Abstract
The adaptation of neural approaches to NLP is a landmark achievement that has called into question the utility of linguistics in the development of computational systems. This research proposal consequently explores this question in the context of a neural morphological analyzer for a polysynthetic language, St. Lawrence Island Yupik. It asks whether incorporating elements of Yupik linguistics into the implementation of the analyzer can improve performance, both in low-resource settings and in high-resource settings, where rich quantities of data are readily available.- Anthology ID:
- P19-2004
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Florence, Italy
- Editors:
- Fernando Alva-Manchego, Eunsol Choi, Daniel Khashabi
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 27–33
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/P19-2004
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/P19-2004
- Cite (ACL):
- Emily Chen. 2019. Measuring the Value of Linguistics: A Case Study from St. Lawrence Island Yupik. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, pages 27–33, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Measuring the Value of Linguistics: A Case Study from St. Lawrence Island Yupik (Chen, ACL 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-1/P19-2004.pdf