@inproceedings{verkijk-etal-2024-studying,
    title = "Studying Language Variation Considering the Re-Usability of Modern Theories, Tools and Resources for Annotating Explicit and Implicit Events in Centuries Old Text",
    author = "Verkijk, Stella  and
      Sommerauer, Pia  and
      Vossen, Piek",
    editor = {Scherrer, Yves  and
      Jauhiainen, Tommi  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Nakov, Preslav  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024)",
    month = jun,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2025-06/2024.vardial-1.15/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.15",
    pages = "174--187",
    abstract = "This paper discusses the re-usibility of existing approaches, tools and automatic techniques for the annotation and detection of events in a challenging variant of centuries old Dutch written in the archives of the Dutch East India Company. We describe our annotation process and provide a thorough analysis of different versions of manually annotated data and the first automatic results from two fine-tuned Language Models. Through the analysis of this complete process, the paper studies two things: to what extent we can use NLP theories and tasks formulated for modern English to formulate an annotation task for Early Modern Dutch and to what extent we can use NLP models and tools built for modern Dutch (and other languages) on Early Modern Dutch. We believe these analyses give us insight into how to deal with the large variation language showcases in describing events, and how this variation may differ accross domains. We release the annotation guidelines, annotated data, and code."
}