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Cross-Lingual and Low-Resource Sentiment Analysis
Identifying sentiment in a low-resource language is essential for understanding opinions internationally and for responding to the urgent needs of locals affected by disaster incidents in different world regions. While tools and resources for recognizing sentiment in high-resource languages are plentiful, determining the most effective methods for achieving this task in a low-resource language which lacks annotated data is still an open research question. Most existing approaches for cross-lingual sentiment analysis to date have relied on high-resource machine translation systems, large amounts of parallel data, or resources only available for Indo-European languages.
This work presents methods, resources, and strategies for identifying sentiment cross-lingually in a low-resource language. We introduce a cross-lingual sentiment model which can be trained on a high-resource language and applied directly to a low-resource language. The model offers the feature of lexicalizing the training data using a bilingual dictionary, but can perform well without any translation into the target language.
Through an extensive experimental analysis, evaluated on 17 target languages, we show that the model performs well with bilingual word vectors pre-trained on an appropriate translation corpus. We compare in-genre and in-domain parallel corpora, out-of-domain parallel corpora, in-domain comparable corpora, and monolingual corpora, and show that a relatively small, in-domain parallel corpus works best as a transfer medium if it is available. We describe the conditions under which other resources and embedding generation methods are successful, and these include our strategies for leveraging in-domain comparable corpora for cross-lingual sentiment analysis.
To enhance the ability of the cross-lingual model to identify sentiment in the target language, we present new feature representations for sentiment analysis that are incorporated in the cross-lingual model: bilingual sentiment embeddings that are used to create bilingual sentiment scores, and a method for updating the sentiment embeddings during training by lexicalization of the target language. This feature configuration works best for the largest number of target languages in both untargeted and targeted cross-lingual sentiment experiments.
The cross-lingual model is studied further by evaluating the role of the source language, which has traditionally been assumed to be English. We build cross-lingual models using 15 source languages, including two non-European and non-Indo-European source languages: Arabic and Chinese. We show that language families play an important role in the performance of the model, as does the morphological complexity of the source language.
In the last part of the work, we focus on sentiment analysis towards targets. We study Arabic as a representative morphologically complex language and develop models and morphological representation features for identifying entity targets and sentiment expressed towards them in Arabic open-domain text. Finally, we adapt our cross-lingual sentiment models for the detection of sentiment towards targets. Through cross-lingual experiments on Arabic and English, we demonstrate that our findings regarding resources, features, and language also hold true for the transfer of targeted sentiment
Acoustic Modelling for Under-Resourced Languages
Automatic speech recognition systems have so far been developed only for very few languages out of the 4,000-7,000 existing ones.
In this thesis we examine methods to rapidly create acoustic models in new, possibly under-resourced languages, in a time and cost effective manner. For this we examine the use of multilingual models, the application of articulatory features across languages, and the automatic discovery of word-like units in unwritten languages
Corpus-based typology: Applications, challenges and some solutions
Over the last few years, the number of corpora that can be used for language comparison has dramatically increased. The corpora are so diverse in their structure, size and annotation style, that a novice might not know where to start. The present paper charts this new and changing territory, providing a few landmarks, warning signs and safe paths. Although no corpora corpus at present can replace the traditional type of typological data based on language description in reference grammars, they corpora can help with diverse tasks, being particularly well suited for investigating probabilistic and gradient properties of languages and for discovering and interpreting cross-linguistic generalizations based on processing and communicative mechanisms. At the same time, the use of corpora for typological purposes has not only advantages and opportunities, but also numerous challenges. This paper also contains an empirical case study addressing two pertinent problems: the role of text types in language comparison and the problem of the word as a comparative concept
PREDICTING COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE FROM COORDINATED HOSTILE INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS IN SOCIAL MEDIA
The ability to predict conflicts prior to their occurrence can help deter the outbreak of collective violence and avoid human suffering. Existing approaches use statistical and machine learning models, and even social network analysis techniques; however, they are generally confined to long-range predictions in specific regions and are based on only a few languages. Understanding collective violence from signals in multiple or mixed languages in social media remains understudied. In this work, we construct a multilingual language model (MLLM) that can accept input from any language in social media, a model that is language-agnostic in nature. The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it aims to collect a multilingual violence corpus from archived Twitter data using a proposed set of heuristics that account for spatial-temporal features around past and future violent events. And second, it attempts to compare the performance of traditional machine learning classifiers against deep learning MLLMs for predicting message classes linked to past and future occurrences of violent events. Our findings suggest that MLLMs substantially outperform traditional ML models in predictive accuracy. One major contribution of our work is that military commands now have a tool to evaluate and learn the language of violence across all human languages. Finally, we made the data, code, and models publicly available.Outstanding ThesisCommander, Ecuadorian NavyApproved for public release. Distribution is unlimited
ミャンマー語テキストの形式手法による音節分割、正規化と辞書順排列
国立大学法人長岡技術科学大
Viability of Sequence Labeling Encodings for Dependency Parsing
Programa Oficial de Doutoramento en Computación . 5009V01[Abstract]
This thesis presents new methods for recasting dependency parsing as
a sequence labeling task yielding a viable alternative to the traditional
transition- and graph-based approaches. It is shown that sequence labeling
parsers provide several advantages for dependency parsing, such
as: (i) a good trade-off between accuracy and parsing speed, (ii) genericity
which enables running a parser in generic sequence labeling software
and (iii) pluggability which allows using full parse trees as features to
downstream tasks.
