Papers by Alfred Kar Yin Truong
Developing and Utilizing a Large-Scale Cantonese Dataset for Multi-Tasking in Large Language Models (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Jiyue Jiang, Alfred Kar Yin Truong, Yanyu Chen, Qinghang Bao, Sheng Wang, Pengan Chen, Jiuming Wang, Lingpeng Kong, Yu Li, Chuan Wu
| Challenge: | Cantonese is considered a low-resource language due to the dominance of Mandarin . rich colloquial vocabulary of Cantone, English loanwords, and code-switching characteristics add to the complexity of corpus collection and processing. |
| Approach: | We collect Cantonese texts from open source corpora, Hong Kong-specific forums, Wikipedia . we refine the model through supervised fine-tuning on curated Cantonesian tasks . |
| Outcome: | The model achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on four Cantonese benchmarks. |