Conversations in Galician: a Large Language Model for an Underrepresented Language [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The recent proliferation of Large Conversation Language Models has highlighted the economic significance of widespread access to this type of AI technologies in the current information age. Nevertheless, prevailing models have primarily been trained on corpora consisting of documents written in popular languages.
Eliseo Bao, Anxo Pérez, Javier Parapar
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Open Generative Large Language Models for Galician [PDF]
arXivLarge language models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing. Yet, their predominantly English-centric training has led to biases and performance disparities across languages. This imbalance marginalizes minoritized languages, making equitable access to NLP technologies more difficult for languages with lower resources, such as Galician ...
Pablo Gamallo +7 more
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Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2019 Over the past two decades, much discussion in sociolinguistics and the sociology of language has centred on concerns over the survival prospects of lesser-used or minority languages. The aim of the research being reported on here was to shed light on one
Bernadette O'Rourke
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The Reception of Galician Performances and (Re)translations of Shakespeare
Multicultural Shakespeare, 2017 This presentation will deal with the reception of performances, translations and retranslations of Shakespeare’s plays into the Galician language. As is well-known, Galician is a Romance language which historically shared a common origin with Portuguese ...
María Jesús Lorenzo-Modia
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Capacity of the CCC-2 to Discriminate ASD from Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders [PDF]
Children, 2021 The Children’s Communication Checklist (CCC-2) has demonstrated its usefulness as an instrument to assess discrepancies between the use of structural dimensions of language and the pragmatic and sociointeractive uses of language.
Alba de la Torre Carril +2 more
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Two Languages, One Goal: Code-Switching in Doctor–Patient Communication in the Galician Healthcare System [PDF]
LanguagesThis paper examines bilingual communications between family doctors and patients in Galicia (Spain). The study adopts a sociolinguistic and sociopragmatic approach to analyze how language choice and code-switching (CS) impact their interactions. The main
Vanesa Rodríguez Tembrás
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HOW TO KILL A LANGUAGE: PLANNING, DIGLOSSIA, BI-NORMATIVISM, THE INTERNET AND GALICIAN [PDF]
European Journal of Applied Linguistics Studies, 2021 Alex De Lusignan Fan Moniz
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Neofalantes as an active minority: understanding language practices and motivations for change amongst new speakers of Galician [PDF]
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2015 Bernadette O’rourke, Fernando Ramallo
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Parents as stakeholders: Language management in urban Galician homes [PDF]
Multilingua, 2018 Anik Nandi
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Sociolinguistic Awareness in Galician Bilinguals: Evidence from an Accent Identification Task
Languages, 2021 The inclusion of European minority languages in public spaces such as education, administration and the media has led to the emergence of a new profile of speakers, “new speakers”, who typically acquire a minority language through education, but vary in ...
Gisela Tomé Lourido, Bronwen G. Evans
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