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Towards better structured and less noisy Web data: Oscar with Register annotations




AuthorsLaippala Veronika, Salmela Anna, Rönnqvist Samuel, Aji Alham Fikri, Chang Li-Hsin, Dhifallah Asma, Goulart Larissa, Kortelainen Henna, Pàmies Marc, Prina Dutra Deise, Skantsi Valtteri, Sutawika Lingtang, Pyysalo Sampo

EditorsN/A

Conference nameInternational Conference on Computational Linguistics

Publication year2022

JournalInternational Conference on Computational Linguistics

Book title Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2022)

Series titleInternational Conference on Computational Linguistics

Number in series4

Volume29

First page 215

Last page221

ISSN 2951-2093

Web address https://aclanthology.org/2022.wnut-1.23/

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/177823149


Abstract

Web-crawled datasets are known to be noisy, as they feature a wide range of language use covering both user-generated and professionally edited content as well as noise originating from the crawling process. This article presents one solution to reduce this noise by using automatic register (genre) identification -whether the texts are, e.g., forum discussions, lyrical or how-to pages. We apply the multilingual register identification model by Rönnqvist et al. (2021) and label the widely used Oscar dataset. Additionally, we evaluate the model against eight new languages, showing that the performance is comparable to previous findings on a restricted set of languages. Finally, we present and apply a machine learning method for further cleaning text files originating from Web crawls from remains of boilerplate and other elements not belonging to the main text of the Web page. The register labeled and cleaned dataset covers 351 million documents in 14 languages and is available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/TurkuNLP/register_oscar.


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