The Less the Merrier? Investigating Language Representation in Multilingual Models

no code implementations • 20 Oct 2023 • Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Jugal Kalita

Multilingual Language Models offer a way to incorporate multiple languages in one model and utilize cross-language transfer learning to improve performance for different Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks.

named-entity-recognition Named Entity Recognition +2

Enhancing Translation for Indigenous Languages: Experiments with Multilingual Models

no code implementations • 27 May 2023 • Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Olga Kolesnikova, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander Gelbukh, Jugal Kalita

This paper describes CIC NLP's submission to the AmericasNLP 2023 Shared Task on machine translation systems for indigenous languages of the Americas.

Machine Translation Transfer Learning +1