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Idiap Abstract Text Summarization System for German Text Summarization Task

Text summarization is considered as a challenging task in the NLP community. The availability of datasets for the task of multilingual text summarization is rare, and such datasets are difficult to construct. In this work, we build an abstract text summari ...

Idiap2020

Classification and Regression of Cognitive and Motivational Style from Text

Petr Motlicek

In this paper, we describe the participation of the Idiap Research Institute at GermEval 2020 shared task on the Classification and Regression of Cognitive and Motivational style from Text, specifically on subtask 2, Classification of the Operant Motive Te ...

2020

Idiap & UAM participation at GermEval 2020: Classification and Regression of Cognitive and Motivational Style from Text

Petr Motlicek

Hamburg University2020

Pratiques de mobilité en Suisse: Une étude qualitative sur les choix modaux des pendulaires urbains et la mobilité au quotidien [Dataset]

Franziska Meinherz

27 semi-structured interviews. Languages: German, Swiss German, French. ...

2019

Abstract Text Summarization: A Low Resource Challenge

Petr Motlicek

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)2019

“Inventions Represented by Models”: How Switzerland’s First Patent System Excluded Chemical Inventions (1888-1907)

Nicolas Christophe Chachereau

In matters of patents of invention, Switzerland was a unique case in the nineteenth century. After a brief experiment between 1801 and 1803, the country remained without a patent system until 1888. Not only was this situation exceptional in Europe and espe ...

2019

WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER? Stockholm – Vienna’s large courtyard blocks

Chiara Monterumisi, Alessandro Porotto

The purpose of this paper is to look back on some valuable accomplishments at the beginning of the 20th century, built in Stockholm (1916-1930) and Vienna (1919-1933). Far from a mere process of revising history, those first dwelling attempts demonstrate h ...

2017

The Search for Affordable Cement and Concrete in the 18th and 19th Century

Salvatore Aprea

The interest of German building masters towards hydraulic binders grows at the third decade of the 19th century. This acute interest is stimulated by the import of «Roman Cement» from England and by the acquisition of the knowledge related to it. The disse ...

2017

Yes, no, maybe: the ambiguous relationship between State-owned Enterprise and the State

Matthias Finger, Carole Juliane Isabelle Rentsch

Liberalization and the introduction of sector-specific regulators has caused the position of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) of network industries to change not only within national economies, but also vis-a-vis their respective States. In response, many SO ...

Wiley_Blackwell2015

Automatic Speech Recognition and Translation of a Swiss German Dialect: Walliserdeutsch

Philip Neil Garner, David Imseng, Thomas Meyer

Walliserdeutsch is a Swiss German dialect spoken in the south west of Switzerland. To investigate the potential of automatic speech processing of Walliserdeutsch, a small database was collected based mainly on broadcast news from a local radio station. Exp ...

2014

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