Cross-lingual Classification of Crisis-related Tweets Using Machine Translation
Shareefa Al Amer,
Mark Lee,
Phillip Smith
Abstract:Utilisation of multilingual language models such as mBERT and XLM-RoBERTa has increasingly gained attention in recent work by exploiting the multilingualism of such models in different downstream tasks across different languages. However, performance degradation is expected in transfer learning across languages compared to monolingual performance although it is an acceptable trade-off considering the sparsity of resources and lack of available training data in low-resource languages. In this work, we study the… Show more
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