Cross-Lingual Dependency Parsing with Late Decoding for Truly Low-Resource Languages

01/06/2017 ∙ by Michael Sejr Schlichtkrull, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

In cross-lingual dependency annotation projection, information is often lost during transfer because of early decoding. We present an end-to-end graph-based neural network dependency parser that can be trained to reproduce matrices of edge scores, which can be directly projected across word alignments. We show that our approach to cross-lingual dependency parsing is not only simpler, but also achieves an absolute improvement of 2.25 compared to the previous state of the art.

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