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    <abstract>Lexical ambiguity, a challenging phenomenon in all natural languages, is particularly prevalent for languages with diacritics that tend to be omitted in writing, such as Arabic. Omitting diacritics leads to an increase in the number of homographs: different words with the same spelling. Diacritic restoration could theoretically help disambiguate these words, but in practice, the increase in overall sparsity leads to performance degradation in NLP applications. In this paper, we propose approaches for automatically marking a subset of words for diacritic restoration, which leads to selective homograph disambiguation. Compared to full or no diacritic restoration, these approaches yield selectively-diacritized datasets that balance sparsity and lexical disambiguation. We evaluate the various selection strategies extrinsically on several downstream applications: neural machine translation, part-of-speech tagging, and semantic textual similarity. Our experiments on Arabic show promising results, where our devised strategies on selective diacritization lead to a more balanced and consistent performance in downstream applications.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Homograph Disambiguation through Selective Diacritic Restoration
%A Alqahtani, Sawsan
%A Aldarmaki, Hanan
%A Diab, Mona
%Y El-Hajj, Wassim
%Y Belguith, Lamia Hadrich
%Y Bougares, Fethi
%Y Magdy, Walid
%Y Zitouni, Imed
%Y Tomeh, Nadi
%Y El-Haj, Mahmoud
%Y Zaghouani, Wajdi
%S Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
%D 2019
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Florence, Italy
%F alqahtani-etal-2019-homograph
%X Lexical ambiguity, a challenging phenomenon in all natural languages, is particularly prevalent for languages with diacritics that tend to be omitted in writing, such as Arabic. Omitting diacritics leads to an increase in the number of homographs: different words with the same spelling. Diacritic restoration could theoretically help disambiguate these words, but in practice, the increase in overall sparsity leads to performance degradation in NLP applications. In this paper, we propose approaches for automatically marking a subset of words for diacritic restoration, which leads to selective homograph disambiguation. Compared to full or no diacritic restoration, these approaches yield selectively-diacritized datasets that balance sparsity and lexical disambiguation. We evaluate the various selection strategies extrinsically on several downstream applications: neural machine translation, part-of-speech tagging, and semantic textual similarity. Our experiments on Arabic show promising results, where our devised strategies on selective diacritization lead to a more balanced and consistent performance in downstream applications.
%R 10.18653/v1/W19-4606
%U https://aclanthology.org/W19-4606
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-4606
%P 49-59

Markdown (Informal)

[Homograph Disambiguation through Selective Diacritic Restoration](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4606) (Alqahtani et al., WANLP 2019)

• Homograph Disambiguation through Selective Diacritic Restoration (Alqahtani et al., WANLP 2019)

ACL

• Sawsan Alqahtani, Hanan Aldarmaki, and Mona Diab. 2019. Homograph Disambiguation through Selective Diacritic Restoration. In Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, pages 49–59, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.