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Neural models for the various flavours of morphological inflection tasks have proven to be extremely accurate given ample labeled data -- data that may be slow and costly to obtain. In this work we aim to overcome this annotation bottleneck…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Omer Goldman , Reut Tsarfaty

Modern work on the cross-linguistic computational modeling of morphological inflection has typically employed language-independent data splitting algorithms. In this paper, we supplement that approach with language-specific probes designed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Jordan Kodner , Salam Khalifa , Sarah Payne

Lemmatization is a natural language processing (NLP) task which consists of producing, from a given inflected word, its canonical form or lemma. Lemmatization is one of the basic tasks that facilitate downstream NLP applications, and is of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Olia Toporkov , Rodrigo Agerri

Inflection is an essential part of every human language's morphology, yet little effort has been made to unify linguistic theory and computational methods in recent years. Methods of string manipulation are used to infer inflectional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Eleni Metheniti , Guenter Neumann , Josef van Genabith

Despite an ever growing number of word representation models introduced for a large number of languages, there is a lack of a standardized technique to provide insights into what is captured by these models. Such insights would help the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Gözde Gül Şahin , Clara Vania , Ilia Kuznetsov , Iryna Gurevych

The generation of complex derived word forms has been an overlooked problem in NLP; we fill this gap by applying neural sequence-to-sequence models to the task. We overview the theoretical motivation for a paradigmatic treatment of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Ryan Cotterell , Ekaterina Vylomova , Huda Khayrallah , Christo Kirov , David Yarowsky

This paper describes our winning systems in MRL: The 1st Shared Task on Multilingual Clause-level Morphology (EMNLP 2022 Workshop) designed by KUIS AI NLP team. We present our work for all three parts of the shared task: inflection,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Emre Can Acikgoz , Tilek Chubakov , Müge Kural , Gözde Gül Şahin , Deniz Yuret

Prior studies in multilingual language modeling (e.g., Cotterell et al., 2018; Mielke et al., 2019) disagree on whether or not inflectional morphology makes languages harder to model. We attempt to resolve the disagreement and extend those…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Hyunji Hayley Park , Katherine J. Zhang , Coleman Haley , Kenneth Steimel , Han Liu , Lane Schwartz

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant progress on various multilingual benchmarks and are increasingly used to generate and evaluate text in non-English languages. However, while they may produce fluent outputs, it remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Mohammed J. Saeed , Tommi Vehvilainen , Evgeny Fedoseev , Sevil Caliskan , Tatiana Vodolazova

As NLP tools become ubiquitous in today's technological landscape, they are increasingly applied to languages with a variety of typological structures. However, NLP research does not focus primarily on typological differences in its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Sophie Groenwold , Samhita Honnavalli , Lily Ou , Aesha Parekh , Sharon Levy , Diba Mirza , William Yang Wang

The use of Deep Neural Network architectures for Language Modeling has recently seen a tremendous increase in interest in the field of NLP with the advent of transfer learning and the shift in focus from rule-based and predictive models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Octavia-Maria Sulea , Steve Young

Morphological declension, which aims to inflect nouns to indicate number, case and gender, is an important task in natural language processing (NLP). This research proposal seeks to address the degree to which Recurrent Neural Networks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Sina Ahmadi

Self-supervised objectives have driven major advances in NLP by leveraging large-scale unlabeled data, but such resources are scarce for many of the world's languages. Surprisingly, they have not been explored much for character-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Adam Wiemerslage , Katharina von der Wense

Morphological tasks use large multi-lingual datasets that organize words into inflection tables, which then serve as training and evaluation data for various tasks. However, a closer inspection of these data reveals profound…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Omer Goldman , Reut Tsarfaty

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in metaphor interpretation across multiple datasets, tasks, and prompt configurations. Although metaphor processing has gained significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Elisa Sanchez-Bayona , Rodrigo Agerri

We quantify the linguistic complexity of different languages' morphological systems. We verify that there is an empirical trade-off between paradigm size and irregularity: a language's inflectional paradigms may be either large in size or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Ryan Cotterell , Christo Kirov , Mans Hulden , Jason Eisner

Linguistic typology aims to capture structural and semantic variation across the world's languages. A large-scale typology could provide excellent guidance for multilingual Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly for languages that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Edoardo Maria Ponti , Helen O'Horan , Yevgeni Berzak , Ivan Vulić , Roi Reichart , Thierry Poibeau , Ekaterina Shutova , Anna Korhonen

We investigate the problem of searching for a lexeme-set in speech by searching for its inflectional variants. Experimental results indicate how lexeme-set search performance changes with the number of hypothesized inflections, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Oliver Adams , Matthew Wiesner , Jan Trmal , Garrett Nicolai , David Yarowsky

The outstanding performance of transformer-based language models on a great variety of NLP and NLU tasks has stimulated interest in exploring their inner workings. Recent research has focused primarily on higher-level and complex linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Vladislav Mikhailov , Oleg Serikov , Ekaterina Artemova

While Large Language Models have transformed how we interact with AI systems, they suffer from a critical flaw: they confidently generate false information that sounds entirely plausible. This hallucination problem has become a major…

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