SwissText 2021
Swiss Text Analytics Conference 2021

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 11 papers submitted for peer-review to the Scientific Track. Out of these, 7 papers were accepted for this volume. Submissions to the Applied Track were also reviewed by the program committee. Submissions to the shared tasks were reviewed by the task organizers.

Scientific Track

• Re-Evaluating GermEval17 Using German Pre-Trained Language Models
  Matthias Aßenmacher, Alessandra Corvonato, Christian Heumann
• Emotions in the parliament: Lexical emotion analysis of parliamentarian speech transcriptions
  Egon Werlen, Christof Imhof, Per Bergamin
• Swiss Parliaments Corpus, an Automatically Aligned Swiss German Speech to Standard German Text Corpus
  Michel Plüss, Lukas Neukom, Christian Scheller, Manfred Vogel
• Predicting COVID-19 Cases using Reddit Posts and other Online Resources (short paper)
  Felix Drinkall, Janet Pierrehumbert
• NFinBERT: A Number-Aware Language Model for Financial Disclosures (short paper)
  Hao-Lun Lin, Jr-Shian Wu, Yu-Shiang Huang, Ming-Feng Tsai, Chuan-Ju Wang
• Neural Argumentation Mining on Essays and Microtexts with Contextualized Word Embeddings (short paper)
  Mohammad Yeghaneh Abkenar, Manfred Stede, Stephan Oepen
• Old is Not Always Gold: Early Identification of Milestone Patents Employing Network Flow Metrics
  Manajit Chakraborty, Fabio Crestani

Shared Task: Sentence End and Punctuation Prediction in NLG Text

• The Sentence End and Punctuation Prediction in NLG Text (SEPP-NLG) Shared Task 2021
  Don Tuggener, Ahmad Aghaebrahimian
• UZH OnPoint at Swisstext-2021: Sentence End and Punctuation Prediction in NLG Text Through Ensembling of Different Transformers (short paper)
  Andrianos Michail, Silvan Wehrli, Terézia Bucková
• Multilingual Simultaneous Sentence End and Punctuation Prediction (short paper)
  Ricardo Rei, Fernando Batista, Nuno M. Guerreiro, Luisa Coheur
• FullStop: Multilingual Deep Models for Punctuation Prediction
  Oliver Guhr, Anne-Kathrin Schumann, Frank Bahrmann, Hans-Joachim Böhme
• University of Regensburg @ SwissText 2021 SEPP-NLG: Adding Sentence Structure to Unpunctuated Text (short paper)
  Gregor Donabauer, Udo Kruschwitz
• Participation of HULAT-UC3M in SEPP-NLG 2021 shared task (short paper)
  Jose Manuel Masiello-Ruiz, Jose Luis Lopez Cuadrado, Paloma Martinez
• Deep Contextual Punctuator for NLG Text (short paper)
  Vandan Mujadia, Pruthwik Mishra, Dipti Misra Sharma

Shared Task: Swiss German Speech to Standard German Text

• SwissText 2021 Task 3: Swiss German Speech to Standard German Text (short paper)
  Michel Plüss, Lukas Neukom, Manfred Vogel
• Dialectal Speech Recognition and Translation of Swiss German Speech to Standard German Text: Microsoft’s Submission to SwissText 2021 (short paper)
  Yuriy Arabskyy, Aashish Agarwal, Subhadeep Dey, Oscar Koller
• ZHAW-CAI: Ensemble Method for Swiss German Speech to Standard German Text (short paper)
  Malgorzata Anna Ulasik, Manuela Hürlimann, Bogumila Dubel, Yves Kaufmann, Silas Rudolf, Jan Deriu, Katsiaryna Mlynchyk, Hans-Peter Hutter, Mark Cieliebak