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AUTOLEX: An Automatic Framework for Linguistic Exploration

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13901v1
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:37:30 GMT
Title: AUTOLEX: An Automatic Framework for Linguistic Exploration
Authors: Aditi Chaudhary, Zaid Sheikh, David R Mortensen, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Graham Neubig
Abstract summary: We propose an automatic framework that aims to ease linguists' discovery and extraction of concise descriptions of linguistic phenomena. Specifically, we apply this framework to extract descriptions for three phenomena: morphological agreement, case marking, and word order. We evaluate the descriptions with the help of language experts and propose a method for automated evaluation when human evaluation is infeasible.
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Abstract: Each language has its own complex systems of word, phrase, and sentence construction, the guiding principles of which are often summarized in grammar descriptions for the consumption of linguists or language learners. However, manual creation of such descriptions is a fraught process, as creating descriptions which describe the language in "its own terms" without bias or error requires both a deep understanding of the language at hand and linguistics as a whole. We propose an automatic framework AutoLEX that aims to ease linguists' discovery and extraction of concise descriptions of linguistic phenomena. Specifically, we apply this framework to extract descriptions for three phenomena: morphological agreement, case marking, and word order, across several languages. We evaluate the descriptions with the help of language experts and propose a method for automated evaluation when human evaluation is infeasible.

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