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"abstract": "In previous work, it has been shown that BERT can adequately align cross-lingual sentences on the word level. Here we investigate whether BERT can also operate as a char-level aligner. The languages examined are English, Fake-English, German and Greek. We show that the closer two languages are, the better BERT can align them on the character level. BERT indeed works well in English to Fake-English alignment, but this does not generalize to natural languages to the same extent. Nevertheless, the proximity of two languages does seem to be a factor. English is more related to German than to Greek and this is reflected in how well BERT aligns them; English to German is better than English to Greek. We examine multiple setups and show that the similarity matrices for natural languages show weaker relations the further apart two languages are.",
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"text": "Even though characters on their own do not necessarily hold much semantic meaning, we investigate whether BERT is able to generate useful representation spaces for characters. Character-level alignment would be useful in tasks like transliteration (Li et al., 2009; Sajjad et al., 2017) or wordlevel alignment (Legrand et al., 2016) . In a lot of occurrences of transliterations, grammatical inflections are added or dropped, which causes difficulties in an array of tasks (Czarnowska et 2019; Vania and Lopez, 2017) . With characterlevel awareness, we can have better models for transliteration detection and extraction tasks. Word alignment could also benefit from character-level information in instances where words get split up within a sentence (eg., separable verbs in German or phrasal verbs in English). With our work we show that even though BERT is not able to align languages on the character level, the closer these languages are the better the alignment. In the trivial case of English to Fake-English alignment, the model successfully learns to align characters. For English to German performance drops substantially and it drops even more for English to Greek. Languages seem to be put on an intuitive scale by BERT, with more similar languages having better alignment than highly dissimilar ones.",
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"text": "Research has been conducted to uncover elements of multilinguality in mBERT. In Pires et al. (2019) , an analysis of mBERT is presented, while in Conneau and Lample 2019 In Wu et al. (2021) ; Garg et al. (2019) , it is shown that transformers (Vaswani et al., 2017) can achieve similar performance with sequenceto-sequence approaches based on Recurrent Neural Networks (Luong et al., 2015) for characterlevel tasks such as transliteration and graphemeto-phoneme conversion. Further work to develop character-level BERT-based models is conducted in El Boukkouri et al. 2020; Ma et al. (2020) .",
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"text": "We also note recent efforts towards unsupervised word alignment. In Zenkel et al. (2019) , an extension to the usual Machine Translation encoderdecoder is proposed to jointly learn language translation and word alignment in an unsupervised manner. BERT has also been shown to be able to perform word alignment (Jalili Sabet et al., 2020) through embedding matrix similarities.",
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"text": "The EuroParl Corpus (Koehn, 2005 ) is a parallel corpus containing recorded proceedings of the European Parliament. Originally 21 languages were included, although here we examined three: English (ENG), German (DEU) and Greek (ELL). 1 Each set is split by words and each word is further split in characters. Finally, special start and end tokens are added around each (split) word. This process results in a data file where each line contains a word split in characters. Finally, these language sets are merged together, alternating between lines. For example, in the English \u2192 German setup, the first line contains an English word (split in characters), the second line a German word (split in characters), and so on. For the conversion of English to Fake-English, we employ a mapping of characters to integers. The integers are in the range [100, 151] . The same mapping takes place for the English \u2192 German setup, since the two languages share the same script. Data is given as input lineby-line to the model.",
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"text": "We experimented with different BERT (Devlin et al., 2019) model sizes and parameters. In our hyperparameter search, we mainly examined the effect of hidden layer size, layer numbers, embedding space size and attention heads number. We found that when models have fewer than 3 layers or more than 9 layers, we see underfitting and overfitting respectively. In the end, we settled for a 6-layer model with a quarter of the original BERT-base parameters, trained for 50 epochs. An analysis of model size effect on performance is omitted. We are training from scratch on the usual Masked Language Modeling task as described in (Devlin et al., 2019) , with the difference that we are masking individual characters instead of subword tokens.",
