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An Autoencoder Approach to Learning Bilingual Word Representations
cs.CL
Cross-language learning allows us to use training data from one language to build models for a different language. Many approaches to bilingual learning require that we have word-level alignment of sentences from parallel corpora. In this work we explore the use of autoencoder-based methods for cross-language learning ...
computer science
1,701
word2vec Explained: deriving Mikolov et al.'s negative-sampling word-embedding method
cs.CL
The word2vec software of Tomas Mikolov and colleagues (https://code.google.com/p/word2vec/ ) has gained a lot of traction lately, and provides state-of-the-art word embeddings. The learning models behind the software are described in two research papers. We found the description of the models in these papers to be some...
computer science
1,702
Modelling Data Dispersion Degree in Automatic Robust Estimation for Multivariate Gaussian Mixture Models with an Application to Noisy Speech Processing
cs.CL
The trimming scheme with a prefixed cutoff portion is known as a method of improving the robustness of statistical models such as multivariate Gaussian mixture models (MG- MMs) in small scale tests by alleviating the impacts of outliers. However, when this method is applied to real- world data, such as noisy speech pro...
computer science
1,703
A Case Study in Text Mining: Interpreting Twitter Data From World Cup Tweets
stat.ML
Cluster analysis is a field of data analysis that extracts underlying patterns in data. One application of cluster analysis is in text-mining, the analysis of large collections of text to find similarities between documents. We used a collection of about 30,000 tweets extracted from Twitter just before the World Cup st...
computer science
1,704
Use of Modality and Negation in Semantically-Informed Syntactic MT
cs.CL
This paper describes the resource- and system-building efforts of an eight-week Johns Hopkins University Human Language Technology Center of Excellence Summer Camp for Applied Language Exploration (SCALE-2009) on Semantically-Informed Machine Translation (SIMT). We describe a new modality/negation (MN) annotation schem...
computer science
1,705
RAND-WALK: A Latent Variable Model Approach to Word Embeddings
cs.LG
Semantic word embeddings represent the meaning of a word via a vector, and are created by diverse methods. Many use nonlinear operations on co-occurrence statistics, and have hand-tuned hyperparameters and reweighting methods. This paper proposes a new generative model, a dynamic version of the log-linear topic model...
computer science
1,706
A Linear Dynamical System Model for Text
stat.ML
Low dimensional representations of words allow accurate NLP models to be trained on limited annotated data. While most representations ignore words' local context, a natural way to induce context-dependent representations is to perform inference in a probabilistic latent-variable sequence model. Given the recent succes...
computer science
1,707
Using NLP to measure democracy
cs.CL
This paper uses natural language processing to create the first machine-coded democracy index, which I call Automated Democracy Scores (ADS). The ADS are based on 42 million news articles from 6,043 different sources and cover all independent countries in the 1993-2012 period. Unlike the democracy indices we have today...
computer science
1,708
Bayesian Optimization of Text Representations
cs.CL
When applying machine learning to problems in NLP, there are many choices to make about how to represent input texts. These choices can have a big effect on performance, but they are often uninteresting to researchers or practitioners who simply need a module that performs well. We propose an approach to optimizing ove...
computer science
1,709
Statistical modality tagging from rule-based annotations and crowdsourcing
cs.CL
We explore training an automatic modality tagger. Modality is the attitude that a speaker might have toward an event or state. One of the main hurdles for training a linguistic tagger is gathering training data. This is particularly problematic for training a tagger for modality because modality triggers are sparse for...
computer science
1,710
Bethe Projections for Non-Local Inference
stat.ML
Many inference problems in structured prediction are naturally solved by augmenting a tractable dependency structure with complex, non-local auxiliary objectives. This includes the mean field family of variational inference algorithms, soft- or hard-constrained inference using Lagrangian relaxation or linear programmin...
computer science
1,711
Nonparametric Relational Topic Models through Dependent Gamma Processes
stat.ML
Traditional Relational Topic Models provide a way to discover the hidden topics from a document network. Many theoretical and practical tasks, such as dimensional reduction, document clustering, link prediction, benefit from this revealed knowledge. However, existing relational topic models are based on an assumption t...
