Abstract The striking property of satire is that it makes it difficult to bridge and bridge the gap between its literal and intended meaning. Identifying sarcastic behavior in the field of online social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, surveys, etc. has tu...

<jats:p>In this paper, we present various pre-training strategies that aid in improving the accuracy of the sentiment classification task. At first, we pre-train language representation models using these strategies and then fine-tune them on the downstream task. Experi...

<jats:p>Transformer-based language models pre-trained on large corpora have demonstrated good results on multiple natural language processing tasks for widely used languages including named entity recognition (NER). In this paper, we investigate the role of the BERT mod...

<jats:p>This paper presents a detailed error annotation for morphologically rich languages. The described approach is used to create Latvian Language Learner corpus (LaVA) which is part of a currently ongoing project Development of Learner corpus of Latvian: methods, to...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In the Soviet Union, song competitions had an important role in presenting new artists and songs. The <jats:italic>Mikrofona aptauja</jats:italic> contest of Latvian radio (1968–1994) was the main forum for new Latvian pop music....

In this paper we try to systematize the information about the available corpora for emotion classification in text for languages other than English with the goal to find what approaches could be used for low-resource languages with close to no existing works in the fiel...

<jats:p> This paper concerns information dissemination in the Livland province of the Russian Empire at the turn of the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, when its rulers sent their orders to the provincial capital, Riga, by horse post. In Riga they were translate...

A review and species key to TrictenotomaGray, 1832 (Trictenotomidae Blanchard, 1845) from the Indochina bioregion, mainland Southeast Asia, is presented for the first time. Adults of Trictenotoma childreniGray, 1832, T. davidi Deyrolle, 1875 and T. mouhoti Deyrolle, 187...

On conquered lands inhabited by the Balts, brothers-knights built stone castles with chapels and churches in order to implement Crusaders’ policy. The location of cult buildings adapted to the terrain and traffic roads influenced planning and architectonic space of secu...