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False Friends Are Not Foes: Investigating Vocabulary Overlap in Multilingual Language Models

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Main Authors:	Kallini, Julie, Jurafsky, Dan, Potts, Christopher, Bartelds, Martijn
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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