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SUMMARY:Language Adaptation experiments: Cross-lingual embeddings for rela
 ted languages - Serge Sharoff (Leeds)
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CONTACT:Dimitri Kartsaklis
DESCRIPTION:We do not have sufficient annotated resources for many languag
 es. For example\, out of the 47 languages in the Universal Depencies set o
 nly two languages have treebanks exceeding 1 mln words\, while many langua
 ges are not represented at all.  However\, we can use typological links be
 tween the languages to produce better computational models for lesser-reso
 urced languages (recipients) by transferring information from better resou
 rced ones (donors).  In this talk I report my experience of building and u
 sing cross-lingual embeddings with added constraints such as the Weighted 
 Levenshtein Distance.
LOCATION:Boardroom\, Faculty of English\, West Road
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