Cross-lingual CCG Induction

Kilian Evang


Abstract
Combinatory categorial grammars are linguistically motivated and useful for semantic parsing, but costly to acquire in a supervised way and difficult to acquire in an unsupervised way. We propose an alternative making use of cross-lingual learning: an existing source-language parser is used together with a parallel corpus to induce a grammar and parsing model for a target language. On the PASCAL benchmark, cross-lingual CCG induction outperforms CCG induction from gold-standard POS tags on 3 out of 8 languages, and unsupervised CCG induction on 6 out of 8 languages. We also show that cross-lingually induced CCGs reflect syntactic properties of the target languages.
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N19-1160
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)
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June
Year:
2019
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
Editors:
Jill Burstein, Christy Doran, Thamar Solorio
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1577–1587
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https://aclanthology.org/N19-1160
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N19-1160
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Kilian Evang. 2019. Cross-lingual CCG Induction. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), pages 1577–1587, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Cross-lingual CCG Induction (Evang, NAACL 2019)
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