Are Neural Networks Extracting Linguistic Properties or Memorizing Training Data? An Observation with a Multilingual Probe for Predicting Tense (2021.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | a recent study has shown that neural networks can learn from linguistic representations without supervision . many studies have tried to identify which linguistic properties are encoded in the embeddings . |
| Approach: | They evaluate the ability of Bert embeddings to represent tense information . they use a multilingual linguistic probe to predict the morphology of a word . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can predict tenses in French and Chinese, but the results drop sharply for Chinese. |
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