Zero-Shot Dependency Parsing with Worst-Case Aware Automated Curriculum Learning

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Large multilingual pretrained language models such as mBERT and XLM-RoBERTa have been found to be surprisingly effective for cross-lingual transfer of syntactic parsing models (Wu and Dredze, 2019), but only between related languages. However, source and training languages are rarely related, when parsing truly low-resource languages. To close this gap, we adopt a method from multi-task learning, which relies on automated curriculum learning, to dynamically optimize for parsing performance on outlier languages. We show that this approach is significantly better than uniform and size-proportional sampling in the zero-shot setting.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACL 2022 - 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Short Papers)
EditorsSmaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Publication date2022
Pages578-587
ISBN (Electronic)9781955917223
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Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2022 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: 22 May 202227 May 2022

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Conference60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2022
LandIreland
ByDublin
Periode22/05/202227/05/2022
SponsorAmazon Science, Bloomberg Engineering, et al., Google Research, Liveperson, Meta

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