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Neural Models for Reasoning Over Multiple Mentions Using Coreference [pdf] (arxiv.org)
5 points by stablemap on Apr 19, 2018 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A new memory layer links mentions of the same person or thing, letting a reading system gather clues spread far apart instead of relying on nearby words. It beat the usual short-range design on three question sets, with biggest gains when training data was scarce.

Abstract · Neural Models for Reasoning over Multiple Mentions using Coreference

Many problems in NLP require aggregating information from multiple mentions of the same entity which may be far apart in the text. Existing Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) layers are biased towards short-term dependencies and hence not suited to such tasks. We present a recurrent layer which is instead biased towards coreferent dependencies. The layer uses coreference annotations extracted from an external system to connect entity mentions belonging to the same cluster. Incorporating this layer into a state-of-the-art reading comprehension model improves performance on three datasets -- Wikihop, LAMBADA and the bAbi AI tasks -- with large gains when training data is scarce.

Bhuwan Dhingra, Qiao Jin, Zhilin Yang, William W. Cohen, Ruslan Salakhutdinov
arXiv:1804.05922 · cs.CL, cs.LG · submitted Apr 16, 2018
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