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Towards Learning Object Affordance Priors from Technical Texts
cs.LG
Everyday activities performed by artificial assistants can potentially be executed naively and dangerously given their lack of common sense knowledge. This paper presents conceptual work towards obtaining prior knowledge on the usual modality (passive or active) of any given entity, and their affordance estimates, by e...
computer science
1,601
Inferring User Preferences by Probabilistic Logical Reasoning over Social Networks
cs.SI
We propose a framework for inferring the latent attitudes or preferences of users by performing probabilistic first-order logical reasoning over the social network graph. Our method answers questions about Twitter users like {\em Does this user like sushi?} or {\em Is this user a New York Knicks fan?} by building a pro...
computer science
1,602
Dependency Recurrent Neural Language Models for Sentence Completion
cs.CL
Recent work on language modelling has shifted focus from count-based models to neural models. In these works, the words in each sentence are always considered in a left-to-right order. In this paper we show how we can improve the performance of the recurrent neural network (RNN) language model by incorporating the synt...
computer science
1,603
Dependency-based Convolutional Neural Networks for Sentence Embedding
cs.CL
In sentence modeling and classification, convolutional neural network approaches have recently achieved state-of-the-art results, but all such efforts process word vectors sequentially and neglect long-distance dependencies. To exploit both deep learning and linguistic structures, we propose a tree-based convolutional ...
computer science
1,604
Empirical Study on Deep Learning Models for Question Answering
cs.CL
In this paper we explore deep learning models with memory component or attention mechanism for question answering task. We combine and compare three models, Neural Machine Translation, Neural Turing Machine, and Memory Networks for a simulated QA data set. This paper is the first one that uses Neural Machine Translatio...
computer science
1,605
Deep Reinforcement Learning with a Natural Language Action Space
cs.AI
This paper introduces a novel architecture for reinforcement learning with deep neural networks designed to handle state and action spaces characterized by natural language, as found in text-based games. Termed a deep reinforcement relevance network (DRRN), the architecture represents action and state spaces with separ...
computer science
1,606
Learning with Memory Embeddings
cs.AI
Embedding learning, a.k.a. representation learning, has been shown to be able to model large-scale semantic knowledge graphs. A key concept is a mapping of the knowledge graph to a tensor representation whose entries are predicted by models using latent representations of generalized entities. Latent variable models ar...
computer science
1,607
Building Memory with Concept Learning Capabilities from Large-scale Knowledge Base
cs.CL
We present a new perspective on neural knowledge base (KB) embeddings, from which we build a framework that can model symbolic knowledge in the KB together with its learning process. We show that this framework well regularizes previous neural KB embedding model for superior performance in reasoning tasks, while having...
computer science
1,608
Thinking Required
cs.LG
There exists a theory of a single general-purpose learning algorithm which could explain the principles its operation. It assumes the initial rough architecture, a small library of simple innate circuits which are prewired at birth. and proposes that all significant mental algorithms are learned. Given current understa...
computer science
1,609
Open challenges in understanding development and evolution of speech forms: The roles of embodied self-organization, motivation and active exploration
cs.AI
This article discusses open scientific challenges for understanding development and evolution of speech forms, as a commentary to Moulin-Frier et al. (Moulin-Frier et al., 2015). Based on the analysis of mathematical models of the origins of speech forms, with a focus on their assumptions , we study the fundamental que...
computer science
1,610
Adobe-MIT submission to the DSTC 4 Spoken Language Understanding pilot task
cs.CL
The Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4 (DSTC 4) proposes several pilot tasks. In this paper, we focus on the spoken language understanding pilot task, which consists of tagging a given utterance with speech acts and semantic slots. We compare different classifiers: the best system obtains 0.52 and 0.67 F1-scores on the ...
computer science
1,611
Towards End-to-End Learning for Dialog State Tracking and Management using Deep Reinforcement Learning
cs.AI
This paper presents an end-to-end framework for task-oriented dialog systems using a variant of Deep Recurrent Q-Networks (DRQN). The model is able to interface with a relational database and jointly learn policies for both language understanding and dialog strategy. Moreover, we propose a hybrid algorithm that combine...
