我们在W-Nut 2021（范德Goot等，2021A）中向多语言词汇标准化（多群体）共享任务提供了胜利的进入，该任务在11种语言中评估了12个社交媒体数据集的词汇标准化系统。我们将解决我们的解决方案基于预训练的字节级语言模型，Byt5（Xue等人，2021A），我们进一步列入合成数据，然后对真实标准化数据进行微调。我们的系统通过内在评估中的广泛保证金实现了最佳性能，以及通过依赖解析中的外在评估中的最佳性能。源代码在https://github.com/ufal/molilexnorm2021和https://huggingface.co/ufal的微调模型中发布。

本文提出了一个简单的食谱，用于训练最先进的多语言语法误差校正（GEC）模型。我们首先提出一种语言不足的方法来实现这一目标，以生成大量的合成示例。第二个成分是使用大规模的多语言模型（最多11B参数）。一旦对特定于语言的监督集进行了微调，我们就会以四种语言的GEC基准进行以前的最新结果：英语，捷克语，德语和俄语。在为GEC建立了一套新的基线后，我们通过释放Clang-8数据集使结果可以轻松地重现和访问。它是通过使用我们称为GT5的最佳型号来清洁广泛使用但嘈杂的Lang-8数据集的目标而产生的。 Clang-8极大地简化了由多个微调阶段组成的典型GEC训练管道 - 我们证明，使用现成的语言模型在Clang-8上执行单个微调步骤，可以进一步改善已经是顶级的，为英语执行GT5型号。

The BERT family of neural language models have become highly popular due to their ability to provide sequences of text with rich context-sensitive token encodings which are able to generalise well to many NLP tasks. We introduce gaBERT, a monolingual BERT model for the Irish language. We compare our gaBERT model to multilingual BERT and the monolingual Irish WikiBERT, and we show that gaBERT provides better representations for a downstream parsing task. We also show how different filtering criteria, vocabulary size and the choice of subword tokenisation model affect downstream performance. We compare the results of fine-tuning a gaBERT model with an mBERT model for the task of identifying verbal multiword expressions, and show that the fine-tuned gaBERT model also performs better at this task. We release gaBERT and related code to the community.

Transfer learning, where a model is first pre-trained on a data-rich task before being finetuned on a downstream task, has emerged as a powerful technique in natural language processing (NLP). The effectiveness of transfer learning has given rise to a diversity of approaches, methodology, and practice. In this paper, we explore the landscape of transfer learning techniques for NLP by introducing a unified framework that converts all text-based language problems into a text-to-text format. Our systematic study compares pre-training objectives, architectures, unlabeled data sets, transfer approaches, and other factors on dozens of language understanding tasks. By combining the insights from our exploration with scale and our new "Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus", we achieve state-of-the-art results on many benchmarks covering summarization, question answering, text classification, and more. To facilitate future work on transfer learning for NLP, we release our data set, pre-trained models, and code.

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.

特定于语言的预训练模型已被证明比单语说在单语法评估设置中更准确，阿拉伯语也不例外。但是，我们发现先前发布的阿拉伯伯特模型显着培训。在这本技术报告中，我们展示了Jaber，Junior Arabic Bert，我们的预用语言模型原型专用于阿拉伯语。我们进行实证研究，以系统地评估模型在各种现有阿拉伯语NLU任务中的性能。实验结果表明，Jaber实现了Alue的最先进的表演，这是阿拉伯语了解评估的新基准，以及成熟的内部基准

