Learning Beyond Limits: Multitask Learning and Synthetic Data for Low-Resource Canonical Morpheme Segmentation

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Main Authors: Yang, Changbing, Nicolai, Garrett
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Published: 2025
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author Yang, Changbing
Nicolai, Garrett
author_facet Yang, Changbing
Nicolai, Garrett
contents We introduce a transformer-based morpheme segmentation system that augments a low-resource training signal through multitask learning and LLM-generated synthetic data. Our framework jointly predicts morphological segments and glosses from orthographic input, leveraging shared linguistic representations obtained through a common documentary process to enhance model generalization. To further address data scarcity, we integrate synthetic training data generated by large language models (LLMs) using in-context learning. Experimental results on the SIGMORPHON 2023 dataset show that our approach significantly improves word-level segmentation accuracy and morpheme-level F1-score across multiple low-resource languages.
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spellingShingle Learning Beyond Limits: Multitask Learning and Synthetic Data for Low-Resource Canonical Morpheme Segmentation
Yang, Changbing
Nicolai, Garrett
Computation and Language
We introduce a transformer-based morpheme segmentation system that augments a low-resource training signal through multitask learning and LLM-generated synthetic data. Our framework jointly predicts morphological segments and glosses from orthographic input, leveraging shared linguistic representations obtained through a common documentary process to enhance model generalization. To further address data scarcity, we integrate synthetic training data generated by large language models (LLMs) using in-context learning. Experimental results on the SIGMORPHON 2023 dataset show that our approach significantly improves word-level segmentation accuracy and morpheme-level F1-score across multiple low-resource languages.
title Learning Beyond Limits: Multitask Learning and Synthetic Data for Low-Resource Canonical Morpheme Segmentation
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16800