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Register a new userUnderstanding Cross-Lingual Syntactic Transfer in Multilingual Recurrent Neural Networks
فهم التحويل النحوي عبر اللغات في الشبكات العصبية المتكررة متعددة اللغات
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تم الآن إنشاء أن نماذج اللغة العصبية الحديثة يمكن تدريبها بنجاح على لغات متعددة في وقت واحد دون تغييرات على الهندسة المعمارية الأساسية، وتوفير طريقة سهلة لتكييف مجموعة متنوعة من نماذج NLP لغات الموارد المنخفضة.ولكن ما نوع المعرفة المشتركة حقا بين اللغات داخل هذه النماذج؟هل يؤدي التدريب المتعدد اللغات في الغالب إلى محاذاة مساحات التمثيل المعجمية أو هل تمكن أيضا تقاسم المعرفة النحوية بحتة؟في هذه الورقة، نشرج أشكال مختلفة من التحويل المتبادل والبحث عن عواملها الأكثر تحديدا، باستخدام مجموعة متنوعة من النماذج والمهام التحقيق.نجد أن تعريض LMS لدينا بلغة ذات صلة لا تؤدي دائما إلى زيادة المعرفة النحوية في اللغة المستهدفة، وأن الظروف المثلى للنقل الدلالي المعجمي قد لا تكون الأمثل للتحويل النحوي.
It is now established that modern neural language models can be successfully trained on multiple languages simultaneously without changes to the underlying architecture, providing an easy way to adapt a variety of NLP models to low-resource languages. But what kind of knowledge is really shared among languages within these models? Does multilingual training mostly lead to an alignment of the lexical representation spaces or does it also enable the sharing of purely grammatical knowledge? In this paper we dissect different forms of cross-lingual transfer and look for its most determining factors, using a variety of models and probing tasks. We find that exposing our LMs to a related language does not always increase grammatical knowledge in the target language, and that optimal conditions for lexical-semantic transfer may not be optimal for syntactic transfer.
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