与标准命名实体识别（NER）相比，在历史文本中识别人，位置和组织是一个巨大的挑战。为了获得机器可读的语料库，通常需要扫描历史文本，并且需要执行光学特征识别（OCR）。结果，历史文献包含错误。此外，位置或组织等实体可以随着时间的推移而改变，这构成了另一个挑战。总体而言，历史文本带有几种特殊性，这些特殊性与现代文本有很大不同，并且在该领域几乎无法使用训练神经标记器的大型标记的Corpora。在这项工作中，我们通过培训大型历史语言模型来解决历史，英语，法语，瑞典语和芬兰语的历史文献。我们通过使用未标记的数据预处理语言模型来规避大量标记数据的需求。我们提出了Hmbert，这是一种历史多语言基于BERT的语言模型，并以多种不同大小的版本发布该模型。此外，我们通过解决下游NER作为今年HIPE-2022共享任务的一部分来评估HMBERT的能力，并提供详细的分析和见解。对于多种语言的经典评论粗粒ner挑战，我们的标记者Histeria的表现优于其他团队的三种语言中的其他团队的模型。

预先训练的上下文化文本表示模型学习自然语言的有效表示，以使IT机器可以理解。在注意机制的突破之后，已经提出了新一代预磨模的模型，以便自变压器引入以来实现了良好的性能。来自变压器（BERT）的双向编码器表示已成为语言理解的最先进的模型。尽管取得了成功，但大多数可用的型号已经在印度欧洲语言中培训，但是对代表性的语言和方言的类似研究仍然稀疏。在本文中，我们调查了培训基于单语言变换器的语言模型的可行性，以获得代表语言的特定重点是突尼斯方言。我们评估了我们的语言模型对情感分析任务，方言识别任务和阅读理解问答任务。我们表明使用嘈杂的Web爬网数据而不是结构化数据（维基百科，文章等）更方便这些非标准化语言。此外，结果表明，相对小的Web爬网数据集导致与使用较大数据集获得的那些表现相同的性能。最后，我们在所有三个下游任务中达到或改善了最先进的Tunbert模型。我们释放出Tunbert净化模型和用于微调的数据集。

Text generation has made significant advances in the last few years. Yet, evaluation metrics have lagged behind, as the most popular choices (e.g., BLEU and ROUGE) may correlate poorly with human judgments. We propose BLEURT, a learned evaluation metric based on BERT that can model human judgments with a few thousand possibly biased training examples. A key aspect of our approach is a novel pre-training scheme that uses millions of synthetic examples to help the model generalize. BLEURT provides state-ofthe-art results on the last three years of the WMT Metrics shared task and the WebNLG Competition dataset. In contrast to a vanilla BERT-based approach, it yields superior results even when the training data is scarce and out-of-distribution.

BERT，ROBERTA或GPT-3等复杂的基于注意力的语言模型的外观已允许在许多场景中解决高度复杂的任务。但是，当应用于特定域时，这些模型会遇到相当大的困难。诸如Twitter之类的社交网络就是这种情况，Twitter是一种不断变化的信息流，以非正式和复杂的语言编写的信息流，鉴于人类的重要作用，每个信息都需要仔细评估，即使人类也需要理解。通过自然语言处理解决该领域的任务涉及严重的挑战。当将强大的最先进的多语言模型应用于这种情况下，特定语言的细微差别用来迷失翻译。为了面对这些挑战，我们提出了\ textbf {bertuit}，这是迄今为止针对西班牙语提出的较大变压器，使用Roberta Optimization进行了230m西班牙推文的大规模数据集进行了预培训。我们的动机是提供一个强大的资源，以更好地了解西班牙Twitter，并用于专注于该社交网络的应用程序，特别强调致力于解决该平台中错误信息传播的解决方案。对Bertuit进行了多个任务评估，并与M-Bert，XLM-Roberta和XLM-T进行了比较，该任务非常具有竞争性的多语言变压器。在这种情况下，使用应用程序显示了我们方法的实用性：一种可视化骗局和分析作者群体传播虚假信息的零击方法。错误的信息在英语以外的其他语言等平台上疯狂地传播，这意味着在英语说话之外转移时，变形金刚的性能可能会受到影响。

