Blaise Cruz

Mabuhay! 👋

I’m a researcher at Samsung Research Philippines where I specialize in problems at the intersection of Multilinguality and Low-resource Languages.

Particularly, I am interested in understanding the behavior of models when constrained under low-resource multilingual domains. I’ve collaborated with many talented colleagues on various topics under this umbrella, including:

• Code Switching – Multilingual speakers naturally code-switch in two or more languages when speaking to peers, but multilingual models are still lacking in capabilities to understand and execute this phenomenon.
• Resources & Evaluation – More data is often the best remedy to “very little data”. In addition to working on 🇵🇭 Filipino resources, I have also done work for Southeast Asian Languages and beyond.
• Applications in Low-resource – Employing creative techniques to improve performance in tasks such as Multilingual Translation, Question Generation, Fake News Detection, and more – all constrained under low-resource settings.

Previously, I’ve also been affiliated with UP Diliman, DLSU CeLT, and Senti AI.

If you’re interested in collaborating or if you want to chat about low-resource languages, feel free to get in touch! You may reach me through my email me (at) blaisecruz (dot) com.