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| Title | Measuring the Divergence of Dependency Structures Cross-Linguistically to Improve Syntactic Projection Algorithms |
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| Authors | Ryan Georgi, Fei Xia and William Lewis |
| Abstract | Syntactic parses can provide valuable information for many NLP tasks, such as machine translation, semantic analysis, etc. However, most of the world's languages do not have large amounts of syntactically annotated corpora available for building parsers. Syntactic projection techniques attempt to address this issue by using parallel corpora between resource-poor and resource-rich languages, bootstrapping the resource-poor language with the syntactic analysis of the resource-rich language. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of using small, parallel, annotated corpora to automatically detect divergent structural patterns between two languages. These patterns can then be used to improve structural projection algorithms, allowing for better performing NLP tools for resource-poor languages, in particular those that may not have large amounts of annotated data necessary for traditional, fully-supervised methods. While this detection process is not exhaustive, we demonstrate that important instances of divergence are picked up with minimal prior knowledge of a given language pair. |
| Topics | Multilinguality, Grammar and Syntax, Endangered languages |
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Measuring the Divergence of Dependency Structures Cross-Linguistically to Improve Syntactic Projection Algorithms |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{GEORGI12.971, author = {Ryan Georgi and Fei Xia and William Lewis}, title = {Measuring the Divergence of Dependency Structures Cross-Linguistically to Improve Syntactic Projection Algorithms}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)}, year = {2012}, month = {may}, date = {23-25}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7}, language = {english} } |