Few-Shot and Zero-Shot Learning for Historical Text Normalization

Autor: Anders Søgaard, Natalia Korchagina, Marcel Bollmann
Přispěvatelé: University of Zurich
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: DeepLo@EMNLP-IJCNLP
Bollmann, M, Korchagina, N & Søgaard, A 2019, Few-Shot and Zero-Shot Learning for Historical Text Normalization . in Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource NLP (DeepLo 2019) . Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 104-114, 2nd Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource NLP (DeepLo), Hong Kong, China, 03/11/2019 . https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D19-6112
DOI: 10.18653/v1/d19-6112
Popis: Historical text normalization often relies on small training datasets. Recent work has shown that multi-task learning can lead to significant improvements by exploiting synergies with related datasets, but there has been no systematic study of different multi-task learning architectures. This paper evaluates 63~multi-task learning configurations for sequence-to-sequence-based historical text normalization across ten datasets from eight languages, using autoencoding, grapheme-to-phoneme mapping, and lemmatization as auxiliary tasks. We observe consistent, significant improvements across languages when training data for the target task is limited, but minimal or no improvements when training data is abundant. We also show that zero-shot learning outperforms the simple, but relatively strong, identity baseline.
Comment: Accepted at DeepLo-2019
Databáze: OpenAIRE