Conference Proceedings
Contextualization of Morphological Inflection
Ekaterina Vylomova, Ryan Cotterell, Timothy Baldwin, Trevor Cohn, Jason Eisner
CoRR | Association for Computational Linguistics | Published : 2019
DOI: 10.18653/v1/n19-1203
Abstract
Critical to natural language generation is the production of correctly inflected text. In this paper, we isolate the task of predicting a fully inflected sentence from its partially lemmatized version. Unlike traditional morphological inflection or surface realization, our task input does not provide ``gold'' tags that specify what morphological features to realize on each lemmatized word; rather, such features must be inferred from sentential context. We develop a neural hybrid graphical model that explicitly reconstructs morphological features before predicting the inflected forms, and compare this to a system that directly predicts the inflected forms without relying on any morphological ..
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