Thierry Poibeau

Multi-SimLex: A Large-Scale Evaluation of Multilingual and Crosslingual Lexical Semantic Similarity

2020 · Computational Linguistics

We introduce Multi-SimLex, a large-scale lexical resource and evaluation benchmark covering data sets for 12 typologically diverse languages, including major languages (e.g., Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Russian) as well as less-resourced ones (e.g., Welsh, Kiswahili). Each …

Video Games as a Corpus: Sentiment Analysis using Fallout New Vegas Dialog

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

We present a method for extracting a multilingual sentiment annotated dialog data set from Fallout New Vegas. The game developers have preannotated every line of dialog in the game in one of the 8 different …

Automatic Generation of Factual News Headlines in Finnish

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

We present a novel approach to generating news headlines in Finnish for a given news story. We model this as a summarization task where a model is given a news article, and its task is …