原型NLP实验训练了标记为英语数据的标准体系结构,并优化了准确性,而无需考虑其他方面,例如公平,解释性或计算效率。我们通过最近对NLP研究论文的手动分类表明,确实是这种情况,并将其称为正方形的实验设置。我们观察到,NLP研究通常超出了一个平方的设置,例如,不仅关注准确性,而且关注公平或解释性,而且通常仅沿着单个维度。例如,针对多语言的大多数工作仅考虑准确性;大多数关于公平或解释性的工作仅考虑英语;等等。我们通过对最近的NLP研究论文和ACL测试奖励获得者的手动分类来展示此信息。大多数研究的这种一维意味着我们只探索NLP研究搜索空间的一部分。我们提供了一个历史和最新示例,说明了一个偏见如何导致研究人员得出错误的结论或做出不明智的选择,指出了在研究歧管上有希望但未开发的方向,并提出实用的建议以实现更多的多维研究。我们打开注释的结果,以启用https://github.com/google-research/url-nlp的进一步分析
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While the NLP community is generally aware of resource disparities among languages, we lack research that quantifies the extent and types of such disparity. Prior surveys estimating the availability of resources based on the number of datasets can be misleading as dataset quality varies: many datasets are automatically induced or translated from English data. To provide a more comprehensive picture of language resources, we examine the characteristics of 156 publicly available NLP datasets. We manually annotate how they are created, including input text and label sources and tools used to build them, and what they study, tasks they address and motivations for their creation. After quantifying the qualitative NLP resource gap across languages, we discuss how to improve data collection in low-resource languages. We survey language-proficient NLP researchers and crowd workers per language, finding that their estimated availability correlates with dataset availability. Through crowdsourcing experiments, we identify strategies for collecting high-quality multilingual data on the Mechanical Turk platform. We conclude by making macro and micro-level suggestions to the NLP community and individual researchers for future multilingual data development.
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语言可以用作再现和执行有害刻板印象和偏差的手段,并被分析在许多研究中。在本文中,我们对自然语言处理中的性别偏见进行了304篇论文。我们分析了社会科学中性别及其类别的定义,并将其连接到NLP研究中性别偏见的正式定义。我们调查了在对性别偏见的研究中应用的Lexica和数据集,然后比较和对比方法来检测和减轻性别偏见。我们发现对性别偏见的研究遭受了四个核心限制。 1)大多数研究将性别视为忽视其流动性和连续性的二元变量。 2)大部分工作都在单机设置中进行英语或其他高资源语言进行。 3)尽管在NLP方法中对性别偏见进行了无数的论文,但我们发现大多数新开发的算法都没有测试他们的偏见模型,并无视他们的工作的伦理考虑。 4)最后,在这一研究线上发展的方法基本缺陷涵盖性别偏差的非常有限的定义,缺乏评估基线和管道。我们建议建议克服这些限制作为未来研究的指导。
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多语言语言模型(\ mllms),如mbert,xlm,xlm-r,\ textit {etc。}已成为一种可行的选择,使预先估计到大量语言的力量。鉴于他们的成功在零射击转移学习中,在(i)建立更大的\ mllms〜覆盖了大量语言(ii)创建覆盖更广泛的任务和语言来评估的详尽工作基准mllms〜(iii)分析单音零点,零拍摄交叉和双语任务(iv)对Monolingual的性能,了解\ mllms〜(v)增强(通常)学习的通用语言模式(如果有的话)有限的容量\ mllms〜以提高他们在已见甚至看不见语言的表现。在这项调查中,我们审查了现有的文学,涵盖了上述与\ MLLMS有关的广泛研究领域。根据我们的调查,我们建议您有一些未来的研究方向。
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本文介绍了对土耳其语可用于的语料库和词汇资源的全面调查。我们审查了广泛的资源,重点关注公开可用的资源。除了提供有关可用语言资源的信息外,我们还提供了一组建议,并确定可用于在土耳其语言学和自然语言处理中进行研究和建筑应用的数据中的差距。
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GPT-3等大型自回归语言模型是几秒钟的学习者,可以在没有微调的情况下执行各种语言任务。虽然已知这些模型能够共同代表许多不同的语言,但他们的培训数据由英语主导,可能限制了它们的交叉概括。在这项工作中,我们在覆盖多种语言的平衡语料库上培训多语言自回归语言模型,并在广泛的任务中研究他们几乎没有零点的学习能力。我们最大的模型,具有75亿参数,在20多种代表语言中,在几种代表语言中,在几种代表性语言中,在几种代表性语言中,在多语言型号推理中表现出可比大小的GPT-3(在0次设置和0次拍摄设置中的绝对精度改善+ 7.4% 4-拍摄设置中的9.4%)和自然语言推理(每次拍摄和4次设置中的每一个+ 5.4%)。在Flores-101机器翻译基准测试中,我们的模型优于GPT-3在182个翻译方向上有32个培训例子,同时超过45个方向的官方监督基线。我们介绍了模型成功和失败的位置的详细分析,特别是它尤其显示在某些任务中实现交叉语境的内容学习,而仍然存在改善表面的鲁棒性和适应没有a的任务的余地自然冻结形式。最后,我们评估我们在仇恨语音检测中以五种语言的仇恨语音检测的模型,并发现它具有与可比大小的GPT-3模型类似的限制。
