4 papers
A Dataset for Probing Translationese Preferences in English-to-Swedish Translation
Jenny Kunz, Anja Jarochenko, Marcel Bollmann
Translations often carry traces of the source language, a phenomenon known as translationese. We introduce the first freely available English-to-Swedish dataset contrasting transla…
Dialects of Translationese Shape Language Model Learning
Jenny Kunz
Machine-translated data is widely used in multilingual NLP, particularly where native text is scarce. However, translated text differs systematically from native text. This phenome…
Preferences for Idiomatic Language are Acquired Slowly -- and Forgotten Quickly: A Case Study on Swedish
Jenny Kunz
In this study, we investigate how language models develop preferences for \textit{idiomatic} as compared to \textit{linguistically acceptable} Swedish, both during pretraining and…
Grow Up and Merge: Scaling Strategies for Efficient Language Adaptation
Kevin Glocker, Kätriin Kukk, Romina Oji +3
Achieving high-performing language models which include medium- and lower-resource languages remains a challenge. Massively multilingual models still underperform compared to langu…