VerbCraft: Morphologically-Aware Armenian Text Generation Using LLMs in Low-Resource Settings

Understanding and generating morphologically complex verb forms is a critical challenge in Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly for low-resource languages like Armenian. Armenian's verb morphology encodes multiple layers of grammatical information, such as tense, aspect, mood, voice, person, and number, requiring nuanced computational modeling. We introduce VerbCraft, a novel neural model that integrates explicit morphological classifiers into the mBART-50 architecture. VerbCraft achieves a BLEU score of 0.4899 on test data, compared to the baseline's 0.9975, reflecting its focus on prioritizing morphological precision over fluency. With over 99\% accuracy in aspect and voice predictions and robust performance on rare and irregular verb forms, VerbCraft addresses data scarcity through synthetic data generation with human-in-the-loop validation. Beyond Armenian, it offers a scalable framework for morphologically rich, low-resource languages, paving the way for linguistically informed NLP systems and advancing language preservation efforts.

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2025-02-14
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VerbCraft: Morphologically-Aware Armenian Text Generation Using LLMs in Low-Resource Settings

DSpace repository (University of Tartu)
Topic Modeling
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VerbCraft: Morphologically-Aware Armenian Text Generation Using LLMs in Low-Resource Settings

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Understanding and generating morphologically complex verb forms is a critical challenge in Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly for low-resource languages like Armenian. Armenian's verb morphology encodes multiple layers of grammatical information, such as tense, aspect, mood, voice, person, and number, requiring nuanced computational modeling. We introduce VerbCraft, a novel neural model that integrates explicit morphological classifiers into the mBART-50 architecture. VerbCraft achieves a BLEU score of 0.4899 on test data, compared to the baseline's 0.9975, reflecting its focus on prioritizing morphological precision over fluency. With over 99\% accuracy in aspect and voice predictions and robust performance on rare and irregular verb forms, VerbCraft addresses data scarcity through synthetic data generation with human-in-the-loop validation. Beyond Armenian, it offers a scalable framework for morphologically rich, low-resource languages, paving the way for linguistically informed NLP systems and advancing language preservation efforts.

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