The SIGMORPHON 2022 Shared Task on Morpheme Segmentation
Abstract
The SIGMORPHON 2022 shared task on morpheme segmentation challenged systems to decompose a word into a sequence of morphemes and covered most types of morphology: compounds, derivations, and inflections. Subtask 1, word-level morpheme segmentation, covered 5 million words in 9 languages (Czech, English, Spanish, Hungarian, French, Italian, Russian, Latin, Mongolian) and received 13 system submissions from 7 teams and the best system averaged 97.29% F1 score across all languages, ranging English (93.84%) to Latin (99.38%). Subtask 2, sentence-level morpheme segmentation, covered 18,735 sentences in 3 languages (Czech, English, Mongolian), received 10 system submissions from 3 teams, and the best systems outperformed all three state-of-the-art subword tokenization methods (BPE, ULM, Morfessor2) by 30.71% absolute. To facilitate error analysis and support any type of future studies, we released all system predictions, the evaluation script, and all gold standard datasets.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2206.07615,
title = {The SIGMORPHON 2022 Shared Task on Morpheme Segmentation},
author = {Khuyagbaatar Batsuren and Gábor Bella and Aryaman Arora and Viktor Martinović and Kyle Gorman and Zdeněk Žabokrtský and Amarsanaa Ganbold and Šárka Dohnalová and Magda Ševčíková and Kateřina Pelegrinová and Fausto Giunchiglia and Ryan Cotterell and Ekaterina Vylomova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.07615},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
The 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology