Learning distributed representations of sentences from unlabelled data

Felix Hill, Kyunghyun Cho, Anna Korhonen

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Abstract

Unsupervised methods for learning distributed representations of words are ubiquitous in today's NLP research, but far less is known about the best ways to learn distributed phrase or sentence representations from unlabelled data. This paper is a systematic comparison of models that learn such representations. We find that the optimal approach depends critically on the intended application. Deeper, more complex models are preferable for representations to be used in supervised systems, but shallow log-bilinear models work best for building representation spaces that can be decoded with simple spatial distance metrics. We also propose two new unsupervised representation-learning objectives designed to optimise the trade-off between training time, domain portability and performance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publicationHuman Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages1367-1377
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781941643914
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event15th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - San Diego, United States
Duration: Jun 12 2016Jun 17 2016

Publication series

Name2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference

Other

Other15th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period6/12/166/17/16

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Linguistics and Language
  • Language and Linguistics

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