Véronique Hoste

Benefits of Data Augmentation for NMT-based Text Normalization of User-Generated Content

2019

One of the most persistent characteristics of written user-generated content (UGC) is the use of non-standard words. This characteristic contributes to an increased difficulty to automatically process and analyze UGC. Text normalization is the task …

Multimodular Text Normalization of Dutch User-Generated Content

2016 · ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

As social media constitutes a valuable source for data analysis for a wide range of applications, the need for handling such data arises. However, the nonstandard language used on social media poses problems for natural …

SemEval-2018 Task 3: Irony Detection in English Tweets

2018

This paper presents the first shared task on irony detection: given a tweet, automatic natural language processing systems should determine whether the tweet is ironic (Task A) and which type of irony (if any) is …