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We demonstrate the effectiveness of multilingual learning for unsupervised part-of-speech tagging. The central assumption of our work is that by combining cues from multiple languages, the structure of each becomes more apparent. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-23 Tahira Naseem , Benjamin Snyder , Jacob Eisenstein , Regina Barzilay

Bilingual Lexicon Induction (BLI), where words are translated between two languages, is an important NLP task. While noticeable progress on BLI in rich resource languages using static word embeddings has been achieved. The word translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Abdellah El Mekki , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , ElMoatez Billah Nagoudi , Ismail Berrada , Ahmed Khoumsi

In this work we look into adding a new language to a multilingual NMT system in an unsupervised fashion. Under the utilization of pre-trained cross-lingual word embeddings we seek to exploit a language independent multilingual sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Carlos Mullov , Ngoc-Quan Pham , Alexander Waibel

Sans a dwindling number of monolingual embedding studies originating predominantly from the low-resource domains, it is evident that multilingual embedding has become the de facto choice due to its adaptability to the usage of code-mixed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Kasun Wickramasinghe , Nisansa de Silva

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has become the new state-of-the-art in several language pairs. However, it remains a challenging problem how to integrate NMT with a bilingual dictionary which mainly contains words rarely or never seen in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Universal cross-lingual sentence embeddings map semantically similar cross-lingual sentences into a shared embedding space. Aligning cross-lingual sentence embeddings usually requires supervised cross-lingual parallel sentences. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Yau-Shian Wang , Ashley Wu , Graham Neubig

Contrastive learning has been successfully used for retrieval of semantically aligned sentences, but it often requires large batch sizes or careful engineering to work well. In this paper, we instead propose a generative model for learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 John Wieting , Jonathan H. Clark , William W. Cohen , Graham Neubig , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

We propose a new unsupervised method for lexical substitution using pre-trained language models. Compared to previous approaches that use the generative capability of language models to predict substitutes, our method retrieves substitutes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Takashi Wada , Timothy Baldwin , Yuji Matsumoto , Jey Han Lau

Learning representations for semantic relations is important for various tasks such as analogy detection, relational search, and relation classification. Although there have been several proposals for learning representations for individual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Danushka Bollegala , Takanori Maehara , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

Cross-lingual model transfer is a compelling and popular method for predicting annotations in a low-resource language, whereby parallel corpora provide a bridge to a high-resource language and its associated annotated corpora. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Meng Fang , Trevor Cohn

Bilingual lexicons play a crucial role in various Natural Language Processing tasks. However, many low-resource languages (LRLs) do not have such lexicons, and due to the same reason, cannot benefit from the supervised Bilingual Lexicon…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Charitha Rathnayake , P. R. S. Thilakarathna , Uthpala Nethmini , Rishemjith Kaur , Surangika Ranathunga

Cross-lingual representations of words enable us to reason about word meaning in multilingual contexts and are a key facilitator of cross-lingual transfer when developing natural language processing models for low-resource languages. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Sebastian Ruder , Ivan Vulić , Anders Søgaard

There has been significant interest recently in learning multilingual word embeddings -- in which semantically similar words across languages have similar embeddings. State-of-the-art approaches have relied on expensive labeled data, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Karan Singhal , Karthik Raman , Balder ten Cate

While modern machine translation has relied on large parallel corpora, a recent line of work has managed to train Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems from monolingual corpora only (Artetxe et al., 2018c; Lample et al., 2018). Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Mikel Artetxe , Gorka Labaka , Eneko Agirre

Entity alignment is the task of finding entities in two knowledge bases (KBs) that represent the same real-world object. When facing KBs in different natural languages, conventional cross-lingual entity alignment methods rely on machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Zequn Sun , Wei Hu , Chengkai Li

Current approaches to cross-lingual sentiment analysis try to leverage the wealth of labeled English data using bilingual lexicons, bilingual vector space embeddings, or machine translation systems. Here we show that it is possible to use a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Mohamed Abdalla , Graeme Hirst

Progress in sentence simplification has been hindered by a lack of labeled parallel simplification data, particularly in languages other than English. We introduce MUSS, a Multilingual Unsupervised Sentence Simplification system that does…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Louis Martin , Angela Fan , Éric de la Clergerie , Antoine Bordes , Benoît Sagot

Machine translation has recently achieved impressive performance thanks to recent advances in deep learning and the availability of large-scale parallel corpora. There have been numerous attempts to extend these successes to low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Guillaume Lample , Alexis Conneau , Ludovic Denoyer , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Cross-lingual representation learning is an important step in making NLP scale to all the world's languages. Recent work on bilingual lexicon induction suggests that it is possible to learn cross-lingual representations of words based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Mareike Hartmann , Anders Soegaard

Word alignment is essential for the downstream cross-lingual language understanding and generation tasks. Recently, the performance of the neural word alignment models has exceeded that of statistical models. However, they heavily rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Di Wu , Liang Ding , Shuo Yang , Mingyang Li