Morphology is not just a naive Bayes – UniMelb Submission to SIGMORPHON 2022 ST on Morphological Inflection

Andreas Sherbakov, Ekaterina Vylomova


Abstract
The paper describes the Flexica team’s submission to the SIGMORPHON 2022 Shared Task 1 Part 1: Typologically Diverse Morphological Inflection. Our team submitted a nonneural system that extracted transformation patterns from alignments between a lemma and inflected forms. For each inflection category, we chose a pattern based on its abstractness score. The system outperformed the non-neural baseline, the extracted patterns covered a substantial part of possible inflections. However, we discovered that such score that does not account for all possible combinations of string segments as well as morphosyntactic features is not sufficient for a certain proportion of inflection cases.
Anthology ID:
2022.sigmorphon-1.25
Volume:
Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
Month:
July
Year:
2022
Address:
Seattle, Washington
Editors:
Garrett Nicolai, Eleanor Chodroff
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SIGMORPHON
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SIGMORPHON
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
240–246
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.sigmorphon-1.25
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.sigmorphon-1.25
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Andreas Sherbakov and Ekaterina Vylomova. 2022. Morphology is not just a naive Bayes – UniMelb Submission to SIGMORPHON 2022 ST on Morphological Inflection. In Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pages 240–246, Seattle, Washington. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Morphology is not just a naive Bayes – UniMelb Submission to SIGMORPHON 2022 ST on Morphological Inflection (Sherbakov & Vylomova, SIGMORPHON 2022)
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