computer science
1,712
Active Learning for Speech Recognition: the Power of Gradients
cs.CL
In training speech recognition systems, labeling audio clips can be expensive, and not all data is equally valuable. Active learning aims to label only the most informative samples to reduce cost. For speech recognition, confidence scores and other likelihood-based active learning methods have been shown to be effectiv...
computer science
1,713
A Simple Approach to Multilingual Polarity Classification in Twitter
cs.CL
Recently, sentiment analysis has received a lot of attention due to the interest in mining opinions of social media users. Sentiment analysis consists in determining the polarity of a given text, i.e., its degree of positiveness or negativeness. Traditionally, Sentiment Analysis algorithms have been tailored to a speci...
computer science
1,714
"What is Relevant in a Text Document?": An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach
cs.CL
Text documents can be described by a number of abstract concepts such as semantic category, writing style, or sentiment. Machine learning (ML) models have been trained to automatically map documents to these abstract concepts, allowing to annotate very large text collections, more than could be processed by a human in ...
computer science
1,715
Improved Bayesian Logistic Supervised Topic Models with Data Augmentation
cs.LG
Supervised topic models with a logistic likelihood have two issues that potentially limit their practical use: 1) response variables are usually over-weighted by document word counts; and 2) existing variational inference methods make strict mean-field assumptions. We address these issues by: 1) introducing a regulariz...
computer science
1,716
A Bayesian Network View on Acoustic Model-Based Techniques for Robust Speech Recognition
cs.LG
This article provides a unifying Bayesian network view on various approaches for acoustic model adaptation, missing feature, and uncertainty decoding that are well-known in the literature of robust automatic speech recognition. The representatives of these classes can often be deduced from a Bayesian network that exten...
computer science
1,717
Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality
cs.CL
The recently introduced continuous Skip-gram model is an efficient method for learning high-quality distributed vector representations that capture a large number of precise syntactic and semantic word relationships. In this paper we present several extensions that improve both the quality of the vectors and the traini...
computer science
1,718
Bidirectional Recursive Neural Networks for Token-Level Labeling with Structure
cs.LG
Recently, deep architectures, such as recurrent and recursive neural networks have been successfully applied to various natural language processing tasks. Inspired by bidirectional recurrent neural networks which use representations that summarize the past and future around an instance, we propose a novel architecture ...
computer science
1,719
Language Modeling with Power Low Rank Ensembles
cs.CL
We present power low rank ensembles (PLRE), a flexible framework for n-gram language modeling where ensembles of low rank matrices and tensors are used to obtain smoothed probability estimates of words in context. Our method can be understood as a generalization of n-gram modeling to non-integer n, and includes standar...
computer science
1,720
An Approach to Reducing Annotation Costs for BioNLP
cs.CL
There is a broad range of BioNLP tasks for which active learning (AL) can significantly reduce annotation costs and a specific AL algorithm we have developed is particularly effective in reducing annotation costs for these tasks. We have previously developed an AL algorithm called ClosestInitPA that works best with tas...
computer science
1,721
Taking into Account the Differences between Actively and Passively Acquired Data: The Case of Active Learning with Support Vector Machines for Imbalanced Datasets
cs.LG
Actively sampled data can have very different characteristics than passively sampled data. Therefore, it's promising to investigate using different inference procedures during AL than are used during passive learning (PL). This general idea is explored in detail for the focused case of AL with cost-weighted SVMs for im...
computer science
1,722
A Method for Stopping Active Learning Based on Stabilizing Predictions and the Need for User-Adjustable Stopping
cs.LG
A survey of existing methods for stopping active learning (AL) reveals the needs for methods that are: more widely applicable; more aggressive in saving annotations; and more stable across changing datasets. A new method for stopping AL based on stabilizing predictions is presented that addresses these needs. Furthermo...
computer science
1,723
Semantically-Informed Syntactic Machine Translation: A Tree-Grafting Approach
cs.CL
We describe a unified and coherent syntactic framework for supporting a semantically-informed syntactic approach to statistical machine translation. Semantically enriched syntactic tags assigned to the target-language training texts improved translation quality. The resulting system significantly outperformed a linguis...
computer science
1,724
BilBOWA: Fast Bilingual Distributed Representations without Word Alignments
stat.ML
We introduce BilBOWA (Bilingual Bag-of-Words without Alignments), a simple and computationally-efficient model for learning bilingual distributed representations of words which can scale to large monolingual datasets and does not require word-aligned parallel training data. Instead it trains directly on monolingual dat...
