arXiv Computation and Language By Erik Henriksson, Amanda Myntti, Saara Hellstr\"om, Anni Eskelinen, Selcen Erten-Johansson, Veronika Laippala

Automatic register identification for the open web using multilingual deep learning

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arXiv:2406. 19892v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This article presents multilingual deep learning models for identifying web registers -- text varieties such as news reports and discussion forums -- across 16 languages.

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