Papers by Fred Philippy
LuxEmbedder: A Cross-Lingual Approach to Enhanced Luxembourgish Sentence Embeddings (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Sentence embedding models are limited for many low-resource languages, including Luxembourgish. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Luxembourgish as an enhanced sentence embedding model with strong cross-lingual capabilities to address this issue. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can embed Luxembourgish sentences better than high-resource languages. |
ltzGLUE: Luxembourgish General Language Understanding Evaluation (2026.findings-acl)
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Alistair Plum, Felicia Körner, Anne-Marie Lutgen, Laura Bernardy, Fred Philippy, Emilia Milano, Nils Rehlinger, Cedric Lothritz, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Barbara Plank, Christoph Purschke
| Challenge: | ltzGLUE is the first official NLU benchmark for Luxembourgish (LTZ) based on the popular GLUE benchmark for English. |
| Approach: | They propose a new natural language understanding (NLU) benchmark for Luxembourgish based on the popular GLUE benchmark for English. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs well across many languages and is based on the GLUE benchmark for English. |
Towards a Common Understanding of Contributing Factors for Cross-Lingual Transfer in Multilingual Language Models: A Review (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Pre-trained Multilingual Language Models have shown a strong ability to transfer knowledge across languages. |
| Approach: | They examine factors contributing to the ability of MLLMs to perform zero-shot cross-lingual transfer . they identify consensuses among studies with consistent findings and resolve conflicts . |
| Outcome: | The authors outline and discuss factors that contribute to the ability of MLLMs to perform zero-shot cross-lingual transfer. |