Sara Stymne's publications

2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006
Theses | Abstracts | Presentations


2024 ⇑

  • Vera Danilova and Sara Stymne. Relation between Cross-Genre and Cross-Topic Transfer in Dependency Parsing. Accpeted to LREC-COLING 2025. May 20–25, 2024. Torino, Italy.
  • David Håkansson, Sara Stymne, and Carin Östman. Som om …: Stil och struktur hos komparativa subjunktionsfraser med konditional bisats. In Svenskans beskrivning 38: Förhandlingar vid trettioåttonde sammankomsten (Örebro, Sweden, May 4–6 2022). Volume 38:1, pages 306-323. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne. Direct Speech Identification in Swedish Literature – an Exploration of Training Data Type, Typographical Markers, and Evaluation Granularity. In Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL). Pages 253–263. March 22, 2024. Malta. (pdf)

2023 ⇑
  • Agata Savary, Sara Stymne, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Nathan Schneider, Carlos Ramisch, and Joakim Nivre. PARSEME Meets Universal Dependencies: Getting on the Same Page in Representing Multiword Expressions. The Northern European Journal of Language Technology (NEJLT). Vol. 9, No. 1. (link)
  • Sara Stymne, Carin Östman, and David Håkansson. Parser Evaluation for Analyzing Swedish 19th-20th Century Literature. In Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa). Pages 335-346. May 22–24, 2023. Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. (pdf)
  • Rafal Černiavski and Sara Stymne. Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition for Scandinavian Languages. In Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa). Pages 460-466. May 22–24, 2023. Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. (pdf)
  • Luise Dürlich, Joakim Nivre, Sara Stymne. What Causes Unemployment? Unsupervised Causality Mining from Swedish Governmental Reports. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Resources and Representations for Under-Resourced Languages and Domains (RESOURCEFUL-2023). Pages 25-29. May 22, 2023. Társhavn, Faroe Islands. (pdf)
  • Vera Danilova and Sara Stymne. UD-MULTIGENRE – a UD-Based Dataset Enriched with Instance-Level Genre Annotations. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Multi-lingual Representation Learning (MRL). Pages 253–267. December 2023. Singapore. (pdf).
  • Ahmed Ruby, Sara Stymne, Christian Hardmeier. Unpacking Ambiguous Structure: A Dataset for Ambiguous Implicit Discourse Relations for English and Egyptian Arabic. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI 2023). Pages 126-144. July , 2023. Toronto, Canada. (pdf)
  • Agata Savary, Cherifa Ben Khelil, Carlos Ramisch, Voula Giouli, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Najet Hadj Mohamed, Cvetana Krstev, Chaya Liebeskind, Hongzhi Xu, Sara Stymne, Tunga Güngör, Thomas Pickard, Bruno Guillaume, Eduard Bejček, Archna Bhatia, Marie Candito, Polona Gantar, Uxoa Iñurrieta, Albert Gatt, Jolanta Kovalevskaite, Timm Lichte, Nikola Ljubešić, Johanna Monti, Carla Parra Escartín, Mehrnoush Shamsfard, Ivelina Stoyanova, Veronika Vincze, and Abigail Walsh. PARSEME corpus release 1.3. In Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2023). Pages 24–35. May 2023. Dubrovnik, Croatia. (pdf)
  • Timothy Baldwin, William Croft, Joakim Nivre, Agata Savary, Sara Stymne, Ekaterina Vylomova (Editors). Universals of Linguistic Idiosyncrasy in Multilingual Computational Linguistics (Dagstuhl Seminar 23191). In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 13, Issue 5, pp. 22-70, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. (link)

