From Zero to Hero: On the Limitations of Zero-Shot Language Transfer with Multilingual Transformers (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies show that multilingual transformers are less effective in resource-lean scenarios and for distant languages. |
| Approach: | They propose to use massively multilingual transformers to pretrain languages . they show that MMTs are less effective in resource-lean scenarios and distant languages if they are pre-trained via language modeling . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is less effective in resource-lean scenarios and for distant languages than cross-lingual word embeddings. |
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