GlossLM: A Massively Multilingual Corpus and Pretrained Model for Interlinear Glossed Text

Michael Ginn, Lindia Tjuatja, Taiqi He, Enora Rice, Graham Neubig, Alexis Palmer, Lori Levin


Abstract
Language documentation projects often involve the creation of annotated text in a format such as interlinear glossed text (IGT), which captures fine-grained morphosyntactic analyses in a morpheme-by-morpheme format. However, there are few existing resources providing large amounts of standardized, easily accessible IGT data, limiting their applicability to linguistic research, and making it difficult to use such data in NLP modeling. We compile the largest existing corpus of IGT data from a variety of sources, covering over 450k examples across 1.8k languages, to enable research on crosslingual transfer and IGT generation. We normalize much of our data to follow a standard set of labels across languages.Furthermore, we explore the task of automatically generating IGT in order to aid documentation projects. As many languages lack sufficient monolingual data, we pretrain a large multilingual model on our corpus. We demonstrate the utility of this model by finetuning it on monolingual corpora, outperforming SOTA models by up to 6.6%. Our pretrained model and dataset are available on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/collections/lecslab/glosslm-66da150854209e910113dd87
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2024.emnlp-main.683
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Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
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EMNLP
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Michael Ginn, Lindia Tjuatja, Taiqi He, Enora Rice, Graham Neubig, Alexis Palmer, and Lori Levin. 2024. GlossLM: A Massively Multilingual Corpus and Pretrained Model for Interlinear Glossed Text. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 12267–12286, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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