Findings of the SIGMORPHON 2023 Shared Task on Interlinear Glossing

Michael Ginn, Sarah R. Moeller, Alexis Palmer, Anna Stacey, Garrett Nicolai, Mans Hulden, Miikka Silfverberg

Abstract: This paper presents the findings of the SIGMORPHON 2023 Shared Task on Interlinear Glossing. This first iteration of the shared task explores glossing of a set of six typologically diverse languages: Arapaho, Gitksan, Lezgi, Natügu, Tsez and Uspanteko. The shared task encompasses two tracks: a resource-scarce closed track and an open track, where participants are allowed to utilize external data resources. Five teams participated in the shared task. The winning team Tü-CL achieved a 23.99%-point improvement over a baseline RoBERTa system in the closed track and a 17.42%-point improvement in the open track.