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نقدم الدخول الفائز إلى مهمة مشتركة من التطبيع المعجمي متعدد اللغات (Multilexnorm) في W-Nut 2021 (Van Der Goot et al.، 2021A)، والتي تقيم أنظمة التطبيع المعجمي في 12 مجموعة بيانات وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي في 11 لغة.نقوم بتأسيس حلنا على نموذج لغة بايت مدروس مسبقا، BYT5 (Xue et al.، 2021A)، والتي ندرجها مسبقا على البيانات الاصطناعية ثم تناغم بشكل جيد على بيانات التطبيع الأصيل.يحقق نظامنا أفضل أداء بهامش واسع في التقييم الجوهري، وأيضا أفضل أداء في التقييم الخارجي من خلال تحليل التبعية.يتم إصدار شفرة المصدر في https://github.com/ufal/multilexnorm2021 والنماذج الدقيقة في https://huggingface.co/ufal.
We present the winning entry to the Multilingual Lexical Normalization (MultiLexNorm) shared task at W-NUT 2021 (van der Goot et al., 2021a), which evaluates lexical-normalization systems on 12 social media datasets in 11 languages. We base our solution on a pre-trained byte-level language model, ByT5 (Xue et al., 2021a), which we further pre-train on synthetic data and then fine-tune on authentic normalization data. Our system achieves the best performance by a wide margin in intrinsic evaluation, and also the best performance in extrinsic evaluation through dependency parsing. The source code is released at https://github.com/ufal/multilexnorm2021 and the fine-tuned models at https://huggingface.co/ufal.
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Lexical normalization is the task of transforming an utterance into its standardized form. This task is beneficial for downstream analysis, as it provides a way to harmonize (often spontaneous) linguistic variation. Such variation is typical for soci
al media on which information is shared in a multitude of ways, including diverse languages and code-switching. Since the seminal work of Han and Baldwin (2011) a decade ago, lexical normalization has attracted attention in English and multiple other languages. However, there exists a lack of a common benchmark for comparison of systems across languages with a homogeneous data and evaluation setup. The MultiLexNorm shared task sets out to fill this gap. We provide the largest publicly available multilingual lexical normalization benchmark including 13 language variants. We propose a homogenized evaluation setup with both intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation. As extrinsic evaluation, we use dependency parsing and part-of-speech tagging with adapted evaluation metrics (a-LAS, a-UAS, and a-POS) to account for alignment discrepancies. The shared task hosted at W-NUT 2021 attracted 9 participants and 18 submissions. The results show that neural normalization systems outperform the previous state-of-the-art system by a large margin. Downstream parsing and part-of-speech tagging performance is positively affected but to varying degrees, with improvements of up to 1.72 a-LAS, 0.85 a-UAS, and 1.54 a-POS for the winning system.
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