6 papers
Typologically Informed Parameter Aggregation
Stef Accou, Wessel Poelman
Massively multilingual language models enable cross-lingual generalization but underperform on low-resource and unseen languages. While adapter-based fine-tuning offers a parameter…
Form and Meaning in Intrinsic Multilingual Evaluations
Wessel Poelman, Miryam de Lhoneux
Intrinsic evaluation metrics for conditional language models, such as perplexity or bits-per-character, are widely used in both mono- and multilingual settings. These metrics are r…
On the Interplay between Positional Encodings, Morphological Complexity, and Word Order Flexibility
Kushal Tatariya, Wessel Poelman, Miryam de Lhoneux
Language model architectures are predominantly first created for English and subsequently applied to other languages. It is an open question whether this architectural bias leads t…
Confounding Factors in Relating Model Performance to Morphology
Wessel Poelman, Thomas Bauwens, Miryam de Lhoneux
The extent to which individual language characteristics influence tokenization and language modeling is an open question. Differences in morphological systems have been suggested a…
Type and Complexity Signals in Multilingual Question Representations
Robin Kokot, Wessel Poelman
This work investigates how a multilingual transformer model represents morphosyntactic properties of questions. We introduce the Question Type and Complexity (QTC) dataset with sen…
The Roles of English in Evaluating Multilingual Language Models
Wessel Poelman, Miryam de Lhoneux
Multilingual natural language processing is getting increased attention, with numerous models, benchmarks, and methods being released for many languages. English is often used in m…