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title = "{S}ou{D}e{C}: Source Detection and Classification in {C}zech",
author = "M{\'i}rovsk{\'y}, Ji{\v{r}}{\'i} and
Hladka, Barbora",
editor = "Piperidis, Stelios and
Bel, N{\'u}ria and
van den Heuvel, Henk and
Ide, Nancy and
Krek, Simon and
Toral, Antonio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.50/",
doi = "10.63317/3xvp6edtnr5g",
pages = "685--693",
abstract = "We present a method of attribution source detection and classification in Czech. A plain text (typically, a newspaper article) enters the SouDec system, gets parsed with the external tool UDPipe into Universal-Dependencies style of sentence representation, and then is analyzed for occurrences of attribution signals and sources. The list of attribution signals has been extracted from a corpus of Czech newspaper articles annotated with interlinked attribution signals and sources, and has been complemented with context and syntax information to help distinguish relevant occurrences of the signals. The SouDec system further classifies the attribution sources in one of five classes: anonymous, partially anonymous, unofficial, official non-political and official political, using information from another external tool, a recognizer and classifier of named entities, NameTag 3. While our source detection method gets results comparable to existing systems for other languages, further improvements can be achieved by incorporating fully-fledged automatic coreference resolution into the classification method. In a focused case study, we test a possible usage of SouDeC for distinguishing domain-specific texts of less vs. more reputable origin."
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%T SouDeC: Source Detection and Classification in Czech
%A Mírovský, Jiří
%A Hladka, Barbora
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Bel, Núria
%Y van den Heuvel, Henk
%Y Ide, Nancy
%Y Krek, Simon
%Y Toral, Antonio
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%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resource Association
%C Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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%X We present a method of attribution source detection and classification in Czech. A plain text (typically, a newspaper article) enters the SouDec system, gets parsed with the external tool UDPipe into Universal-Dependencies style of sentence representation, and then is analyzed for occurrences of attribution signals and sources. The list of attribution signals has been extracted from a corpus of Czech newspaper articles annotated with interlinked attribution signals and sources, and has been complemented with context and syntax information to help distinguish relevant occurrences of the signals. The SouDec system further classifies the attribution sources in one of five classes: anonymous, partially anonymous, unofficial, official non-political and official political, using information from another external tool, a recognizer and classifier of named entities, NameTag 3. While our source detection method gets results comparable to existing systems for other languages, further improvements can be achieved by incorporating fully-fledged automatic coreference resolution into the classification method. In a focused case study, we test a possible usage of SouDeC for distinguishing domain-specific texts of less vs. more reputable origin.
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%P 685-693
Markdown (Informal)
[SouDeC: Source Detection and Classification in Czech](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.50/) (Mírovský & Hladka, LREC 2026)
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