Fortification of Neural Morphological Segmentation Models for Polysynthetic Minimal-Resource Languages (N18-1)
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| Challenge: | Morphological segmentation for polysynthetic languages is challenging because of limited training data. |
| Approach: | They propose two new multi-task training approaches that improve performance for Mexican polysynthetic languages . they also propose cross-lingual transfer as a third way to fortify their neural model . |
| Outcome: | The proposed models improve on Mexicanero, Nahuatl, Wixarika and Yorem Nokki . the proposed models reduce the amount of parameters by close to 75% . |
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