computer science
1,612
Deep Reinforcement Learning with a Combinatorial Action Space for Predicting Popular Reddit Threads
cs.CL
We introduce an online popularity prediction and tracking task as a benchmark task for reinforcement learning with a combinatorial, natural language action space. A specified number of discussion threads predicted to be popular are recommended, chosen from a fixed window of recent comments to track. Novel deep reinforc...
computer science
1,613
Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking
cs.CL
One of the core components of modern spoken dialogue systems is the belief tracker, which estimates the user's goal at every step of the dialogue. However, most current approaches have difficulty scaling to larger, more complex dialogue domains. This is due to their dependency on either: a) Spoken Language Understandin...
computer science
1,614
The LAMBADA dataset: Word prediction requiring a broad discourse context
cs.CL
We introduce LAMBADA, a dataset to evaluate the capabilities of computational models for text understanding by means of a word prediction task. LAMBADA is a collection of narrative passages sharing the characteristic that human subjects are able to guess their last word if they are exposed to the whole passage, but not...
computer science
1,615
Unanimous Prediction for 100% Precision with Application to Learning Semantic Mappings
cs.LG
Can we train a system that, on any new input, either says "don't know" or makes a prediction that is guaranteed to be correct? We answer the question in the affirmative provided our model family is well-specified. Specifically, we introduce the unanimity principle: only predict when all models consistent with the train...
computer science
1,616
Lifted Rule Injection for Relation Embeddings
cs.LG
Methods based on representation learning currently hold the state-of-the-art in many natural language processing and knowledge base inference tasks. Yet, a major challenge is how to efficiently incorporate commonsense knowledge into such models. A recent approach regularizes relation and entity representations by propo...
computer science
1,617
Learning Relational Dependency Networks for Relation Extraction
cs.AI
We consider the task of KBP slot filling -- extracting relation information from newswire documents for knowledge base construction. We present our pipeline, which employs Relational Dependency Networks (RDNs) to learn linguistic patterns for relation extraction. Additionally, we demonstrate how several components such...
computer science
1,618
Cognitive Science in the era of Artificial Intelligence: A roadmap for reverse-engineering the infant language-learner
cs.CL
During their first years of life, infants learn the language(s) of their environment at an amazing speed despite large cross cultural variations in amount and complexity of the available language input. Understanding this simple fact still escapes current cognitive and linguistic theories. Recently, spectacular progres...
computer science
1,619
Unsupervised, Efficient and Semantic Expertise Retrieval
cs.IR
We introduce an unsupervised discriminative model for the task of retrieving experts in online document collections. We exclusively employ textual evidence and avoid explicit feature engineering by learning distributed word representations in an unsupervised way. We compare our model to state-of-the-art unsupervised st...
computer science
1,620
Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases
cs.AI
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are in a period of astounding growth. However, there are concerns that these technologies may be used, either with or without intention, to perpetuate the prejudice and unfairness that unfortunately characterizes many human institutions. Here we show for the first time that ...
computer science
1,621
Wav2Letter: an End-to-End ConvNet-based Speech Recognition System
cs.LG
This paper presents a simple end-to-end model for speech recognition, combining a convolutional network based acoustic model and a graph decoding. It is trained to output letters, with transcribed speech, without the need for force alignment of phonemes. We introduce an automatic segmentation criterion for training fro...
computer science
1,622
Weakly Supervised PLDA Training
cs.LG
PLDA is a popular normalization approach for the i-vector model, and it has delivered state-of-the-art performance in speaker verification. However, PLDA training requires a large amount of labelled development data, which is highly expensive in most cases. We present a cheap PLDA training approach, which assumes that ...
computer science
1,623
Personalizing a Dialogue System with Transfer Reinforcement Learning
cs.AI
It is difficult to train a personalized task-oriented dialogue system because the data collected from each individual is often insufficient. Personalized dialogue systems trained on a small dataset can overfit and make it difficult to adapt to different user needs. One way to solve this problem is to consider a collect...
computer science
1,624
Neural Symbolic Machines: Learning Semantic Parsers on Freebase with Weak Supervision
cs.CL
Harnessing the statistical power of neural networks to perform language understanding and symbolic reasoning is difficult, when it requires executing efficient discrete operations against a large knowledge-base. In this work, we introduce a Neural Symbolic Machine, which contains (a) a neural "programmer", i.e., a sequ...
