Papers by Vani Kanjirangat
Early Guessing for Dialect Identification (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Current research on dialect identification is model-centric, focusing on performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a data-centric approach to find the shortest input needed to make a plausible guess. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method generalizes across dialects and datasets with two shortening criteria. |
Tokenization and Representation Biases in Multilingual Models on Dialectal NLP Tasks (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) pre-trained on massive text data in many languages are preferred solution for various Natural Language processing tasks. |
| Approach: | They compare tokenization parity and information parity as representational biases in pre-trained models . they find TP is better predictor of performance on tasks reliant on syntactic and morphological cues . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on dialect classification, topic classification, and extractive question answering tasks. |