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Tamil language models get morphology-aware enhancement for better translation

Researchers have developed a novel morphology-aware system for Tamil language models, enhancing translation capabilities. This system integrates the ThamizhiMorph analyzer and generator with a byte-exact semantic tokenizer and a learned hierarchical word composer. The approach analyzes words into lemmas and grammatical features, preserving exact reconstruction through character and byte fallbacks. Evaluations show that this morphology-based tokenization improves translation quality and significantly reduces sequence length and estimated inference costs compared to existing baselines like AI4Bharat IndicBERTv2. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more efficient and accurate machine translation for morphologically rich languages like Tamil.

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Tamil language models get morphology-aware enhancement for better translation

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Anand Murugan ·

    Morphology Aware Reversible Semantic Tokenization and Hierarchical Word Composition for Tamil Language Models

    arXiv:2608.01153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Statistical subword tokenizers can process arbitrary text, but their units need not align with lexical or grammatical structure. This is especially important for Tamil, where a written word may encode stem changes, case, number, ten…