ProMap: Effective Bilingual Lexicon Induction via Language Model Prompting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18778v1
• Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 18:33:24 GMT
• Title: ProMap: Effective Bilingual Lexicon Induction via Language Model Prompting
• Authors: Abdellah El Mekki, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, ElMoatez Billah Nagoudi, Ismail Berrada and Ahmed Khoumsi
• Abstract summary: We introduce ProMap, a novel approach for bilingual induction (BLI) ProMap relies on an effective padded prompting of language models with a seed dictionary that achieves good performance when used independently. When evaluated on both rich-resource and low-resource languages, ProMap consistently achieves state-of-the-art results.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Bilingual Lexicon Induction (BLI), where words are translated between two languages, is an important NLP task. While noticeable progress on BLI in rich resource languages using static word embeddings has been achieved. The word translation performance can be further improved by incorporating information from contextualized word embeddings. In this paper, we introduce ProMap, a novel approach for BLI that leverages the power of prompting pretrained multilingual and multidialectal language models to address these challenges. To overcome the employment of subword tokens in these models, ProMap relies on an effective padded prompting of language models with a seed dictionary that achieves good performance when used independently. We also demonstrate the effectiveness of ProMap in re-ranking results from other BLI methods such as with aligned static word embeddings. When evaluated on both rich-resource and low-resource languages, ProMap consistently achieves state-of-the-art results. Furthermore, ProMap enables strong performance in few-shot scenarios (even with less than 10 training examples), making it a valuable tool for low-resource language translation. Overall, we believe our method offers both exciting and promising direction for BLI in general and low-resource languages in particular. ProMap code and data are available at \url{https://github.com/4mekki4/promap}.

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