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Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) is the task of automatically detecting and correcting errors in text. The task not only includes the correction of grammatical errors, such as missing prepositions and mismatched subject-verb agreement, but also orthographic and semantic errors, such as misspellings and word choice errors respectively. The field has seen significant progress in the last decade, motivated in part by a series of five shared tasks, which drove the development of rule-based methods, statistical classifiers, statistical machine translation, and finally neural machine translation systems which represent the current dominant state of the art. In this survey paper, we condense the field into a single article and first outline some of the linguistic challenges of the task, introduce the most popular datasets that are available to researchers (for both English and other languages), and summarise the various methods and techniques that have been developed with a particular focus on artificial error generation. We next describe the many different approaches to evaluation as well as concerns surrounding metric reliability, especially in relation to subjective human judgements, before concluding with an overview of recent progress and suggestions for future work and remaining challenges. We hope that this survey will serve as comprehensive resource for researchers who are new to the field or who want to be kept apprised of recent developments.
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We survey 146 papers analyzing "bias" in NLP systems, finding that their motivations are often vague, inconsistent, and lacking in normative reasoning, despite the fact that analyzing "bias" is an inherently normative process. We further find that these papers' proposed quantitative techniques for measuring or mitigating "bias" are poorly matched to their motivations and do not engage with the relevant literature outside of NLP. Based on these findings, we describe the beginnings of a path forward by proposing three recommendations that should guide work analyzing "bias" in NLP systems. These recommendations rest on a greater recognition of the relationships between language and social hierarchies, encouraging researchers and practitioners to articulate their conceptualizations of "bias"-i.e., what kinds of system behaviors are harmful, in what ways, to whom, and why, as well as the normative reasoning underlying these statements-and to center work around the lived experiences of members of communities affected by NLP systems, while interrogating and reimagining the power relations between technologists and such communities. Anne H. Charity Hudley. 2017. Language and Racialization. In Ofelia García, Nelson Flores, and Massimiliano Spotti, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society. Oxford University Press. Won Ik Cho, Ji Won Kim, Seok Min Kim, and Nam Soo Kim. 2019. On measuring gender bias in translation of gender-neutral pronouns. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing, pages 173-181, Florence, Italy.
