| Challenge: | Existing work on bridging the performance gap between high- and low-resource languages has only found minor benefits from using typological information. |
| Approach: | They propose to use typological features to train models in a cross-lingual setting to learn latent weights between languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model overshadows the utility of explicitly using typological features by ignoring them, and shows that encouraging sharing according to typology improves performance. |
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