User Modeling in Language Learning with Macaronic Texts

Spelling-Aware Construction of Macaronic Texts for Teaching Foreign-Language Vocabulary

We present a machine foreign-language teacher that modifies text in a student{'}s native language (L1) by replacing some word tokens with glosses in a foreign language (L2), in such a way that the student can acquire L2 …

Creating Interactive Macaronic Interfaces for Language Learning

An Investigation of Supervised Learning Methods for Authorship Attribution in Short Hinglish Texts using Char & Word N-grams

The writing style of a person can be affirmed as a unique identity indicator; the words used, and the structuring of the sentences are clear measures which can identify the author of a specific work. Stylometry and its s…

Adversarial Attacks on Image Generation With Made-Up Words

Text-guided image generation models can be prompted to generate images using nonce words adversarially designed to robustly evoke specific visual concepts. Two approaches for such generation are introduced: macaronic pro…

Pivotal Role of Language Modeling in Recommender Systems: Enriching Task-specific and Task-agnostic Representation Learning

Recent studies have proposed unified user modeling frameworks that leverage user behavior data from various applications. Many of them benefit from utilizing users' behavior sequences as plain texts, representing rich in…