Word Ordering Without Syntax
Computation and Language
2016-09-27 v2
Abstract
Recent work on word ordering has argued that syntactic structure is important, or even required, for effectively recovering the order of a sentence. We find that, in fact, an n-gram language model with a simple heuristic gives strong results on this task. Furthermore, we show that a long short-term memory (LSTM) language model is even more effective at recovering order, with our basic model outperforming a state-of-the-art syntactic model by 11.5 BLEU points. Additional data and larger beams yield further gains, at the expense of training and search time.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1604.08633,
title = {Word Ordering Without Syntax},
author = {Allen Schmaltz and Alexander M. Rush and Stuart M. Shieber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.08633},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
EMNLP 2016