Towards better UD parsing: Deep contextualized word embeddings, ensemble, and treebank concatenation

W Che, Y Liu, Y Wang, B Zheng, T Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.03121, 2018 - arxiv.org
This paper describes our system (HIT-SCIR) submitted to the CoNLL 2018 shared task on
Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies. We base our submission on …

Emotion recognition on twitter: Comparative study and training a unison model

N Colnerič, J Demšar - IEEE transactions on affective …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite recent successes of deep learning in many fields of natural language processing,
previous studies of emotion recognition on Twitter mainly focused on the use of lexicons and …

Transfer learning

SJ Pan - Learning, 2020 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Supervised machine learning techniques have already been widely studied and applied to
various real-world applications. However, most existing supervised algorithms work well …

A survey of syntactic-semantic parsing based on constituent and dependency structures

MS Zhang - Science China Technological Sciences, 2020 - Springer
Syntactic and semantic parsing has been investigated for decades, which is one primary
topic in the natural language processing community. This article aims for a brief survey on …

Modeling language variation and universals: A survey on typological linguistics for natural language processing

EM Ponti, H O'horan, Y Berzak, I Vulić… - Computational …, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
Linguistic typology aims to capture structural and semantic variation across the world's
languages. A large-scale typology could provide excellent guidance for multilingual Natural …

Deep multitask learning for semantic dependency parsing

H Peng, S Thomson, NA Smith - arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.06855, 2017 - arxiv.org
We present a deep neural architecture that parses sentences into three semantic
dependency graph formalisms. By using efficient, nearly arc-factored inference and a …

Universal, unsupervised (rule-based), uncovered sentiment analysis

D Vilares, C Gómez-Rodríguez, MA Alonso - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
We present a novel unsupervised approach for multilingual sentiment analysis driven by
compositional syntax-based rules. On the one hand, we exploit some of the main …

Semi-supervised domain adaptation for dependency parsing

Z Li, X Peng, M Zhang, R Wang, L Si - Proceedings of the 57th …, 2019 - aclanthology.org
During the past decades, due to the lack of sufficient labeled data, most studies on cross-
domain parsing focus on unsupervised domain adaptation, assuming there is no target …

Investigating language relationships in multilingual sentence encoders through the lens of linguistic typology

R Choenni, E Shutova - Computational Linguistics, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Multilingual sentence encoders have seen much success in cross-lingual model transfer for
downstream NLP tasks. The success of this transfer is, however, dependent on the model's …

[PDF][PDF] Natural language processing for resource-poor languages

L Duong - University of Melbourne, 2017 - minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au
Natural language processing (NLP) aims, broadly speaking, to teach computers to
understand human language. This is hard as the computer must comprehend many facets of …