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arXiv:2608.22922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present HelaBERT, a family of two BERT-based masked language models pre-trained from scratch on approximately 1 billion tokens of Sinhala text sourc...
The paper investigates how to fairly compare language models across languages, noting that current evaluation methods vary widely and lack empirical validation. By training controlled monolingual models on parallel data and testing multilingual LLMs, the authors find that many normalized metrics suffer from biases due to tokenization, encoding, and orthographic differences. Instead, they recommend using sentence‑level negative log‑likelihood over semantically equivalent sequences for more reliable cross‑lingual comparisons.
arXiv:2608.30425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-lingual aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) transfers knowledge from a source language with annotated data to a target language, enabling fine...
Institutions collect far more open-ended teaching-evaluation feedback than they read. A prior study introduced a validated protocol for classifying such comments by thematic category and sentiment, built from a documented annotation guide, an intra-annotator reliability measurement, stratified cross-validation, and a held-out evaluation on a Spanish institutional corpus with a frozen-encoder design.
arXiv:2607. 11873v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Institutions collect far more open-ended teaching-evaluation feedback than they read.
arXiv:2607. 10825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Opinionated text - spanning product reviews, hotel feedback, and social posts - captures rich signals about user experiences, preferences, and concerns.