computer science
1,725
Graph-Sparse LDA: A Topic Model with Structured Sparsity
stat.ML
Originally designed to model text, topic modeling has become a powerful tool for uncovering latent structure in domains including medicine, finance, and vision. The goals for the model vary depending on the application: in some cases, the discovered topics may be used for prediction or some other downstream task. In ot...
computer science
1,726
Using Mechanical Turk to Build Machine Translation Evaluation Sets
cs.CL
Building machine translation (MT) test sets is a relatively expensive task. As MT becomes increasingly desired for more and more language pairs and more and more domains, it becomes necessary to build test sets for each case. In this paper, we investigate using Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to make MT test sets chea...
computer science
1,727
Bucking the Trend: Large-Scale Cost-Focused Active Learning for Statistical Machine Translation
cs.CL
We explore how to improve machine translation systems by adding more translation data in situations where we already have substantial resources. The main challenge is how to buck the trend of diminishing returns that is commonly encountered. We present an active learning-style data solicitation algorithm to meet this c...
computer science
1,728
A random forest system combination approach for error detection in digital dictionaries
cs.CL
When digitizing a print bilingual dictionary, whether via optical character recognition or manual entry, it is inevitable that errors are introduced into the electronic version that is created. We investigate automating the process of detecting errors in an XML representation of a digitized print dictionary using a hyb...
computer science
1,729
Rapid Adaptation of POS Tagging for Domain Specific Uses
cs.CL
Part-of-speech (POS) tagging is a fundamental component for performing natural language tasks such as parsing, information extraction, and question answering. When POS taggers are trained in one domain and applied in significantly different domains, their performance can degrade dramatically. We present a methodology f...
computer science
1,730
The Bayesian Echo Chamber: Modeling Social Influence via Linguistic Accommodation
stat.ML
We present the Bayesian Echo Chamber, a new Bayesian generative model for social interaction data. By modeling the evolution of people's language usage over time, this model discovers latent influence relationships between them. Unlike previous work on inferring influence, which has primarily focused on simple temporal...
computer science
1,731
Learning Multi-Relational Semantics Using Neural-Embedding Models
cs.CL
In this paper we present a unified framework for modeling multi-relational representations, scoring, and learning, and conduct an empirical study of several recent multi-relational embedding models under the framework. We investigate the different choices of relation operators based on linear and bilinear transformatio...
computer science
1,732
Linking GloVe with word2vec
cs.CL
The Global Vectors for word representation (GloVe), introduced by Jeffrey Pennington et al. is reported to be an efficient and effective method for learning vector representations of words. State-of-the-art performance is also provided by skip-gram with negative-sampling (SGNS) implemented in the word2vec tool. In this...
computer science
1,733
A Joint Probabilistic Classification Model of Relevant and Irrelevant Sentences in Mathematical Word Problems
cs.CL
Estimating the difficulty level of math word problems is an important task for many educational applications. Identification of relevant and irrelevant sentences in math word problems is an important step for calculating the difficulty levels of such problems. This paper addresses a novel application of text categoriza...
computer science
1,734
Effective Use of Word Order for Text Categorization with Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CL
Convolutional neural network (CNN) is a neural network that can make use of the internal structure of data such as the 2D structure of image data. This paper studies CNN on text categorization to exploit the 1D structure (namely, word order) of text data for accurate prediction. Instead of using low-dimensional word ve...
computer science
1,735
Inducing Semantic Representation from Text by Jointly Predicting and Factorizing Relations
cs.CL
In this work, we propose a new method to integrate two recent lines of work: unsupervised induction of shallow semantics (e.g., semantic roles) and factorization of relations in text and knowledge bases. Our model consists of two components: (1) an encoding component: a semantic role labeling model which predicts roles...
computer science
1,736
Modeling Compositionality with Multiplicative Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.LG
We present the multiplicative recurrent neural network as a general model for compositional meaning in language, and evaluate it on the task of fine-grained sentiment analysis. We establish a connection to the previously investigated matrix-space models for compositionality, and show they are special cases of the multi...
