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A Multi-lingual Multi-task Architecture for Low-resource Sequence Labeling

1 Jul 2018ACL 2018 7archive 2025-07-28

Ying Lin, Shengqi Yang, Veselin Stoyanov, Heng Ji

We propose a multi-lingual multi-task architecture to develop supervised models with a minimal amount of labeled data for sequence labeling. In this new architecture, we combine various transfer models using two layers of parameter sharing. On the first layer, we construct the basis of the architecture to provide universal word representation and feature extraction capability for all models. On the second level, we adopt different parameter sharing strategies for different transfer schemes. This architecture proves to be particularly effective for low-resource settings, when there are less than 200 training sentences for the target task. Using Name Tagging as a target task, our approach achieved 4.3{\%}-50.5{\%} absolute F-score gains compared to the mono-lingual single-task baseline model.

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Abstractive Text SummarizationMachine TranslationMulti-Task LearningPart-Of-Speech TaggingText SummarizationTransfer Learning

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