CMU Multilingual NLP 2022 - Typology

Explore the fundamentals of language typology and its applications in multilingual natural language processing in this 34-minute lecture by Alan Black. Delve into methods for quantifying language similarities, understand language families and genealogical relationships, and learn about linguistic typology and typological similarities. Examine important resources like WALS and other typological databases, and investigate typology prediction and typology-based language transfer techniques. Gain insights into defining languages, exploring online languages, and understanding various aspects of similarity. Discover the importance of typology in choosing transfer languages for low-resource scenarios and explore open research problems in the field of multilingual NLP.

Introduction
Defining Languages
Language Families
Online Languages
Similarity
genealogical similarities
typological similarities
walls
typological databases
lorelai
universals
low resource languages
multilingual birth
why typology
how to choose a transfer language
open research problems
multilingual aspects