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This paper introduces foundational resources and models for natural language processing (NLP) of historical Turkish, a domain that has remained underexplored in computational linguistics. We present the first named entity recognition (NER)…

In this article, we introduce SiNFluD, a novel benchmark dataset for Sindhi figurative language classification. We first collect raw text from various blogs, social media platforms, and literary sources, and subsequently prepare the corpus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wazir Ali , Adeeb Noor , Saifullah Tumrani

Sign language is the primary approach of communication for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) community. While there are numerous benchmarks for high-resource sign languages, low-resource languages like Arabic remain underrepresented.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Mohammad Amer Khalil , Raghad Nahas , Ahmad Nassar , Khloud Al Jallad

We present ACL OCL, a scholarly corpus derived from the ACL Anthology to assist Open scientific research in the Computational Linguistics domain. Integrating and enhancing the previous versions of the ACL Anthology, the ACL OCL contributes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Shaurya Rohatgi , Yanxia Qin , Benjamin Aw , Niranjana Unnithan , Min-Yen Kan

English is the most widely spoken language in the world, used daily by millions of people as a first or second language in many different contexts. As a result, there are many varieties of English. Although the great many advances in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Ramon Sanabria , Nikolay Bogoychev , Nina Markl , Andrea Carmantini , Ondrej Klejch , Peter Bell

Recent NLP advances focus primarily on standardized languages, leaving most low-resource dialects under-served especially in Indian scenarios. In India, the issue is particularly important: despite Hindi being the third most spoken language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Tarun Sharma , Manikandan Ravikiran , Sourava Kumar Behera , Pramit Bhattacharya , Arnab Bhattacharya , Rohit Saluja

We conducted a detailed analysis on the quality of web-mined corpora for two low-resource languages (making three language pairs, English-Sinhala, English-Tamil and Sinhala-Tamil). We ranked each corpus according to a similarity measure and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Surangika Ranathunga , Nisansa de Silva , Menan Velayuthan , Aloka Fernando , Charitha Rathnayake

This paper presents a corpus manually annotated with named entities for six Slavic languages - Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Slovenian, Russian, and Ukrainian. This work is the result of a series of shared tasks, conducted in 2017-2023 as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Jakub Piskorski , Michał Marcińczuk , Roman Yangarber

Automated language processing is central to the drive to enable facilitated referencing of increasingly available Sanskrit E texts. The first step towards processing Sanskrit text involves the handling of Sanskrit compound words that are an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-11-05 N. Rama , Meenakshi Lakshmanan

Scientific articles published prior to the "age of digitization" (~1997) require Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to transform scanned documents into machine-readable text, a process that often produces errors. We develop a pipeline for…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Jill P. Naiman , Morgan G. Cosillo , Peter K. G. Williams , Alyssa Goodman

There has been huge progress in speech recognition over the last several years. Tasks once thought extremely difficult, such as SWITCHBOARD, now approach levels of human performance. The MALACH corpus (LDC catalog LDC2012S05), a 375-Hour…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Michael Picheny , Zóltan Tüske , Brian Kingsbury , Kartik Audhkhasi , Xiaodong Cui , George Saon

In this paper, we present the SimDoc system, a simplification model considering simplicity, readability, and discourse aspects, such as coherence. In the past decade, the progress of the Text Simplification (TS) field has been mostly shown…

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In this paper we describe a novel framework for the discovery of the topical content of a data corpus, and the tracking of its complex structural changes across the temporal dimension. In contrast to previous work our model does not impose…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Adham Beykikhoshk , Ognjen Arandjelovic , Dinh Phung , Svetha Venkatesh

Studies of the overall structure of vocabulary and its dynamics became possible due to creation of diachronic text corpora, especially Google Books Ngram. This article discusses the question of core change rate and the degree to which the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Valery D. Solovyev , Vladimir V. Bochkarev , Anna V. Shevlyakova

This paper proposes a new framework for Citation Content Analysis (CCA), for syntactic and semantic analysis of citation content that can be used to better analyze the rich sociocultural context of research behavior. The framework could be…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2012-11-28 Guo Zhang , Ying Ding , Staša Milojević

The use of Project Gutenberg (PG) as a text corpus has been extremely popular in statistical analysis of language for more than 25 years. However, in contrast to other major linguistic datasets of similar importance, no consensual full…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Martin Gerlach , Francesc Font-Clos

Sanskrit, one of humanity's most ancient languages, has a vast collection of books and manuscripts on diverse topics that have been accumulated over millennia. However, its digital content (audio and text), which is vital for the training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Bidit Sadhukhan , Swami Punyeshwarananda

This paper introduces "Czech Text Document Corpus v 2.0", a collection of text documents for automatic document classification in Czech language. It is composed of the text documents provided by the Czech News Agency and is freely available…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Pavel Král , Ladislav Lenc

This discussion paper reflects on how quantitative approaches to historical linguistics interact with dataset properties. Drawing on two worked examples, we examine English data using quad-based concept modelling of Early Modern English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Catherine Wong , Bach Phan-Tat , Susan Fitzmaurice

In this paper, we introduce MeDiaQA, a novel question answering(QA) dataset, which constructed on real online Medical Dialogues. It contains 22k multiple-choice questions annotated by human for over 11k dialogues with 120k utterances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Huqun Suri , Qi Zhang , Wenhua Huo , Yan Liu , Chunsheng Guan