Papers by Deepon Halder
Scripts Through Time: A Survey of the Evolving Role of Transliteration in NLP (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Cross-lingual transfer is often hindered by the "script barrier" where differences in writing systems inhibit transfer learning . transliteration is a powerful technique to bridge this gap by increasing lexical overlap . authors present a taxonomy of key motivations to utilize transliterations in language models . |
| Approach: | They propose a taxonomy of key motivations to utilize transliterations in NLP . they analyze the evolution and effectiveness of these methods and discuss trade-offs . |
| Outcome: | The proposed transliteration technique is effective in cross-lingual NLP, the authors argue . the proposed translliteration method is a powerful tool to overcome the "script barrier" |
RiddleBench: A New Generative Reasoning Benchmark for LLMs (2026.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) show remarkable capabilities, but complex reasoning skills require deeper investigation. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark of 1,737 puzzles to test reasoning beyond simple pattern matching. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs poorly when faced with reordered constraints or irrelevant information. |