Indonesia

We present an approach for assessing how multilingual large language models (LLMs) learn syntax in terms of multi-formalism syntactic structures. We aim to recover constituent and dependency structures by casting parsing as sequence labeling. To do so, we select a few LLMs and study them on 13 diverse UD treebanks for dependency parsing and 10 treebanks for constituent parsing. Our results show that the framework is consistent across encodings, and notes the role played by factors such as the syntactic formalism, the LLM differences, and the pretraining and assessment data.

IJCNLP-AACL 2023

Assessment of Pre-Trained Models Across Languages and Grammars

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### Welcome to IJCNLP-AACL 2023!
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International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) and the 3rd Conference of
the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL). 
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The 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

The scarcity of comprehensive, high-quality Question-Answering (QA) datasets in low-resource languages has greatly limited the progress of research on QA for these languages. This has inspired research on Question-Answer Generation (QAG) which seeks to synthetically generate QA pairs and minimize the human effort required to compile labeled datasets. In this paper, we present the first QAG pipeline for the Bengali language, which consists of an answer span extraction model, a question generation model, and roundtrip consistency filtering to discard inconsistent QA pairs. To train our QAG pipeline, we translate SQuAD1.1 and SQuAD2.0 using the state-of-the-art NLLB machine translation model and accurately mark the answer spans using a novel embedding-based answer alignment algorithm to construct two Bengali QA datasets that we show are superior to the only two existing machine-translated datasets in terms of quality and quantity. We use our QAG pipeline to generate more than 170,000 QA pairs to build BanglaQA, a synthetic QA dataset from 16,000 Bengali news articles spanning 5 different news categories. We demonstrate the quality of BanglaQA by human evaluation on a variety of metrics. The best-performing model among several baselines on our dataset achieves an F1 score of 86.14 falling behind human performance of 95.72 F1. Our codebase and curated datasets are publicly available at https://github.com/shihabshahriar16/BengaliQAG.git.

Question Answer Generation in Bengali: Mitigating the scarcity of QA datasets in a low-resource language

The research for detecting offensive language on online platforms has much advanced. However, the majority of these studies have primarily focused on English. Given the unique characteristics of offensive language, where social and cultural contexts significantly influence content understanding, language-specific datasets are essential. Acquiring comprehensive datasets in Korean, a less-resourced language, has mostly relied on human annotations, suffering from inherent limitations in terms of labor intensity and potential annotator bias. Automatic generation of datasets using generative methods offers an alternative approach to address these limitations, yet faces challenges in capturing linguistic and cultural diversities while maintaining native-level fluency. To address these challenges, we introduce a prompt design methodology, Korean Offensive language Machine Generation (K-OMG), using large language models. By manipulating three prompt factors, we find an effective prompt design to generate culturally aligned offensive language with fluent expressions. Experimental results demonstrate the high quality and utility of our automatically generated dataset. Our detailed analysis shows that the proposed approach achieves exceptional fluency in generating texts while effectively incorporating social and cultural diversities.

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