Challenge: Prior work extended multilingual models to other languages due to the unavailability of labeled and unlabeled training data.
Approach: They use multilingual lexicons to enhance multilingual models capabilities in low-resource languages . they focus on zero-shot sentiment analysis tasks across 34 languages based on a single sentence .
Outcome: The proposed model improves zero-shot performance across 34 languages without using any sentence-level sentiment data.

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