Quantifying Linguistic Variation

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• Max Müller-Eberstein, IT University of Copenhagen
• Thursday 13 October 2022, 11:00-12:00
• GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

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Variation in language is ubiquitous, but difficult to define. Starting from Natural Language Processing’s more pragmatic definition that an increase in distributional shift leads to decreases in transferability, we search for quantitative measures of linguistic variation. By identifying subspaces in latent representations which relate to specific syntactic and semantic features, we attempt to disentangle interpretable dimensions of variation. This segmentation allows us to identify suitable data for transfer learning in specialized low-resource scenarios as well as to accurately evaluate the robustness of pre-trained models before fine-tuning them.

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