Abstract
It has been exactly a decade since the first establishment of SPMRL, a research initiative unifying multiple research efforts to address the peculiar challenges of Statistical Parsing for Morphologically-Rich Languages (MRLs). Here we reflect on parsing MRLs in that decade, highlight the solutions and lessons learned for the architectural, modeling and lexical challenges in the pre-neural era, and argue that similar challenges re-emerge in neural architectures for MRLs. We then aim to offer a climax, suggesting that incorporating symbolic ideas proposed in SPMRL terms into nowadays neural architectures has the potential to push NLP for MRLs to a new level. We sketch a strategies for designing Neural Models for MRLs (NMRL), and showcase preliminary support for these strategies via investigating the task of multi-tagging in Hebrew, a morphologically-rich, high-fusion, language.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | ACL 2020 - 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Pages | 7396-7408 |
Number of pages | 13 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781952148255 |
State | Published - 2020 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: 5 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
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ISSN (Print) | 0736-587X |
Conference
Conference | 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2020 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Virtual, Online |
Period | 5/07/20 → 10/07/20 |
Bibliographical note
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