Highlights from Machine Translation and Multilinguality in June 2023
Here are the preprints that I found the most interesting in June 2023. Exploring the Relationship between Alignment and Cross-lingual Transfer in Multilingual Transformers Folks from LORIA (a French research institute) and Posos (a French company) study the relationship between cross-lingual representation alignment and cross-lingual transfer. Here, alignment means what I would call language neutrality, i.e., that similar sentences should receive similar representation across languages. (Not alignment as the new word for finetuning language models to follow instructions, nor the […]
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