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Teacher Perception of Automatically Extracted Grammar Concepts for L2 Language Learning
Aditi Chaudhary, Arun Sampath, Ashwin Sheshadri +2
One of the challenges in language teaching is how best to organize rules regarding syntax, semantics, or phonology in a meaningful manner. This not only requires content creators t…
To token or not to token: A Comparative Study of Text Representations for Cross-Lingual Transfer
Md Mushfiqur Rahman, Fardin Ahsan Sakib, Fahim Faisal +1
Choosing an appropriate tokenization scheme is often a bottleneck in low-resource cross-lingual transfer. To understand the downstream implications of text representation choices,…
Cross-Modal Multi-Tasking for Speech-to-Text Translation via Hard Parameter Sharing
Brian Yan, Xuankai Chang, Antonios Anastasopoulos +2
Recent works in end-to-end speech-to-text translation (ST) have proposed multi-tasking methods with soft parameter sharing which leverage machine translation (MT) data via secondar…
Enhancing End-to-End Conversational Speech Translation Through Target Language Context Utilization
Amir Hussein, Brian Yan, Antonios Anastasopoulos +2
Incorporating longer context has been shown to benefit machine translation, but the inclusion of context in end-to-end speech translation (E2E-ST) remains under-studied. To bridge…
Zambezi Voice: A Multilingual Speech Corpus for Zambian Languages
Claytone Sikasote, Kalinda Siaminwe, Stanly Mwape +6
This work introduces Zambezi Voice, an open-source multilingual speech resource for Zambian languages. It contains two collections of datasets: unlabelled audio recordings of radio…
BIG-C: a Multimodal Multi-Purpose Dataset for Bemba
Claytone Sikasote, Eunice Mukonde, Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam +1
We present BIG-C (Bemba Image Grounded Conversations), a large multimodal dataset for Bemba. While Bemba is the most populous language of Zambia, it exhibits a dearth of resources…
Script Normalization for Unconventional Writing of Under-Resourced Languages in Bilingual Communities
Sina Ahmadi, Antonios Anastasopoulos
The wide accessibility of social media has provided linguistically under-represented communities with an extraordinary opportunity to create content in their native languages. This…
GlobalBench: A Benchmark for Global Progress in Natural Language Processing
Yueqi Song, Catherine Cui, Simran Khanuja +9
Despite the major advances in NLP, significant disparities in NLP system performance across languages still exist. Arguably, these are due to uneven resource allocation and sub-opt…
CODET: A Benchmark for Contrastive Dialectal Evaluation of Machine Translation
Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam, Sina Ahmadi, Antonios Anastasopoulos
Neural machine translation (NMT) systems exhibit limited robustness in handling source-side linguistic variations. Their performance tends to degrade when faced with even slight de…
LIMIT: Language Identification, Misidentification, and Translation using Hierarchical Models in 350+ Languages
Milind Agarwal, Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam, Antonios Anastasopoulos
Knowing the language of an input text/audio is a necessary first step for using almost every NLP tool such as taggers, parsers, or translation systems. Language identification is a…
GMNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis with Phylogeny-Based Adapters
Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam, Ruoyu Xie, Fahim Faisal +1
This report describes GMU's sentiment analysis system for the SemEval-2023 shared task AfriSenti-SemEval. We participated in all three sub-tasks: Monolingual, Multilingual, and Zer…
PALI: A Language Identification Benchmark for Perso-Arabic Scripts
Sina Ahmadi, Milind Agarwal, Antonios Anastasopoulos
The Perso-Arabic scripts are a family of scripts that are widely adopted and used by various linguistic communities around the globe. Identifying various languages using such scrip…
Approaches to Corpus Creation for Low-Resource Language Technology: the Case of Southern Kurdish and Laki
Sina Ahmadi, Zahra Azin, Sara Belelli +1
One of the major challenges that under-represented and endangered language communities face in language technology is the lack or paucity of language data. This is also the case of…
User-Centric Evaluation of OCR Systems for Kwak'wala
Shruti Rijhwani, Daisy Rosenblum, Michayla King +2
There has been recent interest in improving optical character recognition (OCR) for endangered languages, particularly because a large number of documents and books in these langua…
Noisy Parallel Data Alignment
Ruoyu Xie, Antonios Anastasopoulos
An ongoing challenge in current natural language processing is how its major advancements tend to disproportionately favor resource-rich languages, leaving a significant number of…