Improving Code-Switching Dependency Parsing with Semi-Supervised Auxiliary Tasks

Şaziye Betül Özateş, Arzucan Özgür, Tunga Gungor, Özlem Çetinoğlu


Abstract
Code-switching dependency parsing stands as a challenging task due to both the scarcity of necessary resources and the structural difficulties embedded in code-switched languages. In this study, we introduce novel sequence labeling models to be used as auxiliary tasks for dependency parsing of code-switched text in a semi-supervised scheme. We show that using auxiliary tasks enhances the performance of an LSTM-based dependency parsing model and leads to better results compared to an XLM-R-based model with significantly less computational and time complexity. As the first study that focuses on multiple code-switching language pairs for dependency parsing, we acquire state-of-the-art scores on all of the studied languages. Our best models outperform the previous work by 7.4 LAS points on average.
Anthology ID:
2022.findings-naacl.87
Volume:
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022
Month:
July
Year:
2022
Address:
Seattle, United States
Editors:
Marine Carpuat, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
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Findings
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1159–1171
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-naacl.87
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.findings-naacl.87
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Cite (ACL):
Şaziye Betül Özateş, Arzucan Özgür, Tunga Gungor, and Özlem Çetinoğlu. 2022. Improving Code-Switching Dependency Parsing with Semi-Supervised Auxiliary Tasks. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022, pages 1159–1171, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Improving Code-Switching Dependency Parsing with Semi-Supervised Auxiliary Tasks (Özateş et al., Findings 2022)
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-naacl.87.pdf
Code
 sb-b/ss-cs-depparser
Data
LinCEUniversal Dependencies