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两个关键假设塑造了排名检索的通常视图:(1)搜索者可以为他们希望看到的文档中的疑问选择单词,并且(2)排名检索的文档就足以,因为搜索者将足够就足够了能够认识到他们希望找到的那些。当要搜索的文档处于搜索者未知的语言时,既不是真的。在这种情况下,需要跨语言信息检索(CLIR)。本章审查了艺术技术的交流信息检索,并概述了一些开放的研究问题。
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我们想要模型的文本单位是什么?从字节到多字表达式,可以在许多粒度下分析和生成文本。直到最近,大多数自然语言处理(NLP)模型通过单词操作,将那些作为离散和原子令牌处理,但从字节对编码(BPE)开始,基于次字的方法在许多领域都变得占主导地位,使得仍然存在小词汇表允许快速推断。是道路字符级模型的结束或字节级处理吗?在这项调查中,我们通过展示和评估基于学习分割的词语和字符以及基于子字的方法的混合方法以及基于学习的分割的杂交方法,连接多行工作。我们得出结论,对于所有应用来说,并且可能永远不会成为所有应用的银子弹奇异解决方案,并且严重思考令牌化对许多应用仍然很重要。
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意大利的特征是欧洲一种一种独一无二的语言多样性格局,该景观暗中编码了当地知识,文化传统,艺术表达及其演讲者的历史。但是,意大利的30多种语言品种有几代人内消失的风险。语言技术在保存濒危语言方面具有主要作用,但是目前,它在资源不足,主要缺乏标准拼写术的品种中挣扎,主要用于口语环境。在本文中,我们介绍了意大利的语言背景,并讨论了意大利语言品种开发NLP技术面临的挑战。我们提供潜在的方向,并倡导从以机器为中心转向以说话者为中心的NLP的范式转变。最后,我们建议建立一个当地社区,旨在为意大利语言和方言的言语和语言技术负责,参与式发展。
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Despite being responsible for state-of-the-art results in several computer vision and natural language processing tasks, neural networks have faced harsh criticism due to some of their current shortcomings. One of them is that neural networks are correlation machines prone to model biases within the data instead of focusing on actual useful causal relationships. This problem is particularly serious in application domains affected by aspects such as race, gender, and age. To prevent models from incurring on unfair decision-making, the AI community has concentrated efforts in correcting algorithmic biases, giving rise to the research area now widely known as fairness in AI. In this survey paper, we provide an in-depth overview of the main debiasing methods for fairness-aware neural networks in the context of vision and language research. We propose a novel taxonomy to better organize the literature on debiasing methods for fairness, and we discuss the current challenges, trends, and important future work directions for the interested researcher and practitioner.
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本次调查绘制了用于分析社交媒体数据的生成方法的研究状态的广泛的全景照片(Sota)。它填补了空白,因为现有的调查文章在其范围内或被约会。我们包括两个重要方面,目前正在挖掘和建模社交媒体的重要性:动态和网络。社会动态对于了解影响影响或疾病的传播,友谊的形成,友谊的形成等,另一方面,可以捕获各种复杂关系,提供额外的洞察力和识别否则将不会被注意的重要模式。
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即使在高度发达的国家,多达15-30%的人口只能理解使用基本词汇编写的文本。他们对日常文本的理解是有限的,这阻止了他们在社会中发挥积极作用,并就医疗保健,法律代表或民主选择做出明智的决定。词汇简化是一项自然语言处理任务,旨在通过更简单地替换复杂的词汇和表达方式来使每个人都可以理解文本,同时保留原始含义。在过去的20年中,它引起了极大的关注,并且已经针对各种语言提出了全自动词汇简化系统。该领域进步的主要障碍是缺乏用于构建和评估词汇简化系统的高质量数据集。我们提出了一个新的基准数据集,用于英语,西班牙语和(巴西)葡萄牙语中的词汇简化,并提供有关数据选择和注释程序的详细信息。这是第一个可直接比较三种语言的词汇简化系统的数据集。为了展示数据集的可用性,我们将两种具有不同体系结构(神经与非神经)的最先进的词汇简化系统适应所有三种语言(英语,西班牙语和巴西葡萄牙语),并评估他们的表演在我们的新数据集中。为了进行更公平的比较,我们使用多种评估措施来捕获系统功效的各个方面,并讨论其优势和缺点。我们发现,最先进的神经词汇简化系统优于所有三种语言中最先进的非神经词汇简化系统。更重要的是,我们发现最先进的神经词汇简化系统对英语的表现要比西班牙和葡萄牙语要好得多。
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Code-Switching, a common phenomenon in written text and conversation, has been studied over decades by the natural language processing (NLP) research community. Initially, code-switching is intensively explored by leveraging linguistic theories and, currently, more machine-learning oriented approaches to develop models. We introduce a comprehensive systematic survey on code-switching research in natural language processing to understand the progress of the past decades and conceptualize the challenges and tasks on the code-switching topic. Finally, we summarize the trends and findings and conclude with a discussion for future direction and open questions for further investigation.
