Statistical Alignment Information in WEAM Pre-training vs. Parallel Corpus Fine-tuning for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Performance

Multilingual pre-trained models have achieved remarkable performance on cross-lingual transfer learning. Some multilingual models such as mBERT, have been pre-trained on unlabeled corpora, therefore the embeddings of different languages in the models may not be aligned very well. In this paper, we aim to improve the zero-shot cross-lingual transfer performance by proposing a pre-training task named Word-Exchange Aligning Model (WEAM), which uses the statistical alignment information as the prior knowledge to guide cross-lingual word prediction. We evaluate our model on multilingual machine rea

Research goal: How does incorporating statistical alignment information via WEAM pre-training compare to parallel corpus fine-tuning for improving zero-shot cross-lingual performance on XNLI, PAWS-X, and MLQA benchmarks when evaluated using accuracy metrics?

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