Morphosyntactic Tagging With A Meta-bilstm Model Over Context Sensitive Token Encodings
Bernd Bohnet, Ryan McDonald, Goncalo Simoes, Daniel Andor, Emily Pitler, Joshua Maynez . Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) 2018 – 85 citations
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The rise of neural networks, and particularly recurrent neural networks, has produced significant advances in part-of-speech tagging accuracy. One characteristic common among these models is the presence of rich initial word encodings. These encodings typically are composed of a recurrent character-based representation with learned and pre-trained word embeddings. However, these encodings do not consider a context wider than a single word and it is only through subsequent recurrent layers that word or sub-word information interacts. In this paper, we investigate models that use recurrent neural networks with sentence-level context for initial character and word-based representations. In particular we show that optimal results are obtained by integrating these context sensitive representations through synchronized training with a meta-model that learns to combine their states. We present results on part-of-speech and morphological tagging with state-of-the-art performance on a number of languages.