Two Methods for Domain Adaptation of Bilingual Tasks: Delightfully Simple and Broadly Applicable

Viktor Hangya, Fabienne Braune, Alexander Fraser, Hinrich Schütze


Abstract
Bilingual tasks, such as bilingual lexicon induction and cross-lingual classification, are crucial for overcoming data sparsity in the target language. Resources required for such tasks are often out-of-domain, thus domain adaptation is an important problem here. We make two contributions. First, we test a delightfully simple method for domain adaptation of bilingual word embeddings. We evaluate these embeddings on two bilingual tasks involving different domains: cross-lingual twitter sentiment classification and medical bilingual lexicon induction. Second, we tailor a broadly applicable semi-supervised classification method from computer vision to these tasks. We show that this method also helps in low-resource setups. Using both methods together we achieve large improvements over our baselines, by using only additional unlabeled data.
Anthology ID:
P18-1075
Volume:
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
July
Year:
2018
Address:
Melbourne, Australia
Editors:
Iryna Gurevych, Yusuke Miyao
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
810–820
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-1075
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P18-1075
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Viktor Hangya, Fabienne Braune, Alexander Fraser, and Hinrich Schütze. 2018. Two Methods for Domain Adaptation of Bilingual Tasks: Delightfully Simple and Broadly Applicable. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 810–820, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Two Methods for Domain Adaptation of Bilingual Tasks: Delightfully Simple and Broadly Applicable (Hangya et al., ACL 2018)
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 hangyav/biadapt