A Little Pretraining Goes a Long Way: A Case Study on Dependency Parsing Task for Low-resource Morphologically Rich Languages

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06551v1
• Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 14:26:58 GMT
• Title: A Little Pretraining Goes a Long Way: A Case Study on Dependency Parsing Task for Low-resource Morphologically Rich Languages
• Authors: Jivnesh Sandhan, Amrith Krishna, Ashim Gupta, Laxmidhar Behera and Pawan Goyal
• Abstract summary: We focus on dependency parsing for morphological rich languages (MRLs) in a low-resource setting. To address these challenges, we propose simple auxiliary tasks for pretraining. We perform experiments on 10 MRLs in low-resource settings to measure the efficacy of our proposed pretraining method.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Neural dependency parsing has achieved remarkable performance for many domains and languages. The bottleneck of massive labeled data limits the effectiveness of these approaches for low resource languages. In this work, we focus on dependency parsing for morphological rich languages (MRLs) in a low-resource setting. Although morphological information is essential for the dependency parsing task, the morphological disambiguation and lack of powerful analyzers pose challenges to get this information for MRLs. To address these challenges, we propose simple auxiliary tasks for pretraining. We perform experiments on 10 MRLs in low-resource settings to measure the efficacy of our proposed pretraining method and observe an average absolute gain of 2 points (UAS) and 3.6 points (LAS). Code and data available at: https://github.com/jivnesh/LCM

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