Cross-Lingual Dependency Parsing with Late Decoding for Truly Low-Resource Languages

Michael Schlichtkrull, Anders Søgaard


Abstract
In cross-lingual dependency annotation projection, information is often lost during transfer because of early decoding. We present an end-to-end graph-based neural network dependency parser that can be trained to reproduce matrices of edge scores, which can be directly projected across word alignments. We show that our approach to cross-lingual dependency parsing is not only simpler, but also achieves an absolute improvement of 2.25% averaged across 10 languages compared to the previous state of the art.
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E17-1021
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Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers
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April
Year:
2017
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Valencia, Spain
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Mirella Lapata, Phil Blunsom, Alexander Koller
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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220–229
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https://aclanthology.org/E17-1021
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Michael Schlichtkrull and Anders Søgaard. 2017. Cross-Lingual Dependency Parsing with Late Decoding for Truly Low-Resource Languages. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers, pages 220–229, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Cross-Lingual Dependency Parsing with Late Decoding for Truly Low-Resource Languages (Schlichtkrull & Søgaard, EACL 2017)
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Code
 MichSchli/Tensor-LSTM