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Code-Switching Detection via Language-Selective Dimensions in Speech Foundation Models
Jie Chi, Zakaria Aldeneh, Masha Fedzechkina +2
Code-switching (CS), the alternation between languages within an utterance, is common in multilingual speech but underrepresented in pretraining corpora. Increasing CS coverage req…
Multilingual Knowledge Transfer under Data Constraints via Lexical Interventions
Anastasiia Sedova, Natalie Schluter, Skyler Seto +1
Cross-lingual knowledge transfer is critical for building high-performing multilingual language models for languages with insufficient training data. When target language data is s…
How Value Induction Reshapes LLM Behaviour
Arnav Arora, Natalie Schluter, Katherine Metcalf +1
Conversational Large Language Models are post-trained on language that expresses specific behavioural traits, such as curiosity, open-mindedness, and empathy, and values, such as h…
Discriminating Form and Meaning in Multilingual Models with Minimal-Pair ABX Tasks
Maureen de Seyssel, Jie Chi, Skyler Seto +3
We introduce a set of training-free ABX-style discrimination tasks to evaluate how multilingual language models represent language identity (form) and semantic content (meaning). I…
The Role of Prosody in Spoken Question Answering
Jie Chi, Maureen de Seyssel, Natalie Schluter
Spoken language understanding research to date has generally carried a heavy text perspective. Most datasets are derived from text, which is then subsequently synthesized into spee…
DANSK and DaCy 2.6.0: Domain Generalization of Danish Named Entity Recognition
Kenneth Enevoldsen, Emil Trenckner Jessen, Rebekah Baglini
Named entity recognition is one of the cornerstones of Danish NLP, essential for language technology applications within both industry and research. However, Danish NER is inhibite…