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URIEL+: Enhancing Linguistic Inclusion and Usability in a Typological and Multilingual Knowledge Base

arXiv 2409.18472 ↗First posted 27 Sep 2024cs.CL cs.LGcited by 21

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URIEL is a knowledge base offering geographical, phylogenetic, and typological vector representations for 7970 languages. It includes distance measures between these vectors for 4005 languages, which are accessible via the lang2vec tool. Despite being frequently cited, URIEL is limited in terms of linguistic inclusion and overall usability. To tackle these challenges, we introduce URIEL+, an enhanced version of URIEL and lang2vec that addresses these limitations. In addition to expanding typological feature coverage for 2898 languages, URIEL+ improves the user experience with robust, customizable distance calculations to better suit the needs of users. These upgrades also offer competitive performance on downstream tasks and provide distances that better align with linguistic distance studies.

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  2. 2025Analyzing the Effect of Linguistic Similarity on Cross-Lingual Transfer: Tasks and Experimental Setups Mattercited by 10
  3. 2025Untangling the Influence of Typology, Data and Model Architecture on Ranking Transfer Languages for Cross-Lingual POS Taggingcited by 9
  4. 2025TTSDS2: Resources and Benchmark for Evaluating Human-Quality Text to Speech Systemscited by 7
  5. 2025Modality Matching Matters: Calibrating Language Distances for Cross-Lingual Transfer in URIEL+cited by 3
  6. 2025Shared Path: Unraveling Memorization in Multilingual LLMs through Language Similaritiescited by 2
  7. 2025Simple Additions, Substantial Gains: Expanding Scripts, Languages, and Lineage Coverage in URIEL+cited by 2
  8. 2025Is Multilingual LLM Watermarking Truly Multilingual? Scaling Robustness to 100+ Languages via Back-Translationcited by 1
  9. 2026Typologically Informed Parameter Aggregationcited by 1
  10. 2026Assessing the Impact of Typological Features on Multilingual Machine Translation in the Age of Large Language Modelscited by 1
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  12. 2025textscCantoNLU: A benchmark for Cantonese natural language understandingcited by 0
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