2022 ⇑
  • Luise Dürlich, Sebastian Reimann, Gustav Finnveden, Joakim Nivre and Sara Stymne. Cause and Effect in Governmental Reports: Two Data Sets for Causality Detection in Swedish. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences. Pages 46-55. June 24, 2022. Marseilles, France. (pdf)
  • Rafal Černiavski and Sara Stymne. Uppsala University at SemEval-2022 Task 1: Can Foreign Entries Enhance an English Reverse Dictionary? In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022). Pages 88-93. July 14-15, 2022. Seatle, Washington, USA. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne and Carin Östman. SLäNDa Version 2.0: Improved and Extended Annotation of Narrative and Dialogue in Swedish Literature. in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'22). Pages 5324‑5333. June 21-23, 2022. Marseilles, France. (pdf)
  • Sebastian Reimann and Sara Stymne. Exploring Cross-Lingual Transfer to Counteract Data Scarcity for Causality Detection. In WWW '22 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2022 (presented at CLEOPATRA 2022). Pages 501-508. April 25, 2022. Online. (pdf)

2021 ⇑
  • Antonia Karamolegkou and Sara Stymne. Investigation of Transfer Languages for Parsing Latin: Italic Branch vs. Hellenic Branch. In Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa). Pages 315-320. June 1-2, 2021. Online. (pdf)
  • Harm Lameris and Sara Stymne. Whit’s the Richt Pairt o Speech: PoS tagging for Scots. In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial). Pages 39-48. April 20, 2021. Online. (pdf)
  • Huiling You, Xingran Zhu, and Sara Stymne. Uppsala NLP at SemEval-2021 Task 2: Multilingual Language Models for Fine-tuning and Feature Extraction in Word-in-Context Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021). August 5-6, 2021. Online. (pdf)
  • Ahmed Ruby, Christian Hardmeier, and Sara Stymne. A Mention-Based System for Revision Requirements Detection. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Understanding Implicit and Underspecified Language. Pages 58-63. August 5, 2021. Online. (pdf)

2020 ⇑
  • Sara Stymne. Cross-Lingual Domain Adaptation for Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT). Pages 62-69. October 27-28. Online. (pdf)
  • Miryam de Lhoneux, Sara Stymne and Joakim Nivre. What Should/Do/Can LSTMs Learn When Parsing Auxiliary Verb Constructions? Computational Linguistics. Vol. 46, No. 4: 763-784. December 2020 (pdf)
  • Giuseppe Della Corte and Sara Stymne. IESTAC: English-Italian Parallel Corpus for End-to-End Speech-to-Text Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Natural Language Processing Beyond Text. Pages 41-50. November 20, 2020. Online. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne and Carin Östman. SLäNDa: An Annotated Corpus of Narrative and Dialogue in Swedish Literary Fiction. In Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'20). Pages 826-834. (pdf)
  • Arra'Di Nur Rizal and Sara Stymne. Evaluating Word Embeddings for Indonesian–English Code-Mixed Text Based on Synthetic Data. In Proceedings of the The 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching. Pages 26-35. (pdf)
  • Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary, Bruno Guillaume, Jakub Waszczuk, Marie Candito, Ashwini Vaidya, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Archna Bhatia, Uxoa Iñurrieta, Voula Giouli, Tunga Gungor, Menghan Jiang, Timm Lichte, Chaya Liebeskind, Johanna Monti, Renata Ramisch, Sara Stymne, Abigail Walsh, and Hongzhi Xu. Edition 1.2 of the PARSEME Shared Task on Semi-supervised Identification of Verbal Multiword Expressions In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons. Pages 107-118. December 13, 2020. Online. (pdf)

2018 ⇑
  • Sara Stymne, Johan Svedjedal, and Carin Östman. Språklig rytm i skönlitterär prosa. En fallstudie i Karin Boyes Kallocain. In Samlaren: tidskrift för svensk litteraturvetenskaplig forskning. Vol. 139: 128-161. (In Swedish, English title: Linguistic Rhythm in Narrative Prose: the case of Karin Boye’s Kallocain) (pdf)
  • Aaron Smith, Miryam de Lhoneux, Sara Stymne, and Joakim Nivre. An Investigation of the Interactions Between Pre-Trained Word Embeddings, Character Models and POS Tags in Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2018. Pages 2711-2720. November 2-4, 2018. Brussels, Belgium. (pdf)
  • Margita Šoštarić, Christian Hardmeier, and Sara Stymne. Discourse-Related Language Contrasts in English-Croatian Human and Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers. Pages 36-48. Oct 31-Nov 1, 2018. Brussels, Belgium. (pdf)
  • Aaron Smith, Bernd Bohnet, Miryam de Lhoneux, Joakim Nivre, Yan Shao and Sara Stymne. 82 Treebanks, 34 Models: Universal Dependency Parsing with Multi-Treebank Models. In Proceedings of CoNLL 2018 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies. Pages 113-123. Oct 31-Nov 1, 2018. Brussels, Belgium. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne, Miryam de Lhoneux, Aaron Smith and Joakim Nivre. Parser Training with Heterogeneous Treebanks. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers). Pages 619-625. July 15-20, 2018, Melbourne, Australia. (pdf, preprint)

