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Incorporating Side Information into Recurrent Neural Network Language Models

CDV Hoang, G Haffari, T Cohn

Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL:HLT) Short Papers | Association for Computational Linguistics | Published : 2016

Abstract

Recurrent neural network language models (RNNLM) have recently demonstrated vast potential in modelling long-term dependencies for NLP problems, ranging from speech recognition to machine translation. In this work, we propose methods for conditioning RNNLMs on external side information, e.g., metadata such as keywords, description, document title or topic headline. Our experiments show consistent improvements of RNNLMs using side information over the baselines for two different datasets and genres in two languages. Interestingly, we found that side information in a foreign language can be highly beneficial in modelling texts in another language, serving as a form of cross-lingual language mo..

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