Pre-training is an effective technique for ensuring robust performance on a variety of machine learning tasks. It typically depends on large-scale crawled corpora that can result in toxic or biased models. Such data can also be problematic with respect to copyright, attribution, and privacy. Pre-training with synthetic tasks and data is a promising way of alleviating such concerns since no real-world information is ingested by the model. Our goal in this paper is to understand what makes for a good pre-trained model when using synthetic resources. We answer this question in the context of neural machine translation by considering two novel approaches to translation model pre-training. Our first approach studies the effect of pre-training on obfuscated data derived from a parallel corpus by mapping words to a vocabulary of 'nonsense' tokens. Our second approach explores the effect of pre-training on procedurally generated synthetic parallel data that does not depend on any real human language corpus. Our empirical evaluation on multiple language pairs shows that, to a surprising degree, the benefits of pre-training can be realized even with obfuscated or purely synthetic parallel data. In our analysis, we consider the extent to which obfuscated and synthetic pre-training techniques can be used to mitigate the issue of hallucinated model toxicity.

This paper demonstrates that multilingual denoising pre-training produces significant performance gains across a wide variety of machine translation (MT) tasks. We present mBART -a sequence-to-sequence denoising auto-encoder pre-trained on large-scale monolingual corpora in many languages using the BART objective . mBART is the first method for pre-training a complete sequence-to-sequence model by denoising full texts in multiple languages, while previous approaches have focused only on the encoder, decoder, or reconstructing parts of the text. Pre-training a complete model allows it to be directly fine tuned for supervised (both sentence-level and document-level) and unsupervised machine translation, with no task-specific modifications. We demonstrate that adding mBART initialization produces performance gains in all but the highest-resource settings, including up to 12 BLEU points for low resource MT and over 5 BLEU points for many document-level and unsupervised models. We also show it also enables new types of transfer to language pairs with no bi-text or that were not in the pre-training corpus, and present extensive analysis of which factors contribute the most to effective pre-training.

随着预培训的语言模型变得更加要求资源，因此资源丰富的语言（例如英语和资源筛选）语言之间的不平等正在恶化。这可以归因于以下事实：每种语言中的可用培训数据量都遵循幂律分布，并且大多数语言都属于分布的长尾巴。一些研究领域试图缓解这个问题。例如，在跨语言转移学习和多语言培训中，目标是通过从资源丰富的语言中获得的知识使长尾语言受益。尽管成功，但现有工作主要集中于尝试尽可能多的语言。结果，有针对性的深入分析主要不存在。在这项研究中，我们专注于单一的低资源语言，并使用跨语性培训（XPT）进行广泛的评估和探测实验。为了使转移方案具有挑战性，我们选择韩语作为目标语言，因为它是一种孤立的语言，因此与英语几乎没有类型的分类。结果表明，XPT不仅优于表现或与单语模型相当，该模型训练有大小的数据，而且在传输过程中也很高。

多语种NMT已成为MT在生产中部署的有吸引力的解决方案。但是要匹配双语质量，它符合较大且较慢的型号。在这项工作中，我们考虑了几种方法在推理时更快地使多语言NMT变得更快而不会降低其质量。我们在两种20语言多平行设置中尝试几个“光解码器”架构：在TED会谈中小规模和帕拉克曲线上的大规模。我们的实验表明，将具有词汇过滤的浅解码器组合在于，在翻译质量下没有损失的速度超过两倍。我们用Bleu和Chrf（380语言对），鲁棒性评估和人类评估验证了我们的研究结果。

由于当前语法纠错（GEC）任务中缺乏并行数据，基于序列框架的模型不能充分培训以获得更高的性能。我们提出了两个数据合成方法，可以控制误差率和合成数据对误差类型的比率。第一种方法是用固定概率损坏单声道语料库中的每个单词，包括更换，插入和删除。另一种方法是培训误差生成模型并进一步过滤模型的解码结果。对不同合成数据的实验表明，误差率为40％，误差类型的比率相同，可以提高模型性能。最后，我们综合了大约1亿数据并实现了与现有技术的可比性，它使用了我们使用的两倍。

