Verena Blaschke
@verenablaschke.bsky.social
PhD student @mainlp.bsky.social (@cislmu.bsky.social, LMU Munich). Interested in language variation & change, currently working on NLP for dialects and low-resource languages.
verenablaschke.github.io
verenablaschke.github.io
VarDial 2026 will be colocated with @eaclmeeting.bsky.social! We're looking forward to your papers on NLP for similar languages, varieties and dialects :)
Deadline: Dec 19 (Jan 2 for pre-reviewed ARR papers)
sites.google.com/view/vardial...
Deadline: Dec 19 (Jan 2 for pre-reviewed ARR papers)
sites.google.com/view/vardial...
October 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
VarDial 2026 will be colocated with @eaclmeeting.bsky.social! We're looking forward to your papers on NLP for similar languages, varieties and dialects :)
Deadline: Dec 19 (Jan 2 for pre-reviewed ARR papers)
sites.google.com/view/vardial...
Deadline: Dec 19 (Jan 2 for pre-reviewed ARR papers)
sites.google.com/view/vardial...
Moin! I'm on my way to Hamburg to meet the @ds-hamburg.bsky.social group and give a talk about dialect NLP! ⚓
October 20, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Moin! I'm on my way to Hamburg to meet the @ds-hamburg.bsky.social group and give a talk about dialect NLP! ⚓
Betthupferl contains sentences from three dialect groups spoken in southeast Germany, as well as Std German sentences for comparison. The dialectal sentences have both dialectal and Std German gold transcriptions, showing differences between pronunciation, word choice and morphosyntax.
August 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Betthupferl contains sentences from three dialect groups spoken in southeast Germany, as well as Std German sentences for comparison. The dialectal sentences have both dialectal and Std German gold transcriptions, showing differences between pronunciation, word choice and morphosyntax.
At #Interspeech2025 I'm going to present Betthupferl, a dataset for German dialect ASR & dialect-to-standard speech translation! We analyze differences between dialectal & Standard German transcriptions, benchmark ASR models, and examine shortcomings of current ASR models & evaluation metrics.
August 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
At #Interspeech2025 I'm going to present Betthupferl, a dataset for German dialect ASR & dialect-to-standard speech translation! We analyze differences between dialectal & Standard German transcriptions, benchmark ASR models, and examine shortcomings of current ASR models & evaluation metrics.
At #ACL2025NLP I'll present our analysis of the effect of linguistic similarity on cross-lingual transfer! We looked at how 10 similarity measures correlate w/ transfer results btwn 263 languages across 3 NLP tasks. Different similarity measures matter for diff. experiments (no one-size-fits-all)!
July 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
At #ACL2025NLP I'll present our analysis of the effect of linguistic similarity on cross-lingual transfer! We looked at how 10 similarity measures correlate w/ transfer results btwn 263 languages across 3 NLP tasks. Different similarity measures matter for diff. experiments (no one-size-fits-all)!