scholarly journals Generating Sentences by Editing Prototypes

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 437-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelvin Guu ◽  
Tatsunori B. Hashimoto ◽  
Yonatan Oren ◽  
Percy Liang
Keyword(s):  
Language Model ◽  
Language Modeling ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Training Corpus ◽  
Human Evaluation ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
Sentence Similarity ◽  
Traditional Language ◽  
Generative Language

We propose a new generative language model for sentences that first samples a prototype sentence from the training corpus and then edits it into a new sentence. Compared to traditional language models that generate from scratch either left-to-right or by first sampling a latent sentence vector, our prototype-then-edit model improves perplexity on language modeling and generates higher quality outputs according to human evaluation. Furthermore, the model gives rise to a latent edit vector that captures interpretable semantics such as sentence similarity and sentence-level analogies.

scholarly journals MSA Transformer

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roshan Rao ◽  
Jason Liu ◽  
Robert Verkuil ◽  
Joshua Meier ◽  
John F. Canny ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structure Learning ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Language Modeling ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Multiple Sequence ◽  
Wide Margin ◽  
Current State ◽  
Individual Sequences ◽  
And Function

AbstractUnsupervised protein language models trained across millions of diverse sequences learn structure and function of proteins. Protein language models studied to date have been trained to perform inference from individual sequences. The longstanding approach in computational biology has been to make inferences from a family of evolutionarily related sequences by fitting a model to each family independently. In this work we combine the two paradigms. We introduce a protein language model which takes as input a set of sequences in the form of a multiple sequence alignment. The model interleaves row and column attention across the input sequences and is trained with a variant of the masked language modeling objective across many protein families. The performance of the model surpasses current state-of-the-art unsupervised structure learning methods by a wide margin, with far greater parameter efficiency than prior state-of-the-art protein language models.

scholarly journals Dynamic Language Models for Streaming Text

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 181-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dani Yogatama ◽  
Chong Wang ◽  
Bryan R. Routledge ◽  
Noah A. Smith ◽  
Eric P. Xing
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Language Modeling ◽  
Streaming Data ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Competing Models ◽  
Context Features

We present a probabilistic language model that captures temporal dynamics and conditions on arbitrary non-linguistic context features. These context features serve as important indicators of language changes that are otherwise difficult to capture using text data by itself. We learn our model in an efficient online fashion that is scalable for large, streaming data. With five streaming datasets from two different genres—economics news articles and social media—we evaluate our model on the task of sequential language modeling. Our model consistently outperforms competing models.

USING DATA-DRIVEN SUBWORD UNITS IN LANGUAGE MODEL OF HIGHLY INFLECTIVE SLOVENIAN LANGUAGE

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (02) ◽  
pp. 287-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIRJAM SEPESY MAUČEC ◽  
TOMAŽ ROTOVNIK ◽  
ZDRAVKO KAČIČ ◽  
JANEZ BREST
Keyword(s):  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Inflectional Morphology ◽  
Minimum Entropy ◽  
Test Set ◽  
Training Corpus ◽  
Speech Database

This paper presents the results of a study on modeling the highly inflective Slovenian language. We focus on creating a language model for a large vocabulary speech recognition system. A new data-driven method is proposed for the induction of inflectional morphology into language modeling. The research focus is on data sparsity, which results from the complex morphology of the language. The idea of using subword units is examined. An attempt is made to figure out the segmentation of words into two subword units: stems and endings. No prior knowledge of the language is used. The subword units should fit into the frameworks of the probabilistic language models. A morphologically correct decomposition of words is not being sought, but searching for a decomposition which yields the minimum entropy of the training corpus. This entropy is approximated by using N-gram models. Despite some seemingly over-simplified assumption, the subword models improve the applicability of the language models for a sparse training corpus. The experiments were performed using the VEČER newswire text corpus as a training corpus. The test set was taken from the SNABI speech database, because the final models were evaluated in speech recognition experiments on SNABI speech database. Two different subword-based models are proposed and examined experimentally. The experiments demonstrate that subword-based models, which considerably reduce OOV rate, improve speech recognition WER when compared with standard word-based models, even though they increase test set perplexity. Subword-based models with improved perplexity, but which reduce the OOV rate much less than the previous ones, do not improve speech recognition results.

scholarly journals Low-Rank RNN Adaptation for Context-Aware Language Modeling

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 497-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Jaech ◽  
Mari Ostendorf
Keyword(s):  
Language Model ◽  
Language Modeling ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Low Rank ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Context Vector ◽  
Additional Input ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Powerful Mechanism

A context-aware language model uses location, user and/or domain metadata (context) to adapt its predictions. In neural language models, context information is typically represented as an embedding and it is given to the RNN as an additional input, which has been shown to be useful in many applications. We introduce a more powerful mechanism for using context to adapt an RNN by letting the context vector control a low-rank transformation of the recurrent layer weight matrix. Experiments show that allowing a greater fraction of the model parameters to be adjusted has benefits in terms of perplexity and classification for several different types of context.

scholarly journals Exploring the Data Efficiency of Cross-Lingual Post-Training in Pretrained Language Models

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chanhee Lee ◽  
Kisu Yang ◽  
Taesun Whang ◽  
Chanjun Park ◽  
Andrew Matteson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Language Modeling ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
High Resource ◽  
Cross Lingual ◽  
Data Efficiency

