18th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora

Program: Monday, 20 Jan, 2025

	8:50–9:00 Opening and introduction
	9:00–10:30 Multilingual corpus development
	Bilingual resources for Moroccan Sign Language Generation and Standard Arabic Skills Improvement of Deaf Children Abdelhadi Soudi, Corinne Vinopol and Kristof Van Laerhoven
	Towards the Creation of a Large Scale Moroccan Sign Language Corpus Abdelhadi Soudi, Corinne Vinopol and Kristof Van Laerhoven
	Harmonizing Annotation of Turkic Postverbial Constructions: A Comparative Study of UD Treebanks Arofat Akhundjanova
	10:30–11:00 Coffee break, morning
	11:00–13:00 Multilinguality of Large Language Models
	Towards Truly Open, Language-Specific, Safe, Factual, and Specialized Large Language Models Preslav Nakov
	Make Satire Boring Again: Reducing Stylistic Bias of Satirical Corpus by Utilizing Generative LLMs Asli Umay Ozturk, Recep Firat Cekinel and Pinar Karagoz
	BEIR-NL: Zero-shot Information Retrieval Benchmark for the Dutch Language Ehsan Lotfi, Nikolay Banar and Walter Daelemans
	13:00–14:00 Lunch
	14:00–16:00 Diversity of language resources
	Comparable Corpora: Opportunities for New Research Directions Kenneth Ward Church
	Can a Neural Model Guide Fieldwork? A Case Study on Morphological Data Collection Aso Mahmudi, Borja Herce, Demian Inostroza Améstica, Andreas Scherbakov, Eduard H. Hovy and Ekaterina Vylomova
	SELEXINI – a large and diverse automatically parsed corpus of French Manon Scholivet, Agata Savary, Louis Estève, Marie Candito and Carlos Ramisch
	16:00–16:30 Coffee break, afternoon
	16:30–17:30 Machine Translation and Cross-lingual Processing
	Refining Dimensions for Improving Clustering-based Cross-lingual Topic Models Chia-Hsuan Chang, Tien Yuan Huang, Yi-Hang Tsai, Chia-Ming Chang and San-Yih Hwang
	The Role of Handling Attributive Nouns in Improving Chinese-To-English Machine Translation Adam Meyers, Rodolfo Joel Zevallos, John E. Ortega and Lisa Wang
	17:30–17:45 Closing remarks

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