Semi-supervised Learning Framework for Cross-Lingual Projection

PengLong Hu, Mo Yu, Jing Li, Conghui Zhu, Tiejun Zhao

Abstract: Cross-lingual projection encounters two major challenges, the noise from word-alignment error and the syntactic divergences between two languages. To solve these two problems, a semi-supervised learning framework of cross-lingual projection is proposed to get better annotations using parallel data. Moreover, a projection model is introduced to model the projection process of labeling from the resource-rich language to the resource-scarce language. The projection model, together with the traditional target model of cross-lingual projection, can be seen as two views of parallel data. Utilizing these two views, an extension of co-training algorithm to structured predictions is designed to boost the result of the two models. Experiments show that the proposed cross-lingual projection method improves the accuracy in the task of POS-tagging projection. And using only one-to-one alignments proves to lead to more accurate results than using all kinds of alignment information.