Data Augmentation via Dependency Tree Morphing for Low-Resource Languages (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Lack of sizable training datasets leads to poor performance in low-resource languages. |
| Approach: | They propose two techniques to augment training sets of low-resource languages using dependency trees. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods improve on the training datasets for low-resource languages. |
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