Automatic Extraction of Rules Governing Morphological Agreement (2020.emnlp-main)
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Aditi Chaudhary, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Adithya Pratapa, David R. Mortensen, Zaid Sheikh, Yulia Tsvetkov, Graham Neubig
| Challenge: | Creating a descriptive grammar is an indispensable step for language documentation but it is tedious and time-consuming. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for extracting a first-pass grammatical specification from raw text in a concise, human- and machine-readable format. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework extracts a grammatical specification that is nearly equivalent to those created with large amounts of gold-standard annotated data. |
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