computer science
1,625
Sentence Ordering and Coherence Modeling using Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.CL
Modeling the structure of coherent texts is a key NLP problem. The task of coherently organizing a given set of sentences has been commonly used to build and evaluate models that understand such structure. We propose an end-to-end unsupervised deep learning approach based on the set-to-sequence framework to address thi...
computer science
1,626
UTCNN: a Deep Learning Model of Stance Classificationon on Social Media Text
cs.CL
Most neural network models for document classification on social media focus on text infor-mation to the neglect of other information on these platforms. In this paper, we classify post stance on social media channels and develop UTCNN, a neural network model that incorporates user tastes, topic tastes, and user commen...
computer science
1,627
Traversing Knowledge Graph in Vector Space without Symbolic Space Guidance
cs.AI
Recent studies on knowledge base completion, the task of recovering missing facts based on observed facts, demonstrate the importance of learning embeddings from multi-step relations. Due to the size of knowledge bases, previous works manually design relation paths of observed triplets in symbolic space (e.g. random wa...
computer science
1,628
A Multichannel Convolutional Neural Network For Cross-language Dialog State Tracking
cs.CL
The fifth Dialog State Tracking Challenge (DSTC5) introduces a new cross-language dialog state tracking scenario, where the participants are asked to build their trackers based on the English training corpus, while evaluating them with the unlabeled Chinese corpus. Although the computer-generated translations for both ...
computer science
1,629
CommAI: Evaluating the first steps towards a useful general AI
cs.LG
With machine learning successfully applied to new daunting problems almost every day, general AI starts looking like an attainable goal. However, most current research focuses instead on important but narrow applications, such as image classification or machine translation. We believe this to be largely due to the lack...
computer science
1,630
Representations of language in a model of visually grounded speech signal
cs.CL
We present a visually grounded model of speech perception which projects spoken utterances and images to a joint semantic space. We use a multi-layer recurrent highway network to model the temporal nature of spoken speech, and show that it learns to extract both form and meaning-based linguistic knowledge from the inpu...
computer science
1,631
Maximum-Likelihood Augmented Discrete Generative Adversarial Networks
cs.AI
Despite the successes in capturing continuous distributions, the application of generative adversarial networks (GANs) to discrete settings, like natural language tasks, is rather restricted. The fundamental reason is the difficulty of back-propagation through discrete random variables combined with the inherent instab...
computer science
1,632
Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks for Small-Footprint Keyword Spotting
cs.CL
Keyword spotting (KWS) constitutes a major component of human-technology interfaces. Maximizing the detection accuracy at a low false alarm (FA) rate, while minimizing the footprint size, latency and complexity are the goals for KWS. Towards achieving them, we study Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks (CRNNs). Insp...
computer science
1,633
Investigation of Language Understanding Impact for Reinforcement Learning Based Dialogue Systems
cs.CL
Language understanding is a key component in a spoken dialogue system. In this paper, we investigate how the language understanding module influences the dialogue system performance by conducting a series of systematic experiments on a task-oriented neural dialogue system in a reinforcement learning based setting. The ...
computer science
1,634
Composite Task-Completion Dialogue Policy Learning via Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning
cs.CL
Building a dialogue agent to fulfill complex tasks, such as travel planning, is challenging because the agent has to learn to collectively complete multiple subtasks. For example, the agent needs to reserve a hotel and book a flight so that there leaves enough time for commute between arrival and hotel check-in. This p...
computer science
1,635
Optimizing Differentiable Relaxations of Coreference Evaluation Metrics
cs.CL
Coreference evaluation metrics are hard to optimize directly as they are non-differentiable functions, not easily decomposable into elementary decisions. Consequently, most approaches optimize objectives only indirectly related to the end goal, resulting in suboptimal performance. Instead, we propose a differentiable r...
computer science
1,636
A Large Self-Annotated Corpus for Sarcasm
cs.CL
We introduce the Self-Annotated Reddit Corpus (SARC), a large corpus for sarcasm research and for training and evaluating systems for sarcasm detection. The corpus has 1.3 million sarcastic statements -- 10 times more than any previous dataset -- and many times more instances of non-sarcastic statements, allowing for l...
