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title = "Multilingual Email Zoning",
author = "Jardim, Bruno and
Rei, Ricardo and
Almeida, Mariana S. C.",
editor = "Sorodoc, Ionut-Teodor and
Sushil, Madhumita and
Takmaz, Ece and
Agirre, Eneko",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop",
month = apr,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-srw.13",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-srw.13",
pages = "88--95",
abstract = "The segmentation of emails into functional zones (also dubbed email zoning) is a relevant preprocessing step for most NLP tasks that deal with emails. However, despite the multilingual character of emails and their applications, previous literature regarding email zoning corpora and systems was developed essentially for English. In this paper, we analyse the existing email zoning corpora and propose a new multilingual benchmark composed of 625 emails in Portuguese, Spanish and French. Moreover, we introduce OKAPI, the first multilingual email segmentation model based on a language agnostic sentence encoder. Besides generalizing well for unseen languages, our model is competitive with current English benchmarks, and reached new state-of-the-art performances for domain adaptation tasks in English.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Multilingual Email Zoning](https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-srw.13) (Jardim et al., EACL 2021)
ACL
- Bruno Jardim, Ricardo Rei, and Mariana S. C. Almeida. 2021. Multilingual Email Zoning. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, pages 88–95, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.