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基于变压器的语言模型最近在许多自然语言任务中取得了显着的结果。但是,通常通过利用大量培训数据来实现排行榜的性能,并且很少通过将明确的语言知识编码为神经模型。这使许多人质疑语言学对现代自然语言处理的相关性。在本文中,我介绍了几个案例研究,以说明理论语言学和神经语言模型仍然相互关联。首先,语言模型通过提供一个客观的工具来测量语义距离,这对语言学家很有用,语义距离很难使用传统方法。另一方面,语言理论通过提供框架和数据源来探究我们的语言模型,以了解语言理解的特定方面,从而有助于语言建模研究。本论文贡献了三项研究,探讨了语言模型中语法 - 听觉界面的不同方面。在论文的第一部分中,我将语言模型应用于单词类灵活性的问题。我将Mbert作为语义距离测量的来源,我提供了有利于将单词类灵活性分析为方向过程的证据。在论文的第二部分中,我提出了一种方法来测量语言模型中间层的惊奇方法。我的实验表明,包含形态句法异常的句子触发了语言模型早期的惊喜,而不是语义和常识异常。最后,在论文的第三部分中,我适应了一些心理语言学研究,以表明语言模型包含了论证结构结构的知识。总而言之,我的论文在自然语言处理,语言理论和心理语言学之间建立了新的联系,以为语言模型的解释提供新的观点。
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This position paper discusses the problem of multilingual evaluation. Using simple statistics, such as average language performance, might inject linguistic biases in favor of dominant language families into evaluation methodology. We argue that a qualitative analysis informed by comparative linguistics is needed for multilingual results to detect this kind of bias. We show in our case study that results in published works can indeed be linguistically biased and we demonstrate that visualization based on URIEL typological database can detect it.
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Much recent progress in applications of machine learning models to NLP has been driven by benchmarks that evaluate models across a wide variety of tasks. However, these broad-coverage benchmarks have been mostly limited to English, and despite an increasing interest in multilingual models, a benchmark that enables the comprehensive evaluation of such methods on a diverse range of languages and tasks is still missing. To this end, we introduce the Cross-lingual TRansfer Evaluation of Multilingual Encoders (XTREME) benchmark, a multi-task benchmark for evaluating the cross-lingual generalization capabilities of multilingual representations across 40 languages and 9 tasks. We demonstrate that while models tested on English reach human performance on many tasks, there is still a sizable gap in the performance of cross-lingually transferred models, particularly on syntactic and sentence retrieval tasks. There is also a wide spread of results across languages. We release the benchmark 1 to encourage research on cross-lingual learning methods that transfer linguistic knowledge across a diverse and representative set of languages and tasks.
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随着语言技术变得更加无处不在,越来越努力扩大自然语言处理(NLP)系统的语言分集和覆盖范围。可以说,影响现代NLP系统质量的最重要因素是数据可用性。在这项工作中,我们研究了NLP数据集的地理代表性,旨在量化NLP数据集与语言扬声器的预期需求量化。在这样做时,我们使用实体识别和链接系统,同时对其交叉量度的一致性进行重要观察,并为更强大的评估提供建议。最后,我们探讨了可能解释观察到的数据集发行版的一些地理和经济因素。此处提供代码和数据:https://github.com/ffaisal93/dataset_geography。此处提供其他可视化:https://nlp.cs.gmu.edu/project/datasetmaps/。
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在本文中,我们分享了我们努力建立能够翻译一千多种语言的实用机器翻译(MT)系统的发现。我们在三个研究领域中描述了结果:(i)通过利用半监督预训练的语言识别和开发数据驱动的过滤技术来构建1500多种语言的清洁,网挖数据集; (ii)通过利用大规模的多语言模型来开发用于服务不足的语言的实用MT模型,该模型训练了有监督的并行数据,以使用100多种高资源语言和单语言数据集,以增加1000多种语言; (iii)研究这些语言的评估指标的局限性,并对我们MT模型的输出进行定性分析,突出显示了这些类型模型的几种频繁误差模式。我们希望我们的工作为旨在为当前研究的语言构建MT系统的从业者提供有用的见解,并突出显示可以补充Data-Sparse设置中大量多语言模型的弱点的研究方向。
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