Overview
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This lecture explains how to quantify similarity between languages using genealogical and typological relationships. It introduces linguistic typology, WALS and related databases, typology prediction, and typology-based language transfer for low-resource and multilingual NLP.
Syllabus
Introduction
Defining Languages
Language Families
Online Languages
Similarity
genealogical similarities
typological similarities
walls
typological databases
lorelai
universals
low resource languages
multilingual birth
why typology
how to choose a transfer language
open research problems
multilingual aspects
Taught by
Graham Neubig