Abstract
The problem of learning to translate between two vector spaces given a set of aligned points arises in several application areas of NLP. Current solutions assume that the lexicon which defines the alignment pairs is noise-free. We consider the case where the set of aligned points is allowed to contain an amount of noise, in the form of incorrect lexicon pairs and show that this arises in practice by analyzing the edited dictionaries after the cleaning process. We demonstrate that such noise substantially degrades the accuracy of the learned translation when using current methods. We propose a model that accounts for noisy pairs. This is achieved by introducing a generative model with a compatible iterative EM algorithm. The algorithm jointly learns the noise level in the lexicon, finds the set of noisy pairs, and learns the mapping between the spaces. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm on two alignment problems: bilingual word embedding translation, and mapping between diachronic embedding spaces for recovering the semantic shifts of words across time periods.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Long and Short Papers |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Pages | 460-465 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781950737130 |
State | Published - 2019 |
Event | 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2019 - Minneapolis, United States Duration: 2 Jun 2019 → 7 Jun 2019 |
Publication series
Name | NAACL HLT 2019 - 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Conference |
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Volume | 1 |
Conference
Conference | 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2019 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Minneapolis |
Period | 2/06/19 → 7/06/19 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019 Association for Computational Linguistics
Funding
The work was supported by The Israeli Science Foundation (grant number 1555/15), and by the Israeli ministry of Science, Technology and Space through the Israeli-French Maimonide Cooperation program. We also, thank Roee Aharoni for helpful discussions and suggestions.
Funders | Funder number |
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Israeli Science Foundation | 1555/15 |
Israeli-French Maimonide Cooperation program | |
Ministry of Science, Technology and Space | |
Israel Science Foundation |