Multilingual and Cross-Linguistic Challenges in NLP
摘要
Natural Language Processing (NLP) has achieved remarkable progress in recent years, with models like BERT, GPT, and others pushing the boundaries of language understanding. However, most advancements have been centered on high-resource languages like English, leaving a significant portion of the world’s linguistic diversity underserved. The multilingual and cross-linguistic dimensions of NLP present unique challenges that arise from the vast differences in language structures, data availability, and cultural nuances. This chapter delves into these challenges, exploring issues related to syntactic and morphological diversity, data scarcity for low-resource languages, cross-lingual transfer learning, and the difficulties in evaluating Hindi and Bangla multilingual NLP systems. Through an in-depth examination of these challenges, we aim to shed light on the limitations of current technologies and propose future directions for building more inclusive and equitable NLP models. Addressing these challenges is crucial for expanding the reach of NLP technologies to support global linguistic diversity and foster more accurate, culturally aware language technologies.