Niyati Bafna
Scholar

Niyati Bafna

Google Scholar ID: 22sfVrEAAAAJ
Johns Hopkins University, Center for Language and Speech Processing
Low-resource NLPLarge Language ModellingMachine TranslationBilingual Lexicon Induction
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
41
 
H-index
4
 
i10-index
1
 
Publications
17
 
Co-authors
8
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published multiple papers in top-tier conferences including ACL, EMNLP, Interspeech, COLING, LREC, CoNLL, SIGMORPHON, etc.
  • Notable papers: 'The Translation Barrier Hypothesis: Multilingual Generation with Large Language Models Suffers from Implicit Translation Failure'
  • 'LID Models are Actually Accent Classifiers: Implications and Solutions for LID on Accented Speech' (Interspeech 2025)
  • 'DialUp! Modeling the Language Continuum by Adapting Models to Dialects and Dialects to Models' (ACL 2025)
  • 'Evaluating Large Language Models along Dimensions of Language Variation' (EMNLP 2024)
  • 'Pointer-Generator Networks for Low-Resource Machine Translation: Don’t Copy That!' (2024)
  • 'When Your Cousin Has the Right Connections: Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction for Related Data-Imbalanced Languages' (LREC-COLING 2024)
  • 'Cross-Lingual Strategies for Low-Resource Language Modeling: A Study on Five Indic Dialects' (TALN 2023)
  • 'Combining Noisy Semantic Signals with Orthographic Cues: Cognate Induction for the Indic Dialect Continuum' (CoNLL 2022)
  • 'Subword-based Cross-lingual Transfer of Embeddings from Hindi to Marathi and Nepali' (SIGMORPHON 2022)
  • 'Clause Final Verb Prediction in Hindi: Evidence for Noisy Channel Model of Communication' (CMCL 2021)