Linguistic representations in multi-task neural networks for ellipsis resolution

Ola Rønning, Daniel Hardt, Anders Søgaard

    Abstract

    Sluicing resolution is the task of identifyingthe antecedent to a question ellipsis. Antecedentsare often sentential constituents, andprevious work has therefore relied on syntacticparsing, together with complex linguisticfeatures. A recent model instead used partialparsing as an auxiliary task in sequential neuralnetwork architectures to inject syntactic information.We explore the linguistic informationbeing brought to bear by such networks,both by defining subsets of the data exhibitingrelevant linguistic characteristics, and byexamining the internal representations of thenetwork. Both perspectives provide evidencefor substantial linguistic knowledge being deployedby the neural networks.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TitelProceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP : Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP
    ForlagAssociation for Computational Linguistics
    Publikationsdato2018
    Sider66–73
    StatusUdgivet - 2018
    Begivenhed2018 EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP - Brussels, Belgien
    Varighed: 1 nov. 20181 nov. 2018

    Workshop

    Workshop2018 EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP
    Land/OmrådeBelgien
    ByBrussels
    Periode01/11/201801/11/2018

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