Papers by Duncan Blythe
Contextual String Embeddings for Sequence Labeling (C18-1)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in language modeling have made it viable to model language as distributions over characters. |
| Approach: | They propose to leverage internal states of a trained character language model to produce a new type of word embeddings. |
| Outcome: | The proposed embeddings outperform the state-of-the-art on four classic sequence labeling tasks. |
FLAIR: An Easy-to-Use Framework for State-of-the-Art NLP (N19-4)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches combine word embeddings with character-level features to model additional features such as subword structures and meaning ambiguity. |
| Approach: | They present FLAIR, an NLP framework that enables embeddings of word and document data . they propose a hierarchical learning architecture that concatenates output states of a character-level CNN or RNN with the output states from a task data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework hides embedding-specific engineering complexity and allows researchers to "mix and match" various embeddables with little effort. |