arXiv:2011.03783v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: In this work, we introduce the construction of a machine translation (MT) assisted and human-in-the-loop multilingual parallel corpus with an...
By Lifeng Han, Najet Hadj Mohamed, Malak Rassem, Gareth Jones, Alan Smeaton, Goran Nenadic
arXiv:2608. 03803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual language models are deployed across a hundred or more languages, yet most benchmarks test whether a model can perform a task _in_ a language rather than whether it commands the language itself, conflating fluency with proficiency.
By Tom\'a\v{s} Burkert, Angelika Peljak-{\L}api\'nska, David Zelen\'y
arXiv:2606. 25365v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a study on low-resource machine translation for the Tangkhul-English (nmf-en) language pair.
By Chormi Zimik Vashai, Agniva Maiti
arXiv:2608. 07629v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual neural machine translation models such as NLLB-200 cover 200 languages but leave thousands unsupported, including most Grassfields Bantu languages of Cameroon.
By Samiratu Ntohsi, Neza David Tuyishimire, Anesu Kafesu, Marvin Ogore, Samuel Oluwajunwonlo Babalola, Oche Ankeli
arXiv:2606. 31718v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Relation extraction (RE) for low-resource languages is typically constrained by the lack of annotated corpora.
By Dragos-Mitrut Vasile, Elena-Simona Apostol, Stefan-Adrian Toma, Adrian Paschke, Ciprian-Octavian Truica
arXiv:2608.03446v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Multilingual large language models (LLMs) have been shown to perform better on non-English classification tasks when the representations of the giv...
By Adnan Al Ali, Kathy H\"ammerl, Jind\v{r}ich Libovick\'y, Alexander Fraser
The paper introduces grounded glossary generation, a structured NLP task that asks models to recover semantically meaningful Sanskrit phrases and provide translation‑grounded meanings from a sloka‑translation pair, mirroring the traditional patha commentary practice. A benchmark of 31,316 sloka‑translation‑glossary triples from the Valmiki Ramayana and Srimad Bhagavatam is built, evaluated with Jaccard for phrase recovery and Meaning Faithfulness for semantic consistency. Experiments with Gemma‑3n‑E4B, Gemma‑3‑12B, Phi‑4, and Qwen3.5‑9B show that instruction fine‑tuning outperforms prompting, and explicit segmentation further improves results, though over‑segmentation of sandhi and samasa compounds remains the main error source, highlighting morphological modeling as a key bottleneck.
By Manoj Balaji Jagadeeshan, Sai Pragnaan Marala, Pawan Goyal
KinyaEmbed is the first sentence‑embedding model specifically designed for Kinyarwanda, built on KinyaBERT‑large and trained through a four‑stage curriculum that incorporates paraphrase pairs, translated MNLI triplets, OPUS‑100 translation pairs, and high‑quality KinyaCOMET pairs. It outperforms existing multilingual embeddings on the SemRel2024‑rw benchmark, achieving a Spearman ψ of 0.7298, and introduces the Wiki‑RW‑STS benchmark of 300 contamination‑free Kinyarwanda sentence pairs. All model checkpoints, filtered pairs, and the new benchmark are publicly released.
By Ireddi Rakshitha, Devavarapu Yashwanth, Ntakirutimana Pierre
arXiv:2509. 07829v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Literary translation has recently gained attention as a distinct and complex task in machine translation research, yet translation by small open models remains an open problem, particularly for low-resource languages such as Romanian.
By Mihai Nadas, Laura Diosan, Andreea Tomescu, Andrei Piscoran
arXiv:2607. 23319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard subword tokenization algorithms such as Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) and SentencePiece are trained predominantly on modern language corpora and produce inefficient segmentations when applied to classical Indian languages.
By Poornima Kumaresan, Pavithra Muruganantham, Lakshmi Rajendran, Santhosh Sivasubramani
Open web-scale pre-training corpora remain concentrated in English, limiting multilingual LLM development. We introduce MultiSynt/MT, an open synthetic parallel corpus with approximately 4.
Idioms are difficult to transfer across languages due to their non-compositionality and weak surface-form grounding, making literal mappings unreliable. We present G-IdiomAlign, a gloss-pivoted benchmark where each idiom is anchored by an English gloss from Wiktionary.