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Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Raphaël Barman, Federica Pardini

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Napoleonic administration introduced a new standardised description system to give an objective account of the form and functions of the city of Venice. The cadastre, deployed on a European scale, was offering for ...

2021

Discourse Phenomena in Machine Translation

Lesly Sadiht Miculicich Werlen

Machine Translation (MT) has made considerable progress in the past two decades, particularly after the introduction of neural network models (NMT). During this time, the research community has mostly focused on modeling and evaluating MT systems at the se ...

EPFL2021

Early Prediction of Conceptual Understanding in Interactive Simulations

Jade Maï L Cock, Christian Giang, Mirko Marras

Interactive simulations allow students to independently ex- plore scientific phenomena and ideally infer the underlying principles through their exploration. Effectively using such environments is challenging for many students and there- fore, adaptive gui ...

2021

Uncertainty and Surprisal Jointly Deliver the Punchline: Exploiting Incongruity-Based Features for Humor Recognition

Pearl Pu Faltings, Yubo Xie, Junze Li

Humor recognition has been widely studied as a text classification problem using data-driven approaches. However, most existing work does not examine the actual joke mechanism to understand humor. We break down any joke into two distinct components: the se ...

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2021

Seeking methods for improving sustainability in the extractive sector

Farnaz Eslamishoar

Extractive resources are indisputably a necessary component of international sustainable development. Despite current advancements in the circular economy, world production needs for raw materials are ever increasing, and still a long way remains for it to ...

EPFL2021

Interpreting Language Models Through Knowledge Graph Extraction

Martin Jaggi, Vinitra Swamy, Angeliki Romanou

Transformer-based language models trained on large text corpora have enjoyed immense popularity in the natural language processing community and are commonly used as a starting point for downstream tasks. While these models are undeniably useful, it is a c ...

2021

The DCU-EPFL Enhanced Dependency Parser at the IWPT 2021 Shared Task

James Henderson, Alireza Mohammadshahi

We describe the DCU-EPFL submission to the IWPT 2021 Parsing Shared Task: From Raw Text to Enhanced Universal Dependencies. The task involves parsing Enhanced UD graphs, which are an extension of the basic dependency trees designed to be more facilitative ...

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2021

Data mining in the context of urban metabolism: A case study of Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis, Nicole Sophie Wiedmann

The highest share of the global population lives in cities. The current configuration of the latter requires considerable amounts of resource flows causing the degradation of local and global ecosystems. To face the complexity of these challenges, scientis ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

On the ‘cultural transfer’ of modern architecture northwards - Akzeptiere: Das Buch und seine Geschichte

Chiara Monterumisi

"Akzeptiere: Das Buch und seine Geschichte" is the latest in-depth contribution by Atli Magnus Seelow, one of several by him on the 1930 Stockholm exhibition and the book accepetera, the 200-page text often referred to as ‘the manifesto of Swedish function ...

2021

Multi-scale sequential network for semantic text segmentation and localization

Jean-Marc Odobez, Olivier Canévet, Michael Villamizar

We present a novel method for semantic text document analysis which in addition to localizing text it labels the text in user-defined semantic categories. More precisely, it consists of a fully-convolutional and sequential network that we apply to the part ...

2020

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