@inproceedings{han-etal-2019-multilingual,
    title = "Multilingual Grammar Induction with Continuous Language Identification",
    author = "Han, Wenjuan  and
      Wang, Ge  and
      Jiang, Yong  and
      Tu, Kewei",
    editor = "Inui, Kentaro  and
      Jiang, Jing  and
      Ng, Vincent  and
      Wan, Xiaojun",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)",
    month = nov,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Hong Kong, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/D19-1576/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/D19-1576",
    pages = "5728--5733",
    abstract = "The key to multilingual grammar induction is to couple grammar parameters of different languages together by exploiting the similarity between languages. Previous work relies on linguistic phylogenetic knowledge to specify similarity between languages. In this work, we propose a novel universal grammar induction approach that represents language identities with continuous vectors and employs a neural network to predict grammar parameters based on the representation. Without any prior linguistic phylogenetic knowledge, we automatically capture similarity between languages with the vector representations and softly tie the grammar parameters of different languages. In our experiments, we apply our approach to 15 languages across 8 language families and subfamilies in the Universal Dependency Treebank dataset, and we observe substantial performance gain on average over monolingual and multilingual baselines."
}