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DP-GAN: Diversity-Promoting Generative Adversarial Network for Generating Informative and Diversified Text
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Existing text generation methods tend to produce repeated and "boring" expressions. To tackle this problem, we propose a new text generation model, called Diversity-Promoting Generative Adversarial Network (DP-GAN). The proposed model assigns low reward for repeated text and high reward for "novel" text, encouraging th...
computer science
17,703
Diverse Beam Search for Increased Novelty in Abstractive Summarization
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Text summarization condenses a text to a shorter version while retaining the important informations. Abstractive summarization is a recent development that generates new phrases, rather than simply copying or rephrasing sentences within the original text. Recently neural sequence-to-sequence models have achieved good r...
computer science
17,704
Question-Answer Selection in User to User Marketplace Conversations
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Sellers in user to user marketplaces can be inundated with questions from potential buyers. Answers are often already available in the product description. We collected a dataset of around 590K such questions and answers from conversations in an online marketplace. We propose a question answering system that selects a ...
computer science
17,705
Byte-Level Recursive Convolutional Auto-Encoder for Text
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This article proposes to auto-encode text at byte-level using convolutional networks with a recursive architecture. The motivation is to explore whether it is possible to have scalable and homogeneous text generation at byte-level in a non-sequential fashion through the simple task of auto-encoding. We show that non-se...
computer science
17,706
Investigations on Knowledge Base Embedding for Relation Prediction and Extraction
cs.CL
We report an evaluation of the effectiveness of the existing knowledge base embedding models for relation prediction and for relation extraction on a wide range of benchmarks. We also describe a new benchmark, which is much larger and complex than previous ones, which we introduce to help validate the effectiveness of ...
computer science
17,707
Non-Projective Dependency Parsing via Latent Heads Representation (LHR)
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In this paper, we introduce a novel approach based on a bidirectional recurrent autoencoder to perform globally optimized non-projective dependency parsing via semi-supervised learning. The syntactic analysis is completed at the end of the neural process that generates a Latent Heads Representation (LHR), without any a...
computer science
17,708
An Empirical Evaluation of Deep Learning for ICD-9 Code Assignment using MIMIC-III Clinical Notes
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Code assignment is important on many levels in the modern hospital, from ensuring accurate billing process to creating a valid record of patient care history. However, the coding process is tedious, subjective, and requires medical coders with extensive training. The objective of this study is to evaluate the performan...
computer science
17,709
Unsupervised word sense disambiguation in dynamic semantic spaces
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In this paper, we are mainly concerned with the ability to quickly and automatically distinguish word senses in dynamic semantic spaces in which new terms and new senses appear frequently. Such spaces are built '"on the fly" from constantly evolving data sets such as Wikipedia, repositories of patent grants and applica...
computer science
17,710
Enhance word representation for out-of-vocabulary on Ubuntu dialogue corpus
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Ubuntu dialogue corpus is the largest public available dialogue corpus to make it feasible to build end-to-end deep neural network models directly from the conversation data. One challenge of Ubuntu dialogue corpus is the large number of out-of-vocabulary words. In this paper we proposed a method which combines the gen...
computer science
17,711
Biomedical term normalization of EHRs with UMLS
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This paper presents a novel prototype for biomedical term normalization of electronic health record excerpts with the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus. Despite being multilingual and cross-lingual by design, we first focus on processing clinical text in Spanish because there is no existing tool for ...
computer science
17,712
DisMo: A Morphosyntactic, Disfluency and Multi-Word Unit Annotator. An Evaluation on a Corpus of French Spontaneous and Read Speech
cs.CL
We present DisMo, a multi-level annotator for spoken language corpora that integrates part-of-speech tagging with basic disfluency detection and annotation, and multi-word unit recognition. DisMo is a hybrid system that uses a combination of lexical resources, rules, and statistical models based on Conditional Random F...
computer science
17,713
Zero-Resource Neural Machine Translation with Multi-Agent Communication Game
cs.CL
While end-to-end neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved notable success in the past years in translating a handful of resource-rich language pairs, it still suffers from the data scarcity problem for low-resource language pairs and domains. To tackle this problem, we propose an interactive multimodal framework f...