computer science
1,637
An Interpretable Knowledge Transfer Model for Knowledge Base Completion
cs.CL
Knowledge bases are important resources for a variety of natural language processing tasks but suffer from incompleteness. We propose a novel embedding model, \emph{ITransF}, to perform knowledge base completion. Equipped with a sparse attention mechanism, ITransF discovers hidden concepts of relations and transfer sta...
computer science
1,638
Naturalizing a Programming Language via Interactive Learning
cs.CL
Our goal is to create a convenient natural language interface for performing well-specified but complex actions such as analyzing data, manipulating text, and querying databases. However, existing natural language interfaces for such tasks are quite primitive compared to the power one wields with a programming language...
computer science
1,639
Tree-Structured Neural Machine for Linguistics-Aware Sentence Generation
cs.AI
Different from other sequential data, sentences in natural language are structured by linguistic grammars. Previous generative conversational models with chain-structured decoder ignore this structure in human language and might generate plausible responses with less satisfactory relevance and fluency. In this study, w...
computer science
1,640
Analogical Inference for Multi-Relational Embeddings
cs.LG
Large-scale multi-relational embedding refers to the task of learning the latent representations for entities and relations in large knowledge graphs. An effective and scalable solution for this problem is crucial for the true success of knowledge-based inference in a broad range of applications. This paper proposes a ...
computer science
1,641
Program Induction by Rationale Generation : Learning to Solve and Explain Algebraic Word Problems
cs.AI
Solving algebraic word problems requires executing a series of arithmetic operations---a program---to obtain a final answer. However, since programs can be arbitrarily complicated, inducing them directly from question-answer pairs is a formidable challenge. To make this task more feasible, we solve these problems by ge...
computer science
1,642
Know-Evolve: Deep Temporal Reasoning for Dynamic Knowledge Graphs
cs.AI
The availability of large scale event data with time stamps has given rise to dynamically evolving knowledge graphs that contain temporal information for each edge. Reasoning over time in such dynamic knowledge graphs is not yet well understood. To this end, we present Know-Evolve, a novel deep evolutionary knowledge n...
computer science
1,643
Search Engine Guided Non-Parametric Neural Machine Translation
cs.CL
In this paper, we extend an attention-based neural machine translation (NMT) model by allowing it to access an entire training set of parallel sentence pairs even after training. The proposed approach consists of two stages. In the first stage--retrieval stage--, an off-the-shelf, black-box search engine is used to ret...
computer science
1,644
Mixed Membership Word Embeddings for Computational Social Science
cs.CL
Word embeddings improve the performance of NLP systems by revealing the hidden structural relationships between words. Despite their success in many applications, word embeddings have seen very little use in computational social science NLP tasks, presumably due to their reliance on big data, and to a lack of interpret...
computer science
1,645
Discovering Discrete Latent Topics with Neural Variational Inference
cs.CL
Topic models have been widely explored as probabilistic generative models of documents. Traditional inference methods have sought closed-form derivations for updating the models, however as the expressiveness of these models grows, so does the difficulty of performing fast and accurate inference over their parameters. ...
computer science
1,646
Zero-Shot Relation Extraction via Reading Comprehension
cs.CL
We show that relation extraction can be reduced to answering simple reading comprehension questions, by associating one or more natural-language questions with each relation slot. This reduction has several advantages: we can (1) learn relation-extraction models by extending recent neural reading-comprehension techniqu...
computer science
1,647
Joint Extraction of Entities and Relations Based on a Novel Tagging Scheme
cs.CL
Joint extraction of entities and relations is an important task in information extraction. To tackle this problem, we firstly propose a novel tagging scheme that can convert the joint extraction task to a tagging problem. Then, based on our tagging scheme, we study different end-to-end models to extract entities and th...
computer science
1,648
Gated-Attention Architectures for Task-Oriented Language Grounding
cs.LG
To perform tasks specified by natural language instructions, autonomous agents need to extract semantically meaningful representations of language and map it to visual elements and actions in the environment. This problem is called task-oriented language grounding. We propose an end-to-end trainable neural architecture...
