Constituency Parsing by Cross-Lingual Delexicalization

Autor: Hour Kaing, Chenchen Ding, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Katsuhito Sudoh, Satoshi Nakamura
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 9, Pp 141571-141578 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3120382
Popis: Cross-lingual transfer is an important technique for low-resource language processing. Temporarily, most research on syntactic parsing works on the dependency structures. This work investigates cross-lingual parsing on another type of important syntactic structure, i.e., the constituency structure. We propose a delexicalized approach, where part-of-speech sequences of rich-resource languages are used to train cross-lingual models to parse low-resource languages. We also investigate the measurements on the selection of proper rich-resource languages for specific low-resource languages. The experiments show that the delexicalized approach outperforms state-of-the-art unsupervised models on six languages by a margin of 4.2 to 37.0 of sentence-level F1-score. Based on the experiment results, the limitation and future work of the delexicalized approach are discussed.
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