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Study finds familiar letters, not related languages, help models learn unseen languages

A new arXiv paper reports that models learning a language from untranslated text rely on shared writing systems rather than linguistic relatedness to fit it into a shared meaning space, addressing hundreds of languages with text but almost no translations.

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  1. 2026-11-05 05:00 · arXiv cs.CL
    Familiar letters, not related languages, let unseen languages into a shared space of meaning

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