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Adversarial Examples for Semantic Image Segmentation
stat.ML
Machine learning methods in general and Deep Neural Networks in particular have shown to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. So far this phenomenon has mainly been studied in the context of whole-image classification. In this contribution, we analyse how adversarial perturbations can affect the task of semantic...
computer science
401
Decision-Based Adversarial Attacks: Reliable Attacks Against Black-Box Machine Learning Models
stat.ML
Many machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to almost imperceptible perturbations of their inputs. So far it was unclear how much risk adversarial perturbations carry for the safety of real-world machine learning applications because most methods used to generate such perturbations rely either on detailed model inf...
computer science
402
Towards Building an Intelligent Anti-Malware System: A Deep Learning Approach using Support Vector Machine (SVM) for Malware Classification
cs.NE
Effective and efficient mitigation of malware is a long-time endeavor in the information security community. The development of an anti-malware system that can counteract an unknown malware is a prolific activity that may benefit several sectors. We envision an intelligent anti-malware system that utilizes the power of...
computer science
403
Feature extraction using Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Neural Networks: A case study on movie synopses
cs.CL
Feature extraction has gained increasing attention in the field of machine learning, as in order to detect patterns, extract information, or predict future observations from big data, the urge of informative features is crucial. The process of extracting features is highly linked to dimensionality reduction as it impli...
computer science
404
A Survey of Available Corpora for Building Data-Driven Dialogue Systems
cs.CL
During the past decade, several areas of speech and language understanding have witnessed substantial breakthroughs from the use of data-driven models. In the area of dialogue systems, the trend is less obvious, and most practical systems are still built through significant engineering and expert knowledge. Nevertheles...
computer science
405
Generative Topic Embedding: a Continuous Representation of Documents (Extended Version with Proofs)
cs.CL
Word embedding maps words into a low-dimensional continuous embedding space by exploiting the local word collocation patterns in a small context window. On the other hand, topic modeling maps documents onto a low-dimensional topic space, by utilizing the global word collocation patterns in the same document. These two ...
computer science
406
Fine-Grained Entity Typing with High-Multiplicity Assignments
cs.CL
As entity type systems become richer and more fine-grained, we expect the number of types assigned to a given entity to increase. However, most fine-grained typing work has focused on datasets that exhibit a low degree of type multiplicity. In this paper, we consider the high-multiplicity regime inherent in data source...
computer science
407
Towards a Visual Turing Challenge
cs.AI
As language and visual understanding by machines progresses rapidly, we are observing an increasing interest in holistic architectures that tightly interlink both modalities in a joint learning and inference process. This trend has allowed the community to progress towards more challenging and open tasks and refueled t...
computer science
408
Interactive Robot Learning of Gestures, Language and Affordances
cs.RO
A growing field in robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) research is human-robot collaboration, whose target is to enable effective teamwork between humans and robots. However, in many situations human teams are still superior to human-robot teams, primarily because human teams can easily agree on a common goal wit...
computer science
409
Visual Features for Context-Aware Speech Recognition
cs.CL
Automatic transcriptions of consumer-generated multi-media content such as "Youtube" videos still exhibit high word error rates. Such data typically occupies a very broad domain, has been recorded in challenging conditions, with cheap hardware and a focus on the visual modality, and may have been post-processed or edit...
computer science
410
Examining Cooperation in Visual Dialog Models
cs.CV
In this work we propose a blackbox intervention method for visual dialog models, with the aim of assessing the contribution of individual linguistic or visual components. Concretely, we conduct structured or randomized interventions that aim to impair an individual component of the model, and observe changes in task pe...
computer science
411
Video Highlight Prediction Using Audience Chat Reactions
cs.CL
Sports channel video portals offer an exciting domain for research on multimodal, multilingual analysis. We present methods addressing the problem of automatic video highlight prediction based on joint visual features and textual analysis of the real-world audience discourse with complex slang, in both English and trad...
computer science
412
Invariant Representations for Noisy Speech Recognition
cs.CL
Modern automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems need to be robust under acoustic variability arising from environmental, speaker, channel, and recording conditions. Ensuring such robustness to variability is a challenge in modern day neural network-based ASR systems, especially when all types of variability are not s...
