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Sequence Tagging With Contextual And Non-contextual Subword Representations: A Multilingual Evaluation

Benjamin Heinzerling, Michael Strube . Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2019 – 46 citations

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ACL Evaluation Interdisciplinary Approaches Model Architecture Multimodal Semantic Representation

Pretrained contextual and non-contextual subword embeddings have become available in over 250 languages, allowing massively multilingual NLP. However, while there is no dearth of pretrained embeddings, the distinct lack of systematic evaluations makes it difficult for practitioners to choose between them. In this work, we conduct an extensive evaluation comparing non-contextual subword embeddings, namely FastText and BPEmb, and a contextual representation method, namely BERT, on multilingual named entity recognition and part-of-speech tagging. We find that overall, a combination of BERT, BPEmb, and character representations works best across languages and tasks. A more detailed analysis reveals different strengths and weaknesses: Multilingual BERT performs well in medium- to high-resource languages, but is outperformed by non-contextual subword embeddings in a low-resource setting.

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