computer science
17,714
Augmenting Librispeech with French Translations: A Multimodal Corpus for Direct Speech Translation Evaluation
cs.CL
Recent works in spoken language translation (SLT) have attempted to build end-to-end speech-to-text translation without using source language transcription during learning or decoding. However, while large quantities of parallel texts (such as Europarl, OpenSubtitles) are available for training machine translation syst...
computer science
17,715
Natural Language Inference over Interaction Space: ICLR 2018 Reproducibility Report
cs.CL
We have tried to reproduce the results of the paper "Natural Language Inference over Interaction Space" submitted to ICLR 2018 conference as part of the ICLR 2018 Reproducibility Challenge. Initially, we were not aware that the code was available, so we started to implement the network from scratch. We have evaluated o...
computer science
17,716
Recurrent Neural Network-Based Semantic Variational Autoencoder for Sequence-to-Sequence Learning
cs.CL
Sequence-to-sequence (Seq2seq) models have played an import role in the recent success of various natural language processing methods, such as machine translation, text summarization, and speech recognition. However, current Seq2seq models have trouble preserving global latent information from a long sequence of words....
computer science
17,717
Online Learning for Effort Reduction in Interactive Neural Machine Translation
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Neural machine translation systems require large amounts of training data and resources. Even with this, the quality of the translations may be insufficient for some users or domains. In such cases, the output of the system must be revised by a human agent. This can be done in a post-editing stage or following an inter...
computer science
17,718
TextZoo, a New Benchmark for Reconsidering Text Classification
cs.CL
Text representation is a fundamental concern in Natural Language Processing, especially in text classification. Recently, many neural network approaches with delicate representation model (e.g. FASTTEXT, CNN, RNN and many hybrid models with attention mechanisms) claimed that they achieved state-of-art in specific text ...
computer science
17,719
Syntax and Semantics of Italian Poetry in the First Half of the 20th Century
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In this paper we study, analyse and comment rhetorical figures present in some of most interesting poetry of the first half of the twentieth century. These figures are at first traced back to some famous poet of the past and then compared to classical Latin prose. Linguistic theory is then called in to show how they ca...
computer science
17,720
Understanding Recurrent Neural State Using Memory Signatures
cs.CL
We demonstrate a network visualization technique to analyze the recurrent state inside the LSTMs/GRUs used commonly in language and acoustic models. Interpreting intermediate state and network activations inside end-to-end models remains an open challenge. Our method allows users to understand exactly how much and what...
computer science
17,721
Automatic Generation of Language-Independent Features for Cross-Lingual Classification
cs.CL
Many applications require categorization of text documents using predefined categories. The main approach to performing text categorization is learning from labeled examples. For many tasks, it may be difficult to find examples in one language but easy in others. The problem of learning from examples in one or more lan...
computer science
17,722
Making "fetch" happen: The influence of social and linguistic context on nonstandard word growth and decline
cs.CL
In an online community, new words come and go: today's "haha" may be replaced by tomorrow's "lol." Changes in online writing are usually studied as a social process, with innovations diffusing through a network of individuals in a speech community. But unlike other types of innovation, language change is shaped and con...
computer science
17,723
End-to-End Automatic Speech Translation of Audiobooks
cs.CL
We investigate end-to-end speech-to-text translation on a corpus of audiobooks specifically augmented for this task. Previous works investigated the extreme case where source language transcription is not available during learning nor decoding, but we also study a midway case where source language transcription is avai...
computer science
17,724
A Unified Implicit Dialog Framework for Conversational Search
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We propose a unified Implicit Dialog framework for goal-oriented, information seeking tasks of Conversational Search applications. It aims to enable dialog interactions with domain data without replying on explicitly encoded the rules but utilizing the underlying data representation to build the components required for...
computer science
17,725
Sentence Boundary Detection for French with Subword-Level Information Vectors and Convolutional Neural Networks
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In this work we tackle the problem of sentence boundary detection applied to French as a binary classification task ("sentence boundary" or "not sentence boundary"). We combine convolutional neural networks with subword-level information vectors, which are word embedding representations learned from Wikipedia that take...
computer science
17,726
Network Features Based Co-hyponymy Detection
cs.CL
Distinguishing lexical relations has been a long term pursuit in natural language processing (NLP) domain. Recently, in order to detect lexical relations like hypernymy, meronymy, co-hyponymy etc., distributional semantic models are being used extensively in some form or the other. Even though a lot of efforts have bee...
