Corpora deduplication or duplication in Natural Language Processing of few resourced languages ? A case of study: The Mexico's Nahuatl

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Autores principales: Guzman-Landa, Juan-José, Torres-Moreno, Juan-Manuel, Ranger, Graham, Figueroa-Saavedra, Miguel, Avendaño-Garrido, Martha-Lorena, Linhares-Pontes, Elvys, Moreno-Jiménez, Luis-Gil
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author Guzman-Landa, Juan-José
Torres-Moreno, Juan-Manuel
Ranger, Graham
Figueroa-Saavedra, Miguel
Avendaño-Garrido, Martha-Lorena
Linhares-Pontes, Elvys
Moreno-Jiménez, Luis-Gil
author_facet Guzman-Landa, Juan-José
Torres-Moreno, Juan-Manuel
Ranger, Graham
Figueroa-Saavedra, Miguel
Avendaño-Garrido, Martha-Lorena
Linhares-Pontes, Elvys
Moreno-Jiménez, Luis-Gil
contents In this article, we seek to answer the following question: could data duplication be useful in Natural Language Processing (NLP) for languages with limited computational resources? In this type of languages (or $π$-languages), corpora available for training Large Language Models are virtually non-existent. In particular, we will study the impact of corpora expansion in Nawatl, an agglutinative and polysynthetic $π$-language spoken by over 2 million people, with a large number of dialectal varieties. The aim is to expand the new $π$-yalli corpus, which contains a limited number of Nawatl texts, by duplicating it in a controlled way. In our experiments, we will use the incremental duplication technique. The aim is to learn embeddings that are well-suited to NLP tasks. Thus, static embeddings were trained and evaluated in a sentence-level semantic similarity task. Our results show a moderate improvement in performance when using incremental duplication compared to the results obtained using only the corpus without expansion. Furthermore, to our knowledge, this technique has not yet been used in the literature.
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spellingShingle Corpora deduplication or duplication in Natural Language Processing of few resourced languages ? A case of study: The Mexico's Nahuatl
Guzman-Landa, Juan-José
Torres-Moreno, Juan-Manuel
Ranger, Graham
Figueroa-Saavedra, Miguel
Avendaño-Garrido, Martha-Lorena
Linhares-Pontes, Elvys
Moreno-Jiménez, Luis-Gil
Computation and Language
In this article, we seek to answer the following question: could data duplication be useful in Natural Language Processing (NLP) for languages with limited computational resources? In this type of languages (or $π$-languages), corpora available for training Large Language Models are virtually non-existent. In particular, we will study the impact of corpora expansion in Nawatl, an agglutinative and polysynthetic $π$-language spoken by over 2 million people, with a large number of dialectal varieties. The aim is to expand the new $π$-yalli corpus, which contains a limited number of Nawatl texts, by duplicating it in a controlled way. In our experiments, we will use the incremental duplication technique. The aim is to learn embeddings that are well-suited to NLP tasks. Thus, static embeddings were trained and evaluated in a sentence-level semantic similarity task. Our results show a moderate improvement in performance when using incremental duplication compared to the results obtained using only the corpus without expansion. Furthermore, to our knowledge, this technique has not yet been used in the literature.
title Corpora deduplication or duplication in Natural Language Processing of few resourced languages ? A case of study: The Mexico's Nahuatl
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07015