arXiv:2609.00998v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Word Sense Disambiguation has advanced rapidly for English and a handful of well-resourced modern languages, but it continues to assume the existence...
By Michele Ciletti
arXiv:2604. 14397v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the task of automatically expanding WordNet-style lexical resources to new languages through sense generation.
By David Basil, Chirooth Girigowda, Bradley Hauer, Sahir Momin, Ning Shi, Grzegorz Kondrak
The paper introduces Loci Similes, a benchmark for detecting intertextual links in Latin literature. It provides a curated dataset of about 176,000 text segments and 1,490 expert-verified parallels, including 945 labeled references from an existing source. Baselines for retrieval and classification are established using both lexical methods and pretrained encoder language models.
By Julian Schelb, Michael Wittweiler, Marie Revellio, Barbara Feichtinger, Andreas Spitz
arXiv:2608. 05138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Greek is absent from NVIDIA's Nemotron retrieval models and from major multilingual retrieval benchmarks, despite being important for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in legal, energy, financial, and medical applications.
By Ayoub Kirouane, Christos Petrocheilos
arXiv:2608.28776v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multilingual sentence embeddings are increasingly used to estimate semantic similarity across languages, yet their sensitivity to fine-grained translat...
By Eleftherios Kalogeros, Athanasios Ntalakas, Manolis Gergatsoulis, Paschalis Nikolaou, Sotiria-Lito Alexaki
arXiv:2607. 04071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Portuguese remains underrepresented in text embedding evaluation, despite being one of the most widely spoken languages in the world.
By Lucas Hideki Takeuchi Okamura, Alexandre Alcoforado, Anna Helena Reali Costa
State-of-the-art retrieval models increasingly rely on closed training data, creating a reproducibility gap. We present an open end-to-end recipe for training retrieval models and study how English supervision transfers to multilingual retrieval through translate-train.
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:2607.00171v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Text embeddings are standard for semantic similarity tasks, yet their evaluation remains an open challenge. Current benchmarks are static, cover on...
By Andrianos Michail, Stylianos Psychias, Michelle Wastl, Simon Clematide, Rico Sennrich, Juri Opitz
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
LuxIT is a monolingual instruction‑tuning dataset for Luxembourgish, created by synthesizing instruction‑answer pairs from native texts using the DeepSeek‑R1‑0528 model and a quality‑assurance LLM‑as‑judge process. The resulting 227,507 high‑quality pairs were used to fine‑tune 14 LLMs (≤15 B parameters), yielding an average accuracy increase of +5.37 percentage points on standardized Luxembourgish proficiency exams and improvements in macro‑averaged F1 on nine of the fourteen downstream NLP tasks. These findings demonstrate that synthetic monolingual data can effectively enhance LLM performance in low‑resource languages and reveal the complex relationship between exam performance and practical NLP gains.
By Julian Valline, Cedric Lothritz, Siwen Guo, Jordi Cabot
BioELX is a retrieve‑rerank framework for cross‑lingual biomedical entity linking that tackles two key problems: the English‑biased UMLS alias training data and the degradation caused by naïvely adding context. It fine‑tunes SapBERT_multi with Wikidata‑derived cross‑lingual alias supervision to create shared concept neighborhoods, and then reranks candidates using pretrained LLMs with mention‑anchored prompting to focus on the target mention. Experiments demonstrate state‑of‑the‑art performance on four benchmarks, improving Recall@1 by 4.8–18.2 percentage points without task‑specific annotations.
By Yi Wang, Corina Dima, Liangyu Zhong, Steffen Staab