computer science
1,649
Representation Learning for Grounded Spatial Reasoning
cs.CL
The interpretation of spatial references is highly contextual, requiring joint inference over both language and the environment. We consider the task of spatial reasoning in a simulated environment, where an agent can act and receive rewards. The proposed model learns a representation of the world steered by instructio...
computer science
1,650
The Role of Conversation Context for Sarcasm Detection in Online Interactions
cs.CL
Computational models for sarcasm detection have often relied on the content of utterances in isolation. However, speaker's sarcastic intent is not always obvious without additional context. Focusing on social media discussions, we investigate two issues: (1) does modeling of conversation context help in sarcasm detecti...
computer science
1,651
Learned in Translation: Contextualized Word Vectors
cs.CL
Computer vision has benefited from initializing multiple deep layers with weights pretrained on large supervised training sets like ImageNet. Natural language processing (NLP) typically sees initialization of only the lowest layer of deep models with pretrained word vectors. In this paper, we use a deep LSTM encoder fr...
computer science
1,652
Deep Transfer in Reinforcement Learning by Language Grounding
cs.CL
In this paper, we explore the utilization of natural language to drive transfer for reinforcement learning (RL). Despite the wide-spread application of deep RL techniques, learning generalized policy representations that work across domains remains a challenging problem. We demonstrate that textual descriptions of envi...
computer science
1,653
e-QRAQ: A Multi-turn Reasoning Dataset and Simulator with Explanations
cs.LG
In this paper we present a new dataset and user simulator e-QRAQ (explainable Query, Reason, and Answer Question) which tests an Agent's ability to read an ambiguous text; ask questions until it can answer a challenge question; and explain the reasoning behind its questions and answer. The User simulator provides the A...
computer science
1,654
Shortcut-Stacked Sentence Encoders for Multi-Domain Inference
cs.CL
We present a simple sequential sentence encoder for multi-domain natural language inference. Our encoder is based on stacked bidirectional LSTM-RNNs with shortcut connections and fine-tuning of word embeddings. The overall supervised model uses the above encoder to encode two input sentences into two vectors, and then ...
computer science
1,655
Learning how to Active Learn: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
cs.CL
Active learning aims to select a small subset of data for annotation such that a classifier learned on the data is highly accurate. This is usually done using heuristic selection methods, however the effectiveness of such methods is limited and moreover, the performance of heuristics varies between datasets. To address...
computer science
1,656
LADDER: A Human-Level Bidding Agent for Large-Scale Real-Time Online Auctions
cs.LG
We present LADDER, the first deep reinforcement learning agent that can successfully learn control policies for large-scale real-world problems directly from raw inputs composed of high-level semantic information. The agent is based on an asynchronous stochastic variant of DQN (Deep Q Network) named DASQN. The inputs o...
computer science
1,657
Towards an Automatic Turing Test: Learning to Evaluate Dialogue Responses
cs.CL
Automatically evaluating the quality of dialogue responses for unstructured domains is a challenging problem. Unfortunately, existing automatic evaluation metrics are biased and correlate very poorly with human judgements of response quality. Yet having an accurate automatic evaluation procedure is crucial for dialogue...
computer science
1,658
Learning what to read: Focused machine reading
cs.AI
Recent efforts in bioinformatics have achieved tremendous progress in the machine reading of biomedical literature, and the assembly of the extracted biochemical interactions into large-scale models such as protein signaling pathways. However, batch machine reading of literature at today's scale (PubMed alone indexes o...
computer science
1,659
Refining Source Representations with Relation Networks for Neural Machine Translation
cs.CL
Although neural machine translation (NMT) with the encoder-decoder framework has achieved great success in recent times, it still suffers from some drawbacks: RNNs tend to forget old information which is often useful and the encoder only operates through words without considering word relationship. To solve these probl...
computer science
1,660
Variational Reasoning for Question Answering with Knowledge Graph
cs.LG
Knowledge graph (KG) is known to be helpful for the task of question answering (QA), since it provides well-structured relational information between entities, and allows one to further infer indirect facts. However, it is challenging to build QA systems which can learn to reason over knowledge graphs based on question...
computer science
1,661
HDLTex: Hierarchical Deep Learning for Text Classification
cs.LG
The continually increasing number of documents produced each year necessitates ever improving information processing methods for searching, retrieving, and organizing text. Central to these information processing methods is document classification, which has become an important application for supervised learning. Rece...
