@inproceedings{rocha-lopes-cardoso-2019-comparative,
    title = "A Comparative Analysis of Unsupervised Language Adaptation Methods",
    author = "Rocha, Gil  and
      Lopes Cardoso, Henrique",
    editor = "Cherry, Colin  and
      Durrett, Greg  and
      Foster, George  and
      Haffari, Reza  and
      Khadivi, Shahram  and
      Peng, Nanyun  and
      Ren, Xiang  and
      Swayamdipta, Swabha",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource NLP (DeepLo 2019)",
    month = nov,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Hong Kong, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/D19-6102",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/D19-6102",
    pages = "11--21",
    abstract = "To overcome the lack of annotated resources in less-resourced languages, recent approaches have been proposed to perform unsupervised language adaptation. In this paper, we explore three recent proposals: Adversarial Training, Sentence Encoder Alignment and Shared-Private Architecture. We highlight the differences of these approaches in terms of unlabeled data requirements and capability to overcome additional domain shift in the data. A comparative analysis in two different tasks is conducted, namely on Sentiment Classification and Natural Language Inference. We show that adversarial training methods are more suitable when the source and target language datasets contain other variations in content besides the language shift. Otherwise, sentence encoder alignment methods are very effective and can yield scores on the target language that are close to the source language scores.",
}