Morpho-syntactic Lexicon Generation Using Graph-based Semi-supervised Learning
Published
2016-01-23
Manaal Faruqui
,
Ryan McDonald
,
Radu Soricut
Manaal Faruqui
Carnegie Mellon University
Ryan McDonald
Google Inc.
Radu Soricut
Google Inc.
Abstract
Morpho-syntactic lexicons provide information about the morphological and syntactic roles of words in a language. Such lexicons are not available for all languages and even when available, their coverage can be limited. We present a graph-based semi-supervised learning method that uses the morphological, syntactic and semantic relations between words to automatically construct wide coverage lexicons from small seed sets. Our method is language-independent, and we show that we can expand a 1000 word seed lexicon to more than 100 times its size with high quality for 11 languages. In addition, the automatically created lexicons provide features that improve performance in two downstream tasks: morphological tagging and dependency parsing.
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