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We introduce DsDs: a cross-lingual neural part-of-speech tagger that learns from disparate sources of distant supervision, and realistically scales to hundreds of low-resource languages. The model exploits annotation projection, instance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Barbara Plank , Željko Agić

Part of Speech (POS) tagging is crucial to Natural Language Processing (NLP). It is a well-studied topic in several resource-rich languages. However, the development of computational linguistic resources is still in its infancy despite the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Dhrubajyoti Pathak , Sukumar Nandi , Priyankoo Sarmah

The lack of annotated data in many languages is a well-known challenge within the field of multilingual natural language processing (NLP). Therefore, many recent studies focus on zero-shot transfer learning and joint training across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Niels van der Heijden , Samira Abnar , Ekaterina Shutova

End-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) has shown great success on large quantities of paired text plus speech data. However, laborious data collection remains difficult for at least 95% of the languages over the world, which hinders the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Tao Tu , Yuan-Jui Chen , Cheng-chieh Yeh , Hung-yi Lee

- The field of natural language processing (NLP) has dramatically expanded within the last decade. Many human-being applications are conducted daily via NLP tasks, starting from machine translation, speech recognition, text generation and…

Large-scale training for semantic segmentation is challenging due to the expense of obtaining training data for this task relative to other vision tasks. We propose a novel training approach to address this difficulty. Given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Paul Vernaza , Manmohan Chandraker

Previous Part-Of-Speech (POS) induction models usually assume certain independence assumptions (e.g., Markov, unidirectional, local dependency) that do not hold in real languages. For example, the subject-verb agreement can be both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Xiang Zhou , Shiyue Zhang , Mohit Bansal

Neural machine translation on low-resource language is challenging due to the lack of bilingual sentence pairs. Previous works usually solve the low-resource translation problem with knowledge transfer in a multilingual setting. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Tianyu He , Jiale Chen , Xu Tan , Tao Qin

Word segmentation plays a pivotal role in improving any Arabic NLP application. Therefore, a lot of research has been spent in improving its accuracy. Off-the-shelf tools, however, are: i) complicated to use and ii) domain/dialect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Hassan Sajjad , Fahim Dalvi , Nadir Durrani , Ahmed Abdelali , Yonatan Belinkov , Stephan Vogel

Graph-based methods have been demonstrated as one of the most effective approaches for semi-supervised learning, as they can exploit the connectivity patterns between labeled and unlabeled data samples to improve learning performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Qimai Li , Xiao-Ming Wu , Han Liu , Xiaotong Zhang , Zhichao Guan

Character-level models have been used extensively in recent years in NLP tasks as both supplements and replacements for closed-vocabulary token-level word representations. In one popular architecture, character-level LSTMs are used to feed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Yuval Pinter , Marc Marone , Jacob Eisenstein

The goal of few-shot learning is to learn a classifier that generalizes well even when trained with a limited number of training instances per class. The recently introduced meta-learning approaches tackle this problem by learning a generic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Yanbin Liu , Juho Lee , Minseop Park , Saehoon Kim , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang , Yi Yang

We propose a training-free method for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation using Vision-and-Language Models (VLMs). Our approach enhances the initial per-patch predictions of VLMs through label propagation, which jointly optimizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Vladan Stojnić , Yannis Kalantidis , Jiří Matas , Giorgos Tolias

We present NN-Rank, an algorithm for ranking source languages for cross-lingual transfer, which leverages hidden representations from multilingual models and unlabeled target-language data. We experiment with two pretrained multilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Abteen Ebrahimi , Adam Wiemerslage , Katharina von der Wense

This paper advances NLP research for the low-resource Uzbek language by evaluating two previously untested monolingual Uzbek BERT models on the part-of-speech (POS) tagging task and introducing the first publicly available UPOS-tagged…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Latofat Bobojonova , Arofat Akhundjanova , Phil Ostheimer , Sophie Fellenz

Named entity recognition (NER) suffers from the scarcity of annotated training data, especially for low-resource languages without labeled data. Cross-lingual NER has been proposed to alleviate this issue by transferring knowledge from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jian Yang , Shaohan Huang , Shuming Ma , Yuwei Yin , Li Dong , Dongdong Zhang , Hongcheng Guo , Zhoujun Li , Furu Wei

Label projection, which involves obtaining translated labels and texts jointly, is essential for leveraging machine translation to facilitate cross-lingual transfer in structured prediction tasks. Prior research exploring label projection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Tanmay Parekh , I-Hung Hsu , Kuan-Hao Huang , Kai-Wei Chang , Nanyun Peng

Recent works have shown that exploiting unlabeled data through label propagation can substantially reduce the labeling cost, which has been a critical issue in developing visual recognition models. Yet, how to propagate labels reliably,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Lei Yang , Qingqiu Huang , Huaiyi Huang , Linning Xu , Dahua Lin

In the pre deep learning era, part-of-speech tags have been considered as indispensable ingredients for feature engineering in dependency parsing. But quite a few works focus on joint tagging and parsing models to avoid error propagation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Houquan Zhou , Yu Zhang , Zhenghua Li , Min Zhang

This paper presents Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Mumbai's (CDACM) submission to the NLP Tools Contest on Part-Of-Speech (POS) Tagging For Code-mixed Indian Social Media Text (POSCMISMT) 2015 (collocated with ICON 2015). We…

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