Not Just Under-Resourced, but Under-Represented: A Linguistic Analysis of Transformer Failures on Austroasiatic Morphosyntax

Large multilingual language models have become a cornerstone of modern NLP, yet their success is largely confined to a typologically homogeneous set of high-resource languages [4]. This paper argues that the challenges faced by low-resource languages

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2025-09-19
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https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.175825880.07003054/v1
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Translation Studies and Practices
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Not Just Under-Resourced, but Under-Represented: A Linguistic Analysis of Transformer Failures on Austroasiatic Morphosyntax

Badal Nyalang
Translation Studies and Practices
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Not Just Under-Resourced, but Under-Represented: A Linguistic Analysis of Transformer Failures on Austroasiatic Morphosyntax

Badal Nyalang
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Large multilingual language models have become a cornerstone of modern NLP, yet their success is largely confined to a typologically homogeneous set of high-resource languages [4]. This paper argues that the challenges faced by low-resource languages

University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya (IN)
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Translation Studies and Practices
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