LinguAlchemy: Fusing Typological and Geographical Elements for Unseen Language Generalization (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Pretrained language models have shown remarkable generalization toward multiple tasks and languages, but their generalization towards unseen languages is poor. |
| Approach: | They propose a regularization technique that incorporates various aspects of languages to better characterize linguistics constraints. |
| Outcome: | The proposed technique improves accuracy of mBERT and XLM-R on unseen languages by 18% and 2% compared to fully finetuned models. |
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