computer science
1,662
Long Text Generation via Adversarial Training with Leaked Information
cs.CL
Automatically generating coherent and semantically meaningful text has many applications in machine translation, dialogue systems, image captioning, etc. Recently, by combining with policy gradient, Generative Adversarial Nets (GAN) that use a discriminative model to guide the training of the generative model as a rein...
computer science
1,663
Training an adaptive dialogue policy for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings
cs.CL
We present a multi-modal dialogue system for interactive learning of perceptually grounded word meanings from a human tutor. The system integrates an incremental, semantic parsing/generation framework - Dynamic Syntax and Type Theory with Records (DS-TTR) - with a set of visual classifiers that are learned throughout t...
computer science
1,664
The BURCHAK corpus: a Challenge Data Set for Interactive Learning of Visually Grounded Word Meanings
cs.CL
We motivate and describe a new freely available human-human dialogue dataset for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings through ostensive definition by a tutor to a learner. The data has been collected using a novel, character-by-character variant of the DiET chat tool (Healey et al., 2003; Mills and H...
computer science
1,665
Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation
cs.CL
In spite of the recent success of neural machine translation (NMT) in standard benchmarks, the lack of large parallel corpora poses a major practical problem for many language pairs. There have been several proposals to alleviate this issue with, for instance, triangulation and semi-supervised learning techniques, but ...
computer science
1,666
Adversarial Advantage Actor-Critic Model for Task-Completion Dialogue Policy Learning
cs.CL
This paper presents a new method --- adversarial advantage actor-critic (Adversarial A2C), which significantly improves the efficiency of dialogue policy learning in task-completion dialogue systems. Inspired by generative adversarial networks (GAN), we train a discriminator to differentiate responses/actions generated...
computer science
1,667
Question Asking as Program Generation
cs.CL
A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to ask rich, creative, and revealing questions. Here we introduce a cognitive model capable of constructing human-like questions. Our approach treats questions as formal programs that, when executed on the state of the world, output an answer. The model specifies a probab...
computer science
1,668
Generating Thematic Chinese Poetry using Conditional Variational Autoencoders with Hybrid Decoders
cs.CL
Computer poetry generation is our first step towards computer writing. Writing must have a theme. The current approaches of using sequence-to-sequence models with attention often produce non-thematic poems. We present a novel conditional variational autoencoder with a hybrid decoder adding the deconvolutional neural ne...
computer science
1,669
Improved Neural Text Attribute Transfer with Non-parallel Data
cs.CL
Text attribute transfer using non-parallel data requires methods that can perform disentanglement of content and linguistic attributes. In this work, we propose multiple improvements over the existing approaches that enable the encoder-decoder framework to cope with the text attribute transfer from non-parallel data. W...
computer science
1,670
Complex Structure Leads to Overfitting: A Structure Regularization Decoding Method for Natural Language Processing
cs.LG
Recent systems on structured prediction focus on increasing the level of structural dependencies within the model. However, our study suggests that complex structures entail high overfitting risks. To control the structure-based overfitting, we propose to conduct structure regularization decoding (SR decoding). The dec...
computer science
1,671
Embedding Words as Distributions with a Bayesian Skip-gram Model
cs.CL
We introduce a method for embedding words as probability densities in a low-dimensional space. Rather than assuming that a word embedding is fixed across the entire text collection, as in standard word embedding methods, in our Bayesian model we generate it from a word-specific prior density for each occurrence of a gi...
computer science
1,672
End-to-End Offline Goal-Oriented Dialog Policy Learning via Policy Gradient
cs.AI
Learning a goal-oriented dialog policy is generally performed offline with supervised learning algorithms or online with reinforcement learning (RL). Additionally, as companies accumulate massive quantities of dialog transcripts between customers and trained human agents, encoder-decoder methods have gained popularity ...
computer science
1,673
Rasa: Open Source Language Understanding and Dialogue Management
cs.CL
We introduce a pair of tools, Rasa NLU and Rasa Core, which are open source python libraries for building conversational software. Their purpose is to make machine-learning based dialogue management and language understanding accessible to non-specialist software developers. In terms of design philosophy, we aim for ea...
