4 papers
Translation or Recitation? Calibrating Evaluation Scores for Machine Translation of Extremely Low-Resource Languages
Danlu Chen, Ka Sing He, Jiahe Tian +4
The landscape of extremely low-resource machine translation (MT) is characterized by perplexing variability in reported performance, often making results across different language…
GUARD: Glocal Uncertainty-Aware Robust Decoding for Effective and Efficient Open-Ended Text Generation
Yuanhao Ding, Esteban Garces Arias, Meimingwei Li +6
Open-ended text generation faces a critical challenge: balancing coherence with diversity in LLM outputs. While contrastive search-based decoding strategies have emerged to address…
LogogramNLP: Comparing Visual and Textual Representations of Ancient Logographic Writing Systems for NLP
Danlu Chen, Freda Shi, Aditi Agarwal +2
Standard natural language processing (NLP) pipelines operate on symbolic representations of language, which typically consist of sequences of discrete tokens. However, creating an…
Pixel Sentence Representation Learning
Chenghao Xiao, Zhuoxu Huang, Danlu Chen +7
Pretrained language models are long known to be subpar in capturing sentence and document-level semantics. Though heavily investigated, transferring perturbation-based methods from…