computer science
413
Self-Supervised Vision-Based Detection of the Active Speaker as a Prerequisite for Socially-Aware Language Acquisition
cs.CV
This paper presents a self-supervised method for detecting the active speaker in a multi-person spoken interaction scenario. We argue that this capability is a fundamental prerequisite for any artificial cognitive system attempting to acquire language in social settings. Our methods are able to detect an arbitrary numb...
computer science
414
Product Characterisation towards Personalisation: Learning Attributes from Unstructured Data to Recommend Fashion Products
stat.ML
In this paper, we describe a solution to tackle a common set of challenges in e-commerce, which arise from the fact that new products are continually being added to the catalogue. The challenges involve properly personalising the customer experience, forecasting demand and planning the product range. We argue that the ...
computer science
415
The Self-Organization of Speech Sounds
cs.LG
The speech code is a vehicle of language: it defines a set of forms used by a community to carry information. Such a code is necessary to support the linguistic interactions that allow humans to communicate. How then may a speech code be formed prior to the existence of linguistic interactions? Moreover, the human spee...
computer science
416
What the F-measure doesn't measure: Features, Flaws, Fallacies and Fixes
cs.IR
The F-measure or F-score is one of the most commonly used single number measures in Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, but it is based on a mistake, and the flawed assumptions render it unsuitable for use in most contexts! Fortunately, there are better alternatives.
computer science
417
A Machine Learning Perspective on Predictive Coding with PAQ
cs.LG
PAQ8 is an open source lossless data compression algorithm that currently achieves the best compression rates on many benchmarks. This report presents a detailed description of PAQ8 from a statistical machine learning perspective. It shows that it is possible to understand some of the modules of PAQ8 and use this under...
computer science
418
A Novel Frank-Wolfe Algorithm. Analysis and Applications to Large-Scale SVM Training
cs.CV
Recently, there has been a renewed interest in the machine learning community for variants of a sparse greedy approximation procedure for concave optimization known as {the Frank-Wolfe (FW) method}. In particular, this procedure has been successfully applied to train large-scale instances of non-linear Support Vector M...
computer science
419
Semi-supervised Vocabulary-informed Learning
cs.CV
Despite significant progress in object categorization, in recent years, a number of important challenges remain, mainly, ability to learn from limited labeled data and ability to recognize object classes within large, potentially open, set of labels. Zero-shot learning is one way of addressing these challenges, but it ...
computer science
420
Submodular meets Structured: Finding Diverse Subsets in Exponentially-Large Structured Item Sets
cs.LG
To cope with the high level of ambiguity faced in domains such as Computer Vision or Natural Language processing, robust prediction methods often search for a diverse set of high-quality candidate solutions or proposals. In structured prediction problems, this becomes a daunting task, as the solution space (image label...
computer science
421
ZM-Net: Real-time Zero-shot Image Manipulation Network
cs.CV
Many problems in image processing and computer vision (e.g. colorization, style transfer) can be posed as 'manipulating' an input image into a corresponding output image given a user-specified guiding signal. A holy-grail solution towards generic image manipulation should be able to efficiently alter an input image wit...
computer science
422
Multi-Agent Diverse Generative Adversarial Networks
cs.CV
We propose an intuitive generalization to the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and its conditional variants to address the well known mode collapse problem. Firstly, we propose a multi-agent GAN architecture incorporating multiple generators and one discriminator. Secondly, to enforce different generators to capt...
computer science
423
Geometric GAN
stat.ML
Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs) represent an important milestone for effective generative models, which has inspired numerous variants seemingly different from each other. One of the main contributions of this paper is to reveal a unified geometric structure in GAN and its variants. Specifically, we show that the ad...
computer science
424
A Data and Model-Parallel, Distributed and Scalable Framework for Training of Deep Networks in Apache Spark
stat.ML
Training deep networks is expensive and time-consuming with the training period increasing with data size and growth in model parameters. In this paper, we provide a framework for distributed training of deep networks over a cluster of CPUs in Apache Spark. The framework implements both Data Parallelism and Model Paral...
