Different Fuzziness Levels and Language Representativity Anna Laskina, Eric Gaussier and Gaelle Calvary
	EuReCo: Not Building and Yet Using Federated Comparable Corpora for Cross-Linguistic Research Marc Kupietz, Piotr Banski, Nils Diewald, Beata Trawinski and Andreas Witt
	Building Annotated Parallel Corpora Using the ATIS Dataset: Two UD-style treebanks in English and Turkish Neslihan Cesur, Aslı Kuzgun, Mehmet Kose and Olcay Taner Yıldız
	Bootstrapping the Annotation of UD Learner Treebanks Arianna Masciolini
	SweDiagnostics: A Diagnostics Natural Language Inference Dataset for Swedish Felix Morger
	Multiple Discourse Relations in English TED Talks and Their Translation into Lithuanian, Portuguese and Turkish (no physical poster) Deniz Zeyrek, Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė and Amalia Mendes
	mini-CIEP+ : A Shareable Parallel Corpus of Prose Annemarie Verkerk and Luigi Talamo