Sabine Bartsch


2021

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TUDA-CCL at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Using Gradient-boosted Regression Tree Ensembles Trained on a Heterogeneous Feature Set for Predicting Lexical Complexity
Sebastian Gombert | Sabine Bartsch
Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021)

In this paper, we present our systems submitted to SemEval-2021 Task 1 on lexical complexity prediction.The aim of this shared task was to create systems able to predict the lexical complexity of word tokens and bigram multiword expressions within a given sentence context, a continuous value indicating the difficulty in understanding a respective utterance. Our approach relies on gradient boosted regression tree ensembles fitted using a heterogeneous feature set combining linguistic features, static and contextualized word embeddings, psycholinguistic norm lexica, WordNet, word- and character bigram frequencies and inclusion in wordlists to create a model able to assign a word or multiword expression a context-dependent complexity score. We can show that especially contextualised string embeddings can help with predicting lexical complexity.

2020

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MultiVitaminBooster at PARSEME Shared Task 2020: Combining Window- and Dependency-Based Features with Multilingual Contextualised Word Embeddings for VMWE Detection
Sebastian Gombert | Sabine Bartsch
Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons

In this paper, we present MultiVitaminBooster, a system implemented for the PARSEME shared task on semi-supervised identification of verbal multiword expressions - edition 1.2. For our approach, we interpret detecting verbal multiword expressions as a token classification task aiming to decide whether a token is part of a verbal multiword expression or not. For this purpose, we train gradient boosting-based models. We encode tokens as feature vectors combining multilingual contextualized word embeddings provided by the XLM-RoBERTa language model with a more traditional linguistic feature set relying on context windows and dependency relations. Our system was ranked 7th in the official open track ranking of the shared task evaluations with an encoding-related bug distorting the results. For this reason we carry out further unofficial evaluations. Unofficial versions of our systems would have achieved higher ranks.

2016

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EmpiriST 2015: A Shared Task on the Automatic Linguistic Annotation of Computer-Mediated Communication and Web Corpora
Michael Beißwenger | Sabine Bartsch | Stefan Evert | Kay-Michael Würzner
Proceedings of the 10th Web as Corpus Workshop

2012

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CSNIPER - Annotation-by-query for Non-canonical Constructions in Large Corpora
Richard Eckart de Castilho | Sabine Bartsch | Iryna Gurevych
Proceedings of the ACL 2012 System Demonstrations

2004

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Annotating a Corpus for Building a Domain-specific Knowledge Base
Sabine Bartsch
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)