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GlotCC: An Open Broad-Coverage CommonCrawl Corpus and Pipeline for Minority Languages
Amir Hossein Kargaran, François Yvon, Hinrich Schütze
The need for large text corpora has increased with the advent of pretrained language models and, in particular, the discovery of scaling laws for these models. Most available corpo…
MEXA: Multilingual Evaluation of English-Centric LLMs via Cross-Lingual Alignment
Amir Hossein Kargaran, Ali Modarressi, Nafiseh Nikeghbal +3
English-centric large language models (LLMs) often show strong multilingual capabilities. However, their multilingual performance remains unclear and is under-evaluated for many ot…
How Transliterations Improve Crosslingual Alignment
Yihong Liu, Mingyang Wang, Amir Hossein Kargaran +6
Recent studies have shown that post-aligning multilingual pretrained language models (mPLMs) using alignment objectives on both original and transliterated data can improve crossli…
MaskLID: Code-Switching Language Identification through Iterative Masking
Amir Hossein Kargaran, François Yvon, Hinrich Schütze
We present MaskLID, a simple, yet effective, code-switching (CS) language identification (LID) method. MaskLID does not require any training and is designed to complement current h…
GIRT-Model: Automated Generation of Issue Report Templates
Nafiseh Nikeghbal, Amir Hossein Kargaran, Abbas Heydarnoori
Platforms such as GitHub and GitLab introduce Issue Report Templates (IRTs) to enable more effective issue management and better alignment with developer expectations. However, the…