Sinhala-English word-embedding Alignment

This repository contains the resources related to our research on English-Sinhala word embedding alignment.

• alignment_matrices/ contains the alignment matrices obtained using different alignment techniques in different directions (i.e. Si --> En and En --> Si).
• all_data/ contains all the datasets we used for the supervised alignment. The datasets have been created using the large datasets provided in this repository.
• muse_content/ contains the scripts used for iterative Procrustes alignment which have been adopted from this repository by facebook-research.
• rcsls_content/ contains the scripts used for RCSLS alignment which have been adopted from the FastText repository by facebook-research.
• vecmap_content/ contains the scripts used for VecMap alignment which have been adopted from the VecMap repository.
• contrastive_bli_content/ contains the scripts used for ContranstiveBLI alignment which have been adopted from the ContranstiveBLI repository.

Results from the Paper

Alignment results obtained for Sinhala-English alignment according to the paper:

Comparison of Sinhala-English alignment with other language pairs according to the paper:

Next Work

Alignment results obtained for Sinhala-English alignment from further studies (publication is under review):

Publications

If you are willing to use this work, please be kind enough to cite the following papers.

Dataset paper:

@INPROCEEDINGS{10253560,
  author={Wickramasinghe, Kasun and De Silva, Nisansa},
  booktitle={2023 IEEE 17th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS)}, 
  title={Sinhala-English Parallel Word Dictionary Dataset}, 
  year={2023},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={61-66},
  keywords={Dictionaries;Annotations;Pipelines;Machine translation;Task analysis;Information systems;parallel corpus;alignment;English-Sinhala dictionary;word embedding alignment;lexicon induction},
  doi={10.1109/ICIIS58898.2023.10253560}}

Word Embedding Alignment paper:

@inproceedings{wickramasinghe-de-silva-2023-sinhala,
    title = "{S}inhala-{E}nglish Word Embedding Alignment: Introducing Datasets and Benchmark for a Low Resource Language",
    author = "Wickramasinghe, Kasun  and
      de Silva, Nisansa",
    editor = "Huang, Chu-Ren  and
      Harada, Yasunari  and
      Kim, Jong-Bok  and
      Chen, Si  and
      Hsu, Yu-Yin  and
      Chersoni, Emmanuele  and
      A, Pranav  and
      Zeng, Winnie Huiheng  and
      Peng, Bo  and
      Li, Yuxi  and
      Li, Junlin",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation",
    month = dec,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Hong Kong, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.paclic-1.42",
    pages = "424--435",
}