TY - GEN
T1 - Past, present, future
T2 - 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2017
AU - Asgari, Ehsaneddin
AU - Schütze, Hinrich
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - We present SuperPivot, an analysis method for low-resource languages that occur in a superparallel corpus, i.e., in a corpus that contains an order of magnitude more languages than parallel corpora currently in use. We show that SuperPivot performs well for the crosslingual analysis of the linguistic phenomenon of tense. We produce analysis results for more than 1000 languages, conducting – to the best of our knowledge – the largest crosslingual computational study performed to date. We extend existing methodology for leveraging parallel corpora for typological analysis by overcoming a limiting assumption of earlier work: We only require that a linguistic feature is overtly marked in a few of thousands of languages as opposed to requiring that it be marked in all languages under investigation.
AB - We present SuperPivot, an analysis method for low-resource languages that occur in a superparallel corpus, i.e., in a corpus that contains an order of magnitude more languages than parallel corpora currently in use. We show that SuperPivot performs well for the crosslingual analysis of the linguistic phenomenon of tense. We produce analysis results for more than 1000 languages, conducting – to the best of our knowledge – the largest crosslingual computational study performed to date. We extend existing methodology for leveraging parallel corpora for typological analysis by overcoming a limiting assumption of earlier work: We only require that a linguistic feature is overtly marked in a few of thousands of languages as opposed to requiring that it be marked in all languages under investigation.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85045304863&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.18653/v1/d17-1011
DO - 10.18653/v1/d17-1011
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85045304863
T3 - EMNLP 2017 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings
SP - 113
EP - 124
BT - EMNLP 2017 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Y2 - 9 September 2017 through 11 September 2017
ER -