Summary of Forget Nli, Use a Dictionary: Zero-shot Topic Classification For Low-resource Languages with Application to Luxembourgish, by Fred Philippy et al.
Forget NLI, Use a Dictionary: Zero-Shot Topic Classification for Low-Resource Languages with Application to Luxembourgish
by Fred Philippy, Shohreh Haddadan, Siwen Guo
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes an alternative solution for zero-shot classification (ZSC) in natural language processing (NLP), leveraging dictionaries as a source of data. The approach focuses on Luxembourgish, a low-resource language, and constructs two new topic relevance classification datasets based on a dictionary that provides synonyms, word translations, and example sentences. The paper evaluates the usability of these datasets and compares them with an NLI-based approach for ZSC in a zero-shot manner. Results show that trained models using the dictionary-based dataset outperform those following the NLI-based approach. This study demonstrates the efficacy of this approach for low-resource languages like Luxembourgish, which can be extended to other languages with similar dictionaries. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper finds a new way to help computers understand language without needing lots of labeled examples. They use special books called dictionaries that explain words and phrases in a language called Luxembourgish. This language is hard to work with because there isn’t much data available. The researchers made two new sets of data based on the dictionary and tested how well it worked compared to another way people usually do it. They found out that using the dictionary-based approach was better! This could help computers understand other languages too, as long as they have dictionaries like this one. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Natural language processing » Nlp » Zero shot
