Learning to Organize a Bag of Words into Sentences with Neural Networks: An Empirical Study (2021.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to encode natural languages without orders are lacking. |
| Approach: | They conduct a comprehensive analysis of the ability of neural models to organize sentences from a bag of words under three typical scenarios. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models can reorder or reconstruct sentences from a bag of words under three typical scenarios. |
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