Topically Driven Neural Language Model
Jey Han Lau, Timothy Baldwin, Trevor Cohn . Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) 2017 – 63 citations
Language models are typically applied at the sentence level, without access to the broader document context. We present a neural language model that incorporates document context in the form of a topic model-like architecture, thus providing a succinct representation of the broader document context outside of the current sentence. Experiments over a range of datasets demonstrate that our model outperforms a pure sentence-based model in terms of language model perplexity, and leads to topics that are potentially more coherent than those produced by a standard LDA topic model. Our model also has the ability to generate related sentences for a topic, providing another way to interpret topics.