2025
How Transliterations Improve Crosslingual Alignment
Yihong Liu, Mingyang Wang, Amir Hossein Kargaran, Ayyoob ImaniGooghari, Orgest Xhelili, Haotian Ye +3
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Recent studies have shown that post-aligning multilingual pretrained language models (mPLMs) using alignment objectives on both original and transliterated data can improve crosslingual alignment. This improvement further leads to better crosslingual transfer performance. However, it remains unclear…