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Multilingual pre-trained models exhibit zero-shot cross-lingual transfer, where a model fine-tuned on a source language achieves surprisingly good performance on a target language. While studies have attempted to understand transfer, they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Henry Tang , Ameet Deshpande , Karthik Narasimhan

Despite their remarkable ability to capture linguistic nuances across diverse languages, questions persist regarding the degree of alignment between languages in multilingual embeddings. Drawing inspiration from research on high-dimensional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Basel Mousi , Nadir Durrani , Fahim Dalvi , Majd Hawasly , Ahmed Abdelali

Document alignment aims to identify pairs of documents in two distinct languages that are of comparable content or translations of each other. Such aligned data can be used for a variety of NLP tasks from training cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Ahmed El-Kishky , Francisco Guzmán

Text alignment finds application in tasks such as citation recommendation and plagiarism detection. Existing alignment methods operate at a single, predefined level and cannot learn to align texts at, for example, sentence and document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Xuhui Zhou , Nikolaos Pappas , Noah A. Smith

Cross-lingual in-context learning (XICL) has emerged as a transformative paradigm for leveraging large language models (LLMs) to tackle multilingual tasks, especially for low-resource languages. However, existing approaches often rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Mateo Alejandro Rojas , Rafael Carranza

While alignment of texts on the sentential level is often seen as being too coarse, and word alignment as being too fine-grained, bi- or multilingual texts which are aligned on a level in-between are a useful resource for many purposes.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Lea Cyrus , Hendrik Feddes

Multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve remarkable levels of zero-shot cross-lingual transfer performance. We speculate that this is predicated on their ability to align languages without explicit supervision from parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Hetong Wang , Pasquale Minervini , Edoardo M. Ponti

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in natural language processing but exhibit significant performance gaps among different languages. Most existing approaches to address these disparities rely on pretraining or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Weixuan Wang , Minghao Wu , Barry Haddow , Alexandra Birch

Cross-lingual Summarization (CLS) aims at producing a summary in the target language for an article in the source language. Traditional solutions employ a two-step approach, i.e. translate then summarize or summarize then translate.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ruochen Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Yu Shi , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang

Word alignments are useful for tasks like statistical and neural machine translation (NMT) and cross-lingual annotation projection. Statistical word aligners perform well, as do methods that extract alignments jointly with translations in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Masoud Jalili Sabet , Philipp Dufter , François Yvon , Hinrich Schütze

Cross-language learning allows us to use training data from one language to build models for a different language. Many approaches to bilingual learning require that we have word-level alignment of sentences from parallel corpora. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Sarath Chandar A P , Stanislas Lauly , Hugo Larochelle , Mitesh M. Khapra , Balaraman Ravindran , Vikas Raykar , Amrita Saha

Cross-lingual alignment (CLA) aims to align multilingual representations, enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to seamlessly transfer knowledge across languages. While intuitive, we hypothesize, this pursuit of representational convergence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-31 HyoJung Han , Sweta Agrawal , Eleftheria Briakou

Despite the promising results of current cross-lingual models for spoken language understanding systems, they still suffer from imperfect cross-lingual representation alignments between the source and target languages, which makes the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Zihan Liu , Genta Indra Winata , Peng Xu , Zhaojiang Lin , Pascale Fung

Alignment training is crucial for enabling large language models (LLMs) to cater to human intentions and preferences. It is typically performed based on two stages with different objectives: instruction-following alignment and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Chenglong Wang , Hang Zhou , Kaiyan Chang , Bei Li , Yongyu Mu , Tong Xiao , Tongran Liu , Jingbo Zhu

In cross-lingual language models, representations for many different languages live in the same space. Here, we investigate the linguistic and non-linguistic factors affecting sentence-level alignment in cross-lingual pretrained language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Alex Jones , William Yang Wang , Kyle Mahowald

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in Natural Language Processing (NLP), yet their cross-lingual performance consistency remains a significant challenge. This paper introduces a novel methodology for efficiently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zixiang Xu , Yanbo Wang , Yue Huang , Xiuying Chen , Jieyu Zhao , Meng Jiang , Xiangliang Zhang

Recent studies have shown that dual encoder models trained with the sentence-level translation ranking task are effective methods for cross-lingual sentence embedding. However, our research indicates that token-level alignment is also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Ziheng Li , Shaohan Huang , Zihan Zhang , Zhi-Hong Deng , Qiang Lou , Haizhen Huang , Jian Jiao , Furu Wei , Weiwei Deng , Qi Zhang

Previous multimodal sentence representation learning methods have achieved impressive performance. However, most approaches focus on aligning images and text at a coarse level, facing two critical challenges:cross-modal misalignment bias…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Kang He , Yuzhe Ding , Haining Wang , Fei Li , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji

Cross-lingual transfer of word embeddings aims to establish the semantic mappings among words in different languages by learning the transformation functions over the corresponding word embedding spaces. Successfully solving this problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Ruochen Xu , Yiming Yang , Naoki Otani , Yuexin Wu

Cross-lingual semantic textual similarity systems estimate the degree of the meaning similarity between two sentences, each in a different language. State-of-the-art algorithms usually employ machine translation and combine vast amount of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Tomáš Brychcín