computer science
425
Understanding and Comparing Deep Neural Networks for Age and Gender Classification
stat.ML
Recently, deep neural networks have demonstrated excellent performances in recognizing the age and gender on human face images. However, these models were applied in a black-box manner with no information provided about which facial features are actually used for prediction and how these features depend on image prepro...
computer science
426
When is a Convolutional Filter Easy To Learn?
cs.LG
We analyze the convergence of (stochastic) gradient descent algorithm for learning a convolutional filter with Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) activation function. Our analysis does not rely on any specific form of the input distribution and our proofs only use the definition of ReLU, in contrast with previous works that ...
computer science
427
Learning Sparse Visual Representations with Leaky Capped Norm Regularizers
cs.LG
Sparsity inducing regularization is an important part for learning over-complete visual representations. Despite the popularity of $\ell_1$ regularization, in this paper, we investigate the usage of non-convex regularizations in this problem. Our contribution consists of three parts. First, we propose the leaky capped ...
computer science
428
ConvNets and ImageNet Beyond Accuracy: Explanations, Bias Detection, Adversarial Examples and Model Criticism
cs.LG
ConvNets and Imagenet have driven the recent success of deep learning for image classification. However, the marked slowdown in performance improvement, the recent studies on the lack of robustness of neural networks to adversarial examples and their tendency to exhibit undesirable biases (e.g racial biases) questioned...
computer science
429
Gradient Descent Learns One-hidden-layer CNN: Don't be Afraid of Spurious Local Minima
cs.LG
We consider the problem of learning a one-hidden-layer neural network with non-overlapping convolutional layer and ReLU activation function, i.e., $f(\mathbf{Z}; \mathbf{w}, \mathbf{a}) = \sum_j a_j\sigma(\mathbf{w}^\top\mathbf{Z}_j)$, in which both the convolutional weights $\mathbf{w}$ and the output weights $\mathbf...
computer science
430
Curiosity-driven Exploration by Self-supervised Prediction
cs.LG
In many real-world scenarios, rewards extrinsic to the agent are extremely sparse, or absent altogether. In such cases, curiosity can serve as an intrinsic reward signal to enable the agent to explore its environment and learn skills that might be useful later in its life. We formulate curiosity as the error in an agen...
computer science
431
Houdini: Fooling Deep Structured Prediction Models
stat.ML
Generating adversarial examples is a critical step for evaluating and improving the robustness of learning machines. So far, most existing methods only work for classification and are not designed to alter the true performance measure of the problem at hand. We introduce a novel flexible approach named Houdini for gene...
computer science
432
Recent Advances in Zero-shot Recognition
cs.CV
With the recent renaissance of deep convolution neural networks, encouraging breakthroughs have been achieved on the supervised recognition tasks, where each class has sufficient training data and fully annotated training data. However, to scale the recognition to a large number of classes with few or now training samp...
computer science
433
The loss surface and expressivity of deep convolutional neural networks
cs.LG
We analyze the expressiveness and loss surface of practical deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with shared weights and max pooling layers. We show that such CNNs produce linearly independent features at a "wide" layer which has more neurons than the number of training samples. This condition holds e.g. for the V...
computer science
434
Physics-guided Neural Networks (PGNN): An Application in Lake Temperature Modeling
cs.LG
This paper introduces a novel framework for combining scientific knowledge of physics-based models with neural networks to advance scientific discovery. This framework, termed as physics-guided neural network (PGNN), leverages the output of physics-based model simulations along with observational features to generate p...
computer science
435
Unified Spectral Clustering with Optimal Graph
cs.LG
Spectral clustering has found extensive use in many areas. Most traditional spectral clustering algorithms work in three separate steps: similarity graph construction; continuous labels learning; discretizing the learned labels by k-means clustering. Such common practice has two potential flaws, which may lead to sever...
computer science
436
On the Inductive Bias of Dropout
cs.LG
Dropout is a simple but effective technique for learning in neural networks and other settings. A sound theoretical understanding of dropout is needed to determine when dropout should be applied and how to use it most effectively. In this paper we continue the exploration of dropout as a regularizer pioneered by Wager,...
