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Morphological Segmentation Inside-Out
Ryan Cotterell, Arun Kumar, Hinrich Schütze
Morphological segmentation has traditionally been modeled with non-hierarchical models, which yield flat segmentations as output. In many cases, however, proper morphological analy…
Quantifying the Semantic Core of Gender Systems
Adina Williams, Ryan Cotterell, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin +2
Many of the world's languages employ grammatical gender on the lexeme. For example, in Spanish, the word for 'house' (casa) is feminine, whereas the word for 'paper' (papel) is mas…
Don't Forget the Long Tail! A Comprehensive Analysis of Morphological Generalization in Bilingual Lexicon Induction
Paula Czarnowska, Sebastian Ruder, Edouard Grave +2
Human translators routinely have to translate rare inflections of words - due to the Zipfian distribution of words in a language. When translating from Spanish, a good translator w…
The SIGMORPHON 2019 Shared Task: Morphological Analysis in Context and Cross-Lingual Transfer for Inflection
Arya D. McCarthy, Ekaterina Vylomova, Shijie Wu +9
The SIGMORPHON 2019 shared task on cross-lingual transfer and contextual analysis in morphology examined transfer learning of inflection between 100 language pairs, as well as cont…
Examining Gender Bias in Languages with Grammatical Gender
Pei Zhou, Weijia Shi, Jieyu Zhao +4
Recent studies have shown that word embeddings exhibit gender bias inherited from the training corpora. However, most studies to date have focused on quantifying and mitigating suc…
It's All in the Name: Mitigating Gender Bias with Name-Based Counterfactual Data Substitution
Rowan Hall Maudslay, Hila Gonen, Ryan Cotterell +1
This paper treats gender bias latent in word embeddings. Previous mitigation attempts rely on the operationalisation of gender bias as a projection over a linear subspace. An alter…