Summary of Neural Proto-language Reconstruction, by Chenxuan Cui et al.
Neural Proto-Language Reconstruction
by Chenxuan Cui, Ying Chen, Qinxin Wang, David R. Mortensen
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A crucial challenge in linguistics is reconstructing proto-forms from ancient languages. Recent advancements in computational models like RNN and Transformers have shown promise in automating this process. This paper presents three innovative approaches to improve upon existing methods. First, data augmentation is used to recover missing reflexes. Second, a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) structure is added to the Transformer model for proto-to-language prediction. Third, a neural machine translation model is employed for reconstruction tasks. The results show that incorporating the VAE structure into the Transformer model significantly improves performance on the WikiHan dataset, while data augmentation helps stabilize training. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Linguists have long struggled to rebuild ancient languages. Computers can now help with this task. This paper shares three new ways to make computers better at this job. The first idea is to add more information to help the computer learn. The second approach combines two powerful models to get better results. Finally, a special translation model is used to recreate ancient languages. The research shows that combining these approaches makes the computer much better at rebuilding ancient languages, and helps it learn faster too. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Data augmentation » Rnn » Transformer » Translation » Variational autoencoder
