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A deep network with visual text composition behavior

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/P17-2059
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  1. National Research Council Canada. Information and Communication Technologies
FormatText, Article
ConferenceThe 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 30 - August 4, 2017, Vancouver, BC., Canada
Abstract
While natural languages are composi- tional, how state-of-the-art neural models achieve compositionality is still unclear. We propose a deep network, which not only achieves competitive accuracy for text classification, but also exhibits compositional behavior. That is, while creating hierarchical representations of a piece of text, such as a sentence, the lower layers of the network distribute their layer-specific attention weights to individual words. In contrast, the higher layers compose meaningful phrases and clauses, whose lengths increase as the networks get deeper until fully composing the sentence.
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PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
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  • Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Volume 2: Short Papers: 372–377.
LanguageEnglish
Peer reviewedYes
NPARC number23002276
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