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XTREME-UP: A User-Centric Scarce-Data Benchmark for Under-Represented Languages
Sebastian Ruder, Jonathan H. Clark, Alexander Gutkin +24
Data scarcity is a crucial issue for the development of highly multilingual NLP systems. Yet for many under-represented languages (ULs) -- languages for which NLP re-search is part…
Spelling convention sensitivity in neural language models
Elizabeth Nielsen, Christo Kirov, Brian Roark
We examine whether large neural language models, trained on very large collections of varied English text, learn the potentially long-distance dependency of British versus American…
Beyond Arabic: Software for Perso-Arabic Script Manipulation
Alexander Gutkin, Cibu Johny, Raiomond Doctor +2
This paper presents an open-source software library that provides a set of finite-state transducer (FST) components and corresponding utilities for manipulating the writing systems…
Graphemic Normalization of the Perso-Arabic Script
Raiomond Doctor, Alexander Gutkin, Cibu Johny +2
Since its original appearance in 1991, the Perso-Arabic script representation in Unicode has grown from 169 to over 440 atomic isolated characters spread over several code pages re…
Structured abbreviation expansion in context
Kyle Gorman, Christo Kirov, Brian Roark +1
Ad hoc abbreviations are commonly found in informal communication channels that favor shorter messages. We consider the task of reversing these abbreviations in context to recover…
Finding Concept-specific Biases in Form--Meaning Associations
Tiago Pimentel, Brian Roark, Søren Wichmann +2
This work presents an information-theoretic operationalisation of cross-linguistic non-arbitrariness. It is not a new idea that there are small, cross-linguistic associations betwe…