Papers with language-specific grammars
Morphological Inflection with Phonological Features (2023.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in morphological tasks can be difficult to solve when little training data is available or when generalizing to previously unseen lemmas. |
| Approach: | They propose two methods to manipulate phonemic data to include phonological features instead of characters. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods yield comparable results to baseline models, with minor improvements in some languages. |
Minimally-Supervised Morphological Segmentation using Adaptor Grammars with Linguistic Priors (2021.findings-acl)
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Ramy Eskander, Cass Lowry, Sujay Khandagale, Francesca Callejas, Judith Klavans, Maria Polinsky, Smaranda Muresan
| Challenge: | Unsupervised morphological segmentation is an essential subtask in many natural language processing applications. |
| Approach: | They introduce two types of priors: grammar definition and linguist-provided affixes . they show that priors boost morphological segmentation performance in a minimally-supervised manner . |
| Outcome: | The proposed priors achieve 8.9% and 34.2% error reductions over the state-of-the-art unsupervised system. |