arXiv:2405.06818v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Ghana's 73 living indigenous languages remains deeply fragmented, under-resourced, and heavily skewed toward...
By Sheriff Issaka, Erick Rosas Gonzalez, Colene Agbo, Evans Kofi Agyei, Shruti Tyagi, John Emeka Eze, Enock Appiah Tieku, Junlin Fang, Thanh Do Nguyen, Juliet Arthur, Zhaoyi Zhang, Mihir Heda, Keyi Wang, Yinka Ajibola, Rebecca Akpanglo-Nartey, Frank Lawrence Nii Adoquaye Acquaye, Dennis Owusu, Jerry John Kponyo, Stephen Moore, Isaac Wiafe, Sean Du
arXiv:2601. 16217v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models increasingly mediate multilingual professional communication, where useful generation requires adapting to community conventions about which expressions are retained, translated, or mixed.
By Qingyan Yang, Tongxi Wang, Yunsheng Luo
arXiv:2606.30943v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Russian and Arabic are among the major languages of scientific communication. Language barriers impede the exchange of research results between the...
By Mullosharaf K. Arabov
The paper presents a pipeline that leverages large language models to extract grammatical rules, example sentences, and lexicons from descriptive grammar books, producing synthetic parallel corpora for fine‑tuning machine translation models. Evaluated on three low‑resource languages—Kalamang, Tuatschin, and Mandan—the synthetic data improves translation quality over seed‑data baselines in 75% of configurations for Kalamang and 59% for Tuatschin, achieving up to +8.8 ChrF++ gains. A factorial study across 96 configurations identifies which combinations of target part‑of‑speech, retrieval granularity, and sample volume drive performance gains and where they fail, demonstrating that static linguistic documentation can be repurposed for practical translation tools for severely under‑resourced languages.
By Varun Ghat Ravikumar, Sina Ahmadi, Lena J\"ager, Rico Sennrich
Russian and Arabic are among the major languages of scientific communication. Language barriers impede the exchange of research results between these communities, which affects international collaboration and the progress of sustainability-related research.
arXiv:2609.07798v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the climate domain requires models to process heterogeneous text sources, including scientific literature, polic...
By Yongan Yu, Shantam Raj, Jingwei Ni, Ario Saeid Vaghefi, Dominik Stammbach, Markus Leippold
arXiv:2604.19139v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Repeated praise, canned reassurance, familiar contrasts, and conspicuous vocabulary are recurring subjects in discussions of large language m...
By Shuai Wu, Xue Li, Zhijun Wang, Bolun Liu, Weilin Cai, Zihao Su, Ran Wang
CNeo-Bench is a new benchmark comprising 4,759 Chinese neologisms, each with reference definitions and categorized by linguistic mechanisms such as phonetic substitution and visual character decomposition. The benchmark includes a two-tier evaluation framework that tests whether models can describe a neologism and whether they can manipulate its underlying mechanism. Evaluation of 18 large language models shows that most perform poorly on definition generation (below 40%) and exhibit a recognition‑manipulation gap, often paraphrasing rather than restoring the original form; few‑shot prompting helps but does not fully resolve the errors.
By Kaiyan Zhao, Zhongtao Miao, Zheyong Xie, Shaosheng Cao, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
arXiv:2608.30107v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Understanding which countries are represented in NLP datasets is essential for identifying gaps, targeting data collection, measuring progress, and i...
By Joan Nwatu, Tsedeniya Solomon Amare, Longju Bai, Bontu Fufa Balcha, Zayd Bashir, Angana Borah, Zara Burzo, Yubin Choi, Naihao Deng, Samika Gupta, Michel Faloughi, Claude Kwizera, Ziqiao Ma, Cynthia Yacel Fuertes Panizo, Ellie Seehorn, Hui Shen, Jiayi Tang, Zesen Zhao, Boyuan Zheng, Rada Mihalcea
arXiv:2609.37543v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Cross-lingual zero-shot transfer and multilingual fine-tuning are promising approaches for NLP tasks such as Named Entity Recognition (NER) in low-reso...
By Prosper Arineitwe Asiimwe, Francois Meyer, Jan Buys
KoNeoBench is a curated dataset designed to evaluate large language models’ understanding of Korean neologisms. It contains 1,785 recently attested Korean words from online news since 2020, each accompanied by usage examples, word‑formation analyses, and dictionary‑style definitions. The authors define four evaluation tasks, report results from recent models and a human baseline, and find that current LLMs struggle with recovering source components, distinguishing semantic categories, and generating accurate definitions.
By Soha Lee, Soojin Lee, Heesung Yang, Hyunju Song, Hyunji Lee, Jinsan An, Jeongwan Shin, Jin Hyun Park, Jun Lee, Hyeyoung Park, Kilim Nam
arXiv:2608.23421v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Natural Language Processing (NLP) has grown rapidly over the past decade, driven by digital transformation in the Arab world, social media, and large l...
By Mullosharaf K. Arabov