computer science
437
Surprising properties of dropout in deep networks
cs.LG
We analyze dropout in deep networks with rectified linear units and the quadratic loss. Our results expose surprising differences between the behavior of dropout and more traditional regularizers like weight decay. For example, on some simple data sets dropout training produces negative weights even though the output i...
computer science
438
Training Probabilistic Spiking Neural Networks with First-to-spike Decoding
stat.ML
Third-generation neural networks, or Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), aim at harnessing the energy efficiency of spike-domain processing by building on computing elements that operate on, and exchange, spikes. In this paper, the problem of training a two-layer SNN is studied for the purpose of classification, under a Ge...
computer science
439
A Novel Clustering Algorithm Based on Quantum Games
cs.LG
Enormous successes have been made by quantum algorithms during the last decade. In this paper, we combine the quantum game with the problem of data clustering, and then develop a quantum-game-based clustering algorithm, in which data points in a dataset are considered as players who can make decisions and implement qua...
computer science
440
Exact solutions to the nonlinear dynamics of learning in deep linear neural networks
cs.NE
Despite the widespread practical success of deep learning methods, our theoretical understanding of the dynamics of learning in deep neural networks remains quite sparse. We attempt to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of deep learning by systematically analyzing learning dynamics for the restricted case o...
computer science
441
Entropy of Overcomplete Kernel Dictionaries
cs.IT
In signal analysis and synthesis, linear approximation theory considers a linear decomposition of any given signal in a set of atoms, collected into a so-called dictionary. Relevant sparse representations are obtained by relaxing the orthogonality condition of the atoms, yielding overcomplete dictionaries with an exten...
computer science
442
Rotation-invariant convolutional neural networks for galaxy morphology prediction
cs.CV
Measuring the morphological parameters of galaxies is a key requirement for studying their formation and evolution. Surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have resulted in the availability of very large collections of images, which have permitted population-wide analyses of galaxy morphology. Morphological...
computer science
443
Kernel Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Without the Curse of the Pre-image - Application to Unmixing Hyperspectral Images
cs.CV
The nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is widely used in signal and image processing, including bio-informatics, blind source separation and hyperspectral image analysis in remote sensing. A great challenge arises when dealing with a nonlinear formulation of the NMF. Within the framework of kernel machines, the mod...
computer science
444
Approximation errors of online sparsification criteria
stat.ML
Many machine learning frameworks, such as resource-allocating networks, kernel-based methods, Gaussian processes, and radial-basis-function networks, require a sparsification scheme in order to address the online learning paradigm. For this purpose, several online sparsification criteria have been proposed to restrict ...
computer science
445
Discrete Deep Feature Extraction: A Theory and New Architectures
cs.LG
First steps towards a mathematical theory of deep convolutional neural networks for feature extraction were made---for the continuous-time case---in Mallat, 2012, and Wiatowski and B\"olcskei, 2015. This paper considers the discrete case, introduces new convolutional neural network architectures, and proposes a mathema...
computer science
446
Neural Responding Machine for Short-Text Conversation
cs.CL
We propose Neural Responding Machine (NRM), a neural network-based response generator for Short-Text Conversation. NRM takes the general encoder-decoder framework: it formalizes the generation of response as a decoding process based on the latent representation of the input text, while both encoding and decoding are re...
computer science
447
Deep Active Learning for Dialogue Generation
cs.CL
We propose an online, end-to-end, neural generative conversational model for open-domain dialogue. It is trained using a unique combination of offline two-phase supervised learning and online human-in-the-loop active learning. While most existing research proposes offline supervision or hand-crafted reward functions fo...
computer science
448
Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend
cs.CL
Teaching machines to read natural language documents remains an elusive challenge. Machine reading systems can be tested on their ability to answer questions posed on the contents of documents that they have seen, but until now large scale training and test datasets have been missing for this type of evaluation. In thi...
computer science
449
Syntax-Aware Multi-Sense Word Embeddings for Deep Compositional Models of Meaning
cs.CL
Deep compositional models of meaning acting on distributional representations of words in order to produce vectors of larger text constituents are evolving to a popular area of NLP research. We detail a compositional distributional framework based on a rich form of word embeddings that aims at facilitating the interact...
