Towards Unsupervised Morphological Analysis of Polysynthetic Languages ...

• Main Authors: Association for Computational Linguistics 2022, Khandagale, Sujay
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Underline Science Inc. 2022
• Subjects: Natural Language Processing; inuktitut
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48448/8m5w-vq37; https://underline.io/lecture/64698-towards-unsupervised-morphological-analysis-of-polysynthetic-languages

Polysynthetic languages present a challenge for morphological analysis due to the complexity of their words and the lack of high-quality annotated datasets needed to build and/or evaluate computational models. The contribution of this work is twofold. First, using linguists’ help, we generate and contribute high-quality annotated data for two low-resource polysynthetic languages for two tasks: morphological segmentation and part-of-speech (POS) tagging. Second, we present the results of state-of-the-art unsupervised approaches for these two tasks on Adyghe and Inuktitut. Our findings show that for these polysynthetic languages, using linguistic priors helps the task of morphological segmentation and that using stems rather than words as the core unit of abstraction leads to superior performance on POS tagging. To view the proceedings, please click here (https://aclanthology.org/2022.aacl-short.41/) ...