Despite the growing importance of multilingual aspect of web search, no appropriate offline metrics to evaluate its quality are proposed so far. At the same time, personal language preferences can be regarded as intents of a query. This approach translates the multilingual search problem into a particular task of searc…
Effective multilingual search with instance-based transfer learning.
problem Search in multilingual setting, especially next-sentence prediction and inverse cloze.
method Instance-based transfer learning, analyzing vocabulary overlaps and transitive overlaps.
result Positive transfer on all 35 target languages and two tasks, even with no vocabulary overlap.
End-to-end neural network improves QbE-STD in multilingual speech search.
problem Query by example spoken term detection in zero-resource scenarios.
method Use of multilingual bottleneck features and CNN for pattern matching, integrated into a fully neural network framework.
result CNN-based matching outperforms DTW-based matching using bottleneck features.
mGENRE improves multilingual entity linking with autoregressive sequence prediction.
problem Multilingual Entity Linking (MEL) task of resolving language-specific mentions to a multilingual Knowledge Base.
method Autoregressive sequence-to-sequence system that cross-encodes mention strings and entity names.
result Over 50% improvement in average accuracy in zero-shot settings.
Proposes a multilingual email segmentation benchmark and model.
problem Lack of multilingual email zoning corpora and models.
method Analysis of existing corpora, development of multilingual benchmark, introduction of OKAPI model.
result OKAPI model achieves state-of-the-art performance in English and generalizes well to unseen languages.
We develop the multilingual topic model for unaligned text (MuTo), a probabilistic model of text that is designed to analyze corpora composed of documents in two languages. From these documents, MuTo uses stochastic EM to simultaneously discover both a matching between the languages and multilingual latent topics. We d…
New ASR system handles multiple languages without needing language-specific encoding.
problem Joint training of data-rich and data-scarce languages in a single model.
method Transforms all languages to a single writing system through transliteration, separating modeling and rendering.
result Language-agnostic multilingual ASR system reduces WER up to 10% over language-dependent models.
Simple framework decouples word alignment and multilingual embedding mapping.
problem Learning multilingual embeddings without supervision.
method Two-stage approach: 1) unsupervised word alignment, 2) mapping embeddings to shared space.
result Robust performance across various multilingual tasks, including distant languages.
In this work we approach the task of learning multilingual word representations in an offline manner by fitting a generative latent variable model to a multilingual dictionary. We model equivalent words in different languages as different views of the same word generated by a common latent variable representing their l…
Neural language modeling (LM) has led to significant improvements in several applications, including Automatic Speech Recognition. However, they typically require large amounts of training data, which is not available for many domains and languages. In this study, we propose a multilingual neural language model archite…
Study shows multilingual LLM calibration effects improve model confidence but not accuracy.
problem Improving multilingual language model calibration in low-resource settings.
method Analysis of two multilingual benchmarks using instruction-tuning and label smoothing.
result Model confidence increases in low-resource languages after instruction-tuning but accuracy improvements are marginal.
HMS-BERT detects cyberbullying in multiple languages and labels.
problem Multilingual and multi-label cyberbullying detection challenges.
method Hybrid multi-task self-training framework using BERT.
result Strong performance on multi-label and main classification tasks.
Proposes using Wasserstein barycenter for better multilingual alignment.
problem Finding word-to-word translations between multiple languages without parallel data.
method Uses Wasserstein barycenter as a more informative pivot language, minimizing pairwise transportation costs.
result Demonstrates state-of-the-art performances on standard benchmarks.
Method aligns multilingual news for better stock return prediction.
problem Losing nuances in multilingual news translations.
method Optimal transport for sentence alignment.
result Aligned sentences correlate better with stock returns.
Recent work on learning multilingual word representations usually relies on the use of word-level alignements (e.g. infered with the help of GIZA++) between translated sentences, in order to align the word embeddings in different languages. In this workshop paper, we investigate an autoencoder model for learning multil…
Multilingual end-to-end (E2E) models have shown great promise in expansion of automatic speech recognition (ASR) coverage of the world's languages. They have shown improvement over monolingual systems, and have simplified training and serving by eliminating language-specific acoustic, pronunciation, and language models…
We propose multi-way, multilingual neural machine translation. The proposed approach enables a single neural translation model to translate between multiple languages, with a number of parameters that grows only linearly with the number of languages. This is made possible by having a single attention mechanism that is …
ATD measures language distance using neural models, recovering linguistic groupings.
problem Lack of a unified quantitative measure for cross-linguistic distance.
method Pretrained multilingual language models, attention mechanisms, optimal transport.
result ATD quantifies representational distance between languages, recovering linguistic groupings.
