@inproceedings{ai-fang-2022-vocabulary,
    title = "Vocabulary-informed Language Encoding",
    author = "Ai, Xi  and
      Fang, Bin",
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      Huang, Chu-Ren  and
      Kim, Hansaem  and
      Pustejovsky, James  and
      Wanner, Leo  and
      Choi, Key-Sun  and
      Ryu, Pum-Mo  and
      Chen, Hsin-Hsi  and
      Donatelli, Lucia  and
      Ji, Heng  and
      Kurohashi, Sadao  and
      Paggio, Patrizia  and
      Xue, Nianwen  and
      Kim, Seokhwan  and
      Hahm, Younggyun  and
      He, Zhong  and
      Lee, Tony Kyungil  and
      Santus, Enrico  and
      Bond, Francis  and
      Na, Seung-Hoon",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = oct,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Gyeongju, Republic of Korea",
    publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/2022.coling-1.432/",
    pages = "4883--4891",
    abstract = "A Multilingual model relies on language encodings to identify input languages because the multilingual model has to distinguish between the input and output languages or among all the languages for cross-lingual tasks. Furthermore, we find that language encodings potentially refine multiple morphologies of different languages to form a better isomorphic space for multilinguality. To leverage this observation, we present a method to compute a vocabulary-informed language encoding as the language representation, for a required language, considering a local vocabulary covering an acceptable amount of the most frequent word embeddings in this language. In our experiments, our method can consistently improve the performance of multilingual models on unsupervised neural machine translation and cross-lingual embedding."
}