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A Discriminative Neural Model for Cross-Lingual Word Alignment

arXiv 1909.00444 ↗First posted 1 Sep 2019cs.CLcited by 14

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Abstract (arXiv)

We introduce a novel discriminative word alignment model, which we integrate into a Transformer-based machine translation model. In experiments based on a small number of labeled examples (~1.7K-5K sentences) we evaluate its performance intrinsically on both English-Chinese and English-Arabic alignment, where we achieve major improvements over unsupervised baselines (11-27 F1). We evaluate the model extrinsically on data projection for Chinese NER, showing that our alignments lead to higher performance when used to project NER tags from English to Chinese. Finally, we perform an ablation analysis and an annotation experiment that jointly support the utility and feasibility of future manual alignment elicitation.

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  1. 2021Word Alignment by Fine-tuning Embeddings on Parallel Corporacited by 186
  2. 2022Frustratingly Easy Label Projection for Cross-lingual Transfercited by 33
  3. 2021Neural semi-Markov CRF for Monolingual Word Alignmentcited by 16
  4. 2021Everything Is All It Takes: A Multipronged Strategy for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Information Extractioncited by 16
  5. 2023WSPAlign: Word Alignment Pre-training via Large-Scale Weakly Supervised Span Predictioncited by 10
  6. 2023Contextual Label Projection for Cross-Lingual Structured Predictioncited by 9
  7. 2024Constrained Decoding for Cross-lingual Label Projectioncited by 8
  8. 2021MirrorAlign: A Super Lightweight Unsupervised Word Alignment Model via Cross-Lingual Contrastive Learningcited by 4
  9. 2022Word Alignment in the Era of Deep Learning: A Tutorialcited by 3
  10. 2023Gloss Alignment Using Word Embeddingscited by 3
  11. 2024MultiMUC: Multilingual Template Filling on MUC-4cited by 3
  12. 2022Multilingual Coreference Resolution in Multiparty Dialoguecited by 2
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  1. 2021Embedding-Enhanced Giza++: Improving Alignment in Low- and High- Resource Scenarios Using Embedding Space Geometrycited by 0
  2. 2025TransAlign: Machine Translation Encoders are Strong Word Aligners, Toocited by 0