Cross-Language Parser Adaptation between Related Languages
Daniel Zeman, Philip Resnik · 2008
The present paper describes an approach to adapting a parser to a new language. Presumably the target language is much poorer in linguistic resources than the source language. The technique has been tested on two European languages due to test data availability; however, it is easily applicable to any pair of sufficiently related languages, including some of the Indic language group. Our adaptation technique using existing annotations in the source language achieves performance equivalent to that obtained by training on 1546 trees in the target language. 1