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Kurt Micallef

3 accepted papers

2025

Data Augmentation for Maltese NLP using Transliterated and Machine Translated Arabic Data

EMNLP 2025

Maltese is a unique Semitic language that has evolved under extensive influence from Romance and Germanic languages, particularly Italian and English. Despite its Semitic roots, its orthography is based on the Latin script, creating a gap between it and its closest linguistic relatives in Arabic. In

2025

MELABenchv1: Benchmarking Large Language Models against Smaller Fine-Tuned Models for Low-Resource Maltese NLP

ACL 2025finding

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, largely due to their generalisability and ability to perform tasks without additional training. However, their effectiveness for low-resource languages remains limited. In th…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Topic Classification and Headline Generation for Maltese Using a Public News Corpus

COLING 2024main

The development of NLP tools for low-resource languages is impeded by the lack of data. While recent unsupervised pre-training approaches ease this requirement, the need for labelled data is crucial to progress the development of such tools. Moreover, publicly available datasets for such languages t…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar