TAMS: Translation-Assisted Morphological Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14840v2
• Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:34:51 GMT
• Title: TAMS: Translation-Assisted Morphological Segmentation
• Authors: Enora Rice, Ali Marashian, Luke Gessler, Alexis Palmer, Katharina von der Wense,
• Abstract summary: We present a sequence-to-sequence model for canonical morpheme segmentation. Our model outperforms the baseline in a super-low resource setting but yields mixed results on training splits with more data. While further work is needed to make translations useful in higher-resource settings, our model shows promise in severely resource-constrained settings.
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• Abstract: Canonical morphological segmentation is the process of analyzing words into the standard (aka underlying) forms of their constituent morphemes. This is a core task in language documentation, and NLP systems have the potential to dramatically speed up this process. But in typical language documentation settings, training data for canonical morpheme segmentation is scarce, making it difficult to train high quality models. However, translation data is often much more abundant, and, in this work, we present a method that attempts to leverage this data in the canonical segmentation task. We propose a character-level sequence-to-sequence model that incorporates representations of translations obtained from pretrained high-resource monolingual language models as an additional signal. Our model outperforms the baseline in a super-low resource setting but yields mixed results on training splits with more data. While further work is needed to make translations useful in higher-resource settings, our model shows promise in severely resource-constrained settings.

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