为低资源语言设计评估框架,揭示大模型在语法和翻译上的短板。
LLM Probe: Evaluating LLMs for Low-Resource Languages
- 基于词典构建评估框架,分四类任务测试语言理解能力。
- 序列到序列模型在句法分析和翻译上表现更好,因果模型在词汇对齐上更强。
- 开源数据集与工具,助力多语言模型公平评估与改进。
尽管大语言模型(LLMs)发展迅速,但其在低资源、形态丰富的语言中的语言能力仍不清晰,主要受限于标注资源匮乏及缺乏标准化评估框架。本文提出 LLM Probe,一个基于词典的评估框架,系统性地评估 LLM 在低资源语言环境中的语言技能。框架涵盖四类语言理解任务:词汇对齐、词性识别、形态句法探测和翻译准确率。以一种低资源闪米特语为案例,构建了人工标注的双语词典数据集,包含词性标签、语法性别和形态句法特征,具备高标注一致性。测试多种模型,包括因果语言模型与序列到序列架构。结果表明:序列到序列模型在形态句法分析和翻译质量上普遍更优,而因果模型在词汇对齐上表现突出,但在翻译准确性上较弱。研究强调需采用语言学驱动的评估方式,以更准确理解模型在低资源场景下的局限。我们开源了 LLM Probe 及配套基准数据集,支持可复现的评测与更具包容性的多语言技术发展。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Despite rapid advances in large language models (LLMs), their linguistic abilities in low-resource and morphologically rich languages are still not well understood due to limited annotated resources and the absence of standardized evaluation frameworks. This paper presents LLM Probe, a lexicon-based assessment framework designed to systematically evaluate the linguistic skills of LLMs in low-resource language environments. The framework analyzes models across four areas of language understanding: lexical alignment, part-of-speech recognition, morphosyntactic probing, and translation accuracy. To illustrate the framework, we create a manually annotated benchmark dataset using a low-resource Semitic language as a case study. The dataset comprises bilingual lexicons with linguistic annotations, including part-of-speech tags, grammatical gender, and morphosyntactic features, which demonstrate high inter-annotator agreement to ensure reliable annotations. We test a variety of models, including causal language models and sequence-to-sequence architectures. The results reveal notable differences in performance across various linguistic tasks: sequence-to-sequence models generally excel in morphosyntactic analysis and translation quality, whereas causal models demonstrate strong performance in lexical alignment but exhibit weaker translation accuracy. Our results emphasize the need for linguistically grounded evaluation to better understand LLM limitations in low-resource settings. We release LLM Probe and the accompanying benchmark dataset as open-source tools to promote reproducible benchmarking and to support the development of more inclusive multilingual language technologies.
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