computer science
17,727
Examining the Tip of the Iceberg: A Data Set for Idiom Translation
cs.CL
Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has been widely used in recent years with significant improvements for many language pairs. Although state-of-the-art NMT systems are generating progressively better translations, idiom translation remains one of the open challenges in this field. Idioms, a category of multiword express...
computer science
17,728
A Short Survey on Sense-Annotated Corpora for Diverse Languages and Resources
cs.CL
With the advancement of research in word sense disambiguation and deep learning, large sense-annotated datasets are increasingly important for training supervised systems. However, gathering high-quality sense-annotated data for as many instances as possible is an arduous task. This has led to the proliferation of auto...
computer science
17,729
Distributional Term Set Expansion
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This paper is a short empirical study of the performance of centrality and classification based iterative term set expansion methods for distributional semantic models. Iterative term set expansion is an interactive process using distributional semantics models where a user labels terms as belonging to some sought afte...
computer science
17,730
Linguistic unit discovery from multi-modal inputs in unwritten languages: Summary of the "Speaking Rosetta" JSALT 2017 Workshop
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We summarize the accomplishments of a multi-disciplinary workshop exploring the computational and scientific issues surrounding the discovery of linguistic units (subwords and words) in a language without orthography. We study the replacement of orthographic transcriptions by images and/or translated text in a well-res...
computer science
17,731
Classifying movie genres by analyzing text reviews
cs.CL
This paper proposes a method for classifying movie genres by only looking at text reviews. The data used are from Large Movie Review Dataset v1.0 and IMDb. This paper compared a K-nearest neighbors (KNN) model and a multilayer perceptron (MLP) that uses tf-idf as input features. The paper also discusses different evalu...
computer science
17,732
Deep contextualized word representations
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We introduce a new type of deep contextualized word representation that models both (1) complex characteristics of word use (e.g., syntax and semantics), and (2) how these uses vary across linguistic contexts (i.e., to model polysemy). Our word vectors are learned functions of the internal states of a deep bidirectiona...
computer science
17,733
Universal Neural Machine Translation for Extremely Low Resource Languages
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In this paper, we propose a new universal machine translation approach focusing on languages with a limited amount of parallel data. Our proposed approach utilizes a transfer-learning approach to share lexical and sentences level representations across multiple source languages into one target language. The lexical par...
computer science
17,734
Improving Retrieval Modeling Using Cross Convolution Networks And Multi Frequency Word Embedding
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To build a satisfying chatbot that has the ability of managing a goal-oriented multi-turn dialogue, accurate modeling of human conversation is crucial. In this paper we concentrate on the task of response selection for multi-turn human-computer conversation with a given context. Previous approaches show weakness in cap...
computer science
17,735
Open Information Extraction on Scientific Text: An Evaluation
cs.CL
Open Information Extraction (OIE) is the task of the unsupervised creation of structured information from text. OIE is often used as a starting point for a number of downstream tasks including knowledge base construction, relation extraction, and question answering. While OIE methods are targeted at being domain indepe...
computer science
17,736
DR-BiLSTM: Dependent Reading Bidirectional LSTM for Natural Language Inference
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We present a novel deep learning architecture to address the natural language inference (NLI) task. Existing approaches mostly rely on simple reading mechanisms for independent encoding of the premise and hypothesis. Instead, we propose a novel dependent reading bidirectional LSTM network (DR-BiLSTM) to efficiently mod...
computer science
17,737
Tools and resources for Romanian text-to-speech and speech-to-text applications
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In this paper we introduce a set of resources and tools aimed at providing support for natural language processing, text-to-speech synthesis and speech recognition for Romanian. While the tools are general purpose and can be used for any language (we successfully trained our system for more than 50 languages and partic...
computer science
17,738
Calculating the similarity between words and sentences using a lexical database and corpus statistics
cs.CL
Calculating the semantic similarity between sentences is a long dealt problem in the area of natural language processing. The semantic analysis field has a crucial role to play in the research related to the text analytics. The semantic similarity differs as the domain of operation differs. In this paper, we present a ...
computer science
17,739
Event Nugget Detection with Forward-Backward Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.CL
Traditional event detection methods heavily rely on manually engineered rich features. Recent deep learning approaches alleviate this problem by automatic feature engineering. But such efforts, like tradition methods, have so far only focused on single-token event mentions, whereas in practice events can also be a phra...
