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Zero-shot cross-lingual transfer is an important feature in modern NLP models and architectures to support low-resource languages. In this work, We study zero-shot cross-lingual transfer from English to French and German under Multi-Label…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zein Shaheen , Gerhard Wohlgenannt , Dmitry Mouromtsev

Cross-lingual transfer is a popular approach to increase the amount of training data for NLP tasks in a low-resource context. However, the best strategy to decide which cross-lingual data to include is unclear. Prior research often focuses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Verena Blaschke , Masha Fedzechkina , Maartje ter Hoeve

Multilingual language models achieve impressive zero-shot accuracies in many languages in complex tasks such as Natural Language Inference (NLI). Examples in NLI (and equivalent complex tasks) often pertain to various types of sub-tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Karthikeyan K , Aalok Sathe , Somak Aditya , Monojit Choudhury

The majority of previous researches addressing multi-lingual IE are limited to zero-shot cross-lingual single-transfer (one-to-one) setting, with high-resource languages predominantly as source training data. As a result, these works…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Nghia Trung Ngo , Thien Huu Nguyen

Multilingual machine translation addresses the task of translating between multiple source and target languages. We propose task-specific attention models, a simple but effective technique for improving the quality of sequence-to-sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Graeme Blackwood , Miguel Ballesteros , Todd Ward

How to achieve neural machine translation with limited parallel data? Existing techniques often rely on large-scale monolingual corpora, which is impractical for some low-resource languages. In this paper, we turn to connect several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Zhe Yang , Qingkai Fang , Yang Feng

Multilingual models have been widely used for cross-lingual transfer to low-resource languages. However, the performance on these languages is hindered by their underrepresentation in the pretraining data. To alleviate this problem, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Tomasz Limisiewicz , Dan Malkin , Gabriel Stanovsky

We present a novel cross-lingual transfer method for paradigm completion, the task of mapping a lemma to its inflected forms, using a neural encoder-decoder model, the state of the art for the monolingual task. We use labeled data from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Katharina Kann , Ryan Cotterell , Hinrich Schütze

Zero-shot cross-lingual knowledge transfer enables a multilingual pretrained language model, finetuned on a task in one language, make predictions for this task in other languages. While being broadly studied for natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Nadezhda Chirkova , Vassilina Nikoulina

Neural machine translation has become the state-of-the-art for language pairs with large parallel corpora. However, the quality of machine translation for low-resource languages leaves much to be desired. There are several approaches to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Ilshat Gibadullin , Aidar Valeev , Albina Khusainova , Adil Khan

Large language models (LLMs) still struggle across tasks outside of high-resource languages. In this work, we investigate cross-lingual transfer to lower-resource languages where task-specific post-training data is scarce. Building on prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Lucas Bandarkar , Nanyun Peng

In this work we focus on transferring supervision signals of natural language generation (NLG) tasks between multiple languages. We propose to pretrain the encoder and the decoder of a sequence-to-sequence model under both monolingual and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Zewen Chi , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Wenhui Wang , Xian-Ling Mao , Heyan Huang

There is an increasing amount of evidence that in cases with little or no data in a target language, training on a different language can yield surprisingly good results. However, currently there are no established guidelines for choosing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Błażej Dolicki , Gerasimos Spanakis

Based on multilingual pre-trained models, cross-lingual transfer with prompt learning has shown promising effectiveness, where soft prompt learned in a source language is transferred to target languages for downstream tasks, particularly in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Xiaoyu Qiu , Yuechen Wang , Jiaxin Shi , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

A popular approach to creating a zero-shot cross-language retrieval model is to substitute a monolingual pretrained language model in the retrieval model with a multilingual pretrained language model such as Multilingual BERT. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Eugene Yang , Suraj Nair , Dawn Lawrie , James Mayfield , Douglas W. Oard

Instruction tuning (IT) is widely used to teach pretrained large language models (LLMs) to follow arbitrary instructions, but is under-studied in multilingual settings. In this work, we conduct a systematic study of zero-shot cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Nadezhda Chirkova , Vassilina Nikoulina

Pre-trained multilingual language encoders, such as multilingual BERT and XLM-R, show great potential for zero-shot cross-lingual transfer. However, these multilingual encoders do not precisely align words and phrases across languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Kuan-Hao Huang , Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Nanyun Peng , Kai-Wei Chang

Multilingual language models have pushed state-of-the-art in cross-lingual NLP transfer. The majority of zero-shot cross-lingual transfer, however, use one and the same massively multilingual transformer (e.g., mBERT or XLM-R) to transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson , Annika Simonsen , Goran Glavaš , Ivan Vulić

Prompt tuning in natural language processing (NLP) has become an increasingly popular method for adapting large language models to specific tasks. However, the transferability of these prompts, especially continuous prompts, between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Zijun Wu , Yongkang Wu , Lili Mou

Building named entity recognition (NER) models for languages that do not have much training data is a challenging task. While recent work has shown promising results on cross-lingual transfer from high-resource languages to low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Xiaolei Huang , Jonathan May , Nanyun Peng