The NYU-CUBoulder Systems for SIGMORPHON 2020 Task 0 and Task 2

Assaf Singer, Katharina Kann


Abstract
We describe the NYU-CUBoulder systems for the SIGMORPHON 2020 Task 0 on typologically diverse morphological inflection and Task 2 on unsupervised morphological paradigm completion. The former consists of generating morphological inflections from a lemma and a set of morphosyntactic features describing the target form. The latter requires generating entire paradigms for a set of given lemmas from raw text alone. We model morphological inflection as a sequence-to-sequence problem, where the input is the sequence of the lemma’s characters with morphological tags, and the output is the sequence of the inflected form’s characters. First, we apply a transformer model to the task. Second, as inflected forms share most characters with the lemma, we further propose a pointer-generator transformer model to allow easy copying of input characters.
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2020.sigmorphon-1.8
Volume:
Proceedings of the 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
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July
Year:
2020
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Online
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Garrett Nicolai, Kyle Gorman, Ryan Cotterell
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SIGMORPHON
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SIGMORPHON
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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90–98
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigmorphon-1.8
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.sigmorphon-1.8
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Assaf Singer and Katharina Kann. 2020. The NYU-CUBoulder Systems for SIGMORPHON 2020 Task 0 and Task 2. In Proceedings of the 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pages 90–98, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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