robvanderg/xSID

From Masked-Language Modeling to Translation: Non-English Auxiliary Tasks Improve Zero-shot Spoken Language Understanding

This repository contains the latest xSID data (v0.7). It is a copy of the data from: https://bitbucket.org/robvanderg/multilexnorm/src/master/ , where you can find the code to reproduce the paper.

Please cite the papers below if you use the data.

Usage:

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset(
    "robvanderg/xSID",
    "da",
    split="dev",
)

print(ds)


Dataset({
    features: ['words', 'slots', 'intent'],
    num_rows: 300
})

Citation

@inproceedings{van-der-goot-etal-2021-masked,
    title = "From Masked Language Modeling to Translation: Non-{E}nglish Auxiliary Tasks Improve Zero-shot Spoken Language Understanding",
    author = {van der Goot, Rob  and
      Sharaf, Ibrahim  and
      Imankulova, Aizhan  and
      {\"U}st{\"u}n, Ahmet  and
      Stepanovi{\'c}, Marija  and
      Ramponi, Alan  and
      Khairunnisa, Siti Oryza  and
      Komachi, Mamoru  and
      Plank, Barbara},
    editor = "Toutanova, Kristina  and
      Rumshisky, Anna  and
      Zettlemoyer, Luke  and
      Hakkani-Tur, Dilek  and
      Beltagy, Iz  and
      Bethard, Steven  and
      Cotterell, Ryan  and
      Chakraborty, Tanmoy  and
      Zhou, Yichao",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies",
    month = jun,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.197",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.197",
    pages = "2479--2497",
}

If you use version >= 0.4 (which includes Neapolitan and Swiss German), please also cite:

@inproceedings{aepli-etal-2023-findings,
    title = "Findings of the {V}ar{D}ial Evaluation Campaign 2023",
    author = {Aepli, No{\"e}mi  and
      {\c{C}}{\"o}ltekin, {\c{C}}a{\u{g}}r{\i}  and
      Van Der Goot, Rob  and
      Jauhiainen, Tommi  and
      Kazzaz, Mourhaf  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      North, Kai  and
      Plank, Barbara  and
      Scherrer, Yves  and
      Zampieri, Marcos},
    editor = {Scherrer, Yves  and
      Jauhiainen, Tommi  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Nakov, Preslav  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Zampieri, Marcos},
    booktitle = "Tenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2023)",
    month = may,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Dubrovnik, Croatia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.vardial-1.25",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.vardial-1.25",
    pages = "251--261",
}

If you use version >= 0.5 (which includes Bavarian and Lithuanian), please also cite:

@inproceedings{winkler-etal-2024-slot,
    title = "Slot and Intent Detection Resources for {B}avarian and {L}ithuanian: Assessing Translations vs Natural Queries to Digital Assistants",
    author = "Winkler, Miriam  and
      Juozapaityte, Virginija  and
      van der Goot, Rob  and
      Plank, Barbara",
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      Kan, Min-Yen  and
      Hoste, Veronique  and
      Lenci, Alessandro  and
      Sakti, Sakriani  and
      Xue, Nianwen",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1297",
    pages = "14898--14915",
@inproceedings{Winkler2024,
  title = "Slot and Intent Detection Resources for {B}avarian and {L}ithuanian: Assessing Translations vs Natural Queries to Digital Assistants",
  author = "Winkler, Miriam and Juozapaityte, Virginija and van der Goot, Rob and Plank, Barbara",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation",
  year = "2024",
  publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
}

If you use version >= 0.7 (which includes Munich Bavarian and Norwegian dialects), please also cite:

@inproceedings{kruckl-etal-2025-improving,
    title = "Improving Dialectal Slot and Intent Detection with Auxiliary Tasks: A Multi-Dialectal {B}avarian Case Study",
    author = {Kr{\"u}ckl, Xaver Maria  and
      Blaschke, Verena  and
      Plank, Barbara},
    editor = "Scherrer, Yves  and
      Jauhiainen, Tommi  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Nakov, Preslav  and
      Tiedemann, Jorg  and
      Zampieri, Marcos",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects",
    month = jan,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.vardial-1.10/",
    pages = "128--146"
}
@inproceedings{maehlum-scherrer-2024-nomusic,
    title = "{N}o{M}usic - The {N}orwegian Multi-Dialectal Slot and Intent Detection Corpus",
    author = "M{\ae}hlum, Petter  and
      Scherrer, Yves",
    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://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.9/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.9",
    pages = "107--116"
}