On Difficulties of Cross-Lingual Transfer with Order Differences: A Case Study on Dependency Parsing (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on crosslingual transfer have focused on word-level information sharing, but words are not independent in sentences; their combinations form larger linguistic units, known as context. |
| Approach: | They propose to use orderagnostic models to transfer word order to distant languages . they train dependency parsers on an English corpus and evaluate their transfer performance on 30 other languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs better on languages with different word orders than on other languages. |
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