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Kurt Micallef

Publications

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Cross-Lingual Transfer from Related Languages: Treating Low-Resource Maltese as Multilingual Code-Switching. Kurt Micallef, Nizar Habash, Claudia Borg, Fadhl Eryani, and Houda Bouamor In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (03/2024)

Exploring the Impact of Transliteration on NLP Performance: Treating Maltese as an Arabic Dialect. Kurt Micallef, Fadhl Eryani, Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, and Claudia Borg. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL 2023) (07/2023)

Pre-training Data Quality and Quantity for a Low-Resource Language: New Corpus and BERT Models for Maltese. Kurt Micallef, Albert Gatt, Marc Tanti, Lonneke van der Plas, and Claudia Borg. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Deep Learning for Low-Resource Natural Language Processing (07/2022)

Resources

Media

Photo of the Week/Sound Bites. In Times of Malta (24/03/2024)

Computers learn Maltese. In CORDIS (08/12/2022)

The computational use of language models. In Times of Malta (13/11/2022)

How do computers learn languages today?. In Times of Malta (06/11/2022)