# Comparable Corpora: Opportunities for New Research Directions

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14721 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.14721/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 10 of its 40 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 24 Jan 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 10 of 10)

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- [The FLORES-101 Evaluation Benchmark for Low-Resource and Multilingual Machine Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.03193/) (2021)
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- [SPECTER: Document-level Representation Learning using Citation-informed Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.07180/) (2020)
- [Scaling Speech Technology to 1,000+ Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.13516/) (2023)
- [Unsupervised Machine Translation Using Monolingual Corpora Only](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.00043/) (2017)
- [Translation Artifacts in Cross-lingual Transfer Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.04721/) (2020)
- [No Culture Left Behind: ArtELingo-28, a Benchmark of WikiArt with Captions in 28 Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.03769/) (2024)
- [Correcting FLORES Evaluation Dataset for Four African Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.00626/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Most conference papers present new results, but this paper will focus more on opportunities for the audience to make their own contributions. This paper is intended to challenge the community to think more broadly about what we can do with comparable corpora. We will start with a review of the history, and then suggest new directions for future research. This was a keynote at BUCC-2025, a workshop associated with Coling-2025.