V.S.D.S.Mahesh Akavarapu — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

A Case Study of Cross-Lingual Zero-Shot Generalization for Classical Languages in LLMs

V.S.D.S.Mahesh Akavarapu, Hrishikesh Terdalkar, Pramit Bhattacharyya, Shubhangi Agarwal, Dr. Vishakha Deulgaonkar, Chaitali Dangarikar +2

ACL 2025finding

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable generalization capabilities across diverse tasks and languages. In this study, we focus on natural language understanding in three classical languages—Sanskrit, Ancient Greek and Latin—to investigate the factors affecting cross-lingual zero-s…

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2024

A Likelihood Ratio Test of Genetic Relationship among Languages

V.S.D.S.Mahesh Akavarapu, Arnab Bhattacharya

NAACL 2024long

Lexical resemblances among a group of languages indicate that the languages could be genetically related, i.e., they could have descended from a common ancestral language. However, such resemblances can arise by chance and, hence, need not always imply an underlying genetic relationship. Many tests…

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2023

Cognate Transformer for Automated Phonological Reconstruction and Cognate Reflex Prediction

V.S.D.S.Mahesh Akavarapu, Arnab Bhattacharya

EMNLP 2023long main

Phonological reconstruction is one of the central problems in historical linguistics where a proto-word of an ancestral language is determined from the observed cognate words of daughter languages. Computational approaches to historical linguistics attempt to automate the task by learning models on…

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