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Cross-lingual adaptation, a special case of domain adaptation, refers to the transfer of classification knowledge between two languages. In this article we describe an extension of Structural Correspondence Learning (SCL), a recently…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-08-26 Peter Prettenhofer , Benno Stein

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Haoran Xu , Philipp Koehn

Most Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) approaches are supervised methods which require a significant amount of annotated corpus, and the annotation requires linguistic expertise. In this paper, we propose a Multi-Task Active Learning framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Fariz Ikhwantri , Samuel Louvan , Kemal Kurniawan , Bagas Abisena , Valdi Rachman , Alfan Farizki Wicaksono , Rahmad Mahendra

Despite the surging demands for multilingual task-oriented dialog systems (e.g., Alexa, Google Home), there has been less research done in multilingual or cross-lingual scenarios. Hence, we propose a zero-shot adaptation of task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Zihan Liu , Jamin Shin , Yan Xu , Genta Indra Winata , Peng Xu , Andrea Madotto , Pascale Fung

Semantic role labeling (SRL) is to recognize the predicate-argument structure of a sentence, including subtasks of predicate disambiguation and argument labeling. Previous studies usually formulate the entire SRL problem into two or more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Jiaxun Cai , Shexia He , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

Although Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have achieved human-like performance for a few languages, the majority of the world's languages do not have usable systems due to the lack of large speech datasets to train these models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Hemant Yadav , Sunayana Sitaram

Prior studies show that cross-lingual semantic role labeling (SRL) can be achieved by model transfer under the help of universal features. In this paper, we fill the gap of cross-lingual SRL by proposing an end-to-end SRL model that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Hao Fei , Meishan Zhang , Fei Li , Donghong Ji

Previous approaches to multilingual semantic dependency parsing treat languages independently, without exploiting the similarities between semantic structures across languages. We experiment with a new approach where we combine resources…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Phoebe Mulcaire , Swabha Swayamdipta , Noah Smith

State-of-the-art model for zero-shot cross-lingual spoken language understanding performs cross-lingual unsupervised contrastive learning to achieve the label-agnostic semantic alignment between each utterance and its code-switched data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Bowen Xing , Ivor W. Tsang

Semantic role labeling (SRL) aims to identify the predicate-argument structure of a sentence. Inspired by the strong correlation between syntax and semantics, previous works pay much attention to improve SRL performance on exploiting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Qingrong Xia , Zhenghua Li , Min Zhang

We present a method for cross-lingual training an ASR system using absolutely no transcribed training data from the target language, and with no phonetic knowledge of the language in question. Our approach uses a novel application of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Ondrej Klejch , Electra Wallington , Peter Bell

Semantic role labeling (SRL) aims at elaborating the meaning of a sentence by forming a predicate-argument structure. Recent researches depicted that the effective use of syntax can improve SRL performance. However, syntax is a complicated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Kashif Munir , Hai Zhao , Zuchao Li

Recently, semantic role labeling (SRL) has earned a series of success with even higher performance improvements, which can be mainly attributed to syntactic integration and enhanced word representation. However, most of these efforts focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Shexia He , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) learn rich cross-lingual knowledge and can be finetuned to perform well on diverse tasks such as translation and multilingual word sense disambiguation (WSD). However, they often struggle at disambiguating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Haoqiang Kang , Terra Blevins , Luke Zettlemoyer

Even though SRL is researched for many languages, major improvements have mostly been obtained for English, for which more resources are available. In fact, existing multilingual SRL datasets contain disparate annotation styles or come from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Angel Daza , Anette Frank

Cross-lingual summarization (CLS) aims to generate a summary for the source text in a different target language. Currently, instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) excel at various English tasks. However, unlike languages such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Zhecheng Li , Yiwei Wang , Bryan Hooi , Yujun Cai , Naifan Cheung , Nanyun Peng , Kai-wei Chang

There has been increasing interest in building multilingual foundation models for NLP and speech research. This paper examines how to expand the speech translation capability of these models with restricted data. Whisper, a speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Rao Ma , Mengjie Qian , Yassir Fathullah , Siyuan Tang , Mark Gales , Kate Knill

Although large language models(LLMs) show amazing capabilities, among various exciting applications discovered for LLMs fall short in other low-resource languages. Besides, most existing methods depend on large-scale dialogue corpora and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Yongkang Liu , Feng Shi , Daling Wang , Yifei Zhang , Hinrich Schütze

Semantic role labeling (SRL) identifies predicate-argument structure(s) in a given sentence. Although different languages have different argument annotations, polyglot training, the idea of training one model on multiple languages, has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Ishan Jindal , Yunyao Li , Siddhartha Brahma , Huaiyu Zhu

Modern state-of-the-art Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) methods rely on expressive sentence encoders (e.g., multi-layer LSTMs) but tend to model only local (if any) interactions between individual argument labeling decisions. This contrasts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Chunchuan Lyu , Shay B. Cohen , Ivan Titov