Shonosuke Ishiwatari, Hiroaki Hayashi, Naoki Yoshinaga, Graham Neubig, Shoetsu Sato, Masashi Toyoda, Masaru Kitsuregawa
| Challenge: | Existing methods for contextual guessing and definition generation do not take clues from local contexts. |
| Approach: | They propose a neural description model that takes clues from local and global contexts . they assume that the target phrase is newly emerged and there is no global context . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model takes clues from local and global contexts over existing methods . it is more effective than existing methods for non-standard English explanation . |
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