RunyaNER: Auxiliary Language Selection for Runyankore NER

arXiv:2609.37543 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Code: https://github.com/SunbirdAI/salt-data-archive

Terminology

• Fine-Tuning — 26× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Zero-Shot Transfer — 14× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 13× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cross-lingual Transfer — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sliced Wasserstein Distance — 5× in this paper
• Wasserstein Distance — 5× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing — 4× in this paper
• Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Named Entity Recognition — 3× in this paper
• Annotator Agreement — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Human-in-the-Loop — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multilingual Parallel Text Corpora — 2× in this paper
• Representation Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transfer Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• F1 Score — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Low-Resource Languages — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Model-Agnostic — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Sunbird African Language Technology — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Decoupled Weight Decay Regularization
• Distributional Sliced-Wasserstein and Applications to Generative Modeling

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