computer science
1,674
Sentiment Predictability for Stocks
cs.CL
In this work, we present our findings and experiments for stock-market prediction using various textual sentiment analysis tools, such as mood analysis and event extraction, as well as prediction models, such as LSTMs and specific convolutional architectures.
computer science
1,675
Multi-Task Pharmacovigilance Mining from Social Media Posts
cs.LG
Social media has grown to be a crucial information source for pharmacovigilance studies where an increasing number of people post adverse reactions to medical drugs that are previously unreported. Aiming to effectively monitor various aspects of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) from diversely expressed social medical post...
computer science
1,676
Evaluating approaches for supervised semantic labeling
cs.LG
Relational data sources are still one of the most popular ways to store enterprise or Web data, however, the issue with relational schema is the lack of a well-defined semantic description. A common ontology provides a way to represent the meaning of a relational schema and can facilitate the integration of heterogeneo...
computer science
1,677
Improving Variational Encoder-Decoders in Dialogue Generation
cs.CL
Variational encoder-decoders (VEDs) have shown promising results in dialogue generation. However, the latent variable distributions are usually approximated by a much simpler model than the powerful RNN structure used for encoding and decoding, yielding the KL-vanishing problem and inconsistent training objective. In t...
computer science
1,678
An efficient framework for learning sentence representations
cs.CL
In this work we propose a simple and efficient framework for learning sentence representations from unlabelled data. Drawing inspiration from the distributional hypothesis and recent work on learning sentence representations, we reformulate the problem of predicting the context in which a sentence appears as a classifi...
computer science
1,679
SpCoSLAM 2.0: An Improved and Scalable Online Learning of Spatial Concepts and Language Models with Mapping
cs.RO
In this paper, we propose a novel online learning algorithm, SpCoSLAM 2.0 for spatial concepts and lexical acquisition with higher accuracy and scalability. In previous work, we proposed SpCoSLAM as an online learning algorithm based on the Rao--Blackwellized particle filter. However, this conventional algorithm had pr...
computer science
1,680
The Web as a Knowledge-base for Answering Complex Questions
cs.CL
Answering complex questions is a time-consuming activity for humans that requires reasoning and integration of information. Recent work on reading comprehension made headway in answering simple questions, but tackling complex questions is still an ongoing research challenge. Conversely, semantic parsers have been succe...
computer science
1,681
Neural Text Generation: Past, Present and Beyond
cs.CL
This paper presents a systematic survey on recent development of neural text generation models. Specifically, we start from recurrent neural network language models with the traditional maximum likelihood estimation training scheme and point out its shortcoming for text generation. We thus introduce the recently propos...
computer science
1,682
Likelihood-based semi-supervised model selection with applications to speech processing
stat.ML
In conventional supervised pattern recognition tasks, model selection is typically accomplished by minimizing the classification error rate on a set of so-called development data, subject to ground-truth labeling by human experts or some other means. In the context of speech processing systems and other large-scale pra...
computer science
1,683
Inference by Minimizing Size, Divergence, or their Sum
cs.LG
We speed up marginal inference by ignoring factors that do not significantly contribute to overall accuracy. In order to pick a suitable subset of factors to ignore, we propose three schemes: minimizing the number of model factors under a bound on the KL divergence between pruned and full models; minimizing the KL dive...
computer science
1,684
Concept Modeling with Superwords
stat.ML
In information retrieval, a fundamental goal is to transform a document into concepts that are representative of its content. The term "representative" is in itself challenging to define, and various tasks require different granularities of concepts. In this paper, we aim to model concepts that are sparse over the voca...
computer science
1,685
The Expressive Power of Word Embeddings
cs.LG
We seek to better understand the difference in quality of the several publicly released embeddings. We propose several tasks that help to distinguish the characteristics of different embeddings. Our evaluation of sentiment polarity and synonym/antonym relations shows that embeddings are able to capture surprisingly nua...
computer science
1,686
Transfer Topic Modeling with Ease and Scalability
cs.CL
The increasing volume of short texts generated on social media sites, such as Twitter or Facebook, creates a great demand for effective and efficient topic modeling approaches. While latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) can be applied, it is not optimal due to its weakness in handling short texts with fast-changing topics...
