Multimodal Alignment in Projection-Based Data Transfer for Low-Resource Cross-Lingual NER

Cross-lingual Named Entity Recognition (NER) leverages knowledge transfer between languages to identify and classify named entities, making it particularly useful for low-resource languages. We show that the data-based cross-lingual transfer method is an effective technique for crosslingual NER and can outperform multilingual language models for low-resource languages. This paper introduces two key enhancements to the annotation projection step in cross-lingual NER for low-resource languages. First, we explore refining word alignments using back-translation to improve accuracy. Second, we pres

Research goal: What is the impact of incorporating multimodal alignment (text-image) in the projection-based data transfer method on cross-lingual NER F1 scores for low-resource languages, and how does it compare to distillation-based approaches on the MLQA benchmark?

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