Cross-lingual alignment transfer: a chicken-and-egg story?

Lauriane Aufrant, Guillaume Wisniewski, François Yvon

Abstract: In this paper, we challenge a basic assumption of many cross-lingual transfer techniques: the availability of word aligned parallel corpora, and consider ways to accommodate situations in which such resources do not exist. We show experimentally that, here again, weakly supervised cross-lingual learning techniques can prove useful, once adapted to transfer knowledge across pairs of languages.