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Which Languages Transfer Best to Warlpiri? A Similarity-Based Study for Low-Resource ASR
Jul 11, 2026Pravina Mylvaganam, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Ting Dang +2Low-Resource Language Processing Low-Resource Speech Recognition
University of New South Wales, Australia · University of Melbourne, Australia · University of Sydney, Australia
Conceptual Networks for Cross-Linguistic Idiomatic Expressions: A Feature-Based Graph Approach
Jul 10, 2026Kiran Pala, Punam Silu, Luxin YuFigurative Language Understanding Semantic Mapping
University of Eastern Finland, Finland · Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India
From Sinhala to Dhivehi: Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Speech Recognition
Jul 7, 2026Lukmal Ilyas, Nevidu JayatillekeContinued Pretraining Low-Resource Speech Recognition
School of Computing, Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka · Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Evaluating the Effect of Linguistic Relatedness on Cross-Lingual Transfer in Large Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition
Jul 6, 2026Andrei Florian, Cynthia Jayne Amol, Hope Kerubo Ombaba +6Low-Resource Speech Recognition Cross-Lingual Transfer
Princeton University · Maseno University
Disentangling Speaker and Language Effects in Cross-Lingual Speaker Verification for Iberian Languages
Jul 1, 2026Pol Buitrago, Javier HernandoSpeaker Verification Cross-Lingual Transfer
1Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain · 2Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Efficient Multilingual Reasoning Transfer via Progressive Code-Switching
Jul 1, 2026Zhijun Wang, Junxiao Liu, Hao Zhou +3Code-Switching Cross-Lingual Reasoning in Language Models
National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China · Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group
Cross-lingual Relation Extraction with Large Language Models: Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and Fine-Tuned Evaluation on Romanian
Jun 30, 2026Dragos-Mitrut Vasile, Elena-Simona Apostol, Stefan-Adrian Toma +2Relation Extraction LLM Fine-Tuning
National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Splaiul Independent,ei 313, Bucures,ti 060042, Romania · Military Technical Academy ‘Ferdinand I’, Bulevardul George Cos,buc 39-49, 050141, Bucharest, Romania · Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, Berlin, 14195, Germany +2
How Bilingual Are SSL Speech Models? Cross-Lingual Probing of Articulatory Encoding with Finnish and Russian EMA
Jun 30, 2026Ailín Pollio San Pedro, Tomi Kinnunen, Alexandre Nikolaev +1Speech Processing Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning
University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, GIPSA-lab, France · University of Eastern Finland, Computational Speech Group, Finland
SIGNET: Motion-Level Knowledge Transfer for Cross-Language Sign Language Translation
Jun 26, 2026Sobhan Asasi, Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Richard BowdenSign Language Translation Cross-Lingual Transfer
CVSSP, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Do Speech Emphasis Models Generalize across Languages and Emotions?
Jun 26, 2026Megan Wei, Deepali Aneja, Jiaqi Su +3Speech Prosody Cross-Lingual Transfer
Adobe Research, USA · Brown University, USA
Causal Connections: Leveraging Multilingual Fine-Tuning for Financial QA@FinCausal 2026
Jun 25, 2026Akash Kumar Gautam, Serhii Hamotskyi, Christian HänigRelation Extraction LLM Fine-Tuning
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
Soft Token Alignment for Cross-Lingual Reasoning
Jun 25, 2026Jiayi He, Jungsoo Park, Wei Xu +1Multilingual Language Models Cross-Lingual Reasoning in Language Models
Georgia Institute of Technology
SARA: Unlocking Multilingual Knowledge in Mixture-of-Experts via Semantically Anchored Routing Alignment
Jun 24, 2026Tianyu Dong, Yangyang Liu, Jiang Zhou +9Multilingual Language Models Sparse Mixture-of-Experts
TJUNLP Lab, School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, China · Alibaba Group, China
Same Lesson, Different Story: Cross-Lingual Reconstruction of Cultural Narratives in Large Language Models
Jun 23, 2026Jory Alshaalan, Haya Albaker, Abeer Aldayel +2Multilingual Language Model Evaluation LLM Grounding
College of Computer and Information Sciences King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Cross-Lingual Exploration for Parametric Knowledge
Jun 23, 2026Elisha Diskind, Itamar Trainin, Uri Shaham +3Multilingual Language Models LLM Prompting
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem · Google Research · MIT, IBM-MIT Watson AI Lab
A Pāninian Foundation for Indic Language Processing
Jun 23, 2026Ritwik Banerjee, Lav R. VarshneyMultilingual Language Model Evaluation Low-Resource Language Processing
Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, USA · AI Innovation Institute, Stony Brook University · AI Innovation Institute, Stony Brook University, USA +1
Data Scale, Not Latency, Shapes Cross-Lingual Encoder Transfer in Streaming ASR
Jun 23, 2026Nenad BanficStreaming ASR Low-Resource Speech Recognition
CoreAI, Microsoft
