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Cross-lingual transfer learning enables NLP for low-resource languages by leveraging labeled data from higher-resource sources, yet existing comparisons of source language selection strategies do not control for total training data,…

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Large language models (LLMs) under-perform on low-resource languages due to limited training data. We present a method to efficiently collect text data for low-resource languages from the entire Common Crawl corpus. Our approach,…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate synthetic textual data for training smaller specialized models. However, a comparison of various generation strategies for low-resource language settings is lacking. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Tatiana Anikina , Jan Cegin , Jakub Simko , Simon Ostermann

Recent studies show that large language models (LLMs) are powerful tools for working with natural language, bringing advances in many areas of computational linguistics. However, these models face challenges when applied to low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Zhaojun Ding , Zhengliang Liu , Hanqi Jiang , Yizhu Gao , Xiaoming Zhai , Tianming Liu , Ninghao Liu

Generative language modelling has surged in popularity with the emergence of services such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini. While these models have demonstrated transformative potential in productivity and communication, they overwhelmingly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Josh McGiff , Nikola S. Nikolov

Recent advances in multilingual dependency parsing have brought the idea of a truly universal parser closer to reality. However, cross-language interference and restrained model capacity remain major obstacles. To address this, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Ahmet Üstün , Arianna Bisazza , Gosse Bouma , Gertjan van Noord

The central bottleneck for low-resource NLP is typically regarded to be the quantity of accessible data, overlooking the contribution of data quality. This is particularly seen in the development and evaluation of low-resource systems via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Maartje ter Hoeve , David Grangier , Natalie Schluter

While numerous attempts have been made to jointly parse syntax and semantics, high performance in one domain typically comes at the price of performance in the other. This trade-off contradicts the large body of research focusing on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Elias Stengel-Eskin , Kenton Murray , Sheng Zhang , Aaron Steven White , Benjamin Van Durme

We introduce a novel setup for low-resource task-oriented semantic parsing which incorporates several constraints that may arise in real-world scenarios: (1) lack of similar datasets/models from a related domain, (2) inability to sample…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Kevin Yang , Olivia Deng , Charles Chen , Richard Shin , Subhro Roy , Benjamin Van Durme

Dependency parsing is an essential task in NLP, and the quality of dependency parsers is crucial for many downstream tasks. Parsers' quality often varies depending on the domain and the language involved. Therefore, it is essential to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Adithya Kulkarni , Oliver Eulenstein , Qi Li

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in mathematical reasoning, but this ability is not equally accessible across languages. Especially low-resource languages exhibit much lower reasoning performance. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yihong Liu , Raoyuan Zhao , Michael A. Hedderich , Hinrich Schütze

In this work, we investigate methods for the challenging task of translating between low-resource language pairs that exhibit some level of similarity. In particular, we consider the utility of transfer learning for translating between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Wei-Rui Chen , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Researchers working on low-resource languages face persistent challenges due to limited data availability and restricted access to computational resources. Although most large language models (LLMs) are predominantly trained in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Odunayo Ogundepo , Akintunde Oladipo , Kelechi Ogueji , Esther Adenuga , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Jimmy Lin

We present substructure distribution projection (SubDP), a technique that projects a distribution over structures in one domain to another, by projecting substructure distributions separately. Models for the target domains can be then…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Haoyue Shi , Kevin Gimpel , Karen Livescu

India's linguistic landscape, spanning 22 scheduled languages and hundreds of marginalized dialects, has driven rapid growth in NLP datasets, benchmarks, and pretrained models. However, no dedicated survey consolidates resources developed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Raghvendra Kumar , Devankar Raj , Sriparna Saha

Parsing is the process of analyzing a sentence's syntactic structure by breaking it down into its grammatical components. and is critical for various linguistic applications. Urdu is a low-resource, free word-order language and exhibits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Nudrat Habib

In recent years, substantial work has been done on language tagging of code-mixed data, but most of them use large amounts of data to build their models. In this article, we present three strategies to build a word level language tagger for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Soumil Mandal , Sankalp Sanand

Neural dependency parsing has proven very effective, achieving state-of-the-art results on numerous domains and languages. Unfortunately, it requires large amounts of labeled data, that is costly and laborious to create. In this paper we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Guy Rotman , Roi Reichart

Recently, the supervised learning paradigm's surprisingly remarkable performance has garnered considerable attention from Sanskrit Computational Linguists. As a result, the Sanskrit community has put laudable efforts to build task-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Jivnesh Sandhan , Om Adideva , Digumarthi Komal , Laxmidhar Behera , Pawan Goyal

It is very challenging to work with low-resource languages due to the inadequate availability of data. Using a dictionary to map independently trained word embeddings into a shared vector space has proved to be very useful in learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Sourav Dutta