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A Representation Learning Framework for Multi-Source Transfer Parsing

5 Mar 2016archive 2025-07-28

Jiang Guo, Wanxiang Che, David Yarowsky, Haifeng Wang, Ting Liu

Cross-lingual model transfer has been a promising approach for inducing dependency parsers for low-resource languages where annotated treebanks are not available. The major obstacles for the model transfer approach are two-fold: 1. Lexical features are not directly transferable across languages; 2. Target language-specific syntactic structures are difficult to be recovered. To address these two challenges, we present a novel representation learning framework for multi-source transfer parsing. Our framework allows multi-source transfer parsing using full lexical features straightforwardly. By evaluating on the Google universal dependency treebanks (v2.0), our best models yield an absolute improvement of 6.53% in averaged labeled attachment score, as compared with delexicalized multi-source transfer models. We also significantly outperform the state-of-the-art transfer system proposed most recently.

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Cross-lingual zero-shot dependency parsingRepresentation Learning

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Cross-lingual zero-shot dependency parsing Universal Dependency Treebank MULTI-PROJ LAS 69.3 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
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