computer science
17,740
JU_KS@SAIL_CodeMixed-2017: Sentiment Analysis for Indian Code Mixed Social Media Texts
cs.CL
This paper reports about our work in the NLP Tool Contest @ICON-2017, shared task on Sentiment Analysis for Indian Languages (SAIL) (code mixed). To implement our system, we have used a machine learning algo-rithm called Multinomial Na\"ive Bayes trained using n-gram and SentiWordnet features. We have also used a small...
computer science
17,741
Cross-topic Argument Mining from Heterogeneous Sources Using Attention-based Neural Networks
cs.CL
Argument mining is a core technology for automating argument search in large document collections. Despite its usefulness for this task, most current approaches to argument mining are designed for use only with specific text types and fall short when applied to heterogeneous texts. In this paper, we propose a new sente...
computer science
17,742
Learning beyond datasets: Knowledge Graph Augmented Neural Networks for Natural language Processing
cs.CL
Machine Learning has been the quintessential solution for many AI problems, but learning is still heavily dependent on the specific training data. Some learning models can be incorporated with a prior knowledge in the Bayesian set up, but these learning models do not have the ability to access any organised world knowl...
computer science
17,743
Instance-based Inductive Deep Transfer Learning by Cross-Dataset Querying with Locality Sensitive Hashing
cs.CL
Supervised learning models are typically trained on a single dataset and the performance of these models rely heavily on the size of the dataset, i.e., amount of data available with the ground truth. Learning algorithms try to generalize solely based on the data that is presented with during the training. In this work,...
computer science
17,744
Fluency Over Adequacy: A Pilot Study in Measuring User Trust in Imperfect MT
cs.CL
Although measuring intrinsic quality has been a key factor in the advancement of Machine Translation (MT), successfully deploying MT requires considering not just intrinsic quality but also the user experience, including aspects such as trust. This work introduces a method of studying how users modulate their trust in ...
computer science
17,745
Bayesian Models for Unit Discovery on a Very Low Resource Language
cs.CL
Developing speech technologies for low-resource languages has become a very active research field over the last decade. Among others, Bayesian models have shown some promising results on artificial examples but still lack of in situ experiments. Our work applies state-of-the-art Bayesian models to unsupervised Acoustic...
computer science
17,746
Can Network Embedding of Distributional Thesaurus be Combined with Word Vectors for Better Representation?
cs.CL
Distributed representations of words learned from text have proved to be successful in various natural language processing tasks in recent times. While some methods represent words as vectors computed from text using predictive model (Word2vec) or dense count based model (GloVe), others attempt to represent these in a ...
computer science
17,747
Before Name-calling: Dynamics and Triggers of Ad Hominem Fallacies in Web Argumentation
cs.CL
Arguing without committing a fallacy is one of the main requirements of an ideal debate. But even when debating rules are strictly enforced and fallacious arguments punished, arguers often lapse into attacking the opponent by an ad hominem argument. As existing research lacks solid empirical investigation of the typolo...
computer science
17,748
Tied Multitask Learning for Neural Speech Translation
cs.CL
We explore multitask models for neural translation of speech, augmenting them in order to reflect two intuitive notions. First, we introduce a model where the second task decoder receives information from the decoder of the first task, since higher-level intermediate representations should provide useful information. S...
computer science
17,749
Zero-Shot Question Generation from Knowledge Graphs for Unseen Predicates and Entity Types
cs.CL
We present a neural model for question generation from knowledge base triples in a "Zero-Shot" setup, that is generating questions for triples containing predicates, subject types or object types that were not seen at training time. Our model leverages triples occurrences in the natural language corpus in an encoder-de...
computer science
17,750
TAP-DLND 1.0 : A Corpus for Document Level Novelty Detection
cs.CL
Detecting novelty of an entire document is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) frontier problem that has widespread NLP applications, such as extractive document summarization, tracking development of news events, predicting impact of scholarly articles, etc. Important though the problem is, we are unaware of any benchmark...
computer science
17,751
Attentive Tensor Product Learning for Language Generation and Grammar Parsing
cs.CL
This paper proposes a new architecture - Attentive Tensor Product Learning (ATPL) - to represent grammatical structures in deep learning models. ATPL is a new architecture to bridge this gap by exploiting Tensor Product Representations (TPR), a structured neural-symbolic model developed in cognitive science, aiming to ...