computer science
450
A Deep Architecture for Semantic Matching with Multiple Positional Sentence Representations
cs.AI
Matching natural language sentences is central for many applications such as information retrieval and question answering. Existing deep models rely on a single sentence representation or multiple granularity representations for matching. However, such methods cannot well capture the contextualized local information in...
computer science
451
LSTM Neural Reordering Feature for Statistical Machine Translation
cs.CL
Artificial neural networks are powerful models, which have been widely applied into many aspects of machine translation, such as language modeling and translation modeling. Though notable improvements have been made in these areas, the reordering problem still remains a challenge in statistical machine translations. In...
computer science
452
Learning Natural Language Inference with LSTM
cs.CL
Natural language inference (NLI) is a fundamentally important task in natural language processing that has many applications. The recently released Stanford Natural Language Inference (SNLI) corpus has made it possible to develop and evaluate learning-centered methods such as deep neural networks for natural language i...
computer science
453
Quantifying the vanishing gradient and long distance dependency problem in recursive neural networks and recursive LSTMs
cs.AI
Recursive neural networks (RNN) and their recently proposed extension recursive long short term memory networks (RLSTM) are models that compute representations for sentences, by recursively combining word embeddings according to an externally provided parse tree. Both models thus, unlike recurrent networks, explicitly ...
computer science
454
Implicit Discourse Relation Classification via Multi-Task Neural Networks
cs.CL
Without discourse connectives, classifying implicit discourse relations is a challenging task and a bottleneck for building a practical discourse parser. Previous research usually makes use of one kind of discourse framework such as PDTB or RST to improve the classification performance on discourse relations. Actually,...
computer science
455
Enhancing Sentence Relation Modeling with Auxiliary Character-level Embedding
cs.CL
Neural network based approaches for sentence relation modeling automatically generate hidden matching features from raw sentence pairs. However, the quality of matching feature representation may not be satisfied due to complex semantic relations such as entailment or contradiction. To address this challenge, we propos...
computer science
456
Automatic Open Knowledge Acquisition via Long Short-Term Memory Networks with Feedback Negative Sampling
cs.CL
Previous studies in Open Information Extraction (Open IE) are mainly based on extraction patterns. They manually define patterns or automatically learn them from a large corpus. However, these approaches are limited when grasping the context of a sentence, and they fail to capture implicit relations. In this paper, we ...
computer science
457
Question Answering over Knowledge Base with Neural Attention Combining Global Knowledge Information
cs.IR
With the rapid growth of knowledge bases (KBs) on the web, how to take full advantage of them becomes increasingly important. Knowledge base-based question answering (KB-QA) is one of the most promising approaches to access the substantial knowledge. Meantime, as the neural network-based (NN-based) methods develop, NN-...
computer science
458
Generating Natural Language Inference Chains
cs.CL
The ability to reason with natural language is a fundamental prerequisite for many NLP tasks such as information extraction, machine translation and question answering. To quantify this ability, systems are commonly tested whether they can recognize textual entailment, i.e., whether one sentence can be inferred from an...
computer science
459
MuFuRU: The Multi-Function Recurrent Unit
cs.NE
Recurrent neural networks such as the GRU and LSTM found wide adoption in natural language processing and achieve state-of-the-art results for many tasks. These models are characterized by a memory state that can be written to and read from by applying gated composition operations to the current input and the previous ...
computer science
460
LSTMVis: A Tool for Visual Analysis of Hidden State Dynamics in Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.CL
Recurrent neural networks, and in particular long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, are a remarkably effective tool for sequence modeling that learn a dense black-box hidden representation of their sequential input. Researchers interested in better understanding these models have studied the changes in hidden state re...
computer science
461
Compression of Neural Machine Translation Models via Pruning
cs.AI
Neural Machine Translation (NMT), like many other deep learning domains, typically suffers from over-parameterization, resulting in large storage sizes. This paper examines three simple magnitude-based pruning schemes to compress NMT models, namely class-blind, class-uniform, and class-distribution, which differ in ter...
