Essays about: "monolingual"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 69 essays containing the word monolingual.

  1. 11. Trade-offs between Quality and Efficiency in Multilingual Dense Retrieval

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Emma Schüldt; [2022]
    Keywords : Dense retrieval; Binary Retrieval; Semantic search; ColBERT; Multilingual; MSMarco; Tät informationssökning; Binär informationssökning; Semantisk sökning; ColBERT; Flerspråkig; MS Marco;

    Abstract : As the amount of content online grows, information retrieval becomes increasingly crucial. Traditional information retrieval does not take the text order into account and is also dependent on exact text matching between the query and the document. READ MORE

  3. 12. Can Wizards be Polyglots: Towards a Multilingual Knowledge-grounded Dialogue System

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Evelyn Kai Yan Liu; [2022]
    Keywords : Knowledge-grounded dialogue; Dialogue systems; Generative question answering; Multilingual question answering; Multilingual dialogue systems; Transfer learning; Multi-task learning; Sequential training; Conversational AI; Natural Language Processing NLP ; Deep learning; Machine learning;

    Abstract : The research of open-domain, knowledge-grounded dialogue systems has been advancing rapidly due to the paradigm shift introduced by large language models (LLMs). While the strides have improved the performance of the dialogue systems, the scope is mostly monolingual and English-centric. READ MORE

  4. 13. Unsupervised multilingual distractor generation for fill-in-the-blank questions

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Zhe Han; [2022]
    Keywords : Multilingual; Distractor; BERT;

    Abstract : Fill-in-the-blank multiple choice questions (MCQs) play an important role in the educational field, but the manual generation of them is quite resource-consuming, so it has gradually turned into an attractive NLP task. Thereinto, question creation itself has become a mainstream NLP research topic, while distractor (wrong alternative) generation (DG) still remains out of the spotlight. READ MORE

  5. 14. Cross-lingual and Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition for Scandinavian Languages

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Rafal Černiavski; [2022]
    Keywords : cross-lingual; multilingual; automatic speech recognition; ASR;

    Abstract : Research into Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), the task of transforming speech into text, remains highly relevant due to its countless applications in industry and academia. State-of-the-art ASR models are able to produce nearly perfect, sometimes referred to as human-like transcriptions; however, accurate ASR models are most often available only in high-resource languages. READ MORE

  6. 15. Multilingual Categorisation of Landscape terms

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Debora Nilsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Multilingualism; word-to-referent mapping; categorisation; Landscape; semantic domains.;

    Abstract : This study investigates how multilinguals compared with monolinguals categorise landscape. The aim is to contribute to research already done with fresh data in a new setting. The thesis suggests that speakers with lower proficiency in a language will tend to choose vocabulary based on frequency and not semantic knowledge. READ MORE