Correlation of Typological Distance and Performance Degradation in Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Semantic Parsing

Abstract

Abstract: The availability of corpora to train semantic parsers in English has lead to significant advances in the field. Unfortunately, for languages other than English, annotation is scarce and so are developed parsers. We then ask: could a parser trained in English be applied to language that it hasn't been trained on? To answer this question we explore zero-shot cross-lingual semantic parsing where we train an available coarse-to-fine semantic parser (Liu et al., 2018) using cross-lingual word embeddings and universal dependencies in English and test it on Italian, German and Dutch. Results on the P

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To what extent does the typological distance between the intermediate English task and the target language correlate with performance degradation in zero-shot cross-lingual semantic parsing?

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