Vitalii Hirak
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v-hirak.bsky.social
Vitalii Hirak
@v-hirak.bsky.social
PhD student in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval at University at Düsseldorf. Working in the EmergentIR project at GESIS Cologne.
Our paper has been accepted to #EACL2026 main conference!

Together with @jumelet.bsky.social and @arianna-bis.bsky.social, we study the effect of target language typology on the difficulty of state-of-the-art neural machine translation.

arXiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2602.03551

1/6 Our findings ⬇️
Assessing the Impact of Typological Features on Multilingual Machine Translation in the Age of Large Language Models
Despite major advances in multilingual modeling, large quality disparities persist across languages. Besides the obvious impact of uneven training resources, typological properties have also been prop...
arxiv.org
February 8, 2026 at 4:56 PM