2017 ⇑
  • Miryam de Lhoneux, Sara Stymne and Joakim Nivre. Arc-Hybrid Non-Projective Dependency Parsing with a Static-Dynamic Oracle. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parsing Technologies. Pages 99-104. September 20-22, 2017. Pisa, Italy. (pdf)
  • Magdalena Parks, Jussi Karlgren and Sara Stymne. Plausibility Testing for Lexical Resources. In Proceedings of CLEF 2017 (The International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages). September 11-14, 2017. Dublin, Ireland. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne, Sharid Loáiciga and Fabienne Cap. A BiLSTM-based system for cross-lingual pronoun prediction. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation. September 8, 2017. Copenhagen, Denmark. (pdf)
  • Sharid Loáiciga, Sara Stymne, Preslav Nakov, Christian Hardmeier, Jörg Tiedemann, Mauro Cettolo and Yannick Versley. Findings of the 2017 DiscoMT Shared Task on Cross-lingual Pronoun Prediction. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation. September 8, 2017. Copenhagen, Denmark. (pdf)
  • Miryam de Lhoneux, Yan Shao, Ali Basirat, Eliyahu Kiperwasser, Sara Stymne, Yoav Goldberg and Joakim Nivre. From Raw Text to Universal Dependencies - Look, No Tags! In Proceedings of the CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies. Pages 207-217. August 3-4, 2017. Vancouver, Canada. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne. The Effect of Translationese on Tuning for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 21st Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics. Pages 241-246. May 22-24, 2017. Gothenburg, Sweden. (pdf)
  • Allison Adams and Sara Stymne. Learning with learner corpora: Using the TLE for native language identification. In Proceedings of the joint workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning and NLP for Language Acquisition. Pages 1-7. May 22, 2017. Gothenburg, Sweden. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne, Eva Pettersson, Beáta Megyesi and Anne Palmér. Annotating errors in student texts: First experiences and experiments. In Proceedings of the joint workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning and NLP for Language Acquisition. Pages 47-60. May 22, 2017. Gothenburg, Sweden. (pdf)
  • Miryam de Lhoneux, Sara Stymne and Joakim Nivre. Old School vs. New School: Comparing Transition-Based Parsers with and without Neural Network Enhancement. In Proceedings of the 15th Treebanks and Linguistic Theories Workshop (TLT). Pages 99-110. January 20-21, 2017. Bloomington, Indiana, US. (pdf)

2016 ⇑
  • Liane Guillou, Christian Hardmeier, Preslav Nakov, Sara Stymne, Jörg Tiedemann, Yannick Versley, Mauro Cettolo, Bonnie Webber and Andrei Popescu-Belis. Findings of the 2016 WMT Shared Task on Cross-lingual Pronoun Prediction. In Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2016). Pages 525-542. August 11-12, 2016. Berlin Germany. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne. Feature Exploration for Cross-Lingual Pronoun Prediction. In Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2016). Pages 609-615. August 11-12, 2016. Berlin Germany. (pdf)
  • Oscar Sagemo and Sara Stymne. The UU Submission to the Machine Translation Quality Estimation Task. In Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2016). Pages 825-830. August 11-12, 2016. Berlin Germany. (pdf)
  • Jörg Tiedemann, Fabienne Cap, Jenna Kanerva, Filip Ginter, Sara Stymne, Robert Östling and Marion Weller-Di Marco. Phrase-Based SMT for Finnish with More Data, Better Models and Alternative Alignment and Translation Tools. In Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2016). Pages 391-398. August 11-12, 2016. Berlin Germany. (pdf)

