3 papers
cs.CL2026
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…
cs.CL2026
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…
cs.CL2025
URIEL+: Enhancing Linguistic Inclusion and Usability in a Typological and Multilingual Knowledge Base
Aditya Khan, Mason Shipton, David Anugraha +5
URIEL is a knowledge base offering geographical, phylogenetic, and typological vector representations for 7970 languages. It includes distance measures between these vectors for 40…