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One Threshold Does Not Fit All Languages: Language-Conditional Deferral for Reliable and Efficient Low-Resource Text Classification
In the Global South, the lower-income countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America where most of the world's languages are spoken, a deployed text classifier usually runs on ordinary CPUs, serves many languages with a single model, has few labeled examples in any of them, and relies on people to catch its mistakes. Suc …