computer science
1,687
Learning Mixtures of Submodular Shells with Application to Document Summarization
cs.LG
We introduce a method to learn a mixture of submodular "shells" in a large-margin setting. A submodular shell is an abstract submodular function that can be instantiated with a ground set and a set of parameters to produce a submodular function. A mixture of such shells can then also be so instantiated to produce a mor...
computer science
1,688
Learning Word Representations with Hierarchical Sparse Coding
cs.CL
We propose a new method for learning word representations using hierarchical regularization in sparse coding inspired by the linguistic study of word meanings. We show an efficient learning algorithm based on stochastic proximal methods that is significantly faster than previous approaches, making it possible to perfor...
computer science
1,689
Modelling, Visualising and Summarising Documents with a Single Convolutional Neural Network
cs.CL
Capturing the compositional process which maps the meaning of words to that of documents is a central challenge for researchers in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. We introduce a model that is able to represent the meaning of documents by embedding them in a low dimensional vector space, while pre...
computer science
1,690
Authorship Attribution through Function Word Adjacency Networks
cs.CL
A method for authorship attribution based on function word adjacency networks (WANs) is introduced. Function words are parts of speech that express grammatical relationships between other words but do not carry lexical meaning on their own. In the WANs in this paper, nodes are function words and directed edges stand in...
computer science
1,691
Multilingual Topic Models for Unaligned Text
cs.CL
We develop the multilingual topic model for unaligned text (MuTo), a probabilistic model of text that is designed to analyze corpora composed of documents in two languages. From these documents, MuTo uses stochastic EM to simultaneously discover both a matching between the languages and multilingual latent topics. We d...
computer science
1,692
Integrating Document Clustering and Topic Modeling
cs.LG
Document clustering and topic modeling are two closely related tasks which can mutually benefit each other. Topic modeling can project documents into a topic space which facilitates effective document clustering. Cluster labels discovered by document clustering can be incorporated into topic models to extract local top...
computer science
1,693
Nonparametric Spherical Topic Modeling with Word Embeddings
cs.CL
Traditional topic models do not account for semantic regularities in language. Recent distributional representations of words exhibit semantic consistency over directional metrics such as cosine similarity. However, neither categorical nor Gaussian observational distributions used in existing topic models are appropria...
computer science
1,694
Combinatorial Topic Models using Small-Variance Asymptotics
cs.LG
Topic models have emerged as fundamental tools in unsupervised machine learning. Most modern topic modeling algorithms take a probabilistic view and derive inference algorithms based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) or its variants. In contrast, we study topic modeling as a combinatorial optimization problem, and p...
computer science
1,695
Multidimensional counting grids: Inferring word order from disordered bags of words
cs.IR
Models of bags of words typically assume topic mixing so that the words in a single bag come from a limited number of topics. We show here that many sets of bag of words exhibit a very different pattern of variation than the patterns that are efficiently captured by topic mixing. In many cases, from one bag of words to...
computer science
1,696
Latent Topic Models for Hypertext
cs.IR
Latent topic models have been successfully applied as an unsupervised topic discovery technique in large document collections. With the proliferation of hypertext document collection such as the Internet, there has also been great interest in extending these approaches to hypertext [6, 9]. These approaches typically mo...
computer science
1,697
Learning to Identify Regular Expressions that Describe Email Campaigns
cs.LG
This paper addresses the problem of inferring a regular expression from a given set of strings that resembles, as closely as possible, the regular expression that a human expert would have written to identify the language. This is motivated by our goal of automating the task of postmasters of an email service who use r...
computer science
1,698
Learning Multilingual Word Representations using a Bag-of-Words Autoencoder
cs.CL
Recent work on learning multilingual word representations usually relies on the use of word-level alignements (e.g. infered with the help of GIZA++) between translated sentences, in order to align the word embeddings in different languages. In this workshop paper, we investigate an autoencoder model for learning multil...
computer science
1,699
Parsimonious Topic Models with Salient Word Discovery
cs.LG
We propose a parsimonious topic model for text corpora. In related models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), all words are modeled topic-specifically, even though many words occur with similar frequencies across different topics. Our modeling determines salient words for each topic, which have topic-specific pr...
computer science