Maltese has substantial text corpora and pretrained language models, but paragraph-scale OCR training data remains scarce; NOMOCRAT provides 57 verified annotated pages. LV-ROVER-MLT combines synthetic fine-tuning of Tesseract~5 with five complementary recognition streams and lexicon-gated word-level arbitration adapted to Maltese diacritics and hyphenation. In the DocEng~2026 Maltese OCR competition, the system placed first with held-out CER 0.0074; the next-ranked submission scored 0.0161 and NOMOCRAT scored 0.0163. The same approach produced a significant improvement over stock Tesseract on Luxembourgish, while the Hungarian result was inconclusive. A 36,803-pair Maltese OCR corpus constructed from EUR-Lex and Wikipedia provides an additional paragraph-level resource. Code, model weights, and corpus data are public.
Extremely low-resource machine translation poses a difficult cross-lingual adaptation problem: improving target-language performance while preserving capabilities acquired through multilingual pretraining. This study compares three mathematically distinct parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods—LoRA, DoRA, and o...
Fragment-Shot Prompting is introduced, a novel few-shot prompting method that aims to retrieve examples for every word occurring in the sentence to be translated, illustrating their use and meaning in context.
Samuel Frontull, Thomas Ströhle· International Conference on...· 0 citations
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