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Reading and thinking: Re-read LSTM unit for textual entailment recognition

  • Lei Sha
  • , Baobao Chang
  • , Zhifang Sui
  • , Sujian Li
  • Peking University

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Abstract

Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) is a fundamentally important task in natural language processing that has many applications. The recently released Stanford Natural Language Inference (SNLI1) corpus has made it possible to develop and evaluate deep neural network methods for the RTE task. Previous neural network based methods usually try to encode the two sentences and send them together into multi-layer perceptron, or use LSTM-RNN to link two sentence together while using attention mechanic to enhance the model's ability. In this paper, we propose to use the intensive reading mechanic, which means to re-read the sentence (read the sentence again) according to the memory of the other sentence for a better understanding of the sentence pair. The re-read process can be applied alternatively between the two sentences. Experiments show that we achieve results better than current state-of-art equivalents.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCOLING 2016 - 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2016
Subtitle of host publicationTechnical Papers
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology
Pages2870-2879
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9784879747020
StatePublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2016 - Osaka, Japan
Duration: 11 Dec 201616 Dec 2016

Publication series

NameCOLING 2016 - 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2016: Technical Papers

Conference

Conference26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2016
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityOsaka
Period11/12/1616/12/16

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