Transitioning Representations between Languages for Cross-lingual Event Detection via Langevin Dynamics

                                                            @inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2023-transitioning,
    title = "Transitioning Representations between Languages for Cross-lingual Event Detection via Langevin Dynamics",
    author = "Nguyen, Chien  and
      Nguyen, Huy  and
      Dernoncourt, Franck  and
      Nguyen, Thien",
    editor = "Bouamor, Houda  and
      Pino, Juan  and
      Bali, Kalika",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023",
    month = dec,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Singapore",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.938",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.938",
    pages = "14085--14093",
    abstract = "Cross-lingual transfer learning (CLTL) for event detection (ED) aims to develop models in high-resource source languages that can be directly applied to produce effective performance for lower-resource target languages. Previous research in this area has focused on representation matching methods to develop a language-universal representation space into which source- and target-language example representations can be mapped to achieve cross-lingual transfer. However, as this approach modifies the representations for the source-language examples, the models might lose discriminative features for ED that are learned over training data of the source language to prevent effective predictions. To this end, our work introduces a novel approach for cross-lingual ED where we only aim to transition the representations for the target-language examples into the source-language space, thus preserving the representations in the source language and their discriminative information. Our method introduces Langevin Dynamics to perform representation transition and a semantic preservation framework to retain event type features during the transition process. Extensive experiments over three languages demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance for ED in CLTL.",
}