Improving Massively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation and Zero-Shot Translation [PDF]
Massively multilingual models for neural machine translation (NMT) are theoretically attractive, but often underperform bilingual models and deliver poor zero-shot translations. In this paper, we explore ways to improve them.
Biao Zhang +3 more
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Zero-shot cross-lingual transfer language selection using linguistic similarity
We study the selection of transfer languages for different Natural Language Processing tasks, specifically sentiment analysis, named entity recognition and dependency parsing. In order to select an optimal transfer language, we propose to utilize different linguistic similarity metrics to measure the distance between languages and make the choice of ...
Juuso Eronen +2 more
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Phonetic correlations of the Russian and Slovak languages: Vocalism
The correlation analysis of vocal systems of the Russian and Slovak languages, in which phonological spaces are determined by the number and set of phoneme-forming differential characteristics of vowels, was performed.
T.I. Magomedova
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Better Zero-Shot Reasoning with Self-Adaptive Prompting [PDF]
Modern large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities at sophisticated tasks, often through step-by-step reasoning similar to humans.
Xingchen Wan +4 more
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Kommunikation ÜBER / PER / VIA Internet, Chat, SMS und E-Mail. Wie lassen sich diese digitalen Wege ausdrücken? [PDF]
The article focuses on prepositional word phrases that are considered usualised and lexicalised word compounds. Lexicalisation is marked by the zero article between the preposition and the noun.
Monika Hornáček Banášová +1 more
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Acquisition of referentiality in elicited narratives of Estonian-speaking children
This study addresses the acquisition of referential expressions in pre-schoolers’ narratives in Estonian. A total of sixteen 6- to 7-year-old typically developing monolingual Estonian children were tested using the story “Baby Goat” from the Multilingual
Argus Reili, Kütt Andra
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ReCLIP: A Strong Zero-Shot Baseline for Referring Expression Comprehension [PDF]
Training a referring expression comprehension (ReC) model for a new visual domain requires collecting referring expressions, and potentially corresponding bounding boxes, for images in the domain. While large-scale pre-trained models are useful for image
Sanjay Subramanian +5 more
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Few-Shot and Zero-Shot Learning for Historical Text Normalization [PDF]
Historical text normalization often relies on small training datasets. Recent work has shown that multi-task learning can lead to significant improvements by exploiting synergies with related datasets, but there has been no systematic study of different ...
Bollmann, Marcel +2 more
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Lexicological Influence through Language Contacts
Language contacts can be studied in three directions: a) language acquisition; b) language borrowing; c) translation. In this project all of the three directions are investigated. The process of language borrowing is analysed on four levels: phonological,
Aleksandra Banjević
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ChatGPT for Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracking: A Solution or an Opportunity? [PDF]
Recent research on dialog state tracking (DST) focuses on methods that allow few- and zero-shot transfer to new domains or schemas. However, performance gains heavily depend on aggressive data augmentation and fine-tuning of ever larger language model ...
Michael Heck +8 more
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