Cross-lingual alignment transfer: a chicken-and-egg story?

Lauriane Aufrant (1, 2) , Guillaume Wisniewski (2) , François Yvon (2)

1 DGA - Délégation générale de l'armement
2 LIMSI - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur

In this paper, we challenge a basic assumption of many cross-lingual transfer techniques: the availability of word aligned parallel corpora, and consider ways to accommodate situations in which such resources do not exist. We show experimentally that, here again, weakly supervised cross-lingual learning techniques can prove useful, once adapted to transfer knowledge across pairs of languages.

Mots clés: Cross-lingual transfer; Word alignment

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Lauriane Aufrant, Guillaume Wisniewski, François Yvon. Cross-lingual alignment transfer: a chicken-and-egg story?. Workshop on Multilingual and Cross­-lingual Methods in NLP , Jun 2016, San Diego, CA, United States. pp.35-44, ⟨10.18653/v1/W16-1205⟩. ⟨hal-01622815⟩