computer science
462
Constructing a Natural Language Inference Dataset using Generative Neural Networks
cs.AI
Natural Language Inference is an important task for Natural Language Understanding. It is concerned with classifying the logical relation between two sentences. In this paper, we propose several text generative neural networks for generating text hypothesis, which allows construction of new Natural Language Inference d...
computer science
463
Dataset and Neural Recurrent Sequence Labeling Model for Open-Domain Factoid Question Answering
cs.CL
While question answering (QA) with neural network, i.e. neural QA, has achieved promising results in recent years, lacking of large scale real-word QA dataset is still a challenge for developing and evaluating neural QA system. To alleviate this problem, we propose a large scale human annotated real-world QA dataset We...
computer science
464
Tweet2Vec: Learning Tweet Embeddings Using Character-level CNN-LSTM Encoder-Decoder
cs.CL
We present Tweet2Vec, a novel method for generating general-purpose vector representation of tweets. The model learns tweet embeddings using character-level CNN-LSTM encoder-decoder. We trained our model on 3 million, randomly selected English-language tweets. The model was evaluated using two methods: tweet semantic s...
computer science
465
Online Segment to Segment Neural Transduction
cs.CL
We introduce an online neural sequence to sequence model that learns to alternate between encoding and decoding segments of the input as it is read. By independently tracking the encoding and decoding representations our algorithm permits exact polynomial marginalization of the latent segmentation during training, and ...
computer science
466
Semantic Parsing with Semi-Supervised Sequential Autoencoders
cs.CL
We present a novel semi-supervised approach for sequence transduction and apply it to semantic parsing. The unsupervised component is based on a generative model in which latent sentences generate the unpaired logical forms. We apply this method to a number of semantic parsing tasks focusing on domains with limited acc...
computer science
467
Exploiting Sentence and Context Representations in Deep Neural Models for Spoken Language Understanding
cs.AI
This paper presents a deep learning architecture for the semantic decoder component of a Statistical Spoken Dialogue System. In a slot-filling dialogue, the semantic decoder predicts the dialogue act and a set of slot-value pairs from a set of n-best hypotheses returned by the Automatic Speech Recognition. Most current...
computer science
468
The Neural Noisy Channel
cs.CL
We formulate sequence to sequence transduction as a noisy channel decoding problem and use recurrent neural networks to parameterise the source and channel models. Unlike direct models which can suffer from explaining-away effects during training, noisy channel models must produce outputs that explain their inputs, and...
computer science
469
Generative Deep Neural Networks for Dialogue: A Short Review
cs.CL
Researchers have recently started investigating deep neural networks for dialogue applications. In particular, generative sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) models have shown promising results for unstructured tasks, such as word-level dialogue response generation. The hope is that such models will be able to leverage mass...
computer science
470
Learning Python Code Suggestion with a Sparse Pointer Network
cs.NE
To enhance developer productivity, all modern integrated development environments (IDEs) include code suggestion functionality that proposes likely next tokens at the cursor. While current IDEs work well for statically-typed languages, their reliance on type annotations means that they do not provide the same level of ...
computer science
471
OpenNMT: Open-Source Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation
cs.CL
We describe an open-source toolkit for neural machine translation (NMT). The toolkit prioritizes efficiency, modularity, and extensibility with the goal of supporting NMT research into model architectures, feature representations, and source modalities, while maintaining competitive performance and reasonable training ...
computer science
472
Making Neural QA as Simple as Possible but not Simpler
cs.CL
Recent development of large-scale question answering (QA) datasets triggered a substantial amount of research into end-to-end neural architectures for QA. Increasingly complex systems have been conceived without comparison to simpler neural baseline systems that would justify their complexity. In this work, we propose ...
computer science
473
Survey of the State of the Art in Natural Language Generation: Core tasks, applications and evaluation
cs.CL
This paper surveys the current state of the art in Natural Language Generation (NLG), defined as the task of generating text or speech from non-linguistic input. A survey of NLG is timely in view of the changes that the field has undergone over the past decade or so, especially in relation to new (usually data-driven) ...
computer science
474
A Constrained Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Model for Sentence Simplification
cs.CL
Sentence simplification reduces semantic complexity to benefit people with language impairments. Previous simplification studies on the sentence level and word level have achieved promising results but also meet great challenges. For sentence-level studies, sentences after simplification are fluent but sometimes are no...
