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    "abstract": "For languages with no annotated resources, unsupervised transfer of natural language processing models such as named-entity recognition (NER) from resource-rich languages would be an appealing capability. However, differences in words and word order across languages make it a challenging problem. To improve mapping of lexical items across languages, we propose a method that finds translations based on bilingual word embeddings. To improve robustness to word order differences, we propose to use self-attention, which allows for a degree of flexibility with respect to word order. We demonstrate that these methods achieve state-of-the-art or competitive NER performance on commonly tested languages under a cross-lingual setting, with much lower resource requirements than past approaches. We also evaluate the challenges of applying these methods to Uyghur, a lowresource language. 1",
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                "text": "Named entity recognition (NER), the task of detecting and classifying named entities from text into a few predefined categories such as people, locations or organizations, has seen the state-of-theart greatly advanced by the introduction of neural architectures (Collobert et al., 2011; Huang et al., 2015; Chiu and Nichols, 2016; Lample et al., 2016; Yang et al., 2016; Ma and Hovy, 2016; Peters et al., 2017; Liu et al., 2018; Peters et al., 2018 ). However, the success of these methods is highly dependent on a reasonably large amount of annotated training data, and thus it remains a challenge to apply these models to languages with limited amounts of labeled data. Cross-lingual NER attempts to address this challenge by transferring knowledge from a high-resource source language with abundant entity labels to a low-resource target language with few or no labels. Specifically, in this paper we attempt to tackle the extreme scenario of unsupervised transfer, where no labeled data is available in the target language. Within this paradigm, there are two major challenges to tackle: how to effectively perform lexical mapping between the languages, and how to address word order differences.",
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                "text": "To cope with the first challenge of lexical mapping, a number of methods use parallel corpora to project annotations between languages through word alignment (Ehrmann et al., 2011; Kim et al., 2012; Wang and Manning, 2014; Ni et al., 2017) . Since parallel corpora may not be always available, Mayhew et al. (2017) proposed a \"cheap translation\" approach that uses a bilingual dictionary to perform word-level translation. The above approaches provide a reasonable proxy for the actual labeled training data, largely because the words that participate in entities can be translated relatively reliably given extensive parallel dictionaries or corpora (e.g., with 1 million word pairs or sentences). Additionally, as a side benefit of having explicitly translated words, models can directly exploit features extracted from the surface forms (e.g. through character-level neural feature extractors), which has proven essential for high accuracy in the monolingual scenario (Ma and Hovy, 2016) . However, these methods are largely predicated on the availability of large-scale parallel resources, and thus, their applicability to lowresource languages is limited.",
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                "text": "Network Parameters For our experiments, we set the character embedding size to be 25, character level LSTM hidden size to be 50, and word level LSTM hidden size to be 200. For OOV words, we initialize an unknown embedding by uniformly sampling from range [\u2212 3 emb , + 3 emb ], where emb is the size of embedding, 100 in our case. We replace each number with 0 when used as input to the character level Bi-LSTM.",
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                "text": "Network Training We use SGD with momentum to train the NER model for 30 epochs, and select the best model on the target language development set. We choose the initial learning rate to be \u03b7 0 = 0.015, and update it using a learning decay mechanism after each epoch, \u03b7 t = \u03b7 0 1+\u03c1t , where t is the number of completed epoch and \u03c1 = 0.05 is the decay rate. We use a batch size of 10 and evaluate the model per 150 batches within each epoch. We apply dropout on the inputs to the word-level Bi-LSTM, the outputs of the word-level Bi-LSTM, and the outputs of the self-attention layer to prevent overfitting. The selfattention dropout rate is set to 0.5 when using our translated data, and 0.2 when using cheaptranslation data. We use 0.5 for all other dropouts. The word embeddings are not fine-tuned during training. Table 1 presents our results on transferring from English to three other languages, alongside results from previous studies. Here \"BWET\" (bilingual word embedding translation) denotes using the hierarchical neural CRF model trained on data translated from English. As can be seen from the table, our methods outperform previous state-of-theart results on Spanish and Dutch by a large margin and perform competitively on German even without using any parallel resources. We achieve similar results using different seed dictionaries, and produce the best results when adding the selfattention mechanism to our model. Despite the good performance on Spanish and Dutch, our model does not outperform the previous best result on German, and we speculate that there are a few reasons. First, German has rich morphology and contains many compound words, making the word embeddings less reliable. Our supervised result on German indicates the same problem, as it is about 8 F 1 points worse than Spanish and Dutch. Second, these difficulties become more pronounced in the cross-lingual setting, leading to a noisier embedding space alignment, which lowers the quality of BWE-based translation. We believe that this is a problem with all methods using word embeddings. In such cases, more resource-intensive methods may be necessary. Table 1 also presents results of a comparison between our proposed BWE translation method and the \"cheap translation\" baseline of (Mayhew et al., 2017) . The size of the dictionaries used by both Table 1 : NER F 1 scores. * Approaches that use more resources than ours (\"Wikipedia\" means Wikipedia is used not as a monolingual corpus, but to provide external knowledge). \u2020 Approaches that use multiple languages for transfer. \"Only Eng. data\" is the model used in Mayhew et al. (2017) trained on their data translated from English without using Wikipedia and other languages. The \"data from Mayhew et al. (2017) \" is the same data translated from only English they used. \"Id.c.\" indicates using identical character strings between the two languages as the seed dictionary. \"Adv.\" indicates using adversarial training and mutual nearest neighbors to induce a seed dictionary. Our supervised results are obtained using models trained on annotated corpus from CoNLL.",
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