SWISSTEXT & KONVENS 2020
Swiss Text Analytics Conference & Conference on Natural Language Processing 2020

Table of Contents

• Preface
  
  

Scientific Track

• Investigating the Influence of Selected Linguistic Features on Authorship Attribution using German News Articles
  Manuel Sage, Pietro Cruciata, Raed Abdo, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Yaoyao Fiona Zhao
• On the Comparability of Pre-trained Language Models
  Matthias Aßenmacher, Christian Heumann
• Supervised Pun Detection and Location with Feature Engineering and Logistic Regression
  Jingyuan Feng, Özge Sevgili, Steffen Remus, Eugen Ruppert, Chris Biemann
• Compiling a Large Swiss German Dialect Corpus
  Manuela Weibel, Muriel Peter
• To BERT or not to BERT – Comparing Contextual Embeddings in a Deep Learning Architecture for the Automatic Recognition of four Types of Speech, Thought and Writing Representation
  Annelen Brunner, Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu, Lukas Weimer, Fotis Jannidis
• Cultural Differences in Bias? Origin and Gender Bias in Pre-Trained German and French Word Embeddings
  Mascha Kurpicz-Briki
• Evaluating German Transformer Language Models with Syntactic Agreement Tests
  Karolina Zaczynska, Nils Feldhus, Robert Schwarzenberg, Aleksandra Gabryszak, Sebastian Möller
• Predicting the Concreteness of German Words
  Jean Charbonnier, Christian Wartena
• X -stance: A Multilingual Multi-Target Dataset for Stance Detection
  Jannis Vamvas, Rico Sennrich
• Harmonization Sometimes Harms
  Manfred Klenner, Anne Göhring, Michael Amsler
• Ranking Georeferences for Efficient Crowdsourcing of Toponym Annotations in a Historical Corpus of Alpine Texts
  Janis Goldzycher, Isabel Meraner, Martin Volk, Simon Clematide
• HarryMotions – Classifying Relationships in Harry Potter based on Emotion Analysis
  Albin Zehe, Julia Arns, Lena Hettinger, Andreas Hotho
• Cross-lingual Transfer-learning Approach to Negation Scope Resolution
  Anastassia Shaitarova, Lenz Furrer, Fabio Rinaldi
• Psychological Distance in German and English Brand Language of Eight International Brands
  Simone Griesser

GermEval 2020 Task 2: Swiss German Language Identification

• Overview of the GermEval 2020 Shared Task on Swiss German Language Identification
  Pius von Däniken, Manuela Hürlimann, Mark Cieliebak
• Spoken Dialect Identification in Twitter using a Multi-filter Architecture
  Mohammadreza Banaei, Rémi Lebret, Karl Aberer
• Detecting Noisy Swiss German Web Text Using RNN- and Rule-Based Techniques
  Janis Goldzycher, Jonathan Schaber
• Idiap Submission to Swiss-German Language Detection Shared Task
  Shantipriya Parida, Esaú Villatoro-Tello, Sajit Kumar, Petr Motlicek, Qingran Zhan

GermEval 2020 Task 3: 2nd German Text Summarization Challenge

• 2nd German Text Summarization Challenge
  Dominik Frefel, Manfred Vogel, Fabian Märki
• UPB at GermEval-2020 Task 3: Assessing Summaries for German Texts using BERTScore and Sentence-BERT
  Andrei Paraschiv, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel
• Hybrid Ensemble Predictor as Quality Metric for German Text Summarization: Fraunhofer IAIS at GermEval 2020 Task 3
  David Biesner, Eduardo Brito, Lars Patrick Hillebrand, Rafet Sifa

GermEval 2020 Task 4: Low-Resource Speech-to-Text

• GermEval 2020 Task 4: Low-Resource Speech-to-Text
  Michel Plüss, Lukas Neukom, Manfred Vogel
• LTL-UDE at Low-Resource Speech-to-Text Shared Task: Investigating Mozilla DeepSpeech in a low-resource setting
  Aashish Agarwal, Torsten Zesch
• ZHAW-InIT at GermEval 2020 Task 4: Low-Resource Speech-to-Text
  Matthias Büchi, Malgorzata Anna Ulasik, Manuela Hürlimann, Fernando Benites, Pius von Däniken, Mark Cieliebak
• UZH TILT: A Kaldi recipe for Swiss German Speech to Standard German Text
  Tannon Kew, Iuliia Nigmatulina, Lorenz Nagele, Tanja Samardžić

Additional Material

• Abstracts of the Applied Track