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"text": "For our control experiment, we tried to align English and Fake-English. This setup serves as aid to hyperparameter tuning. Because of the nature of English and Fake-English, if a model cannot align these two then it would not work for natural languages. English data was split in two sets, with the second converted to Fake-English. In our setup, Fake-English is a simple mapping from English characters to numbers ranging from 100 to 151. That is, 'a' is converted to '100', 'b' to '101', 'A' to '126' etc. All other numbers were removed from both sets. We call this setup EngF ake base .",
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"text": "Apart from the base setup, we tried minor alterations. Namely, we tried to break the one-to-one mapping from English to Fake-English. The letter 'f' was mapped not to a single, unique integer, but instead two new indices (denoted by f 1 and f 2 ). So, 'f' was mapped to '200 201', which are the unique tokens for f 1 and f 2 respectively. In the same way, capital 'F' was replaced by the tokens for F 1 and F 2 . We call this setup EngF ake f 1 f 2 .",
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"text": "After the successful EngF ake experiments, we experiment with English to Greek (EngEll) and English to German (EngDeu). For English to German, since the languages share the same script, we converted German to Fake-German in an analogous method to the Fake-English conversion. Finally, German to Greek (DeuEll) experiments were also conducted for completion.",
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"text": "Firstly, we examine the uncontextualized embeddings of characters. To retrieve the representation of a character, we give it as input to the model and extract the embedding layer activations. We also investigate contextualized embeddings by feeding entire words into the model and extracting the activations for a particular character at the 5th layer.",
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"text": "The cosine similarity matrices are shown for our different setups. First, we give as input the characters of the two alphabets separately and extract their first-layer representations. We examined all layer representations, but since the characters are given without context, we decided to go with the first layer, which has been shown to contain contextindependent information (Jawahar et al., 2019) .",
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"text": "In Figure 1 (a) the cosine similarity matrix for EngF ake base is presented. The diagonal shows that the model correctly aligns English with the base Fake-English language. In Figure 1 (b) we see the similarity matrix of EngF ake f 1 f 2 . The strong diagonal indicates that BERT indeed manages to align English with its Fake-English equivalent. The added perturbation (f 1 f 2 instead of 'f') is correctly captured by the model as well. The English 'f' has high similarity scores with both f 1 and f 2 , with f 1 having a slightly higher score. We also compare against the combined f 1 f 2 bigram, by computing its joint representation. We denote this new, combined token simply with 'f' in the matrix.",
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"text": "For EngDeu, in Table 2 (a), we see lower performance. The diagonal is still observed, but less prominently than before. The two languages are relatively similar and belong to the same language family, so some similarity on the character level is to be expected. Nevertheless, the similarity matrix shows quite significant noise that obscures the diagonal. Note that even though the diagonal is not the best indicator of performance, the model was overall less efficient than expected.",
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"text": "One of the patterns that emerged is the high compatibility of the matrix's right hand side (German 'w', 'x', 'y' and 'z') with most of the English characters. High similarities can be found between these characters and most English characters across the board. This could be because of the low frequency of these letters in German. 2 Apart from that, there are few other clusters around the matrix, for example 'w', 'x' and 'y' for English and the 'h'-'o' range in German.",
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"text": "When compared against a language further away from English than German, in this case Greek, similarities become even fainter. In Table 2 (b) the similarity matrix for EngEll is presented. We see weaker similarity scores across the board with results mostly random. As we show in Section 4.2, only a few characters were correctly aligned. In English, 'e', 'j', 't' and 'z' have high similarity scores overall, with '\u03c1', '\u03c3' and '\u03c4 ' in Greek scoring highly across the board as well.",
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"text": "Finally, in Table 2 (c), DeuEll is shown. There is very little that can be inferred from this matrix, since performance seems to be random.",
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"text": "Here we take a closer look at the similarity matrices and quantify how well our model aligns characters compared to a ground truth value. Even though ground truth alignment between characters is not always clear (for example, the English 'a' has multiple pronunciations: 'allure', 'ball', 'make', which would arguably map to three distinct characters in Greek), there are some obviously incorrect alignments we can observe (for example, the English 'a' should never be aligned with any of the Greek consonants). Thus, this max alignment method is an adequate indicator of model performance.",
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