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cs.CL2024
A Systematic Analysis of Subwords and Cross-Lingual Transfer in Multilingual Translation
Francois Meyer, Jan Buys
Multilingual modelling can improve machine translation for low-resource languages, partly through shared subword representations. This paper studies the role of subword segmentatio…
cs.CL2024★ 1 cited
Triples-to-isiXhosa (T2X): Addressing the Challenges of Low-Resource Agglutinative Data-to-Text Generation
Francois Meyer, Jan Buys
Most data-to-text datasets are for English, so the difficulties of modelling data-to-text for low-resource languages are largely unexplored. In this paper we tackle data-to-text fo…
cs.CL2023
Subword Segmental Machine Translation: Unifying Segmentation and Target Sentence Generation
Francois Meyer, Jan Buys
Subword segmenters like BPE operate as a preprocessing step in neural machine translation and other (conditional) language models. They are applied to datasets before training, so…