2015 ⇑
  • Christian Hardmeier, Preslav Nakov, Sara Stymne, Jörg Tiedemann, Yannick Versley and Mauro Cettolo. Pronoun-Focused MT and Cross-Lingual Pronoun Prediction: Findings of the 2015 DiscoMT Shared Task on Pronoun Translation. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation(DiscoMT 2015). Pages 1–16. September 17, 2015. Lisbon, Portugal. (pdf)

2014 ⇑
  • Sara Stymne, Jörg Tiedemann and Joakim Nivre. Estimating Word Alignment Quality for SMT Reordering Tasks. In Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT14). Pages 275–286. June 26-27, 2014. Baltimore, Maryland, USA. (pdf)
  • Christian Hardmeier, Sara Stymne, Jörg Tiedemann, Aaron Smith and Joakim Nivre. Anaphora Models and Reordering for Phrase-Based SMT. In Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT14). Pages 122–129. June 26-27, 2014. Baltimore, Maryland, USA. (pdf)

2013 ⇑
  • Sara Stymne, Christian Hardmeier, Jörg Tiedemann and Joakim Nivre. Feature Weight Optimization for Discourse-Level SMT. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation. Pages 60-69. August 9, 2013. Sofia, Bulgaria. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne, Christian Hardmeier, Jörg Tiedemann and Joakim Nivre. Tunable Distortion Limits and Corpus Cleaning for SMT. In Proceedings of the Eigth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT13). Pages 225-231. August 8-9, 2013. Sofia, Bulgaria. (pdf)
  • Christian Hardmeier, Sara Stymne, Jörg Tiedemann and Joakim Nivre. Docent: A Document-Level Decoder for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of ACL 2013: System Demonstrations. Pages 193-198. August 5-7, 2013. Sofia, Bulgaria. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne, Nicola Cancedda and Lars Ahrenberg. Generation of Compound Words in Statistical Machine Translation into Compounding Languages. Computational Linguistics, Vol. 39, No. 4: 1067–1108. December 2013. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne, Jörg Tiedemann, Christian Hardmeier and Joakim Nivre. Statistical Machine Translation with Readability Constraints. Proceedings of the 19th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA'13). Pages 375-386. May 23--24, 2013. Oslo, Norway. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne. Using a Grammar Checker and its Error Typology for Annotation of Statistical Machine Translation Errors. Post proceeedings of the 24th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Pages 332-344. August 25-27, 2010. Joensuu, Finland. (Preprint pdf)

2012 ⇑
  • Sara Stymne. Clustered word classes for preordering in statistical machine translation. Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning in NLP (ROBUS-UNSUP 2012). Pages 28-34. April 24, 2012. Avignon, France. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne and Lars Ahrenberg. On the practice of error analysis for machine translation evaluation. Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12). Pages 1786-1790. May 23-25, 2012. Istanbul, Turkey. (pdf)
  • Maria Holmqvist, Sara Stymne, Lars Ahrenberg and Magnus Merkel. Alignment-based reordering for SMT. Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12). Pages 3436-3440. May 23-25, 2012. Istanbul, Turkey. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne, Henrik Danielsson, Sofia Bremin, Hongzhan Hu, Johanna Karlsson, Anna Prytz Lillkull and Martin Wester. Eye Tracking as a Tool for Machine Translation Error Analysis. Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12). Pages 1121-1126. May 23-25, 2012. Istanbul, Turkey. (pdf)

