Linear Discriminative Learning: a competitive non-neural baseline for morphological inflection

Cheonkam Jeong, Dominic Schmitz, Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Anna Stein, Kevin Tang


Abstract
This paper presents our submission to the SIGMORPHON 2023 task 2 of Cognitively Plausible Morphophonological Generalization in Korean. We implemented both Linear Discriminative Learning and Transformer models and found that the Linear Discriminative Learning model trained on a combination of corpus and experimental data showed the best performance with the overall accuracy of around 83%. We found that the best model must be trained on both corpus data and the experimental data of one particular participant. Our examination of speaker-variability and speaker-specific information did not explain why a particular participant combined well with the corpus data. We recommend Linear Discriminative Learning models as a future non-neural baseline system, owning to its training speed, accuracy, model interpretability and cognitive plausibility. In order to improve the model performance, we suggest using bigger data and/or performing data augmentation and incorporating speaker- and item-specifics considerably.
Anthology ID:
2023.sigmorphon-1.16
Volume:
Proceedings of the 20th SIGMORPHON workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
Month:
July
Year:
2023
Address:
Toronto, Canada
Editors:
Garrett Nicolai, Eleanor Chodroff, Frederic Mailhot, Çağrı Çöltekin
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SIGMORPHON
SIG:
SIGMORPHON
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
138–150
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigmorphon-1.16
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.sigmorphon-1.16
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Cheonkam Jeong, Dominic Schmitz, Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Anna Stein, and Kevin Tang. 2023. Linear Discriminative Learning: a competitive non-neural baseline for morphological inflection. In Proceedings of the 20th SIGMORPHON workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pages 138–150, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Linear Discriminative Learning: a competitive non-neural baseline for morphological inflection (Jeong et al., SIGMORPHON 2023)
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