computer science
475
Improved Neural Relation Detection for Knowledge Base Question Answering
cs.CL
Relation detection is a core component for many NLP applications including Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA). In this paper, we propose a hierarchical recurrent neural network enhanced by residual learning that detects KB relations given an input question. Our method uses deep residual bidirectional LSTMs to com...
computer science
476
ASR error management for improving spoken language understanding
cs.CL
This paper addresses the problem of automatic speech recognition (ASR) error detection and their use for improving spoken language understanding (SLU) systems. In this study, the SLU task consists in automatically extracting, from ASR transcriptions , semantic concepts and concept/values pairs in a e.g touristic inform...
computer science
477
Dynamic Integration of Background Knowledge in Neural NLU Systems
cs.CL
Common-sense or background knowledge is required to understand natural language, but in most neural natural language understanding (NLU) systems, the requisite background knowledge is indirectly acquired from static corpora. We develop a new reading architecture for the dynamic integration of explicit background knowle...
computer science
478
Rethinking Skip-thought: A Neighborhood based Approach
cs.CL
We study the skip-thought model with neighborhood information as weak supervision. More specifically, we propose a skip-thought neighbor model to consider the adjacent sentences as a neighborhood. We train our skip-thought neighbor model on a large corpus with continuous sentences, and then evaluate the trained model o...
computer science
479
Neural Domain Adaptation for Biomedical Question Answering
cs.CL
Factoid question answering (QA) has recently benefited from the development of deep learning (DL) systems. Neural network models outperform traditional approaches in domains where large datasets exist, such as SQuAD (ca. 100,000 questions) for Wikipedia articles. However, these systems have not yet been applied to QA i...
computer science
480
Neural Models for Key Phrase Detection and Question Generation
cs.CL
We propose a two-stage neural model to tackle question generation from documents. Our model first estimates the probability that word sequences in a document compose "interesting" answers using a neural model trained on a question-answering corpus. We thus take a data-driven approach to interestingness. Predicted key p...
computer science
481
Neural Question Answering at BioASQ 5B
cs.CL
This paper describes our submission to the 2017 BioASQ challenge. We participated in Task B, Phase B which is concerned with biomedical question answering (QA). We focus on factoid and list question, using an extractive QA model, that is, we restrict our system to output substrings of the provided text snippets. At the...
computer science
482
A Deep Network with Visual Text Composition Behavior
cs.CL
While natural languages are compositional, how state-of-the-art neural models achieve compositionality is still unclear. We propose a deep network, which not only achieves competitive accuracy for text classification, but also exhibits compositional behavior. That is, while creating hierarchical representations of a pi...
computer science
483
Semi-supervised emotion lexicon expansion with label propagation and specialized word embeddings
cs.CL
There exist two main approaches to automatically extract affective orientation: lexicon-based and corpus-based. In this work, we argue that these two methods are compatible and show that combining them can improve the accuracy of emotion classifiers. In particular, we introduce a novel variant of the Label Propagation ...
computer science
484
Modelling Protagonist Goals and Desires in First-Person Narrative
cs.AI
Many genres of natural language text are narratively structured, a testament to our predilection for organizing our experiences as narratives. There is broad consensus that understanding a narrative requires identifying and tracking the goals and desires of the characters and their narrative outcomes. However, to date,...
computer science
485
Understanding Grounded Language Learning Agents
cs.CL
Neural network-based systems can now learn to locate the referents of words and phrases in images, answer questions about visual scenes, and even execute symbolic instructions as first-person actors in partially-observable worlds. To achieve this so-called grounded language learning, models must overcome certain well-s...
computer science
486
Just ASK: Building an Architecture for Extensible Self-Service Spoken Language Understanding
cs.CL
This paper presents the design of the machine learning architecture that underlies the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) a large scale Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) Software Development Kit (SDK) that enables developers to extend the capabilities of Amazon's virtual assistant, Alexa. At Amazon, the infrastructure powers ove...
