# One-Shot Neural Cross-Lingual Transfer for Paradigm Completion

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00052 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.00052/

## Key facts

- Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 31 Mar 2017.

## Built on by (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [Morphological Processing of Low-Resource Languages: Where We Are and What's Next](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.08909/) (2022)
- [Computational Morphology with Neural Network Approaches](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.09404/) (2021)
- [Minimal Supervision for Morphological Inflection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.08512/) (2021)
- [Moral Semantics Survive Machine Translation: Cross-Lingual Evidence from Moral Foundations Corpora](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.22660/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present a novel cross-lingual transfer method for paradigm completion, the task of mapping a lemma to its inflected forms, using a neural encoder-decoder model, the state of the art for the monolingual task. We use labeled data from a high-resource language to increase performance on a low-resource language. In experiments on 21 language pairs from four different language families, we obtain up to 58% higher accuracy than without transfer and show that even zero-shot and one-shot learning are possible. We further find that the degree of language relatedness strongly influences the ability to transfer morphological knowledge.