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Shu Okabe

3 accepted papers

2025

Improving Parallel Sentence Mining for Low-Resource and Endangered Languages

ACL 2025short

While parallel sentence mining has been extensively covered for fairly well-resourced languages, pairs involving low-resource languages have received comparatively little attention.To address this gap, we present Belopsem, a benchmark of new datasets for parallel sentence mining on three language pa…

2022

Weakly Supervised Word Segmentation for Computational Language Documentation

ACL 2022long

Word and morpheme segmentation are fundamental steps of language documentation as they allow to discover lexical units in a language for which the lexicon is unknown. However, in most language documentation scenarios, linguists do not start from a blank page: they may already have a pre-existing dic…