| Challenge: | morphological inflection models typically employ language-independent data splitting algorithms. |
| Approach: | They propose language-specific probes to test aspects of morphological generalization . they use three morphology-distinct languages to test their generalization abilities . |
| Outcome: | The proposed language-specific probes are used to test morphological generalization abilities on three distinct languages. |
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