Resume
Academic Achievements
- - Publications:
- - Enhancing Small Language Models for Cross-Lingual Generalized Zero-Shot Classification with Soft Prompt Tuning
- - LuxEmbedder: A Cross-Lingual Approach to Enhanced Luxembourgish Sentence Embeddings
- - Forget NLI, Use a Dictionary: Zero-Shot Topic Classification for Low-Resource Languages with Application to Luxembourgish
- - Soft Prompt Tuning for Cross-Lingual Transfer: When Less is More
- - Towards a Common Understanding of Contributing Factors for Cross-Lingual Transfer in Multilingual Language Models: A Review
- - Identifying the Correlation Between Language Distance and Cross-Lingual Transfer in a Multilingual Representation Space
- - Conference Presentations:
- - SnT Partnership Day
- - 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025)
- - UniDive 3rd General Meeting
- - The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025)
- - 4th International Conference 'Language in the Human-Machine Era'
- - European Language Data Space (LDS) Country Workshop
- - Elements of AI: Closing Conference
Research Experience
- - Work Experience: SnT, University of Luxembourg
- - Research Projects: Multilingual language models and cross-lingual NLP
- - Position: PhD Candidate
Education
- - Degree: PhD Candidate
- - School: University of Luxembourg
- - Advisor: Not explicitly mentioned
- - Time: Not explicitly mentioned
- - Major: Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Background
- - Research Interests: Multilingual language models and cross-lingual NLP, with a focus on low-resource languages and parameter-efficient methods
- - Professional Field: Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- - Introduction: I'm Fred, a PhD candidate at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg.