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Elisabeth Mager

3 accepted papers

2023

Ethical Considerations for Machine Translation of Indigenous Languages: Giving a Voice to the Speakers

ACL 2023long

In recent years machine translation has become very successful for high-resource language pairs. This has also sparked new interest in research on the automatic translation of low-resource languages, including Indigenous languages. However, the latter are deeply related to the ethnic and cultural gr…

Cited by 28SourcePDFScholar
2022

AmericasNLI: Evaluating Zero-shot Natural Language Understanding of Pretrained Multilingual Models in Truly Low-resource Languages

ACL 2022long

Pretrained multilingual models are able to perform cross-lingual transfer in a zero-shot setting, even for languages unseen during pretraining. However, prior work evaluating performance on unseen languages has largely been limited to low-level, syntactic tasks, and it remains unclear if zero-shot l…

2022

BPE vs. Morphological Segmentation: A Case Study on Machine Translation of Four Polysynthetic Languages

ACL 2022findings

Morphologically-rich polysynthetic languages present a challenge for NLP systems due to data sparsity, and a common strategy to handle this issue is to apply subword segmentation. We investigate a wide variety of supervised and unsupervised morphological segmentation methods for four polysynthetic l…

Cited by 25SourcePDFScholar