Papers by Sheikh Mannan
A Generalized Method for Automated Multilingual Loanword Detection (2022.coling-1)
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Abhijnan Nath, Sina Mahdipour Saravani, Ibrahim Khebour, Sheikh Mannan, Zihui Li, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
| Challenge: | Loanwords are words incorporated from one language into another without translation . authors present a method to automatically detect loanwords across language pairs . |
| Approach: | They propose a method to automatically detect loanwords across language pairs . they incorporate edit distance, semantic similarity measures, phonetic alignment . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing methods on single-pair loanword detection tasks and can generalize to unseen language pairs with sufficient data. |
AxomiyaBERTa: A Phonologically-aware Transformer Model for Assamese (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | AxomiyaBERTa is a novel BERT model for low-resource languages . Transformers require extensive computing resources and suffer in low-compute settings . |
| Approach: | They propose a novel BERT model for Assamese, a morphologically-rich low-resource language of eastern India that is trained on a simple masked language modeling task without the NSP objective. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs well on token-level tasks and on “longer context” tasks with the aid of embedding disperser and phonological signals. |