Ali Al-Laith — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Dying or Departing? Euphemism Detection for Death Discourse in Historical Texts

Ali Al-Laith, Alexander Conroy, Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Bolette Pedersen, Carsten Levisen, Daniel Hershcovich

COLING 2025main

Euphemisms are a linguistic device used to soften discussions of sensitive or uncomfortable topics, with death being a prominent example. In this paper, we present a study on the detection of death-related euphemisms in historical literary texts from a corpus containing Danish and Norwegian novels f…

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2024

Development and Evaluation of Pre-trained Language Models for Historical Danish and Norwegian Literary Texts

Ali Al-Laith, Alexander Conroy, Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Daniel Hershcovich

COLING 2024main

We develop and evaluate the first pre-trained language models specifically tailored for historical Danish and Norwegian texts. Three models are trained on a corpus of 19th-century Danish and Norwegian literature: two directly on the corpus with no prior pre-training, and one with continued pre-train…

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2024

Noise, Novels, Numbers. A Framework for Detecting and Categorizing Noise in Danish and Norwegian Literature

Ali Al-Laith, Daniel Hershcovich, Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Jakob Ingemann Parby, Alexander Conroy, Timothy R Tangherlini

EMNLP 2024main

We present a framework for detecting and categorizing noise in literary texts, demonstrated through its application to Danish and Norwegian literature from the late 19-th century. Noise, understood as “aberrant sonic behaviour,” is not only an auditory phenomenon but also a cultural construct tied t…

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