How to Parse a Creole: When Martinican Creole Meets French

Ludovic Mompelat, Daniel Dakota, Sandra Kübler


Abstract
We investigate methods to develop a parser for Martinican Creole, a highly under-resourced language, using a French treebank. We compare transfer learning and multi-task learning models and examine different input features and strategies to handle the massive size imbalance between the treebanks. Surprisingly, we find that a simple concatenated (French + Martinican Creole) baseline yields optimal results even though it has access to only 80 Martinican Creole sentences. POS embeddings work better than lexical ones, but they suffer from negative transfer.
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2022.coling-1.387
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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October
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2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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4397–4406
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Ludovic Mompelat, Daniel Dakota, and Sandra Kübler. 2022. How to Parse a Creole: When Martinican Creole Meets French. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 4397–4406, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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How to Parse a Creole: When Martinican Creole Meets French (Mompelat et al., COLING 2022)
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