What has LeBenchmark Learnt about French Syntax?

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Autori principali: Dugonjić, Zdravko, Pupier, Adrien, Lecouteux, Benjamin, Coavoux, Maximin
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author Dugonjić, Zdravko
Pupier, Adrien
Lecouteux, Benjamin
Coavoux, Maximin
author_facet Dugonjić, Zdravko
Pupier, Adrien
Lecouteux, Benjamin
Coavoux, Maximin
contents The paper reports on a series of experiments aiming at probing LeBenchmark, a pretrained acoustic model trained on 7k hours of spoken French, for syntactic information. Pretrained acoustic models are increasingly used for downstream speech tasks such as automatic speech recognition, speech translation, spoken language understanding or speech parsing. They are trained on very low level information (the raw speech signal), and do not have explicit lexical knowledge. Despite that, they obtained reasonable results on tasks that requires higher level linguistic knowledge. As a result, an emerging question is whether these models encode syntactic information. We probe each representation layer of LeBenchmark for syntax, using the Orféo treebank, and observe that it has learnt some syntactic information. Our results show that syntactic information is more easily extractable from the middle layers of the network, after which a very sharp decrease is observed.
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spellingShingle What has LeBenchmark Learnt about French Syntax?
Dugonjić, Zdravko
Pupier, Adrien
Lecouteux, Benjamin
Coavoux, Maximin
Computation and Language
The paper reports on a series of experiments aiming at probing LeBenchmark, a pretrained acoustic model trained on 7k hours of spoken French, for syntactic information. Pretrained acoustic models are increasingly used for downstream speech tasks such as automatic speech recognition, speech translation, spoken language understanding or speech parsing. They are trained on very low level information (the raw speech signal), and do not have explicit lexical knowledge. Despite that, they obtained reasonable results on tasks that requires higher level linguistic knowledge. As a result, an emerging question is whether these models encode syntactic information. We probe each representation layer of LeBenchmark for syntax, using the Orféo treebank, and observe that it has learnt some syntactic information. Our results show that syntactic information is more easily extractable from the middle layers of the network, after which a very sharp decrease is observed.
title What has LeBenchmark Learnt about French Syntax?
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02173