Interplay of Machine Translation, Diacritics, and Diacritization

no code implementations • 9 Apr 2024 • Wei-Rui Chen, Ife Adebara, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

We examine these two questions in both high-resource (HR) and low-resource (LR) settings across 55 different languages (36 African languages and 19 European languages).

Machine Translation Multi-Task Learning +1

Fumbling in Babel: An Investigation into ChatGPT's Language Identification Ability

no code implementations • 16 Nov 2023 • Wei-Rui Chen, Ife Adebara, Khai Duy Doan, Qisheng Liao, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

However, the range of languages ChatGPT can handle remains largely a mystery.

Language Identification

Improving Neural Machine Translation of Indigenous Languages with Multilingual Transfer Learning

no code implementations • 14 May 2022 • Wei-Rui Chen, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Machine translation (MT) involving Indigenous languages, including those possibly endangered, is challenging due to lack of sufficient parallel data.

Data Augmentation Machine Translation +2

Machine Translation of Low-Resource Indo-European Languages

no code implementations • WMT (EMNLP) 2021 • Wei-Rui Chen, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

In this work, we investigate methods for the challenging task of translating between low-resource language pairs that exhibit some level of similarity.

Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation Transfer Learning +1

IndT5: A Text-to-Text Transformer for 10 Indigenous Languages

no code implementations • NAACL (AmericasNLP) 2021 • El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Wei-Rui Chen, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Hasan Cavusogl

Transformer language models have become fundamental components of natural language processing based pipelines.

Language Modelling Machine Translation +1