Papers with cross-lingual methods
Neural Cross-Lingual Event Detection with Minimal Parallel Resources (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for event detection (ED) rely on high-performance machine translation systems or manually aligned documents to achieve a decent performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that uses context-dependent translation to construct a lexical mapping between different languages and a shared syntactic order event detector for multilingual co-training. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method performs cross-lingual transfer and tackles the extremely annotation-poor scenario. |
Cross-Lingual Text Classification with Minimal Resources by Transferring a Sparse Teacher (2020.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches for transferring supervision across languages require expensive cross-lingual resources. |
| Approach: | They propose a cross-lingual teacher-student method that generates "weak" supervision in a target language using minimal cross-linguistic resources. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods with a student classifier in 18 languages . it extracts and transfers only the most important task-specific seed words across languages based on translated seed words . |
Cross-lingual Transfer Learning for Multilingual Task Oriented Dialog (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | a lack of multilingual training data has hindered development of conversational AI models for task-oriented tasks . a new data set of 57k annotated utterances in english, spanish, and Thai is used to evaluate cross-lingual methods . |
| Approach: | They present a data set of 57k annotated utterances in English, Spanish and Thai . they evaluate three different cross-lingual transfer methods to identify user intents and slots . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing methods in English, Spanish and Thai . the proposed model is based on training data from three languages . |
DaNE: A Named Entity Resource for Danish (2020.lrec-1)
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Rasmus Hvingelby, Amalie Brogaard Pauli, Maria Barrett, Christina Rosted, Lasse Malm Lidegaard, Anders Søgaard
| Challenge: | a named entity annotation for the Danish Universal Dependencies treebank is the largest publicly available named entity gold annotation. |
| Approach: | They propose a named entity annotation for the Danish Universal Dependencies treebank using the CoNLL-2003 annotation scheme DaNE. |
| Outcome: | The proposed annotations improve Danish named entity recognition over a recent cross-lingual approach and over norwegian training set. |
Lemma Dilemma: On Lemma Generation Without Domain- or Language-Specific Training Data (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) can generate lemmas in context without prior fine-tuning. |
| Approach: | They compare in-context lemma generation with traditional fully supervised approaches . they use encoder-only supervised methods and cross-lingual methods . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the traditional fully supervised approach in the context of lemmatization tasks. |