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Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Dependency Parsing through Contextual Embedding Transformation

Computation and Language 2021-09-08 v1

Abstract

Linear embedding transformation has been shown to be effective for zero-shot cross-lingual transfer tasks and achieve surprisingly promising results. However, cross-lingual embedding space mapping is usually studied in static word-level embeddings, where a space transformation is derived by aligning representations of translation pairs that are referred from dictionaries. We move further from this line and investigate a contextual embedding alignment approach which is sense-level and dictionary-free. To enhance the quality of the mapping, we also provide a deep view of properties of contextual embeddings, i.e., anisotropy problem and its solution. Experiments on zero-shot dependency parsing through the concept-shared space built by our embedding transformation substantially outperform state-of-the-art methods using multilingual embeddings.

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@article{arxiv.2103.02212,
  title  = {Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Dependency Parsing through Contextual Embedding Transformation},
  author = {Haoran Xu and Philipp Koehn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02212},
  year   = {2021}
}
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