2 papers
cs.CL2025
DialUp! Modeling the Language Continuum by Adapting Models to Dialects and Dialects to Models
Niyati Bafna, Emily Chang, Nathaniel R. Robinson +4
Most of the world's languages and dialects are low-resource, and lack support in mainstream machine translation (MT) models. However, many of them have a closely-related high-resou…
cs.CL2025
Programming by Examples Meets Historical Linguistics: A Large Language Model Based Approach to Sound Law Induction
Atharva Naik, Darsh Agrawal, Hong Sng +8
Historical linguists have long written "programs" that convert reconstructed words in an ancestor language into their attested descendants via ordered string rewrite functions (cal…