@inproceedings{ehsan-solorio-2025-enhancing,
    title = "Enhancing {NER} Performance in Low-Resource {P}akistani Languages using Cross-Lingual Data Augmentation",
    author = "Ehsan, Toqeer  and
      Solorio, Thamar",
    editor = "Bak, JinYeong  and
      Goot, Rob van der  and
      Jang, Hyeju  and
      Buaphet, Weerayut  and
      Ramponi, Alan  and
      Xu, Wei  and
      Ritter, Alan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text",
    month = may,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2025.wnut-1.13/",
    pages = "117--132",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-232-9",
    abstract = "Named Entity Recognition (NER), a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), has shown significant advancements for high-resource languages. However, due to a lack of annotated datasets and limited representation in Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs), it remains understudied and challenging for low-resource languages. To address these challenges, in this paper, we propose a data augmentation technique that generates culturally plausible sentences and experiments on four low-resource Pakistani languages; Urdu, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, and Pashto. By fine-tuning multilingual masked Large Language Models (LLMs), our approach demonstrates significant improvements in NER performance for Shahmukhi and Pashto. We further explore the capability of generative LLMs for NER and data augmentation using few-shot learning."
}