Systematic Investigation of Strategies Tailored for Low-Resource Settings for Low-Resource Dependency Parsing

Jivnesh Sandhan, Laxmidhar Behera, Pawan Goyal


Abstract
In this work, we focus on low-resource dependency parsing for multiple languages. Several strategies are tailored to enhance performance in low-resource scenarios. While these are well-known to the community, it is not trivial to select the best-performing combination of these strategies for a low-resource language that we are interested in, and not much attention has been given to measuring the efficacy of these strategies. We experiment with 5 low-resource strategies for our ensembled approach on 7 Universal Dependency (UD) low-resource languages. Our exhaustive experimentation on these languages supports the effective improvements for languages not covered in pretrained models. We show a successful application of the ensembled system on a truly low-resource language Sanskrit. The code and data are available at: https://github.com/Jivnesh/SanDP
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2023.eacl-main.158
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Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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May
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2023
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Dubrovnik, Croatia
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Andreas Vlachos, Isabelle Augenstein
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2164–2171
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10.18653/v1/2023.eacl-main.158
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Jivnesh Sandhan, Laxmidhar Behera, and Pawan Goyal. 2023. Systematic Investigation of Strategies Tailored for Low-Resource Settings for Low-Resource Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 2164–2171, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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