computer science
1,737
On Learning Vector Representations in Hierarchical Label Spaces
cs.LG
An important problem in multi-label classification is to capture label patterns or underlying structures that have an impact on such patterns. This paper addresses one such problem, namely how to exploit hierarchical structures over labels. We present a novel method to learn vector representations of a label space give...
computer science
1,738
Grammar as a Foreign Language
cs.CL
Syntactic constituency parsing is a fundamental problem in natural language processing and has been the subject of intensive research and engineering for decades. As a result, the most accurate parsers are domain specific, complex, and inefficient. In this paper we show that the domain agnostic attention-enhanced seque...
computer science
1,739
Deep Belief Nets for Topic Modeling
cs.CL
Applying traditional collaborative filtering to digital publishing is challenging because user data is very sparse due to the high volume of documents relative to the number of users. Content based approaches, on the other hand, is attractive because textual content is often very informative. In this paper we describe ...
computer science
1,740
Semi-supervised Convolutional Neural Networks for Text Categorization via Region Embedding
stat.ML
This paper presents a new semi-supervised framework with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for text categorization. Unlike the previous approaches that rely on word embeddings, our method learns embeddings of small text regions from unlabeled data for integration into a supervised CNN. The proposed scheme for embedd...
computer science
1,741
Analysis of Stopping Active Learning based on Stabilizing Predictions
cs.LG
Within the natural language processing (NLP) community, active learning has been widely investigated and applied in order to alleviate the annotation bottleneck faced by developers of new NLP systems and technologies. This paper presents the first theoretical analysis of stopping active learning based on stabilizing pr...
computer science
1,742
WordRank: Learning Word Embeddings via Robust Ranking
cs.CL
Embedding words in a vector space has gained a lot of attention in recent years. While state-of-the-art methods provide efficient computation of word similarities via a low-dimensional matrix embedding, their motivation is often left unclear. In this paper, we argue that word embedding can be naturally viewed as a rank...
computer science
1,743
On the accuracy of self-normalized log-linear models
stat.ML
Calculation of the log-normalizer is a major computational obstacle in applications of log-linear models with large output spaces. The problem of fast normalizer computation has therefore attracted significant attention in the theoretical and applied machine learning literature. In this paper, we analyze a recently pro...
computer science
1,744
Efficient Learning for Undirected Topic Models
cs.LG
Replicated Softmax model, a well-known undirected topic model, is powerful in extracting semantic representations of documents. Traditional learning strategies such as Contrastive Divergence are very inefficient. This paper provides a novel estimator to speed up the learning based on Noise Contrastive Estimate, extende...
computer science
1,745
Clustering is Efficient for Approximate Maximum Inner Product Search
cs.LG
Efficient Maximum Inner Product Search (MIPS) is an important task that has a wide applicability in recommendation systems and classification with a large number of classes. Solutions based on locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) as well as tree-based solutions have been investigated in the recent literature, to perform ap...
computer science
1,746
Tag-Weighted Topic Model For Large-scale Semi-Structured Documents
cs.CL
To date, there have been massive Semi-Structured Documents (SSDs) during the evolution of the Internet. These SSDs contain both unstructured features (e.g., plain text) and metadata (e.g., tags). Most previous works focused on modeling the unstructured text, and recently, some other methods have been proposed to model ...
computer science
1,747
Progressive EM for Latent Tree Models and Hierarchical Topic Detection
cs.LG
Hierarchical latent tree analysis (HLTA) is recently proposed as a new method for topic detection. It differs fundamentally from the LDA-based methods in terms of topic definition, topic-document relationship, and learning method. It has been shown to discover significantly more coherent topics and better topic hierarc...
computer science
1,748
Improving Decision Analytics with Deep Learning: The Case of Financial Disclosures
stat.ML
Decision analytics commonly focuses on the text mining of financial news sources in order to provide managerial decision support and to predict stock market movements. Existing predictive frameworks almost exclusively apply traditional machine learning methods, whereas recent research indicates that traditional machine...
computer science
1,749
A Generative Word Embedding Model and its Low Rank Positive Semidefinite Solution
cs.CL
Most existing word embedding methods can be categorized into Neural Embedding Models and Matrix Factorization (MF)-based methods. However some models are opaque to probabilistic interpretation, and MF-based methods, typically solved using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), may incur loss of corpus information. In addi...