Cross-lingual Retrieval-Augmented Classification for Dysarthria Severity Assessment
Jun 22, 2026Taeyoung Jeong, Insung Lee, Du-Seong Chang +1Retrieval-Augmented Classification Speech Quality Assessment
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Sogang University, South Korea
Neural Speaker Diarization via Multilingual Training: Evaluation on Low-Resource Nepali-Hindi Speech
Jun 21, 2026Samip Neupane, Sandesh Pokhrel, Sandesh Pyakurel +1Low-Resource Language Processing Speaker Diarization
Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, Institute of Engineering, Lalitpur, Nepal
Are Multilingual Models Actually Improving? Isolating True Cross-Lingual Transfer
Jun 20, 2026Prasoon Bajpai, Eleftheria Briakou, Colin Cherry +2Multilingual Language Models Multilingual Language Model Evaluation
Google DeepMind · Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Dango: A Strictly L1-Only Large Language Model for Studying Second Language Acquisition
Jun 17, 2026Shiho Matta, Yin Jou Huang, Fei Cheng +3Language Model Pretraining Data Contamination in Language Models
Kyoto University · NII-LLMC
G-IdiomAlign: A Gloss-Pivoted Benchmark for Cross-Lingual Idiom Alignment
Jun 17, 2026Fengying Ye, Yanming Sun, Runzhe Zhan +3Figurative Language Understanding Multilingual Language Model Evaluation
NLP2CT Lab, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau · Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau
SHIFT: Semantic Harmonization via Index-side Feature Transformation for Multilingual Information Retrieval
Jun 17, 2026Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Hyeonseok Moon +1Cross-Lingual Representation Alignment Multilingual IR
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University
Montreal Forced Aligner and the state of speech-to-text alignment in 2026
Jun 16, 2026Michael McAuliffe, Kaylynn Gunter, Michael Wagner +1Speech Processing Cross-Lingual Transfer
University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA · McGill University and Centre for Brain, Language, and Music, Canada · University of Oregon, USA
LLM Parameters for Math Across Languages: Shared or Separate?
Jun 16, 2026Behzad Shomali, Luisa Victor, Tim Selbach +5Multilingual Language Models Cross-Lingual Reasoning in Language Models
Lamarr Institute · University of Bonn · Fraunhofer IAIS
When English Isn't the Best Teacher: Source Language Effects in Cross-Lingual In-Context Learning
Jun 16, 2026Fred Philippy, Siwen Guo, Jacques Klein +1Multilingual Language Model Evaluation In-Context Learning
Snt, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
ChLogic: Evaluating Robustness of Logical Reasoning in Chinese Expressions
Jun 16, 2026Peixian Zhou, Yuxu Chen, Chaorui Zhang +3Multilingual Language Model Evaluation Cross-Lingual Reasoning in Language Models
College of Mathematics, Sichuan University, China · Theory Lab, 2012 Labs, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Improving low-resource ASR using bilingual fine-tuning with language identification: a cross-linguistic evaluation
Jun 16, 2026Reihaneh Amooie, Yun Hao, Wietse de Vries +3Fine-Tuning Language Identification
University of Groningen · Fryske Akademy · Vrije Universiteit Brussel
ArtNet: A JEPA-Like Articulatory Predictive Framework for Robust Zero-Shot Phoneme Recognition
Jun 15, 2026Zeqian Hu, Fuliang Weng, Shu Shang +1Zero-Shot Learning Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture
Fudan University, China · Pedawise, Shanghai, China
Beyond English: Uncovering the Multilingual Gap in Vision-Language-Action Models
Jun 14, 2026Hanyang Chen, Hongliang Li, Jiarui Cao +6Cross-Lingual Representation Alignment Instruction Following
Beijing Jiaotong University

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Which Languages Transfer Best to Warlpiri? A Similarity-Based Study for Low-Resource ASR

Pravina Mylvaganam, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Ting Dang, Vidhyasaharan Sethu+1

University of New South Wales, Australia · University of Melbourne, Australia · University of Sydney, Australia

Low-Resource Language Processing Low-Resource Speech Recognition Cross-Lingual Transfer Multilingual ASR

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This paper investigates how language similarity can improve cross-lingual transfer for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in extremely low-resource settings. Warlpiri, an Australian Aboriginal language, has very limited transcribed speech data, making transfer learning essential. We propose a framework combining acoustic similarity from pre-trained speech models with linguistic similarity based on typology, phoneme inventories, grammatical, and syntactic features to rank high-resource source languages and evaluate their effectiveness for ASR transfer to Warlpiri. Experiments with Whisper show that acoustically and typologically similar languages outperform monolingual and multilingual baselines. Assamese and Hindi achieve substantial reductions in word and character error rates. Correlation analysis further indicates that acoustic similarity is the strongest predictor of fine-tuning performance, while phoneme inventory and typological similarity better explain zero-shot transfer.