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Aug 2026
Embedding Initialization for Unseen Low-resource Languages in Multilingual NMT: A Case Study on Limbum-English Translation
The results show that multilingual transfer is the dominant factor in extremely low-resource Bantu translation while eliminating the need for heuristic proxy selection, and all systems fail to preserve tonal diacritics, highlighting an open challenge.
Samiratu Ntohsi, Neza David Tuyishimire, Anesu Kafesu et al.
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