computer science
1,750
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions and a Provably Efficient Algorithm for Separable Topic Discovery
cs.LG
We develop necessary and sufficient conditions and a novel provably consistent and efficient algorithm for discovering topics (latent factors) from observations (documents) that are realized from a probabilistic mixture of shared latent factors that have certain properties. Our focus is on the class of topic models in ...
computer science
1,751
Word Representations, Tree Models and Syntactic Functions
cs.CL
Word representations induced from models with discrete latent variables (e.g.\ HMMs) have been shown to be beneficial in many NLP applications. In this work, we exploit labeled syntactic dependency trees and formalize the induction problem as unsupervised learning of tree-structured hidden Markov models. Syntactic func...
computer science
1,752
Word, graph and manifold embedding from Markov processes
cs.CL
Continuous vector representations of words and objects appear to carry surprisingly rich semantic content. In this paper, we advance both the conceptual and theoretical understanding of word embeddings in three ways. First, we ground embeddings in semantic spaces studied in cognitive-psychometric literature and introdu...
computer science
1,753
IllinoisSL: A JAVA Library for Structured Prediction
cs.LG
IllinoisSL is a Java library for learning structured prediction models. It supports structured Support Vector Machines and structured Perceptron. The library consists of a core learning module and several applications, which can be executed from command-lines. Documentation is provided to guide users. In Comparison to ...
computer science
1,754
A Generative Model of Words and Relationships from Multiple Sources
cs.CL
Neural language models are a powerful tool to embed words into semantic vector spaces. However, learning such models generally relies on the availability of abundant and diverse training examples. In highly specialised domains this requirement may not be met due to difficulties in obtaining a large corpus, or the limit...
computer science
1,755
A 'Gibbs-Newton' Technique for Enhanced Inference of Multivariate Polya Parameters and Topic Models
cs.LG
Hyper-parameters play a major role in the learning and inference process of latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). In order to begin the LDA latent variables learning process, these hyper-parameters values need to be pre-determined. We propose an extension for LDA that we call 'Latent Dirichlet allocation Gibbs Newton' (LD...
computer science
1,756
Spatial Semantic Scan: Jointly Detecting Subtle Events and their Spatial Footprint
cs.LG
Many methods have been proposed for detecting emerging events in text streams using topic modeling. However, these methods have shortcomings that make them unsuitable for rapid detection of locally emerging events on massive text streams. We describe Spatially Compact Semantic Scan (SCSS) that has been developed specif...
computer science
1,757
Document Context Language Models
cs.CL
Text documents are structured on multiple levels of detail: individual words are related by syntax, but larger units of text are related by discourse structure. Existing language models generally fail to account for discourse structure, but it is crucial if we are to have language models that reward coherence and gener...
computer science
1,758
Neural Programmer: Inducing Latent Programs with Gradient Descent
cs.LG
Deep neural networks have achieved impressive supervised classification performance in many tasks including image recognition, speech recognition, and sequence to sequence learning. However, this success has not been translated to applications like question answering that may involve complex arithmetic and logic reason...
computer science
1,759
Learning the Dimensionality of Word Embeddings
stat.ML
We describe a method for learning word embeddings with data-dependent dimensionality. Our Stochastic Dimensionality Skip-Gram (SD-SG) and Stochastic Dimensionality Continuous Bag-of-Words (SD-CBOW) are nonparametric analogs of Mikolov et al.'s (2013) well-known 'word2vec' models. Vector dimensionality is made dynamic b...
computer science
1,760
Neural Variational Inference for Text Processing
cs.CL
Recent advances in neural variational inference have spawned a renaissance in deep latent variable models. In this paper we introduce a generic variational inference framework for generative and conditional models of text. While traditional variational methods derive an analytic approximation for the intractable distri...
computer science
1,761
Multi-task Sequence to Sequence Learning
cs.LG
Sequence to sequence learning has recently emerged as a new paradigm in supervised learning. To date, most of its applications focused on only one task and not much work explored this framework for multiple tasks. This paper examines three multi-task learning (MTL) settings for sequence to sequence models: (a) the onet...
computer science
1,762
Order Matters: Sequence to sequence for sets
stat.ML
Sequences have become first class citizens in supervised learning thanks to the resurgence of recurrent neural networks. Many complex tasks that require mapping from or to a sequence of observations can now be formulated with the sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) framework which employs the chain rule to efficiently repre...
