Leveraging High-Resource English Corpora for Cross-lingual Domain Adaptation in Low-Resource Japanese Medicine via Continued Pre-training (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Kazuma Kobayashi, Zhen Wan, Fei Cheng, Yuma Tsuta, Xin Zhao, Junfeng Jiang, Jiahao Huang, Zhiyi Huang, Yusuke Oda, Rio Yokota, Yuki Arase, Daisuke Kawahara, Akiko Aizawa, Sadao Kurohashi
| Challenge: | low-resource language corpora in professional domains like medicine hinder cross-lingual domain adaptation of pre-trained large language models. |
| Approach: | They examine how linguistic features affect performance on a Japanese–English medical knowledge benchmark. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can leverage English-language resources in medical domains while ensuring sufficient coverage of language-specific expressions in a target language. |
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