@inproceedings{li-etal-2023-crosslingual,
    title = "Crosslingual Retrieval Augmented In-context Learning for {B}angla",
    author = "Li, Xiaoqian  and
      Nie, Ercong  and
      Liang, Sheng",
    editor = "Alam, Firoj  and
      Kar, Sudipta  and
      Chowdhury, Shammur Absar  and
      Sadeque, Farig  and
      Amin, Ruhul",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2023)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Singapore",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2023.banglalp-1.15/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.banglalp-1.15",
    pages = "136--151",
    abstract = "The promise of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Natural Language Processing has often been overshadowed by their limited performance in low-resource languages such as Bangla. To address this, our paper presents a pioneering approach that utilizes cross-lingual retrieval augmented in-context learning. By strategically sourcing semantically similar prompts from high-resource language, we enable multilingual pretrained language models (MPLMs), especially the generative model BLOOMZ, to successfully boost performance on Bangla tasks. Our extensive evaluation highlights that the cross-lingual retrieval augmented prompts bring steady improvements to MPLMs over the zero-shot performance."
}