Teaching Large Language Models an Unseen Language on the Fly

Data and code for the following papers:

ACL'24 Findings (Full-Length Paper) Teaching Large Language Models an Unseen Language on the Fly

ICLR'24 Tiny Paper Can LLMs Learn a New Language on the Fly? A Case Study on Zhuang

Project Website

Dataset

We present ZhuangBench, a collection of NLP resources for Zhuang (壮语), a low-resource language spoken in China.

It consists of a Zhuang-Chinese dictionary, a Zhuang-Chinese parallel corpus, and Zhuang-Chinese machine translation test set.

Important: Preventing Test Set Contamination We encrypted the source files of ZhuangBench in data.zip to prevent test set contamination. The password is zhuangbench.

List of files:

• dictionary_za2zh.jsonl: Zhuang-Chinese dictionary.
• dictionary_zh2za.jsonl: Chinese-Zhuang dictionary.
• parallel_corpus.json: Zhuang-Chinese parallel corpus.
• test_translation_set.json: Zhuang-Chinese machine translation test set.
• preprocessed/dictionary_za2zh_web+giza.jsonl: Zhuang-Chinese dictionary augmented with BLI from Giza++.
• preprocessed/dictionary_zh2za_web+giza+synonym.jsonl: Chinese-Zhuang dictionary augmented with BLI from Giza++ and synonyms.

Beta Version

Our ICLR'24 Tiny Paper uses a beta version of the dataset, ZhuangBench-Beta. We provide the data in data-beta-version.zip (password: zhuangbench-beta). This data is for archival purposes only. We recommend using the newer data in data.zip, which is larger and includes typo corrections.

Code

We provide code of DiPMT++ to reproduce the results in the paper.

Install the dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Use the scripts in ./scripts to run the LLMs and evaluate the results.

License

The license for the code and data is MIT.

Citation

@article{zhang2024teaching,
  title={Teaching Large Language Models an Unseen Language on the Fly},
  author={Zhang, Chen and Liu, Xiao and Lin, Jiuheng and Feng, Yansong},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.19167},
  year={2024}
}
@inproceedings{zhang2024can,
  title={Can {LLM}s Learn a New Language on the Fly? A Case Study on Zhuang},
  author={Chen Zhang and Mingxu Tao and Quzhe Huang and Zhibin Chen and Yansong Feng},
  booktitle={The Second Tiny Papers Track at ICLR 2024},
  year={2024},
}