Language model pretraining is an effective method for improving the performance of downstream natural language processing tasks. Even though language modeling is unsupervised and thus collecting data for it is relatively less expensive, it is still a challenging process for languages with limited resources. This results in great technological disparity between high- and low-resource languages for numerous downstream natural language processing tasks. In this paper, we aim to make this technology more accessible by enabling data efficient training of pretrained language models. It is achieved by formulating language modeling of low-resource languages as a domain adaptation task using transformer-based language models pretrained on corpora of high-resource languages. Our novel cross-lingual post-training approach selectively reuses parameters of the language model trained on a high-resource language and post-trains them while learning language-specific parameters in the low-resource language. We also propose implicit translation layers that can learn linguistic differences between languages at a sequence level. To evaluate our method, we post-train a RoBERTa model pretrained in English and conduct a case study for the Korean language. Quantitative results from intrinsic and extrinsic evaluations show that our method outperforms several massively multilingual and monolingual pretrained language models in most settings and improves the data efficiency by a factor of up to 32 compared to monolingual training.

scholarly journals Rare Words: A Major Problem for Contextualized Embeddings and How to Fix it by Attentive Mimicking

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (05) ◽  
pp. 8766-8774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timo Schick ◽  
Hinrich Schütze
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Language Modeling ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Network Architectures ◽  
Semantic Properties

Pretraining deep neural network architectures with a language modeling objective has brought large improvements for many natural language processing tasks. Exemplified by BERT, a recently proposed such architecture, we demonstrate that despite being trained on huge amounts of data, deep language models still struggle to understand rare words. To fix this problem, we adapt Attentive Mimicking, a method that was designed to explicitly learn embeddings for rare words, to deep language models. In order to make this possible, we introduce one-token approximation, a procedure that enables us to use Attentive Mimicking even when the underlying language model uses subword-based tokenization, i.e., it does not assign embeddings to all words. To evaluate our method, we create a novel dataset that tests the ability of language models to capture semantic properties of words without any task-specific fine-tuning. Using this dataset, we show that adding our adapted version of Attentive Mimicking to BERT does substantially improve its understanding of rare words.

scholarly journals Neural Lattice Language Models

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 529-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Buckman ◽  
Graham Neubig
Keyword(s):  
Information Flow ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Language Modeling ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Model Experiments ◽  
Chinese Model ◽  
Word Level ◽  
Modeling Paradigm ◽  
Multiple Granularities ◽  
Linguistic Intuitions

In this work, we propose a new language modeling paradigm that has the ability to perform both prediction and moderation of information flow at multiple granularities: neural lattice language models. These models construct a lattice of possible paths through a sentence and marginalize across this lattice to calculate sequence probabilities or optimize parameters. This approach allows us to seamlessly incorporate linguistic intuitions — including polysemy and the existence of multiword lexical items — into our language model. Experiments on multiple language modeling tasks show that English neural lattice language models that utilize polysemous embeddings are able to improve perplexity by 9.95% relative to a word-level baseline, and that a Chinese model that handles multi-character tokens is able to improve perplexity by 20.94% relative to a character-level baseline.

scholarly journals Character n-Gram Embeddings to Improve RNN Language Models

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 5074-5082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sho Takase ◽  
Jun Suzuki ◽  
Masaaki Nagata
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Translation ◽  
Recurrent Neural Network ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Language Modeling ◽  
Word Embedding ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Word Embeddings ◽  
N Gram

This paper proposes a novel Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) language model that takes advantage of character information. We focus on character n-grams based on research in the field of word embedding construction (Wieting et al. 2016). Our proposed method constructs word embeddings from character ngram embeddings and combines them with ordinary word embeddings. We demonstrate that the proposed method achieves the best perplexities on the language modeling datasets: Penn Treebank, WikiText-2, and WikiText-103. Moreover, we conduct experiments on application tasks: machine translation and headline generation. The experimental results indicate that our proposed method also positively affects these tasks

scholarly journals Using Morphological Data in Language Modeling for Serbian Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edvin Pakoci ◽  
Branislav Popović ◽  
Darko Pekar
Keyword(s):  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Language Modeling ◽  
Error Rates ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Automatic Speech Recognition System ◽  
Large Vocabulary

Serbian is in a group of highly inflective and morphologically rich languages that use a lot of different word suffixes to express different grammatical, syntactic, or semantic features. This kind of behaviour usually produces a lot of recognition errors, especially in large vocabulary systems—even when, due to good acoustical matching, the correct lemma is predicted by the automatic speech recognition system, often a wrong word ending occurs, which is nevertheless counted as an error. This effect is larger for contexts not present in the language model training corpus. In this manuscript, an approach which takes into account different morphological categories of words for language modeling is examined, and the benefits in terms of word error rates and perplexities are presented. These categories include word type, word case, grammatical number, and gender, and they were all assigned to words in the system vocabulary, where applicable. These additional word features helped to produce significant improvements in relation to the baseline system, both for n-gram-based and neural network-based language models. The proposed system can help overcome a lot of tedious errors in a large vocabulary system, for example, for dictation, both for Serbian and for other languages with similar characteristics.

Venue-Influence Language Models for Expert Finding in Bibliometric Networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah Al-Barakati ◽  
Ali Daud
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Language Modeling ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Expert Finding ◽  
Real World Data ◽  
World Data ◽  
Modeling Methods ◽  
Traditional Language

This article investigates the fundamental problem of traditional language models used for expert finding in bibliometric networks. It introduces novel Venue-Influence Language Modeling methods based on entropy, which can accommodate citation links based weights in an indirect way without using links information. Intuitively, an author publishing in topic-specific venues, either journals or for conferences, will be an expert on a topic as compared to an author publishing in multi-topic venues. The proposed methods are evaluated on real world data, the Digital Bibliography and Library Project (DBLP) dataset to test the performance. Experimental results show that their proposed venue influence language models (ViLMs) based methods outperform the traditional (non-venue based) language models (LM).

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