2011 ⇑
  • Sara Stymne and Nicola Cancedda. Productive Generation of Compound Words in Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT11). Pages 250-260. July 30-31, 2011. Edinburgh, Scotland. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne. Spell Checking Techniques for Replacement of Unknown Words and Data Cleaning for Haitian Creole SMS Translation. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT11). Pages 470-477. July 30-31, 2011. Edinburgh, Scotland. (pdf)
  • Maria Holmqvist, Sara Stymne and Lars Ahrenberg. Experiments with word alignment, normalization and clause reordering for SMT between English and German. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT11). Pages 393-398. July 30-31, 2011. Edinburgh, Scotland. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne. Blast: A Tool for Error Analysis of Machine Translation Output. In Proceedings of the ACL-HLT 2011 System Demonstrations. Pages 56-61. June 19-24, 2011. Portland, Oregon, USA. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne. Pre- and Postprocessing for Statistical Machine Translation into Germanic Languages. In Proceedings of the ACL 2011 Student Session. Pages 12-17. June 19-24, 2011. Portland, Oregon, USA. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne. Definite Noun Phrases in Statistical Machine Translation into Scandinavian Languages. In Proceedings of the 15th conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2011). Pages 289-296. May 30-31, 2011. Leuven, Belgium. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne. Iterative reordering and word alignment for statistical MT. In Proceedings of the 18th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2011) Pages 315-318. May 11-13, 2011. Riga, Latvia. (pdf)

2010 ⇑
  • Sara Stymne, Maria Holmqvist and Lars Ahrenberg. Vs and OOVs: Two Problems for Translation between German and English. In Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR (WMT'10). Pages 183-188. July 15-16, 2010. Uppsala, Sweden. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne and Lars Ahrenberg. Using a Grammar Checker for Evaluation and Postprocessing of Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10). Pages 2175-2181. May 19-21, 2010. Valletta, Malta. (pdf)

2009 ⇑
  • Sara Stymne. Definite Noun Phrases in Statistical Machine Translation into Danish. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Extracting and Using Constructions in NLP. Pages 4-9. May 14, 2009. Odense, Denmark. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne. A Comparison of Merging Strategies for Translation of German Compounds. Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at EACL 2009. Pages 61-69. April 2, 2009. Athens, Greece. (pdf)
  • Maria Holmqvist, Sara Stymne, Jody Foo and Lars Ahrenberg. Improving alignment for SMT by reordering and augmenting the training corpus. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT09). Pages 120-124. March 30-31, 2009. Athens, Greece. (pdf)

2008 ⇑
  • Sara Stymne and Maria Holmqvist. Processing of Swedish Compounds for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2008). Pages 180-189. September 22-23, 2008. Hamburg, Germany. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne. German Compounds in Factored Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of GoTAL, 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, ed: A. Ranta and B. Nordström, Springer LNCS/LNAI Volume 5221. Pages 464-475. August 25-27, 2008. Gothenburg, Sweden. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne, Maria Holmqvist and Lars Ahrenberg. Effects of Morphological Analysis in Translation between German and English. In Proceedings of the ACL 2008 Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. Pages 135-138. June 19, 2008. Columbus, Ohio. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne. Experiments with Swedish-English Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 3rd Baltic Conference on Human Language Technology (HLT07). Pages 303-309. October 4-5, 2007. Kaunas, Lithuania. (pdf)

2007 ⇑
  • Maria Holmqvist, Sara Stymne and Lars Ahrenberg. Getting to know Moses: Initial experiments on German-English factored translation. In Proceedings of ACL 2007 Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. Pages 181-184. June 23, 2007. Prague, Czech Republic. (pdf)

2006 ⇑
  • Sara Stymne and Lars Ahrenberg. A Bilingual Grammar for Translation of English-Swedish Verb Frame Divergences. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT). Pages 9-17. June, 19-20, 2006. Oslo, Norway. (pdf)

Theses ⇑

  • Sara Stymne. 2012. Text Harmonization Strategies for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. PhD thesis, Linköping University, Sweden. (info, pdf)
  • Sara Stymne. 2009. Compound Processing for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. Licentiate thesis, Linköping University, Sweden. (info, pdf)
  • Sara Stymne. 2006. Swedish-English Verb Frame Divergences in a Bilingual Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar for Machine Translation. Master's thesis, Linköping University, Sweden. (info, pdf)

