Wisdom in Unity: The Role of Multilingual Training in Figurative Language Identification in Proverbs

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arXiv:2608.08090v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although multilingual approaches to figurative language identification are not new, the shift beyond language-homogeneous training data requires a clearer understanding of the contribution of translated multilingual supervision. We examine this question using 742 proverb concepts across 6,787 translated instances for seven languages. We evaluate five models including multilingual encoders and instruction-tuned LLMs through progressively increas