DR-BiLSTM: Dependent Reading Bidirectional LSTM for Natural Language Inference (N18-1)
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Reza Ghaeini, Sadid A. Hasan, Vivek Datla, Joey Liu, Kathy Lee, Ashequl Qadir, Yuan Ling, Aaditya Prakash, Xiaoli Fern, Oladimeji Farri
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to natural language inference rely on simple reading mechanisms for independent encoding of the premise and hypothesis. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel bidirectional dependent reading network to efficiently model the relationship between a premise and a hypothesis during encoding and inference. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing methods by a considerable margin on the Stanford Natural Language Inference (SNLI) dataset. |
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