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A Study of Crosslinguistic Influence in Language Models
Abderrahmane Issam, Yusuf Can Semerci, Jan Scholtes +1
The sequential acquisition of languages inevitably leads to Crosslinguistic Influence (CLI), where the syntactic properties of a first language (L1) impact the processing of a seco…
Evaluating LLM-Generated Legal Explanations for Regulatory Compliance in Social Media Influencer Marketing
Haoyang Gui, Thales Bertaglia, Taylor Annabell +3
The rise of influencer marketing has blurred boundaries between organic content and sponsored content, making the enforcement of legal rules relating to transparency challenging. E…
DTW-Align: Bridging the Modality Gap in End-to-End Speech Translation with Dynamic Time Warping Alignment
Abderrahmane Issam, Yusuf Can Semerci, Jan Scholtes +1
End-to-End Speech Translation (E2E-ST) is the task of translating source speech directly into target text bypassing the intermediate transcription step. The representation discrepa…
You Are What You Train: Effects of Data Composition on Training Context-aware Machine Translation Models
PaweÅ MÄ ka, Yusuf Can Semerci, Jan Scholtes +1
Achieving human-level translations requires leveraging context to ensure coherence and handle complex phenomena like pronoun disambiguation. Sparsity of contextually rich examples…
Dutch CrowS-Pairs: Adapting a Challenge Dataset for Measuring Social Biases in Language Models for Dutch
Elza Strazda, Gerasimos Spanakis
Warning: This paper contains explicit statements of offensive stereotypes which might be upsetting. Language models are prone to exhibiting biases, further amplifying unfair and ha…
A Representation Level Analysis of NMT Model Robustness to Grammatical Errors
Abderrahmane Issam, Yusuf Can Semerci, Jan Scholtes +1
Understanding robustness is essential for building reliable NLP systems. Unfortunately, in the context of machine translation, previous work mainly focused on documenting robustnes…