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Expanding the Lexicon of Ge'ez Based African Languages: A Comparative Study of Amharic and Tigrinya
Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot, Debela Desalegn Yadeta, Wolfgang Nejdl
Multilingual pre-trained language models such as XLM-R perform well for major languages but struggle with low-resource Ge'ez-script languages, largely because Latin-script-centric…
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LLM Probe: Evaluating LLMs for Low-Resource Languages
Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot, Gebrearegawi Gebremariam, Wolfgang Nejdl
Despite rapid advances in large language models (LLMs), their linguistic abilities in low-resource and morphologically rich languages are still not well understood due to limited a…
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LGSE: Lexically Grounded Subword Embedding Initialization for Low-Resource Language Adaptation
Hailay Teklehaymanot, Dren Fazlija, Wolfgang Nejdl
Adapting pretrained language models to low-resource, morphologically rich languages remains a significant challenge. Existing vocabulary expansion methods typically rely on arbitra…