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Leveraging Pre-Trained Embeddings for Welsh Taggers. / Ezeani, Ignatius; Piao, Scott; Neale, Steven et al.
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2019): Held at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Florence, Italy: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019. p. 270-280.

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Ezeani, I, Piao, S, Neale, S, Rayson, P & Knight, D 2019, Leveraging Pre-Trained Embeddings for Welsh Taggers. in Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2019): Held at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, Florence, Italy, pp. 270-280. <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-4332>

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Ezeani, I., Piao, S., Neale, S., Rayson, P., & Knight, D. (2019). Leveraging Pre-Trained Embeddings for Welsh Taggers. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2019): Held at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp. 270-280). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-4332

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Ezeani I, Piao S, Neale S, Rayson P, Knight D. Leveraging Pre-Trained Embeddings for Welsh Taggers. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2019): Held at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Florence, Italy: Association for Computational Linguistics. 2019. p. 270-280

Author

Ezeani, Ignatius ; Piao, Scott ; Neale, Steven et al. / Leveraging Pre-Trained Embeddings for Welsh Taggers. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2019): Held at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Florence, Italy : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019. pp. 270-280

Bibtex

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abstract = "While the application of word embedding models to downstream Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks has been shown to be successful, the benefits for low-resource languages is somewhat limited due to lack of adequate data for training the models. However, NLP research efforts for low-resource languages have focused on constantly seeking ways to harness pre-trained models to improve the performance of NLP systems built to process these languages without the need to re-invent the wheel. One such language is Welsh and therefore, in this paper, we present the results of our experiments on learning a simple multi-task neural network model for part-of-speech and semantic tagging for Welsh using a pre-trained embedding model from FastText. Our model{\textquoteright}s performance was compared with those of the existing rule-based stand-alone taggers for part-of-speech and semantic taggers. Despite its simplicity and capacity to perform both tasks simultaneously, our tagger compared very well with the existing taggers.",
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