Language Adaptation experiments: Cross-lingual embeddings for related languages
- đ¤ Speaker: Serge Sharoff (Leeds)
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 14 June 2018, 11:00 - 12:00
- đ Venue: Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road
Abstract
We do not have sufficient annotated resources for many languages. For example, out of the 47 languages in the Universal Depencies set only two languages have treebanks exceeding 1 mln words, while many languages are not represented at all. However, we can use typological links between the languages to produce better computational models for lesser-resourced languages (recipients) by transferring information from better resourced ones (donors). In this talk I report my experience of building and using cross-lingual embeddings with added constraints such as the Weighted Levenshtein Distance.
Series This talk is part of the Language Technology Lab Seminars series.
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Thursday 14 June 2018, 11:00-12:00