Improved LID for multilingual speakers using context-aware models.
problem Low accuracy for languages spoken by multilingual speakers, especially with accented speech.
method Coarser-grained acoustic model and integration with interaction context signals.
result Average 97% accuracy across all language combinations, 60% improvement in worst-case accuracy.
Paper develops multilingual job classification for ISCO and KZiS.
problem Classifying job advertisements for accurate occupation coding.
method Transformer architecture for hierarchical multi-class classification.
result Hierarchical structure improves prediction accuracy by 1-2 percentage points.
Triangulation filters spurious circuits in multilingual models.
problem Unreliable explanations of multilingual models across languages.
method Formalizes reference families and introduces triangulation as a causal acceptance rule.
result Triangulation provides a falsifiable standard for mechanistic claims.
Adaptive scheduling improves multilingual neural machine translation models.
problem Training models on multiple tasks with uniform or proportional sampling leads to poor performance trade-offs.
method Exploring non-adaptive and adaptive task scheduling, including implicit schedules.
result Adaptive schedules improve model performance for low-resource tasks without negatively affecting high-resource tasks.
This paper tackles multilingual speech processing by optimizing conflicting objectives hierarchically.
problem Training models for multilingual, multi-task speech processing is hampered by conflicting objectives.
method Investigates three multi-objective MSP formulations and introduces a lightweight layer-selection mechanism.
result A bi-level recipe outperforms standard flat optimization in state-of-the-art MSP models.
Generalization and reliability of multilingual translation often highly depend on the amount of available parallel data for each language pair of interest. In this paper, we focus on zero-shot generalization---a challenging setup that tests models on translation directions they have not been optimized for at training t…
We consider multilingual bottleneck features (BNFs) for nearly zero-resource keyword spotting. This forms part of a United Nations effort using keyword spotting to support humanitarian relief programmes in parts of Africa where languages are severely under-resourced. We use 1920 isolated keywords (40 types, 34 minutes)…
Parallel sentence extraction is a task addressing the data sparsity problem found in multilingual natural language processing applications. We propose a bidirectional recurrent neural network based approach to extract parallel sentences from collections of multilingual texts. Our experiments with noisy parallel corpora…
Study examines bias in language models across multiple languages.
problem Assessing bias in language models across different languages.
method Semi-automatically translated data sets into multiple languages, analyzed mono- and multilingual models.
result Notable differences in bias across languages, with Turkish models showing least stereotypes.
Unified pipeline predicts equipment anomalies with high precision and reduced false positives.
problem Predicting equipment anomalies before failures using small models.
method Triplet Feature Fusion combining statistical, time-series, and text embeddings.
result Achieves high precision and reduced false positives.
Code-switching, the alternation of languages within a conversation or utterance, is a common communicative phenomenon that occurs in multilingual communities across the world. This survey reviews computational approaches for code-switched Speech and Natural Language Processing. We motivate why processing code-switched …
SpeakerStew verifies 46 languages with reduced training and inference costs.
problem Speaker verification for 46 languages with smart speaker interactions.
method Pooling multilingual data, triage between text-dependent and text-independent models.
result Training on multiple languages generalizes well and reduces computational requirements.
New metrics predict human sentence comprehension across languages.
problem Predicting human sentence comprehension using computational models.
method Developed sentence-level metrics using multilingual large language models.
result Achieved high accuracy in predicting human sentence reading speeds.
BERT models can classify multilingual party manifestos across different dimensions.
problem Costly manual annotation of large corpora in social science.
method Domain transfer across geographical locations, languages, time, and genre using fine-tuned transformer models.
result BERT models can be applied to future data with similar performance.
