Measuring the Value of Linguistics: A Case Study from St. Lawrence Island Yupik

Emily Chen


Abstract
The adaptation of neural approaches to NLP is a landmark achievement that has called into question the utility of linguistics in the development of computational systems. This research proposal consequently explores this question in the context of a neural morphological analyzer for a polysynthetic language, St. Lawrence Island Yupik. It asks whether incorporating elements of Yupik linguistics into the implementation of the analyzer can improve performance, both in low-resource settings and in high-resource settings, where rich quantities of data are readily available.
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P19-2004
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Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
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July
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
Editors:
Fernando Alva-Manchego, Eunsol Choi, Daniel Khashabi
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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27–33
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https://aclanthology.org/P19-2004
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-2004
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Emily Chen. 2019. Measuring the Value of Linguistics: A Case Study from St. Lawrence Island Yupik. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, pages 27–33, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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