Unlabeled Data for Morphological Generation With Character-Based Sequence-to-Sequence Models

Katharina Kann, Hinrich Schütze

Abstract: We present a semi-supervised way of training a character-based encoder-decoder recurrent neural network for morphological reinflection, the task of generating one inflected word form from another. This is achieved by using unlabeled tokens or random strings as training data for an autoencoding task, adapting a network for morphological reinflection, and performing multi-task training. We thus use limited labeled data more effectively, obtaining up to 9.9% improvement over state-of-the-art baselines for 8 different languages.