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title = "Decomposing Fusional Morphemes with Vector Embeddings",
author = "Ginn, Michael and
Palmer, Alexis",
editor = {Nicolai, Garrett and
Chodroff, Eleanor and
Mailhot, Frederic and
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booktitle = "Proceedings of the 21st SIGMORPHON workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology",
month = jun,
year = "2024",
address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.sigmorphon-1.7",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.sigmorphon-1.7",
pages = "57--66",
abstract = "Distributional approaches have proven effective in modeling semantics and phonology through vector embeddings. We explore whether distributional representations can also effectively model morphological information. We train static vector embeddings over morphological sequences. Then, we explore morpheme categories for fusional morphemes, which encode multiple linguistic dimensions, and often have close relationships to other morphemes. We study whether the learned vector embeddings align with these linguistic dimensions, finding strong evidence that this is the case. Our work uses two low-resource languages, Uspanteko and Tsez, demonstrating that distributional morphological representations are effective even with limited data.",
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%T Decomposing Fusional Morphemes with Vector Embeddings
%A Ginn, Michael
%A Palmer, Alexis
%Y Nicolai, Garrett
%Y Chodroff, Eleanor
%Y Mailhot, Frederic
%Y Çöltekin, Çağrı
%S Proceedings of the 21st SIGMORPHON workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
%D 2024
%8 June
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Mexico City, Mexico
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%X Distributional approaches have proven effective in modeling semantics and phonology through vector embeddings. We explore whether distributional representations can also effectively model morphological information. We train static vector embeddings over morphological sequences. Then, we explore morpheme categories for fusional morphemes, which encode multiple linguistic dimensions, and often have close relationships to other morphemes. We study whether the learned vector embeddings align with these linguistic dimensions, finding strong evidence that this is the case. Our work uses two low-resource languages, Uspanteko and Tsez, demonstrating that distributional morphological representations are effective even with limited data.
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Markdown (Informal)
[Decomposing Fusional Morphemes with Vector Embeddings](https://aclanthology.org/2024.sigmorphon-1.7) (Ginn & Palmer, SIGMORPHON 2024)
ACL
- Michael Ginn and Alexis Palmer. 2024. Decomposing Fusional Morphemes with Vector Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 21st SIGMORPHON workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pages 57–66, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.