Papers by Ashfia Binte Habib
Does Transliteration Help Multilingual Language Modeling? (2023.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Script diversity presents a challenge to Multilingual Language Models by reducing lexical overlap . Script diversification can be used to improve performance of MLLMs by transliterating closely related languages to a common script. |
| Approach: | They empirically measure the effect of transliteration on MLLMs by focusing on Indic languages . they find that transliterations benefit low-resource languages without negatively affecting high-resourced ones . |
| Outcome: | The proposed transliteration-based model learns sentences that are more similar across languages. |