Understanding customer feedback is becoming a necessity for companies to identify problems and improve their products and services. Text classification and sentiment analysis can play a major role in analyzing this data by using a variety of machine and deep learning approaches. In this work, different transformer-based models are utilized to explore how efficient these models are when working with a German customer feedback dataset. In addition, these pre-trained models are further analyzed to determine if adapting them to a specific domain using unlabeled data can yield better results than off-the-shelf pre-trained models. To evaluate the models, two downstream tasks from the GermEval 2017 are considered. The experimental results show that transformer-based models can reach significant improvements compared to a fastText baseline and outperform the published scores and previous models. For the subtask Relevance Classification, the best models achieve a micro-averaged $F1$-Score of 96.1 % on the first test set and 95.9 % on the second one, and a score of 85.1 % and 85.3 % for the subtask Polarity Classification.

我们提出了一种基于角色的非自由前口GEC方法，自动生成的字符变换。最近，校正编辑的每字分类已经证明了当前编码器解码器GEC系统有效，并行化替代方案。我们表明替换编辑可能是次优，导致形态学上丰富的语言中拼写，虚拟化和误差的规则爆炸，并提出了一种从GEC语料库产生字符变换的方法。最后，与宣传系统相比，我们培训捷克，德国和俄罗斯，达到固体成果和戏剧性加速的人物转型模型。源代码在https://github.com/ufal/wnut2021_character_transformations_gec发布。

在本文中，我们介绍了TweetNLP，这是社交媒体中自然语言处理（NLP）的集成平台。TweetNLP支持一套多样化的NLP任务，包括诸如情感分析和命名实体识别的通用重点领域，以及社交媒体特定的任务，例如表情符号预测和进攻性语言识别。特定于任务的系统由专门用于社交媒体文本的合理大小的基于变压器的语言模型（尤其是Twitter）提供动力，无需专用硬件或云服务即可运行。TweetNLP的主要贡献是：（1）使用适合社会领域的各种特定于任务的模型，用于支持社交媒体分析的现代工具包的集成python库；（2）使用我们的模型进行无编码实验的交互式在线演示；（3）涵盖各种典型社交媒体应用的教程。

对于自然语言处理应用可能是有问题的，因为它们的含义不能从其构成词语推断出来。缺乏成功的方法方法和足够大的数据集防止了用于检测成语的机器学习方法的开发，特别是对于在训练集中不发生的表达式。我们提出了一种叫做小鼠的方法，它使用上下文嵌入来实现此目的。我们展示了一个新的多字表达式数据集，具有文字和惯用含义，并使用它根据两个最先进的上下文单词嵌入式培训分类器：Elmo和Bert。我们表明，使用两个嵌入式的深度神经网络比现有方法更好地执行，并且能够检测惯用词使用，即使对于训练集中不存在的表达式。我们展示了开发模型的交叉传输，并分析了所需数据集的大小。

This paper presents the work of restoring punctuation for ASR transcripts generated by multilingual ASR systems. The focus languages are English, Mandarin, and Malay which are three of the most popular languages in Singapore. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first system that can tackle punctuation restoration for these three languages simultaneously. Traditional approaches usually treat the task as a sequential labeling task, however, this work adopts a slot-filling approach that predicts the presence and type of punctuation marks at each word boundary. The approach is similar to the Masked-Language Model approach employed during the pre-training stages of BERT, but instead of predicting the masked word, our model predicts masked punctuation. Additionally, we find that using Jieba1 instead of only using the built-in SentencePiece tokenizer of XLM-R can significantly improve the performance of punctuating Mandarin transcripts. Experimental results on English and Mandarin IWSLT2022 datasets and Malay News show that the proposed approach achieved state-of-the-art results for Mandarin with 73.8% F1-score while maintaining a reasonable F1-score for English and Malay, i.e. 74.7% and 78% respectively. Our source code that allows reproducing the results and building a simple web-based application for demonstration purposes is available on Github.