computer science
1,763
Linear Algebraic Structure of Word Senses, with Applications to Polysemy
cs.CL
Word embeddings are ubiquitous in NLP and information retrieval, but it's unclear what they represent when the word is polysemous, i.e., has multiple senses. Here it is shown that multiple word senses reside in linear superposition within the word embedding and can be recovered by simple sparse coding. The success of...
computer science
1,764
Exploiting Low-dimensional Structures to Enhance DNN Based Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition
cs.CL
We propose to model the acoustic space of deep neural network (DNN) class-conditional posterior probabilities as a union of low-dimensional subspaces. To that end, the training posteriors are used for dictionary learning and sparse coding. Sparse representation of the test posteriors using this dictionary enables proje...
computer science
1,765
From Softmax to Sparsemax: A Sparse Model of Attention and Multi-Label Classification
cs.CL
We propose sparsemax, a new activation function similar to the traditional softmax, but able to output sparse probabilities. After deriving its properties, we show how its Jacobian can be efficiently computed, enabling its use in a network trained with backpropagation. Then, we propose a new smooth and convex loss func...
computer science
1,766
Supervised and Semi-Supervised Text Categorization using LSTM for Region Embeddings
stat.ML
One-hot CNN (convolutional neural network) has been shown to be effective for text categorization (Johnson & Zhang, 2015). We view it as a special case of a general framework which jointly trains a linear model with a non-linear feature generator consisting of `text region embedding + pooling'. Under this framework, we...
computer science
1,767
Toward Optimal Feature Selection in Naive Bayes for Text Categorization
stat.ML
Automated feature selection is important for text categorization to reduce the feature size and to speed up the learning process of classifiers. In this paper, we present a novel and efficient feature selection framework based on the Information Theory, which aims to rank the features with their discriminative capacity...
computer science
1,768
Spectral Learning for Supervised Topic Models
cs.LG
Supervised topic models simultaneously model the latent topic structure of large collections of documents and a response variable associated with each document. Existing inference methods are based on variational approximation or Monte Carlo sampling, which often suffers from the local minimum defect. Spectral methods ...
computer science
1,769
Characterizing Diseases from Unstructured Text: A Vocabulary Driven Word2vec Approach
cs.LG
Traditional disease surveillance can be augmented with a wide variety of real-time sources such as, news and social media. However, these sources are in general unstructured and, construction of surveillance tools such as taxonomical correlations and trace mapping involves considerable human supervision. In this paper,...
computer science
1,770
End-to-end Sequence Labeling via Bi-directional LSTM-CNNs-CRF
cs.LG
State-of-the-art sequence labeling systems traditionally require large amounts of task-specific knowledge in the form of hand-crafted features and data pre-processing. In this paper, we introduce a novel neutral network architecture that benefits from both word- and character-level representations automatically, by usi...
computer science
1,771
Integrated Sequence Tagging for Medieval Latin Using Deep Representation Learning
cs.CL
In this paper we consider two sequence tagging tasks for medieval Latin: part-of-speech tagging and lemmatization. These are both basic, yet foundational preprocessing steps in applications such as text re-use detection. Nevertheless, they are generally complicated by the considerable orthographic variation which is ty...
computer science
1,772
Bilingual Learning of Multi-sense Embeddings with Discrete Autoencoders
cs.CL
We present an approach to learning multi-sense word embeddings relying both on monolingual and bilingual information. Our model consists of an encoder, which uses monolingual and bilingual context (i.e. a parallel sentence) to choose a sense for a given word, and a decoder which predicts context words based on the chos...
computer science
1,773
Model Interpolation with Trans-dimensional Random Field Language Models for Speech Recognition
cs.CL
The dominant language models (LMs) such as n-gram and neural network (NN) models represent sentence probabilities in terms of conditionals. In contrast, a new trans-dimensional random field (TRF) LM has been recently introduced to show superior performances, where the whole sentence is modeled as a random field. In thi...
computer science
1,774
Text-mining the NeuroSynth corpus using Deep Boltzmann Machines
cs.LG
Large-scale automated meta-analysis of neuroimaging data has recently established itself as an important tool in advancing our understanding of human brain function. This research has been pioneered by NeuroSynth, a database collecting both brain activation coordinates and associated text across a large cohort of neuro...
