Are All Languages Equally Hard to Language-Model? (N18-2)

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Challenge: a fair comparison of language models is tricky because of the size of the corpora and the variability of orthographic systems.
Approach: They propose a framework for fair cross-linguistic comparison of language models . they show that in some languages, textual expression is harder to predict with n-gram models compared to LSTM models based on translated text .
Outcome: The proposed framework is based on translated text and language models on 21 languages.

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