Papers by Jinju Kim
Happiness is Sharing a Vocabulary: A Study of Transliteration Methods (2026.eacl-long)
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| Challenge: | a key problem in multilingual NLP is script barrier, which makes it difficult to share knowledge between languages . a new study shows that transliteration can be useful for languages using non-Latin scripts . |
| Approach: | They propose to use romanization, phonemic transcription, and substitution ciphers to evaluate models . romanization outperforms other input types in 7 out of 8 evaluation settings . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms other input types on three tasks and is the most effective . romanization outperformed other input type in 7 out of 8 evaluation settings . |