Better Together: Modern Methods Plus Traditional Thinking in NP Alignment

LREC 2020 · {\'A}d{\'a}m Kov{\'a}cs, Judit {\'A}cs, Andras Kornai, G{\'a}bor Recski ·

We study a typical intermediary task to Machine Translation, the alignment of NPs in the bitext. After arguing that the task remains relevant even in an end-to-end paradigm, we present simple, dictionary- and word vector-based baselines and a BERT-based system. Our results make clear that even state of the art systems relying on the best end-to-end methods can be improved by bringing in old-fashioned methods such as stopword removal, lemmatization, and dictionaries

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