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Francois Meyer

University of Cape Town

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RunyaNER: Auxiliary Language Selection for Runyankore NER

Cross-lingual zero-shot transfer and multilingual fine-tuning are promising approaches for NLP tasks such as Named Entity Recognition (NER) in low-resource languages, but in the absence of target language benchmarks, it is unclear which auxiliary language selection strategy leads to the best transfer. We introduce Runy...

Prosper Arineitwe Asiimwe, Francois Meyer, Jan Buys · 0 citations

Preprint Aug 2026

The Geometry of Low-Resource Language Representations

It is established that the representational geometry of low- and high-resource languages in LLMs is measurably distinct, and that targeted geometric intervention is a viable strategy for improving CPT for low-resource languages.

Francois Meyer, Jan Buys · 0 citations