Elisabeth A. Mager-Hois

BPE vs. Morphological Segmentation: A Case Study on Machine Translation of Four Polysynthetic Languages

2022 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022

Morphologically-rich polysynthetic languages present a challenge for NLP systems due to data sparsity, and a common strategy to handle this issue is to apply subword segmentation. We investigate a wide variety of supervised and unsupervised …