Julio César Mello-Román


2025

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Modular Training of Deep Neural Networks for Text Classification in Guarani
José Luis Vázquez Noguera | Carlos U. Valdez | Julio César Mello-Román | Marvin M. Aguero | José D. Colbes | Sebastián A. Grillo
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages

We present a modular training approach for deep text classification in Guarani, where networks are split into sectors trained independently and later combined. This sector-wise backpropagation improves stability, reduces training time, and adapts to standard architectures like CNNs, LSTMs, and Transformers. Evaluated on three Guarani datasets—emotion, humor, and offensive language—our method outperforms traditional Bayesian-optimized training in both accuracy and efficiency.