Noëmi Aepli

PhD Student

Tel.: +41 44 635 72 46
Raumbezeichnung: AND 2.20

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That's me!

I'm a PhD Student fascinated by dialects and language variations and the challenges they pose for NLP. I'm working on audio (i.e. speech) & text data.

Right now (August 2022 - March 2023) I'm visiting the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab at UC Berkeley.

My SNSF Doc.CH funded project: LORELAI - LOw-REsource natural LAnguage processIng

There's more information on my Website & publications on Google Scholar.

Research Interests

dialects & language varieties (incl. Swiss German)
speech processing & multimodal settings
transfer learning between closely related languages
text normalization & MT between closely related languages
low-resource settings & robustness to language varieties

Teaching
In the Spring Semester 2020 (FS2020) I was co-teaching Introductory seminar on automatic speech and text analysis.

TA for Introduction into Language Data Processing HS2021

Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

Aepli, Noëmi; Amrhein, Chantal; Schottmann, Florian; Sennrich, Rico (2023). A Benchmark for Evaluating Machine Translation Metrics on Dialects without Standard Orthography. In: Koehn, Philipp; Haddow, Barry; Kocmi, Tom; Monz, Christof. Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Machine Translation. Singapore: Association for Computational Linguistics, 1045-1065.
Aepli, Noëmi; Cöltekin, Çağrı; Van Der Goot, Rob; Jauhiainen, Tommi; Kazzaz, Mourhaf; Ljube\vić, Nikola; North, Kai; Plank, Barbara; Scherrer, Yves; Zampieri, Marcos (2023). Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2023. In: Tenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2023), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 5 May 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics, 251-261.
Lu, Tianshuai; Aepli, Noëmi; Rios, Annette (2023). Reducing Gender Bias in NMT with FUDGE. In: 1st Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT), Tampere, Finland, 15 June 2023, 61-69.
Aepli, Noëmi; Anastasopoulos, Antonios; Chifu, Adrian-Gabriel; Domingues, William; Faisal, Fahim; Gaman, Mihaela; Ionescu, Radu Tudor; Scherrer, Yves (2022). Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2022. In: Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, October 2022. Association for Computational Linguistics, 1-13.
Aepli, Noëmi; Sennrich, Rico (2022). Improving Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer Between Closely Related Languages by Injecting Character-Level Noise. In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, Dublin, Ireland, May 2022. Association for Computational Linguistics, 4074-4083.
Rios, Annette; Amrhein, Chantal; Aepli, Noëmi; Sennrich, Rico (2021). On Biasing Transformer Attention Towards Monotonicity. In: Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Online, 6 June 2021 - 11 June 2021. Association for Computational Linguistics, 4474-4488.
Ellendorff, Tilia; Furrer, Lenz; Colic, Nicola; Aepli, Noëmi; Rinaldi, Fabio (2019). Approaching SMM4H with Merged Models and Multi-task Learning. In: ACL 2019 FOURTH CONFERENCE ON MACHINE TRANSLATION (WMT19), Florence, Italy, 1 August 2019 - 2 August 2019. ACL, 58-61.
Aepli, Noëmi; Clematide, Simon (2018). Parsing Approaches for Swiss German. In: SwissText 2018, Winterthur, 12 June 2018 - 13 June 2018, s.n..
Aepli, Noëmi. Parsing Approaches for Swiss German. 2018, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
Zampieri, Marcos; Malmasi, Shervin; Ljubešić, Nikola; Nakov, Preslav; Ali, Ahmed; Tiedemann, Jörg; Scherrer, Yves; Aepli, Noëmi (2017). Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2017. In: Fourth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, Valencia, 3 April 2017, s.n..
Clematide, Simon; Frick, Karina; Aepli, Noëmi; Goldman, Jean-Philippe (2016). Crowdsourcing Swiss Dialect Transcriptions for Assessing Factors in Writing Variations. In: Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS) Bochum, Germany September 19–21, 2016, Bochum, 19 September 2016 - 21 September 2016. Universitätsverlag Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 62-67.
Volk, Martin; Amrhein, Chantal; Aepli, Noëmi; Müller, Mathias; Ströbel, Phillip (2016). Building a Parallel Corpus on the World's Oldest Banking Magazine. In: KONVENS, Bochum, 19 September 2016 - 21 September 2016, s.n..
Hollenstein, Nora; Aepli, Noëmi (2015). A Resource for Natural Language Processing of Swiss German Dialects. In: International Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL), Duisburg-Essen, 30 September 2015 - 2 October 2015.
Hollenstein, Nora; Aepli, Noëmi (2014). Compilation of a Swiss German Dialect Corpus and its Application to PoS Tagging. In: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Applying NLP Tools to Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, Dublin, 23 August 2014, s.n..
Aepli, Noëmi; Volk, Martin (2013). Reconstructing Complete Lemmas for Incomplete German Compounds. In: International Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL), Darmstadt, 25 September 2013 - 27 September 2013, 1-13.

Weiterführende Informationen

Identification of Languages and Dialects of Italy (ITDI) Shared Task at VarDial 2022 (Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects)