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Menan Velayuthan

2 accepted papers

2025

Egalitarian Language Representation in Language Models: It All Begins with Tokenizers

COLING 2025main

Tokenizers act as a bridge between human language and the latent space of language models, influencing how language is represented in these models. Despite the dominance of English-Centric (EC) Large Language Models (LLMs), tokenization methods often fail to fairly represent complex scripts like Tam…

2025

Improving the Quality of Web-mined Parallel Corpora of Low-Resource Languages using Debiasing Heuristics

EMNLP 2025

Parallel Data Curation (PDC) techniques aim to filter out noisy parallel sentences from web-mined corpora. Ranking sentence pairs using similarity scores on sentence embeddings derived from Pre-trained Multilingual Language Models (multiPLMs) is the most common PDC technique. However, previous resea