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Ali Marashian

4 accepted papers

2025

From Priest to Doctor: Domain Adaptation for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

COLING 2025main

Many of the world’s languages have insufficient data to train high-performing general neural machine translation (NMT) models, let alone domain-specific models, and often the only available parallel data are small amounts of religious texts. Hence, domain adaptation (DA) is a crucial issue faced by…

2025

Measuring Contextual Informativeness in Child-Directed Text

COLING 2025main

To address an important gap in creating children’s stories for vocabulary enrichment, we investigate the automatic evaluation of how well stories convey the semantics of target vocabulary words, a task with substantial implications for generating educational content. We motivate this task, which we…

2024

TAMS: Translation-Assisted Morphological Segmentation

ACL 2024long

Canonical morphological segmentation is the process of analyzing words into the standard (aka underlying) forms of their constituent morphemes.This is a core task in endangered language documentation, and NLP systems have the potential to dramatically speed up this process. In typical language docum…