2019 ACL ACL 2019

Measuring the Value of Linguistics: A Case Study from St. Lawrence Island Yupik

Abstract

AbstractThe 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.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Interdisciplinary and Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — neural morphological analyzer
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Speech & Audio

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