A Graph Auto-encoder Model of Derivational Morphology

Valentin Hofmann, Hinrich Schütze, Janet Pierrehumbert


Abstract
There has been little work on modeling the morphological well-formedness (MWF) of derivatives, a problem judged to be complex and difficult in linguistics. We present a graph auto-encoder that learns embeddings capturing information about the compatibility of affixes and stems in derivation. The auto-encoder models MWF in English surprisingly well by combining syntactic and semantic information with associative information from the mental lexicon.
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2020.acl-main.106
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Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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July
Year:
2020
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Online
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Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1127–1138
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.106
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.106
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Valentin Hofmann, Hinrich Schütze, and Janet Pierrehumbert. 2020. A Graph Auto-encoder Model of Derivational Morphology. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 1127–1138, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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