computer science
487
The NarrativeQA Reading Comprehension Challenge
cs.CL
Reading comprehension (RC)---in contrast to information retrieval---requires integrating information and reasoning about events, entities, and their relations across a full document. Question answering is conventionally used to assess RC ability, in both artificial agents and children learning to read. However, existin...
computer science
488
Cognitive Database: A Step towards Endowing Relational Databases with Artificial Intelligence Capabilities
cs.DB
We propose Cognitive Databases, an approach for transparently enabling Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities in relational databases. A novel aspect of our design is to first view the structured data source as meaningful unstructured text, and then use the text to build an unsupervised neural network model using a ...
computer science
489
Feudal Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Management in Large Domains
cs.CL
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising approach to solve dialogue policy optimisation. Traditional RL algorithms, however, fail to scale to large domains due to the curse of dimensionality. We propose a novel Dialogue Management architecture, based on Feudal RL, which decomposes the decision into two steps; a first...
computer science
490
An Analysis of Neural Language Modeling at Multiple Scales
cs.CL
Many of the leading approaches in language modeling introduce novel, complex and specialized architectures. We take existing state-of-the-art word level language models based on LSTMs and QRNNs and extend them to both larger vocabularies as well as character-level granularity. When properly tuned, LSTMs and QRNNs achie...
computer science
491
Spatial Diffuseness Features for DNN-Based Speech Recognition in Noisy and Reverberant Environments
cs.CL
We propose a spatial diffuseness feature for deep neural network (DNN)-based automatic speech recognition to improve recognition accuracy in reverberant and noisy environments. The feature is computed in real-time from multiple microphone signals without requiring knowledge or estimation of the direction of arrival, an...
computer science
492
Character-Aware Neural Language Models
cs.CL
We describe a simple neural language model that relies only on character-level inputs. Predictions are still made at the word-level. Our model employs a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a highway network over characters, whose output is given to a long short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network language mo...
computer science
493
Neural-based machine translation for medical text domain. Based on European Medicines Agency leaflet texts
cs.CL
The quality of machine translation is rapidly evolving. Today one can find several machine translation systems on the web that provide reasonable translations, although the systems are not perfect. In some specific domains, the quality may decrease. A recently proposed approach to this domain is neural machine translat...
computer science
494
Conditional Generation and Snapshot Learning in Neural Dialogue Systems
cs.CL
Recently a variety of LSTM-based conditional language models (LM) have been applied across a range of language generation tasks. In this work we study various model architectures and different ways to represent and aggregate the source information in an end-to-end neural dialogue system framework. A method called snaps...
computer science
495
Dialog state tracking, a machine reading approach using Memory Network
cs.CL
In an end-to-end dialog system, the aim of dialog state tracking is to accurately estimate a compact representation of the current dialog status from a sequence of noisy observations produced by the speech recognition and the natural language understanding modules. This paper introduces a novel method of dialog state t...
computer science
496
A Physical Metaphor to Study Semantic Drift
cs.CL
In accessibility tests for digital preservation, over time we experience drifts of localized and labelled content in statistical models of evolving semantics represented as a vector field. This articulates the need to detect, measure, interpret and model outcomes of knowledge dynamics. To this end we employ a high-perf...
computer science
497
Optimizing Neural Network Hyperparameters with Gaussian Processes for Dialog Act Classification
cs.CL
Systems based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results in many natural language processing tasks. Although ANNs do not require manually engineered features, ANNs have many hyperparameters to be optimized. The choice of hyperparameters significantly impacts models' performances. Howeve...
computer science
498
A Survey of Voice Translation Methodologies - Acoustic Dialect Decoder
cs.CL
Speech Translation has always been about giving source text or audio input and waiting for system to give translated output in desired form. In this paper, we present the Acoustic Dialect Decoder (ADD) - a voice to voice ear-piece translation device. We introduce and survey the recent advances made in the field of Spee...
computer science
499
Learning to Reason With Adaptive Computation
cs.CL
Multi-hop inference is necessary for machine learning systems to successfully solve tasks such as Recognising Textual Entailment and Machine Reading. In this work, we demonstrate the effectiveness of adaptive computation for learning the number of inference steps required for examples of different complexity and that l...
computer science