An Empirical Investigation of Contextualized Number Prediction (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | a large scale empirical investigation of contextualized number prediction in running text is needed. |
| Approach: | They propose a suite of output distribution parameterizations that incorporate latent variables to add expressivity and better fit the natural distribution of numeric values in running text. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform flow-based models on two numeric datasets in the financial and scientific domain. |
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