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Register a new userA systematic comparison of methods for low-resource dependency parsing on genuinely low-resource languages
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Clara Vania
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2019
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Informatics Engineering
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Parsers are available for only a handful of the worlds languages, since they require lots of training data. How far can we get with just a small amount of training data? We systematically compare a set of simple strategies for improving low-resource parsers: data augmentation, which has not been tested before; cross-lingual training; and transliteration. Experimenting on three typologically diverse low-resource languages---North Sami, Galician, and Kazah---We find that (1) when only the low-resource treebank is available, data augmentation is very helpful; (2) when a related high-resource treebank is available, cross-lingual training is helpful and complements data augmentation; and (3) when the high-resource treebank uses a different writing system, transliteration into a shared orthographic spaces is also very helpful.
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