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Role of Language Relatedness in Multilingual Fine-tuning of Language Models: A Case Study in Indo-Aryan Languages [PDF]

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021
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Tejas Indulal Dhamecha, V. Rudra Murthy, Samarth Bharadwaj, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya   +4 more
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Investigating the relatedness of the endangered Dogon languages

Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2013
In this article we apply up-to-date methods of quantitative language comparison, inspired by algorithms successfully applied in bioinformatics to decode DNA and determine the genetic relatedness of humans, to language data in an attempt to shed light on the current situation of a family of languages called Dogon, which are spoken in Mali, West Africa ...
Moran, Steven; Prokic, Jelena
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Learning Relatedness Measures for Entity Linking [PDF]

, 2013
Entity Linking is the task of detecting, in text documents, relevant mentions to entities of a given knowledge base. To this end, entity-linking algorithms use several signals and features extracted from the input text or from the knowl- edge base.
Lucchese, Claudio, Orlando, Salvatore, Salvatore Orlando, Salvatore Trani, Trani, Salvatore, Diego Ceccarelli, Claudio Lucchese, Raffaele Perego, Salvatore Orl, Ceccarelli, Diego, Perego, Raffaele, Diego Ceccarelli, Claudio Lucchese, Salvatore Trani, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego   +15 more
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What constitutes vocabulary learning difficulty? A classroom-based study of semantic relatedness and L1 familiarity effects on L2 word learning

Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
There has been a plethora of studies investigating the effect of semantic relatedness on second language (L2) word learning.However, most prior studies failed to control for the lexical properties of target words, which may be responsible for the mixed ...
Hanzhong Sun, Shaohua Fang
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The Finno-Ugric foundations of language teaching

Lähivõrdlusi, 2015
The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship of Finno-Ugric studies and language teaching: What can the Finno-Ugric inheritance or relatedness mean in the practice of teaching and learning Finno-Ugric languages as a second or foreign language ...
Johanna Laakso
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The Role of Motivational Strategies on Young EFL Learners’ Basic Psychological Needs: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective [PDF]

Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, 2023
Enhancing young learners’ motivation has often been a primary concern in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). Adopting a self-determination perspective, this study attempted to examine the impact of teacher's motivational strategies on young EFL
Narges Sardabi, Mehrnoosh Kia, Amir Ghajarieh   +2 more
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Towards a psychology of machines: large language models predict human memory [PDF]

PeerJ Computer Science
Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have shown remarkable abilities in natural language processing, opening new avenues in psychological research.
Elanur Ulakci, Jan Pascal Göbel, Markus Huff   +2 more
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SemR-11: A Multi-Lingual Gold-Standard for Semantic Similarity and Relatedness for Eleven Languages [PDF]

, 2018
This work describes SemR-11, a multi-lingual dataset for evaluating semantic similarity and relatedness for 11 languages (German, French, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish, Arabic and Persian).
Davis, Brian, Freitas, Andre, Barzegar, Siamak, Zarrouk, Manel, Handschuh, Siegfried   +4 more
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Introducing the Basic Psychological Needs Frustration in Second Language Scale (BPNF-L2): Examining its factor structure and effect on L2 motivation and achievement

Acta Psychologica, 2023
Research on the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness is well-established in second language (L2) research.
Abdullah Alamer, Alexandre J.S. Morin, Fakieh Alrabai, Ahmed Alharfi   +3 more
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First language translation involvement in second language word processing

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Studies on bilingual word processing have demonstrated that the two languages in a mental lexicon can be parallelly activated. However, it is under discussion whether the activated, non-target language gets involved in the target language.
Tao Zeng, Chen Chen, Jiashu Guo
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