PPT-Extending Multilingual BERT to Low-Resource Languages

Zihan Wang University of California San Diego ziw224ucsdedu Content Task Crosslingual Zeroshot Transfer Our method Extend Experiments and ablation studies Related works Conclusion and future work. & . MULTILINGUALISM. Multilingualism & Bilingualism. Literally speaking, speaker of two languages is called bilingual whereas speaker of more than two languages is called multilingual.. Used interchangeably with bilingualism.. Africa. Moyra Sweetnam Evans, University of Otago, . New Zealand. Bonjour. Sanibonani. (Zulu, Swazi). Molweni (Xhosa). Dumelang (Sotho, Tswana). Avuxeni (Tsonga). Goeie . more (Afrikaans). Good morning (English). Robyn . Moloney. School of Education, Faculty of Human Sciences . 2. OFFICE I FACULTY I DEPARTMENT. Teaching: . a transnational globalized profession, . internationally . valuing . teachers with intercultural and multilingual skills. . JUSTUS C ROUX. IMS STUTTGART. 13.07.2015. OUTLINE. Concept Resource scarce languages. Overview of the language situation in South Africa. Lack of language resources and high level support for development of resources. Maria Mercedes “Ched” . Arzadon . University . of the . Philippines / 170+ Talaytayan MLE. ASIA EDUCATION SUMMIT ON FLEXIBLE LEARNING . STRATEGIES. FOR . OUT-OF-SCHOOL . CHILDREN. 24-26 February . Caroline Kerfoot and Christopher Stroud . Centre for Research on Bilingualism,. Stockholm University . Overview. situate UWC within the broader tertiary education landscape . argue for . enaggement. POLYGLOT. . CONFERENCE . 29 . and . 30. October 2016. thessaloniki. Rodolfo . Maslias. The . European Union . is. . the. . largest. . union. . of. States . with. a . common. . system. . of. . Gordon Dunsire. Independent Consultant; Chair of IFLA Namespaces Technical Group. Presented at W3C Multilingual Web Workshop, Rome, 12-13 March 2013. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) maintains global standards for the library/bibliographic environment:. Author: Georges . Ludi. Multilingualism. Normality . and . values assigned . Traditional . View Holistic View . “If it were possible for a child to live in two languages equally well, so much the worse. His intellectual and spiritual growth would not be doubled, but halved. Unity of mind and character would have great difficulty in asserting itself in such circumstances (1980) Professor from Cambridge).” . A West African pilot study*. G. Tucker Childs. Portland State University, Portland, OR (USA). childst@pdx.edu.  . Mimetics in Japanese and other languages of the world. NINJAL Symposium 16, Tokyo. 17-18 Dec 2016. Introduction: Current Work. Development . of small but growing multilingual collection in the school library.. Research . into importance of home language resources in school and community libraries to support bi-literacy and family reading.. Multilingualism: . The personal, social and school perspectives. Astana, 2016. Elite . Olshtain. A multilingual dinner conversation. www.freepik.com. Hebrew. English. Yiddish. Hebrew. French. German. ): . African Language Studies (ALS). Ms B. Nosilela (. b.nosilela@ru.ac.za. ). Professor Russell H Kaschula (NRF . SARChI. Chair). . Prides itself as a leading School in the teaching, learning and research in both local and international languages. Plurilingual. Didactics. Unit 1: Language . learning at home and in school: Different concepts. Introduction. This unit introduces different concepts on language learning: How are languages learned in an informal way at home and what are the differences to learning languages at an older age. There are also many different approaches of speaking two or more languages at home depending on the skills and languages of the parents and the aims they might have. .