computer science
17,752
Combining Textual Content and Structure to Improve Dialog Similarity
cs.CL
Chatbots, taking advantage of the success of the messaging apps and recent advances in Artificial Intelligence, have become very popular, from helping business to improve customer services to chatting to users for the sake of conversation and engagement (celebrity or personal bots). However, developing and improving a ...
computer science
17,753
CytonMT: an Efficient Neural Machine Translation Open-source Toolkit Implemented in C++
cs.CL
This paper presented an open-source neural machine translation toolkit named CytonMT\footnote{https://github.com/arthurxlw/cytonMt}. The toolkit was built from scratch using C++ and Nvidia's GPU-accelerated libraries. The toolkit featured training efficiency, code simplicity and translation quality. Benchmarks showed t...
computer science
17,754
Implicit Argument Prediction with Event Knowledge
cs.CL
Implicit arguments are not syntactically connected to their predicates, and are therefore hard to extract. Previous work has used models with large numbers of features, evaluated on very small datasets. We propose to train models for implicit argument prediction on a simple cloze task, for which data can be generated a...
computer science
17,755
CoVeR: Learning Covariate-Specific Vector Representations with Tensor Decompositions
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Word embedding is a useful approach to capture co-occurrence structures in a large corpus of text. In addition to the text data itself, we often have additional covariates associated with individual documents in the corpus---e.g. the demographic of the author, time and venue of publication, etc.---and we would like the...
computer science
17,756
MPST: A Corpus of Movie Plot Synopses with Tags
cs.CL
Social tagging of movies reveals a wide range of heterogeneous information about movies, like the genre, plot structure, soundtracks, metadata, visual and emotional experiences. Such information can be valuable in building automatic systems to create tags for movies. Automatic tagging systems can help recommendation en...
computer science
17,757
Multimodal Named Entity Recognition for Short Social Media Posts
cs.CL
We introduce a new task called Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (MNER) for noisy user-generated data such as tweets or Snapchat captions, which comprise short text with accompanying images. These social media posts often come in inconsistent or incomplete syntax and lexical notations with very limited surrounding te...
computer science
17,758
LIDIOMS: A Multilingual Linked Idioms Data Set
cs.CL
In this paper, we describe the LIDIOMS data set, a multilingual RDF representation of idioms currently containing five languages: English, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian. The data set is intended to support natural language processing applications by providing links between idioms across languages. The underl...
computer science
17,759
RDF2PT: Generating Brazilian Portuguese Texts from RDF Data
cs.CL
The generation of natural language from Resource Description Framework (RDF) data has recently gained significant attention due to the continuous growth of Linked Data. A number of these approaches generate natural language in languages other than English, however, no work has been proposed to generate Brazilian Portug...
computer science
17,760
Deep Multimodal Learning for Emotion Recognition in Spoken Language
cs.CL
In this paper, we present a novel deep multimodal framework to predict human emotions based on sentence-level spoken language. Our architecture has two distinctive characteristics. First, it extracts the high-level features from both text and audio via a hybrid deep multimodal structure, which considers the spatial inf...
computer science
17,761
EmotionLines: An Emotion Corpus of Multi-Party Conversations
cs.CL
Feeling emotion is a critical characteristic to distinguish people from machines. Among all the multi-modal resources for emotion detection, textual datasets are those containing the least additional information in addition to semantics, and hence are adopted widely for testing the developed systems. However, most of t...
computer science
17,762
Towards end-to-end spoken language understanding
cs.CL
Spoken language understanding system is traditionally designed as a pipeline of a number of components. First, the audio signal is processed by an automatic speech recognizer for transcription or n-best hypotheses. With the recognition results, a natural language understanding system classifies the text to structured d...
computer science
17,763
Interpretable Charge Predictions for Criminal Cases: Learning to Generate Court Views from Fact Descriptions
cs.CL
In this paper, we propose to study the problem of COURT VIEW GENeration from the fact description in a criminal case. The task aims to improve the interpretability of charge prediction systems and help automatic legal document generation. We formulate this task as a text-to-text natural language generation (NLG) proble...
computer science
17,764
Evaluating Scoped Meaning Representations
cs.CL
Semantic parsing offers many opportunities to improve natural language understanding. We present a semantically annotated parallel corpus for English, German, Italian, and Dutch where sentences are aligned with scoped meaning representations in order to capture the semantics of negation, modals, quantification, and pre...
