30.2559, Books: Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings: Søgaard, Vulić, Ruder, Faruqui

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Subject: 30.2559, Books: Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings: Søgaard, Vulić, Ruder, Faruqui

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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 15:23:55
From: Bebe Barrow [barrow at morganclaypool.com]
Subject: Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings: Søgaard, Vulić, Ruder, Faruqui

 


Title: Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings 
Series Title: Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies edited by Graeme Hirst  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
	   http://www.morganclaypool.com
	

Book URL: http://www.morganclaypoolpublishers.com/catalog_Orig/product_info.php?products_id=1419 


Author: Anders Søgaard
Author: Ivan Vulić
Author: Sebastian Ruder
Author: Manaal Faruqui

Electronic: ISBN:  9781681730646 Pages: 132 Price: U.S. $ 47.96
Hardback: ISBN:  9781681735726 Pages: 132 Price: U.S. $ 79.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781681730639 Pages: 132 Price: U.S. $ 59.95


Abstract:

The majority of natural language processing (NLP) is English language
processing, and while there is good language technology support for (standard
varieties of) English, support for Albanian, Burmese, or Cebuano—and most
other languages—remains limited. Being able to bridge this digital divide is
important for scientific and democratic reasons but also represents an
enormous growth potential. A key challenge for this to happen is learning to
align basic meaning-bearing units of different languages.

In this book, the authors survey and discuss recent and historical work on
supervised and unsupervised learning of such alignments. Specifically, the
book focuses on so-called cross-lingual word embeddings. The survey is
intended to be systematic, using consistent notation and putting the available
methods on comparable form, making it easy to compare wildly different
approaches. In so doing, the authors establish previously unreported relations
between these methods and are able to present a fast-growing literature in a
very compact way. Furthermore, the authors discuss how best to evaluate
cross-lingual word embedding methods and survey the resources available for
students and researchers interested in this topic.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=136373




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