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Polyglot Contextual Representations Improve Crosslingual Transfer

26 Feb 2019NAACL 2019 6arXiv:1902.09697archive 2025-07-28

Phoebe Mulcaire, Jungo Kasai, Noah A. Smith

We introduce Rosita, a method to produce multilingual contextual word representations by training a single language model on text from multiple languages. Our method combines the advantages of contextual word representations with those of multilingual representation learning. We produce language models from dissimilar language pairs (English/Arabic and English/Chinese) and use them in dependency parsing, semantic role labeling, and named entity recognition, with comparisons to monolingual and non-contextual variants. Our results provide further evidence for the benefits of polyglot learning, in which representations are shared across multiple languages.

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Dependency ParsingLanguage ModelingLanguage ModellingNamed Entity RecognitionNamed Entity Recognition (NER)Representation LearningSemantic Role Labelingnamed-entity-recognition

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