computer science
17,765
Ranking Sentences for Extractive Summarization with Reinforcement Learning
cs.CL
Single document summarization is the task of producing a shorter version of a document while preserving its principal information content. In this paper we conceptualize extractive summarization as a sentence ranking task and propose a novel training algorithm which globally optimizes the ROUGE evaluation metric throug...
computer science
17,766
The JHU Speech LOREHLT 2017 System: Cross-Language Transfer for Situation-Frame Detection
cs.CL
We describe the system our team used during NIST's LoReHLT (Low Resource Human Language Technologies) 2017 Evaluations, which evaluated document topic classification. We present a language agnostic approach combining universal acoustic modeling, evaluation-language-to-English machine translation (MT) and an English-lan...
computer science
17,767
OhioState at SemEval-2018 Task 7: Exploiting Data Augmentation for Relation Classification in Scientific Papers using Piecewise Convolutional Neural Networks
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We describe our system for SemEval-2018 Shared Task on Semantic Relation Extraction and Classification in Scientific Papers where we focus on the Classification task. Our simple piecewise convolution neural encoder performs decently in an end to end manner. A simple inter-task data augmentation signifi- cantly boosts t...
computer science
17,768
Incorporating Discriminator in Sentence Generation: a Gibbs Sampling Method
cs.CL
Generating plausible and fluent sentence with desired properties has long been a challenge. Most of the recent works use recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and their variants to predict following words given previous sequence and target label. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to generate constrained sentences ...
computer science
17,769
Revisiting the poverty of the stimulus: hierarchical generalization without a hierarchical bias in recurrent neural networks
cs.CL
Syntactic rules in human language usually refer to the hierarchical structure of sentences. However, the input during language acquisition can often be explained equally well with rules based on linear order. The fact that children consistently ignore these linear explanations to instead settle on hierarchical explanat...
computer science
17,770
Did You Really Just Have a Heart Attack? Towards Robust Detection of Personal Health Mentions in Social Media
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Millions of users share their experiences on social media sites, such as Twitter, which in turn generate valuable data for public health monitoring, digital epidemiology, and other analyses of population health at global scale. The first, critical, task for these applications is classifying whether a personal health ev...
computer science
17,771
Language Distribution Prediction based on Batch Markov Monte Carlo Simulation with Migration
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Language spreading is a complex mechanism that involves issues like culture, economics, migration, population etc. In this paper, we propose a set of methods to model the dynamics of the spreading system. To model the randomness of language spreading, we propose the Batch Markov Monte Carlo Simulation with Migration(BM...
computer science
17,772
Deep Feed-forward Sequential Memory Networks for Speech Synthesis
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The Bidirectional LSTM (BLSTM) RNN based speech synthesis system is among the best parametric Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems in terms of the naturalness of generated speech, especially the naturalness in prosody. However, the model complexity and inference cost of BLSTM prevents its usage in many runtime applications. Me...
computer science
17,773
EiTAKA at SemEval-2018 Task 1: An Ensemble of N-Channels ConvNet and XGboost Regressors for Emotion Analysis of Tweets
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This paper describes our system that has been used in Task1 Affect in Tweets. We combine two different approaches. The first one called N-Stream ConvNets, which is a deep learning approach where the second one is XGboost regresseor based on a set of embedding and lexicons based features. Our system was evaluated on the...
computer science
17,774
Gender Aware Spoken Language Translation Applied to English-Arabic
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Spoken Language Translation (SLT) is becoming more widely used and becoming a communication tool that helps in crossing language barriers. One of the challenges of SLT is the translation from a language without gender agreement to a language with gender agreement such as English to Arabic. In this paper, we introduce a...
computer science
17,775
From Phonology to Syntax: Unsupervised Linguistic Typology at Different Levels with Language Embeddings
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A core part of linguistic typology is the classification of languages according to linguistic properties, such as those detailed in the World Atlas of Language Structure (WALS). Doing this manually is prohibitively time-consuming, which is in part evidenced by the fact that only 100 out of over 7,000 languages spoken i...