Peer-reviewed abstracts ⇑

  • David Håkansson, Carin Östman, Sara Stymne, and Johan Svedjedal. How fiction made the Swedish language modern. Poster presentation at the 6th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference (DHNB 2022). March 15-18, 2022. Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Carin Östman and Sara Stymne. 2021. Rhythm in narrative prose and fiction as a catalyst for linguistic modernization – two case studies of computational methods for the analysis of literary text. Presented at Revolutions in reading: Literary practice in transition. June 21-23, 2021. Online. (Conference information).
  • Sara Stymne and Joakim Nivre. 2020. Cross-Lingual Treebank Combination for Speech Dependency Parsing. Presented at The Eighth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC 2018). November 26-27, 2020. Online. (pdf)
  • Andrew Dyer and Sara Stymne. 2018. Targeted Data-Driven Dependency Parsing for Japanese and Korean. Presented at The Seventh Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC 2018). November 8-9. Stockholm, Sweden. (pdf)
  • Joakim Nivre, Miryam de Lhoneux, Aaron Smith, and Sara Stymne. 2018. Universal Dependency Parsing at Uppsala University. Presented at The Seventh Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC 2018). November 8-9. Stockholm, Sweden. (pdf)
  • Carin Östman, Sara Stymne, and Johan Svedjedal. 2018. Prose Rhythm in Narrative Fiction: the case of Karin Boye's Kallocain. Presented at The Digital Humanities in the Nordc Countries 3rd Conference. 7-9 March, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Sara Stymne. 2016. The Effect of Translationese on SMT Tuning. Presented at The Sixth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC). November 17-18, 2016. Umeå, Sweden. (pdf)
  • Fabienne Cap and Sara Stymne. 2016. Using Word Alignments to Determine the Compositionality of Swedish Compound Nouns. Presented at The Sixth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC). November 17-18, 2016. Umeå, Sweden. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne and Christian Smith. 2012. On the Interplay Between Readability, Summarization and MTranslatability. In Proceedings of the 4th Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC 2012). Pages 71-72. October Lund, Sweden. (pdf)
  • Sofia Bremin, Hongzhan Hu, Johanna Karlsson, Anna Prytz Lillkull, Martin Wester, Henrik Danielsson and Sara Stymne. 2010. Methods for human evaluation of machine translation. In Proceedings of the Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC2010). Pages 47-48. October 28-29, 2010. Linköping, Sweden. (pdf)
  • Sara Stymne. 2010. A Grammar Checker as an Aid to Read Machine Translated Texts. Presented at the 24th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. August 25-27, 2010. Joensuu, Finland.
  • Sara Stymne. 2010. Compound Merging Strategies for Statistical Machine Translation. Presented at the Student Research Competition at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. September 28-October 2, 2010. Atlanta, USA.
  • Maria Holmqvist, Lars Ahrenberg and Sara Stymne. 2008. High-precision Word Alignment with Parallel Phrases. In Proceedings of the Second Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC-08). Pages 45-46. November 20-21, 2008. Stockholm, Sweden. (pdf)

Presentations ⇑

(other than those associated with conference publications and peer-reviewed abstracts)

