LemmaTag: Jointly Tagging and Lemmatizing for Morphologically Rich Languages with BRNNs

Daniel Kondratyuk, Tomáš Gavenčiak, Milan Straka, Jan Hajič


Abstract
We present LemmaTag, a featureless neural network architecture that jointly generates part-of-speech tags and lemmas for sentences by using bidirectional RNNs with character-level and word-level embeddings. We demonstrate that both tasks benefit from sharing the encoding part of the network, predicting tag subcategories, and using the tagger output as an input to the lemmatizer. We evaluate our model across several languages with complex morphology, which surpasses state-of-the-art accuracy in both part-of-speech tagging and lemmatization in Czech, German, and Arabic.
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D18-1532
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
October-November
Year:
2018
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Brussels, Belgium
Editors:
Ellen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun’ichi Tsujii
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EMNLP
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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4921–4928
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D18-1532
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D18-1532
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Daniel Kondratyuk, Tomáš Gavenčiak, Milan Straka, and Jan Hajič. 2018. LemmaTag: Jointly Tagging and Lemmatizing for Morphologically Rich Languages with BRNNs. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 4921–4928, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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LemmaTag: Jointly Tagging and Lemmatizing for Morphologically Rich Languages with BRNNs (Kondratyuk et al., EMNLP 2018)
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Code
 hyperparticle/LemmaTag
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Universal Dependencies