The backbone of dependency parsing as sequence labeling are the encodings
which serve as linearization methods for mapping dependency
trees into discrete labels, such that each token in a sentence is associated
with a label. We introduce three encoding families comprising: (i)
head selection, (ii) bracketing-based and (iii) transition-based encodings
which are differentiated by the way they represent a dependency
tree as a sequence of labels. We empirically examine the viability of
the encodings and provide an analysis of their facets.
Furthermore, we explore the feasibility of leveraging external complementary
data in order to enhance parsing performance. Our sequence
labeling parser is endowed with two kinds of representations. First,
we exploit the complementary nature of dependency and constituency
parsing paradigms and enrich the parser with representations from both
syntactic abstractions. Secondly, we use human language processing
data to guide our parser with representations from eye movements.
Overall, the results show that recasting dependency parsing as sequence
labeling is a viable approach that is fast and accurate and provides
a practical alternative for integrating syntax in NLP tasks.[Resumen]
Esta tesis presenta nuevos métodos para reformular el análisis sintáctico
de dependencias como una tarea de etiquetado secuencial, lo
que supone una alternativa viable a los enfoques tradicionales basados
en transiciones y grafos. Se demuestra que los analizadores de etiquetado
secuencial ofrecen varias ventajas para el análisis sintáctico de
dependencias, como por ejemplo (i) un buen equilibrio entre la precisión
y la velocidad de análisis, (ii) la genericidad que permite ejecutar
un analizador en un software genérico de etiquetado secuencial y (iii)
la conectividad que permite utilizar el árbol de análisis completo como
características para las tareas posteriores.
El pilar del análisis sintáctico de dependencias como etiquetado secuencial
son las codificaciones que sirven como métodos de linealización
para transformar los árboles de dependencias en etiquetas discretas, de
forma que cada token de una frase se asocia con una etiqueta. Introducimos
tres familias de codificación que comprenden: (i) selección de
núcleos, (ii) codificaciones basadas en corchetes y (iii) codificaciones basadas
en transiciones que se diferencian por la forma en que representan
un árbol de dependencias como una secuencia de etiquetas. Examinamos
empíricamente la viabilidad de las codificaciones y ofrecemos un
análisis de sus facetas.
Además, exploramos la viabilidad de aprovechar datos complementarios
externos para mejorar el rendimiento del análisis sintáctico. Dotamos
a nuestro analizador sintáctico de dos tipos de representaciones. En
primer lugar, explotamos la naturaleza complementaria de los paradigmas
de análisis sintáctico de dependencias y constituyentes, enriqueciendo
el analizador sintáctico con representaciones de ambas abstracciones
sintácticas. En segundo lugar, utilizamos datos de procesamiento del
lenguaje humano para guiar nuestro analizador con representaciones de
los movimientos oculares.
En general, los resultados muestran que la reformulación del análisis
sintáctico de dependencias como etiquetado de secuencias es un enfoque
viable, rápido y preciso, y ofrece una alternativa práctica para integrar
la sintaxis en las tareas de PLN.[Resumo]
Esta tese presenta novos métodos para reformular a análise sintáctica
de dependencias como unha tarefa de etiquetaxe secuencial, o que
supón unha alternativa viable aos enfoques tradicionais baseados en
transicións e grafos. Demóstrase que os analizadores de etiquetaxe secuencial
ofrecen varias vantaxes para a análise sintáctica de dependencias,
por exemplo (i) un bo equilibrio entre a precisión e a velocidade
de análise, (ii) a xenericidade que permite executar un analizador nun
software xenérico de etiquetaxe secuencial e (iii) a conectividade que
permite empregar a árbore de análise completa como características
para as tarefas posteriores.
O piar da análise sintáctica de dependencias como etiquetaxe secuencial
son as codificacións que serven como métodos de linealización para
transformar as árbores de dependencias en etiquetas discretas, de forma
que cada token dunha frase se asocia cunha etiqueta. Introducimos
tres familias de codificación que comprenden: (i) selección de núcleos,
(ii) codificacións baseadas en corchetes e (iii) codificacións baseadas en
transicións que se diferencian pola forma en que representan unha árbore
de dependencia como unha secuencia de etiquetas. Examinamos
empíricamente a viabilidade das codificacións e ofrecemos unha análise
das súas facetas.
Ademais, exploramos a viabilidade de aproveitar datos complementarios
externos para mellorar o rendemento da análise sintáctica. O noso
analizador sintáctico de etiquetaxe secuencial está dotado de dous tipos
de representacións. En primeiro lugar, explotamos a natureza complementaria
dos paradigmas de análise sintáctica de dependencias e constituíntes
e enriquecemos o analizador sintáctico con representacións de
ambas abstraccións sintácticas. En segundo lugar, empregamos datos
de procesamento da linguaxe humana para guiar o noso analizador con
representacións dos movementos oculares.
En xeral, os resultados mostran que a reformulación da análise sintáctico
de dependencias como etiquetaxe de secuencias é un enfoque
viable, rápido e preciso, e ofrece unha alternativa práctica para integrar
a sintaxe nas tarefas de PLN.This work has been carried out thanks to the funding from
the European Research Council (ERC), under the European Union’s
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (FASTPARSE, grant
agreement No 714150)