Language Chameleon: Transformation analysis between languages using Cross-lingual Post-training based on Pre-trained language models

@article{Son2022LanguageCT,
  title={Language Chameleon: Transformation analysis between languages using Cross-lingual Post-training based on Pre-trained language models},
  author={Suhyune Son and Chanjun Park and Jungseob Lee and Midan Shim and Chanhee Lee and Yoonna Jang and Jaehyung Seo and Heu-Jeoung Lim},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2022},
  volume={abs/2209.06422}
}
As pre-trained language models become more resource-demanding, the inequality between resource-rich languages such as English and resource-scarce languages is worsening. This can be attributed to the fact that the amount of available training data in each language fol-lows the power-law distribution, and most of the languages belong to the long tail of the distribution. Some research areas attempt to mitigate this problem. For example, in cross-lingual transfer learning and multilingual… 
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