computer science
17,776
Publishing a Quality Context-aware Annotated Corpus and Lexicon for Harassment Research
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Having a quality annotated corpus is essential especially for applied research. Despite the recent focus of Web science community on researching about cyberbullying, the community dose not still have standard benchmarks. In this paper, we publish first, a quality annotated corpus and second, an offensive words lexicon ...
computer science
17,777
Live Blog Corpus for Summarization
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Live blogs are an increasingly popular news format to cover breaking news and live events in online journalism. Online news websites around the world are using this medium to give their readers a minute by minute update on an event. Good summaries enhance the value of the live blogs for a reader but are often not avail...
computer science
17,778
Convolutional Neural Networks for Toxic Comment Classification
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Flood of information is produced in a daily basis through the global Internet usage arising from the on-line interactive communications among users. While this situation contributes significantly to the quality of human life, unfortunately it involves enormous dangers, since on-line texts with high toxicity can cause p...
computer science
17,779
Classifying Idiomatic and Literal Expressions Using Topic Models and Intensity of Emotions
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We describe an algorithm for automatic classification of idiomatic and literal expressions. Our starting point is that words in a given text segment, such as a paragraph, that are highranking representatives of a common topic of discussion are less likely to be a part of an idiomatic expression. Our additional hypothes...
computer science
17,780
A Hybrid Word-Character Model for Abstractive Summarization
cs.CL
Abstractive summarization is the popular research topic nowadays. Due to the difference in language property, Chinese summarization also gains lots of attention. Most of studies use character-based representation instead of word-based to keep out the error introduced by word segmentation and OOV problem. However, we be...
computer science
17,781
Extractive Text Summarization using Neural Networks
cs.CL
Text Summarization has been an extensively studied problem. Traditional approaches to text summarization rely heavily on feature engineering. In contrast to this, we propose a fully data-driven approach using feedforward neural networks for single document summarization. We train and evaluate the model on standard DUC ...
computer science
17,782
Collective Entity Disambiguation with Structured Gradient Tree Boosting
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We present a gradient-tree-boosting-based structured learning model for jointly disambiguating named entities in a document. Gradient tree boosting is a widely used machine learning algorithm that underlies many top-performing natural language processing systems. Surprisingly, most works limit the use of gradient tree ...
computer science
17,783
Medical Exam Question Answering with Large-scale Reading Comprehension
cs.CL
Reading and understanding text is one important component in computer aided diagnosis in clinical medicine, also being a major research problem in the field of NLP. In this work, we introduce a question-answering task called MedQA to study answering questions in clinical medicine using knowledge in a large-scale docume...
computer science
17,784
Simultaneously Self-Attending to All Mentions for Full-Abstract Biological Relation Extraction
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Most work in relation extraction forms a prediction by looking at a short span of text within a single sentence containing a single entity pair mention. This approach often does not consider interactions across mentions, requires redundant computation for each mention pair, and ignores relationships expressed across se...
computer science
17,785
Analyzing Uncertainty in Neural Machine Translation
cs.CL
Machine translation is a popular test bed for research in neural sequence-to-sequence models but despite much recent research, there is still a lack of understanding of these models. Practitioners report performance degradation with large beams, the under-estimation of rare words and a lack of diversity in the final tr...
computer science
17,786
Improving Sentiment Analysis in Arabic Using Word Representation
cs.CL
The complexities of Arabic language in morphology, orthography and dialects makes sentiment analysis for Arabic more challenging. Also, text feature extraction from short messages like tweets, in order to gauge the sentiment, makes this task even more difficult. In recent years, deep neural networks were often employed...
computer science
17,787
Matching Natural Language Sentences with Hierarchical Sentence Factorization
cs.CL
Semantic matching of natural language sentences or identifying the relationship between two sentences is a core research problem underlying many natural language tasks. Depending on whether training data is available, prior research has proposed both unsupervised distance-based schemes and supervised deep learning sche...
computer science
17,788
XNMT: The eXtensible Neural Machine Translation Toolkit
cs.CL
This paper describes XNMT, the eXtensible Neural Machine Translation toolkit. XNMT distin- guishes itself from other open-source NMT toolkits by its focus on modular code design, with the purpose of enabling fast iteration in research and replicable, reliable results. In this paper we describe the design of XNMT and it...