Scientific publications have evolved several features for mitigating vocabulary mismatch when indexing, retrieving, and computing similarity between articles. These mitigation strategies range from simply focusing on high-value article sections, such as titles and abstracts, to assigning keywords, often from controlled…
Recently, sentiment analysis has received a lot of attention due to the interest in mining opinions of social media users. Sentiment analysis consists in determining the polarity of a given text, i.e., its degree of positiveness or negativeness. Traditionally, Sentiment Analysis algorithms have been tailored to a speci…
This paper reviews sentiment analysis on Indian languages.
problem Understanding sentiment in multilingual web data.
method Reviews and discusses approaches for sentiment analysis on Indian languages.
result Challenges in sentiment analysis on indigenous languages.
The study analyzes sentiment of European tweets during the pandemic.
problem Understanding public sentiment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
method Cross-language sentiment analysis of multilingual tweets using neural networks and sentence embeddings.
result Sentiment analysis reveals that lockdown announcements correlate with a deterioration of mood, which recovers quickly.
Comment classification on cookery channels using BERT and traditional models.
problem Volume of multilingual comments, variable lengths, slang, symbols, and abbreviations make comment classification challenging.
method Evaluated traditional machine learning models (Naive Bayes, KNN, SVM, Random Forest, Decision Trees) and BERT-based models (BERT, DISTILBERT, XLM) for multilingual comment classification.
result XLM was the top-performing BERT model with an accuracy of 67.31, while Random Forest with Term Frequency Vectorizer was the best traditional model with 63.59 accuracy.
I present a web service for querying an embedding of entities in the Wikidata knowledge graph. The embedding is trained on the Wikidata dump using Gensim's Word2Vec implementation and a simple graph walk. A REST API is implemented. Together with the Wikidata API the web service exposes a multilingual resource for over …
MGLM models all possible language channel factorizations for improved multilingual generation.
problem Generating multilingual text with flexibility and quality.
method Generative joint distribution model over language channels, marginalizing all possible factorizations.
result MGLM outperforms traditional models in multilingual generation tasks.
The study detects deceptive language in business communication using AI.
problem Deceptive language in business communication.
method Combining classical rhetoric, communication psychology, and linguistic theory with computational textual analysis and transformer models.
result Detection accuracies of over 99% achieved in controlled settings.
Large language models predict human sensory judgments across multiple modalities.
problem Determining the extent of perceptual information in language.
method State-of-the-art large language models were used to predict sensory judgments across six psychophysical datasets.
result Large language models can predict human sensory judgments across multiple modalities with significant correlation to human data.
Sentiment analysis (SA) is a task related to understanding people's feelings in written text; the starting point would be to identify the polarity level (positive, neutral or negative) of a given text, moving on to identify emotions or whether a text is humorous or not. This task has been the subject of several researc…
We compare features for dynamic time warping (DTW) when used to bootstrap keyword spotting (KWS) in an almost zero-resource setting. Such quickly-deployable systems aim to support United Nations (UN) humanitarian relief efforts in parts of Africa with severely under-resourced languages. Our objective is to identify aco…
Investigates upsampling vs. upweighting for balanced training on skewed datasets.
problem Balancing training on heavily imbalanced datasets with scarce data.
method Theoretical and empirical analysis of upsampling and upweighting strategies.
result Upsampling and upweighting diverge under stochastic gradient descent, with upsampling leading to faster convergence but higher overfitting risk.
NMIXX fine-tunes embeddings for finance, outperforming general models in Korean.
problem Financial embeddings struggle in low-resource languages like Korean.
method Fine-tuned with 18.8K triplets, hard negatives, and translations.
result NMIXX achieves gains of +0.10 on English FinSTS and +0.22 on KorFinSTS.
Unified BERT model improves NER across multiple languages.
problem Language-specific NER models limit data extraction.
method Jointly trained multilingual BERT with regularization.
result Unified model outperforms monolingual models on various datasets.
DIAL learns embeddings to maximize recall and accuracy for entity resolution.
problem Low resource settings for entity resolution with large Cartesian product search space.
method DIAL uses an Index-By-Committee framework with pre-trained transformer language models to jointly learn embeddings for recall and accuracy.
result DIAL achieves high precision, recall, and efficiency on benchmark datasets.
This work compresses BERT into simple neural networks using unlabeled data.
problem Compression of large BERT models for practical use in downstream tasks.
method Leverage unlabeled transfer data to distill BERT into simple RNN models with hard and soft distillation.
result Simple RNN models can match or exceed BERT performance with up to 26x parameter compression.