Patrick Littell

Choosing Transfer Languages for Cross-Lingual Learning

2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Cross-lingual transfer, where a high-resource transfer language is used to improve the accuracy of a low-resource task language, is now an invaluable tool for improving performance of natural language processing (NLP) on low-resource languages. However, …

Neural Polysynthetic Language Modelling.

2020

Many techniques in modern computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP) make the assumption that approaches that work well on English and other widely used European (and sometimes Asian) languages are “language agnostic” – that …

Polyglot Neural Language Models: A Case Study in Cross-Lingual Phonetic Representation Learning

2016

Yulia Tsvetkov, Sunayana Sitaram, Manaal Faruqui, Guillaume Lample, Patrick Littell, David Mortensen, Alan W Black, Lori Levin, Chris Dyer. Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: …

URIEL and lang2vec: Representing languages as typological, geographical, and phylogenetic vectors

2017

Patrick Littell, David R. Mortensen, Ke Lin, Katherine Kairis, Carlisle Turner, Lori Levin. Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers. 2017.