computer science
17,789
Yuanfudao at SemEval-2018 Task 11: Three-way Attention and Relational Knowledge for Commonsense Machine Comprehension
cs.CL
This paper describes our system for SemEval-2018 Task 11: Machine Comprehension using Commonsense Knowledge. We use Three-way Attentive Networks (TriAN) to model interactions between the passage, question and answers. To incorporate commonsense knowledge, we augment input with relation embedding from the graph of gener...
computer science
17,790
Joint Training for Neural Machine Translation Models with Monolingual Data
cs.CL
Monolingual data have been demonstrated to be helpful in improving translation quality of both statistical machine translation (SMT) systems and neural machine translation (NMT) systems, especially in resource-poor or domain adaptation tasks where parallel data are not rich enough. In this paper, we propose a novel app...
computer science
17,791
Cross-lingual and Multilingual Speech Emotion Recognition on English and French
cs.CL
Research on multilingual speech emotion recognition faces the problem that most available speech corpora differ from each other in important ways, such as annotation methods or interaction scenarios. These inconsistencies complicate building a multilingual system. We present results for cross-lingual and multilingual e...
computer science
17,792
A Factoid Question Answering System for Vietnamese
cs.CL
In this paper, we describe the development of an end-to-end factoid question answering system for the Vietnamese language. This system combines both statistical models and ontology-based methods in a chain of processing modules to provide high-quality mappings from natural language text to entities. We present the chal...
computer science
17,793
Representing Verbs as Argument Concepts
cs.CL
Verbs play an important role in the understanding of natural language text. This paper studies the problem of abstracting the subject and object arguments of a verb into a set of noun concepts, known as the "argument concepts". This set of concepts, whose size is parameterized, represents the fine-grained semantics of ...
computer science
17,794
Lexico-acoustic Neural-based Models for Dialog Act Classification
cs.CL
Recent works have proposed neural models for dialog act classification in spoken dialogs. However, they have not explored the role and the usefulness of acoustic information. We propose a neural model that processes both lexical and acoustic features for classification. Our results on two benchmark datasets reveal that...
computer science
17,795
DEMorphy, German Language Morphological Analyzer
cs.CL
DEMorphy is a morphological analyzer for German. It is built onto large, compactified lexicons from German Morphological Dictionary. A guesser based on German declension suffixed is also provided. For German, we provided a state-of-art morphological analyzer. DEMorphy is implemented in Python with ease of usability and...
computer science
17,796
Hybrid Model For Word Prediction Using Naive Bayes and Latent Information
cs.CL
Historically, the Natural Language Processing area has been given too much attention by many researchers. One of the main motivation beyond this interest is related to the word prediction problem, which states that given a set words in a sentence, one can recommend the next word. In literature, this problem is solved b...
computer science
17,797
On Modular Training of Neural Acoustics-to-Word Model for LVCSR
cs.CL
End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems directly map acoustics to words using a unified model. Previous works mostly focus on E2E training a single model which integrates acoustic and language model into a whole. Although E2E training benefits from sequence modeling and simplified decoding pipelines...
computer science
17,798
Tag-Enhanced Tree-Structured Neural Networks for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification
cs.CL
Identifying implicit discourse relations between text spans is a challenging task because it requires understanding the meaning of the text. To tackle this task, recent studies have tried several deep learning methods but few of them exploited the syntactic information. In this work, we explore the idea of incorporatin...
computer science
17,799
Understanding and Improving Multi-Sense Word Embeddings via Extended Robust Principal Component Analysis
cs.CL
Unsupervised learned representations of polysemous words generate a large of pseudo multi senses since unsupervised methods are overly sensitive to contextual variations. In this paper, we address the pseudo multi-sense detection for word embeddings by dimensionality reduction of sense pairs. We propose a novel princip...
computer science
17,800
CAESAR: Context Awareness Enabled Summary-Attentive Reader
cs.CL
Comprehending meaning from natural language is a primary objective of Natural Language Processing (NLP), and text comprehension is the cornerstone for achieving this objective upon which all other problems like chat bots, language translation and others can be achieved. We report a Summary-Attentive Reader we designed ...
computer science
17,801
Concatenated $p$-mean Word Embeddings as Universal Cross-Lingual Sentence Representations
cs.CL
Average word embeddings are a common baseline for more sophisticated sentence embedding techniques. An important advantage of average word embeddings is their computational and conceptual simplicity. However, they typically fall short of the performances of more complex models such as InferSent. Here, we generalize the...
computer science