Bayesian Learning of Latent Representations of Language Structures

We borrow the concept of representation learning from deep learning research, and we argue that the quest for Greenbergian implicational universals can be reformulated as the learning of good latent representations of languages, or sequences of surface typological features. By projecting languages i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yugo Murawaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2019-06-01
Series:Computational Linguistics
Online Access:https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/coli_a_00346