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20222025
most citedTransfer to a Low-Resource Language via Close Relatives: The Case Study on Faroese

7 citations · 12 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CL2025

Contrastive Decoding for Synthetic Data Generation in Low-Resource Language Modeling

Jannek Ulm, Kevin Du, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on huge amounts of textual data, and concerns have been raised that the limits of such data may soon be reached. A potential solution is to…

cs.CV2025

Taxonomy-Aware Evaluation of Vision-Language Models

Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Kevin Du, Niklas Stoehr +4

When a vision-language model (VLM) is prompted to identify an entity depicted in an image, it may answer 'I see a conifer,' rather than the specific label 'norway spruce'. This rai…

cs.CL20232 cited

Byte-Level Grammatical Error Correction Using Synthetic and Curated Corpora

Svanhvít Lilja Ingólfsdóttir, Pétur Orri Ragnarsson, Haukur Páll Jónsson +3

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is the task of correcting typos, spelling, punctuation and grammatical issues in text. Approaching the problem as a sequence-to-sequence task, we…

cs.CL20237 cited

Transfer to a Low-Resource Language via Close Relatives: The Case Study on Faroese

Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Annika Simonsen, Goran Glavaš +1

Multilingual language models have pushed state-of-the-art in cross-lingual NLP transfer. The majority of zero-shot cross-lingual transfer, however, use one and the same massively m…

cs.CL20223 cited

Cross-Lingual QA as a Stepping Stone for Monolingual Open QA in Icelandic

Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Hafsteinn Einarsson

It can be challenging to build effective open question answering (open QA) systems for languages other than English, mainly due to a lack of labeled data for training. We present a…