Douglas W. Oard

Surprise Languages: Rapid-Response Cross-Language IR

2019 · Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh)

Sixteen years ago, the first "surprise language exercise" was conducted, in Cebuano. The evaluation goal of a surprise language exercise is to learn how well systems for a new language can be quickly built. This …

Cross-language Sentence Selection via Data Augmentation and Rationale Training

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

This paper proposes an approach to cross-language sentence selection in a low-resource setting. It uses data augmentation and negative sampling techniques on noisy parallel sentence data to directly learn a cross-lingual embedding-based query relevance model. …