retrofitting

Capturing Regional Variation with Distributed Place Representations and Geographic Retrofitting

Dialects are one of the main drivers of language variation, a major challenge for natural language processing tools. In most languages, dialects exist along a continuum, and are commonly discretized by combining the extent of several preselected …

The Social and the Neural Network: How to Make Natural Language Processing about People again

Over the years, natural language processing has increasingly focused on tasks that can be solved by statistical models, but ignored the social aspects of language. These limitations are in large part due to historically available data and the …