Shayaan Absar


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2025

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Fine-Tuning Cross-Lingual LLMs for POS Tagging in Code-Switched Contexts
Shayaan Absar
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Resources and Representations for Under-Resourced Languages and Domains (RESOURCEFUL-2025)

Code-switching (CS) involves speakers switching between two (or potentially more) languages during conversation and is a common phenomenon in bilingual communities. The majority of NLP research has been devoted to mono-lingual language modelling. Consequentially, most models perform poorly on code-switched data. This paper investigates the effectiveness of Cross-Lingual Large Language Models on the task of POS (Part-of-Speech) tagging in code-switched contexts, once they have undergone a fine-tuning process. The models are trained on code-switched combinations of Indian languages and English. This paper also seeks to investigate whether fine-tuned models are able to generalise and POS tag code-switched combinations that were not a part of the fine-tuning dataset. Additionally, this paper presents a new metric, the S-index (Switching-Index), for measuring the level of code-switching within an utterance.