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Improving Natural Language Inference with a Pretrained Parser (arxiv.org)
1 point by sel1 on Sep 19, 2019 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: The system feeds each word's description from a grammar parser that knows how words connect in a sentence into models that judge whether one sentence follows from another. Compared with the same models without grammar info, accuracy rose on all four across three benchmarks.

Abstract

We introduce a novel approach to incorporate syntax into natural language inference (NLI) models. Our method uses contextual token-level vector representations from a pretrained dependency parser. Like other contextual embedders, our method is broadly applicable to any neural model. We experiment with four strong NLI models (decomposable attention model, ESIM, BERT, and MT-DNN), and show consistent benefit to accuracy across three NLI benchmarks.

Deric Pang, Lucy H. Lin, Noah A. Smith
arXiv:1909.08217 · cs.CL · submitted Sep 18, 2019
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