18 papers
Dynamic Meta-Metrics: Source-Sentence Conditioned Weighting for MT Evaluation
Luke Zhang, Justin Vasselli, Aditya Khan +2
We propose Dynamic Meta-Metrics (DMM), a framework for machine translation evaluation that learns source-sentence conditioned combinations of existing metrics. Rather than relying…
Modality Matching Matters: Calibrating Language Distances for Cross-Lingual Transfer in URIEL+
York Hay Ng, Aditya Khan, Xiang Lu +5
Existing linguistic knowledge bases such as URIEL+ provide valuable geographic, genetic and typological distances for cross-lingual transfer but suffer from two key limitations. Fi…
M4-RAG: A Massive-Scale Multilingual Multi-Cultural Multimodal RAG
David Anugraha, Patrick Amadeus Irawan, Anshul Singh +2
Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance in visual question answering (VQA), yet they remain constrained by static training data. Retrieval-Augmented Generati…
Simple Additions, Substantial Gains: Expanding Scripts, Languages, and Lineage Coverage in URIEL+
Mason Shipton, York Hay Ng, Aditya Khan +4
The URIEL+ linguistic knowledge base supports multilingual research by encoding languages through geographic, genetic, and typological vectors. However, data sparsity (e.g. missing…
SiniticMTError: A Machine Translation Dataset with Error Annotations for Sinitic Languages
Hannah Liu, Junghyun Min, En-Shiun Annie Lee +12
Despite major advances in machine translation (MT) in recent years, progress remains limited for many low-resource languages that lack large-scale training data and linguistic reso…
OasisSimp: An Open-source Asian-English Sentence Simplification Dataset
Hannah Liu, Muxin Tian, Iqra Ali +8
Sentence simplification aims to make complex text more accessible by reducing linguistic complexity while preserving the original meaning. However, progress in this area remains li…