Syntactic transfer using a bilingual lexicon

  • Authors:
  • Greg Durrett;Adam Pauls;Dan Klein

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We consider the problem of using a bilingual dictionary to transfer lexico-syntactic information from a resource-rich source language to a resource-poor target language. In contrast to past work that used bitexts to transfer analyses of specific sentences at the token level, we instead use features to transfer the behavior of words at a type level. In a discriminative dependency parsing framework, our approach produces gains across a range of target languages, using two different low-resource training methodologies (one weakly supervised and one indirectly supervised) and two different dictionary sources (one manually constructed and one automatically constructed).