computer science
1,775
Noisy Parallel Approximate Decoding for Conditional Recurrent Language Model
cs.CL
Recent advances in conditional recurrent language modelling have mainly focused on network architectures (e.g., attention mechanism), learning algorithms (e.g., scheduled sampling and sequence-level training) and novel applications (e.g., image/video description generation, speech recognition, etc.) On the other hand, ...
computer science
1,776
Latent Tree Models for Hierarchical Topic Detection
cs.CL
We present a novel method for hierarchical topic detection where topics are obtained by clustering documents in multiple ways. Specifically, we model document collections using a class of graphical models called hierarchical latent tree models (HLTMs). The variables at the bottom level of an HLTM are observed binary va...
computer science
1,777
Stochastic Structured Prediction under Bandit Feedback
cs.CL
Stochastic structured prediction under bandit feedback follows a learning protocol where on each of a sequence of iterations, the learner receives an input, predicts an output structure, and receives partial feedback in form of a task loss evaluation of the predicted structure. We present applications of this learning ...
computer science
1,778
Increasing the Interpretability of Recurrent Neural Networks Using Hidden Markov Models
stat.ML
As deep neural networks continue to revolutionize various application domains, there is increasing interest in making these powerful models more understandable and interpretable, and narrowing down the causes of good and bad predictions. We focus on recurrent neural networks (RNNs), state of the art models in speech re...
computer science
1,779
Graph based manifold regularized deep neural networks for automatic speech recognition
stat.ML
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been successfully applied to a wide variety of acoustic modeling tasks in recent years. These include the applications of DNNs either in a discriminative feature extraction or in a hybrid acoustic modeling scenario. Despite the rapid progress in this area, a number of challenges remain ...
computer science
1,780
Quantifying and Reducing Stereotypes in Word Embeddings
cs.CL
Machine learning algorithms are optimized to model statistical properties of the training data. If the input data reflects stereotypes and biases of the broader society, then the output of the learning algorithm also captures these stereotypes. In this paper, we initiate the study of gender stereotypes in {\em word emb...
computer science
1,781
Visualizing textual models with in-text and word-as-pixel highlighting
stat.ML
We explore two techniques which use color to make sense of statistical text models. One method uses in-text annotations to illustrate a model's view of particular tokens in particular documents. Another uses a high-level, "words-as-pixels" graphic to display an entire corpus. Together, these methods offer both zoomed-i...
computer science
1,782
A Probabilistic Generative Grammar for Semantic Parsing
cs.CL
We present a framework that couples the syntax and semantics of natural language sentences in a generative model, in order to develop a semantic parser that jointly infers the syntactic, morphological, and semantic representations of a given sentence under the guidance of background knowledge. To generate a sentence in...
computer science
1,783
Toward Interpretable Topic Discovery via Anchored Correlation Explanation
stat.ML
Many predictive tasks, such as diagnosing a patient based on their medical chart, are ultimately defined by the decisions of human experts. Unfortunately, encoding experts' knowledge is often time consuming and expensive. We propose a simple way to use fuzzy and informal knowledge from experts to guide discovery of int...
computer science
1,784
Neural Semantic Encoders
cs.LG
We present a memory augmented neural network for natural language understanding: Neural Semantic Encoders. NSE is equipped with a novel memory update rule and has a variable sized encoding memory that evolves over time and maintains the understanding of input sequences through read}, compose and write operations. NSE c...
computer science
1,785
Neural Tree Indexers for Text Understanding
cs.CL
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) process input text sequentially and model the conditional transition between word tokens. In contrast, the advantages of recursive networks include that they explicitly model the compositionality and the recursive structure of natural language. However, the current recursive architectur...
computer science
1,786
Imitation Learning with Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.CL
We present a novel view that unifies two frameworks that aim to solve sequential prediction problems: learning to search (L2S) and recurrent neural networks (RNN). We point out equivalences between elements of the two frameworks. By complementing what is missing from one framework comparing to the other, we introduce a...
computer science
1,787
TopicResponse: A Marriage of Topic Modelling and Rasch Modelling for Automatic Measurement in MOOCs
cs.LG
This paper explores the suitability of using automatically discovered topics from MOOC discussion forums for modelling students' academic abilities. The Rasch model from psychometrics is a popular generative probabilistic model that relates latent student skill, latent item difficulty, and observed student-item respons...
