11 papers
There is No Theoretical Curse of Multilinguality For Embedding Space Structure
Niyati Bafna, Neha Verma, Vilém Zouhar +2
A central goal of multilingual NLP is to achieve high monolingual performance per language and cross-lingual alignment for large-scale language coverage with a multilingual model.…
Cultivar: A Contrastive and Locale-Oriented Translation Benchmark for Investigating Contamination and Localisation Robustness
Pinzhen Chen, Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Xiaoya Xu +20
Multilingual translation benchmarks are typically sourced in English and translated into other languages, treating language pairs as the unit of evaluation---a design that is prone…
Multilingual Reasoning Cascades Need More Context
Arnav Mazumder, Dengjia Zhang, Shuyue Stella Li +2
Translation cascades for reasoning translate the query from another language to English, reason in English, and translate the answer back to the original language. This is a compet…
ChiKhaPo: A Large-Scale Multilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Lexical Comprehension and Generation in Large Language Models
Emily Chang, Niyati Bafna
Existing benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) are largely restricted to high- or mid-resource languages, and often evaluate performance on higher-order tasks in reasoning an…
Omnilingual MT: Machine Translation for 1,600 Languages
Omnilingual MT Team, Belen Alastruey, Niyati Bafna +29
High-quality machine translation (MT) can scale to hundreds of languages, setting a high bar for multilingual systems. However, compared to the world's 7,000 languages, current sys…
Rashid: A Cipher-Based Framework for Exploring In-Context Language Learning
Niyati Bafna, Ryan Soh-Eun Shim, Barbara Plank +2
Where there is growing interest in in-context language learning (ICLL) for unseen languages with large language models, such languages usually suffer from the lack of NLP tools, da…