  • Cross-lingual dependency parsing. Seminar in the UU statistics research seminar series. Uppsala University. Paril 12, 2023.
  • David Håkansson, Sara Stymne, Johan Svedjedal and Carin Östman. Språkhistorien och fiktionsprosan. Språkförändringsmönster i svensk skönlitteratur 1830-1930. ('Language history and fictional prose. Patterns of change in Swedish fiction 1830-1930') (presentation in Swedish). Högre seminarium i nordiska språk. Uppsala University. December 1, 2021.
  • David Håkansson, Sara Stymne, Johan Svedjedal and Carin Östman. Hur skönlitteraturen gjorde svenskan modern. Fiktionsprosa, författare och språkförändring 1830-1930. ('Fictional prose and language change. The role of colloquialization in the history of Swedish 1830–1930') (presentation in Swedish). Presentation at the conference Svenska språkets historia 16. Lund, Sweden. November 11-12, 2021.
  • David Håkansson, Sara Stymne, Johan Svedjedal and Carin Östman. Presentation of the project "Hur skönlitteraturen gjorde svenskan modern" ('How fiction modernized the Swedish language) (presentation in Swedish). Workshop om korpusstilistik, litteratur och språkförändring. Uppsala University, October 15, 2021.
  • Antonia Karamolegkou and Sara Stymne. Transfer language choice for cross-lingual dependency parsing. Sigtyp lecture series (ACL special interest group on linguistic typology). October 1, 2021.
  • Att spåra beskrivningar av orsakssamband i kommittéväsendets utredningar. (Tracking descriptions of causal relation in official reports from the Swedish government Talk in Swedish). Talk for Statskontoret (The Swedish Agency for Public Management), during the workshop: Hur kan Statskontoret använda AI och maskininlärning som ett verktyg i utredningsarbete? September 8, 2021.
  • Att spåra beskrivningar av orsakssamband i kommittéväsendets utredningar. (Tracking descriptions of causal relation in official reports from the Swedish government Talk in Swedish). AI-baserad textanalys av statliga styrdokument. Seminar in the datalab series of The Swedish National Financial Managment Authority. June 16, 2021.
  • Syntactic Parsing across Languages and Domains. Docent lecture at Uppsala University. October 8, 2019.
  • Parser Training with Heterogeneous Treebanks. Presentation at Umeå university, Language Processing Center North. June 8, 2018.
  • Dependency Parsing with Treebank Embeddings. Presentation at Lectures on Language Technology. January 19, 2018. Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Karl Berglund, Johan Svedjedal, Mats Dahllöf, Sara Stymne and Carin Östman. Från närläsning till fjärrläsning – ett panelsamtal om digitala metoder inom litterär textforskning. Presentation at Språkvetenskapliga sällskapet. December 11, 2017. Uppsala, Sweden. (Panel debate about literary text research at the Society of Language Studies. In Swedish)
  • Sara Stymne and Jörg Tiedemann. MT in Helsinki/Turku/Uppsala. Presentation at the Workshop on Machine Translation for Morphologically-Rich Languages. September 12, 2016. Helsinki, Finland. Presenting joint work with Fabienne Cap, Jenna Kanerva, Filip Ginter, Robert Östling.
  • Estimating Word Alignment Quality for SMT Reordering Tasks. Seminar in Computational Linguistics, Uppsala University. March 7, 2014. Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Computational challenges for document translation. Talk given at the eSSENCE Academy 2013. October 16-17, 2013. Lund, Sweden.
  • Machine translation today and tomorrow. Invited talk at the Acrolinx Swedish User Event. May 28, 2013. Linköping, Sweden.
  • Text harmonization for statistical machine translation. Seminar in Computational Linguistics, Uppsala University. October 18, 2012. Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Discourse awareness for statistical machine translation. Poster presentation at the eSSENCE Academy Workshop 2012. October 16–17, 2012. Sigtuna, Sweden.
  • Statistical machine translation @ LiU. Exhibition at the Linköping University Popular Science week 2011 (Populärvetenskapliga veckan). October 19, 2011. Linköping , Sweden.
  • Using a Grammar Checker for Evaluation and Postprocessing of Statistical MT. Poster presentation at the SweCog spring 2010 conference. May 6-8, 2010. Umeå, Sweden.
  • Språkteknologi för tillgängliga e-tjänster (Language technology for accessible e-services). Exhibition at SICS Open House. April 21, 2010. Kista, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Compound processing for statistical machine translation of Germanic languages. Seminar at Xerox Research Centre Europe. January 29, 2009. Grenoble, France.
  • Compound processing for statistical machine translation. GSLT seminar. October 22, 2008. Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • Swedish Curt: A simple dialogue system with "Clever use of reasoning tools". Demo and poster presentation at the 2008 GSLT retreat. January 25-27, 2008. Fiskebäckskil, Sweden. With Yvonne Samuelsson (Stockholm University).
  • Swedish grammars and MT: Status report. Presentation at the third DELPH-IN Summit. August 20-24, 2007. Berlin, Germany.
  • Some English-Swedish verb frame divergences in LKB. Presentation at the Workshop on Grammar Engineering at the 21st Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. June 4, 2005, Trondheim, Norge. With Lars Ahrenberg.