Utilizando Features Lingu\'\isticas Gen\'ericas para Classifica\cc\~ao de Triplas Relacionais em Portugu\^es (Generic Linguistic Features for Relational Triples Classification in Portuguese)[In Portuguese]

Semantic Preserving Embeddings for Generalized Graphs

A new approach to the study of Generalized Graphs as semantic data structures using machine learning techniques is presented. We show how vector representations maintaining semantic characteristics of the original data c…

Implementa\cc\~ao de um Separador Sil\'abico Gratuito Baseado em Regras Lingu\'\isticas para o Portugu\^es Brasileiro (The Implementation of a Free Syllabification Algorithm Based on Linguistic Rules for Brazilian Portuguese) [in Portuguese]

Patterns of Closeness and Abstractness in Colexifications: The Case of Indigenous Languages in the Americas

Colexification refers to linguistic phenomena where multiple concepts (meanings) are expressed by the same lexical form, such as polysemy or homophony. Colexifications have been found to be pervasive across languages and…

Enhancing Translation for Indigenous Languages: Experiments with Multilingual Models

This paper describes CIC NLP's submission to the AmericasNLP 2023 Shared Task on machine translation systems for indigenous languages of the Americas. We present the system descriptions for three methods. We used two mul…

AmericasNLI: Evaluating Zero-shot Natural Language Understanding of Pretrained Multilingual Models in Truly Low-resource Languages

Pretrained multilingual models are able to perform cross-lingual transfer in a zero-shot setting, even for languages unseen during pretraining. However, prior work evaluating performance on unseen languages has largely b…