computer science
1,788
Convolutional Neural Networks for Text Categorization: Shallow Word-level vs. Deep Character-level
cs.CL
This paper reports the performances of shallow word-level convolutional neural networks (CNN), our earlier work (2015), on the eight datasets with relatively large training data that were used for testing the very deep character-level CNN in Conneau et al. (2016). Our findings are as follows. The shallow word-level CNN...
computer science
1,789
Ask the GRU: Multi-Task Learning for Deep Text Recommendations
stat.ML
In a variety of application domains the content to be recommended to users is associated with text. This includes research papers, movies with associated plot summaries, news articles, blog posts, etc. Recommendation approaches based on latent factor models can be extended naturally to leverage text by employing an exp...
computer science
1,790
Nonparametric Bayesian Topic Modelling with the Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Processes
stat.ML
The Dirichlet process and its extension, the Pitman-Yor process, are stochastic processes that take probability distributions as a parameter. These processes can be stacked up to form a hierarchical nonparametric Bayesian model. In this article, we present efficient methods for the use of these processes in this hierar...
computer science
1,791
Semi-supervised Learning with Sparse Autoencoders in Phone Classification
stat.ML
We propose the application of a semi-supervised learning method to improve the performance of acoustic modelling for automatic speech recognition based on deep neural net- works. As opposed to unsupervised initialisation followed by supervised fine tuning, our method takes advantage of both unlabelled and labelled data...
computer science
1,792
Latent Sequence Decompositions
stat.ML
We present the Latent Sequence Decompositions (LSD) framework. LSD decomposes sequences with variable lengthed output units as a function of both the input sequence and the output sequence. We present a training algorithm which samples valid extensions and an approximate decoding algorithm. We experiment with the Wall ...
computer science
1,793
Simultaneous Learning of Trees and Representations for Extreme Classification and Density Estimation
stat.ML
We consider multi-class classification where the predictor has a hierarchical structure that allows for a very large number of labels both at train and test time. The predictive power of such models can heavily depend on the structure of the tree, and although past work showed how to learn the tree structure, it expect...
computer science
1,794
End-to-End Training Approaches for Discriminative Segmental Models
cs.CL
Recent work on discriminative segmental models has shown that they can achieve competitive speech recognition performance, using features based on deep neural frame classifiers. However, segmental models can be more challenging to train than standard frame-based approaches. While some segmental models have been success...
computer science
1,795
Geometry of Polysemy
cs.CL
Vector representations of words have heralded a transformational approach to classical problems in NLP; the most popular example is word2vec. However, a single vector does not suffice to model the polysemous nature of many (frequent) words, i.e., words with multiple meanings. In this paper, we propose a three-fold appr...
computer science
1,796
Tying Word Vectors and Word Classifiers: A Loss Framework for Language Modeling
cs.LG
Recurrent neural networks have been very successful at predicting sequences of words in tasks such as language modeling. However, all such models are based on the conventional classification framework, where the model is trained against one-hot targets, and each word is represented both as an input and as an output in ...
computer science
1,797
Automatic Node Selection for Deep Neural Networks using Group Lasso Regularization
cs.CL
We examine the effect of the Group Lasso (gLasso) regularizer in selecting the salient nodes of Deep Neural Network (DNN) hidden layers by applying a DNN-HMM hybrid speech recognizer to TED Talks speech data. We test two types of gLasso regularization, one for outgoing weight vectors and another for incoming weight vec...
computer science
1,798
Unsupervised Learning for Lexicon-Based Classification
cs.LG
In lexicon-based classification, documents are assigned labels by comparing the number of words that appear from two opposed lexicons, such as positive and negative sentiment. Creating such words lists is often easier than labeling instances, and they can be debugged by non-experts if classification performance is unsa...
computer science
1,799
Bidirectional LSTM-CRF for Clinical Concept Extraction
stat.ML
Automated extraction of concepts from patient clinical records is an essential facilitator of clinical research. For this reason, the 2010 i2b2/VA Natural Language Processing Challenges for Clinical Records introduced a concept extraction task aimed at identifying and classifying concepts into predefined categories (i....
computer science