Francois Meyer

According to our database, Francois Meyer authored at least 16 papers between 2018 and 2026.

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2026

MzansiText and MzansiLM: An Open Corpus and Decoder-Only Language Model for South African Languages.

Anri Lombard, Simbarashe Mawere, Temi Aina, Ethan Wolff, Sbonelo Gumede, Elan Novick, Francois Meyer, Jan Buys

CoRR, March, 2026

BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data.

Jaap Jumelet, Abdellah Fourtassi, Akari Haga, Bastian Bunzeck, Bhargav Shandilya, Diana Galván-Sosa, Faiz Ghifari Haznitrama, Francesca Padovani, Francois Meyer, Hai Hu, Julen Etxaniz, Laurent Prévot, Linyang He, María Grandury, Mila Marcheva, Negar Foroutan, Nikitas Theodoropoulos, Pouya Sadeghi, Siyuan Song, Suchir Salhan, Susana Zhou, Yurii Paniv, Ziyin Zhang, Arianna Bisazza, Alex Warstadt, Leshem Choshen

Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026

2025

Neural Morphological Tagging for Nguni Languages.

Cael Marquard, Simbarashe Mawere, Francois Meyer

CoRR, May, 2025

Designing and Contextualising Probes for African Languages.

Wisdom Aduah, Francois Meyer

CoRR, May, 2025

The Learning Dynamics of Subword Segmentation for Morphologically Diverse Languages.

Francois Meyer, Jan Buys

Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025

BabyLMs for isiXhosa: Data-Efficient Language Modelling in a Low-Resource Context.

Alexis Matzopoulos, Charl Hendriks, Hishaam Mahomed, Francois Meyer

Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2025

2024

A Systematic Analysis of Subwords and Cross-Lingual Transfer in Multilingual Translation.

Francois Meyer, Jan Buys

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024, 2024

SubMerge: Merging Equivalent Subword Tokenizations for Subword Regularized Models in Neural Machine Translation.

Haiyue Song, Francois Meyer, Raj Dabre, Hideki Tanaka, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi

Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 1), 2024

NGLUEni: Benchmarking and Adapting Pretrained Language Models for Nguni Languages.

Francois Meyer, Haiyue Song, Abhisek Chakrabarty, Jan Buys, Raj Dabre, Hideki Tanaka

Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

Triples-to-isiXhosa (T2X): Addressing the Challenges of Low-Resource Agglutinative Data-to-Text Generation.

Francois Meyer, Jan Buys

Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

2023

Subword Segmental Machine Translation: Unifying Segmentation and Target Sentence Generation.

Francois Meyer, Jan Buys

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023

2022

University of Cape Town's WMT22 System: Multilingual Machine Translation for Southern African Languages.

Khalid N. Elmadani, Francois Meyer, Jan Buys

Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation, 2022

Subword Segmental Language Modelling for Nguni Languages.

Francois Meyer, Jan Buys

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 2022

2021

Challenging distributional models with a conceptual network of philosophical terms.

Yvette Oortwijn, Jelke Bloem, Pia Sommerauer, Francois Meyer, Wei Zhou, Antske Fokkens

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2021

2020

Modelling Lexical Ambiguity with Density Matrices.

Francois Meyer, Martha Lewis

Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2020

2018

Learning Concept Embeddings from Temporal Data.

Francois Meyer, Brink van der Merwe, Dirko Coetsee

J. Univers. Comput. Sci., 2018