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Recurrent neural networks are convenient and efficient models for language modeling. However, when applied on the level of characters instead of words, they suffer from several problems. In order to successfully model long-term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , Tomas Mikolov

This paper proposes a novel Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) language model that takes advantage of character information. We focus on character n-grams based on research in the field of word embedding construction (Wieting et al. 2016). Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Sho Takase , Jun Suzuki , Masaaki Nagata

We propose a novel convolutional architecture, named $gen$CNN, for word sequence prediction. Different from previous work on neural network-based language modeling and generation (e.g., RNN or LSTM), we choose not to greedily summarize the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Mingxuan Wang , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Wenbin Jiang , Qun Liu

Document classification tasks were primarily tackled at word level. Recent research that works with character-level inputs shows several benefits over word-level approaches such as natural incorporation of morphemes and better handling of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Yijun Xiao , Kyunghyun Cho

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are the state of the art in sequence modeling for natural language. However, it remains poorly understood what grammatical characteristics of natural language they implicitly learn and represent as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Richard Futrell , Ethan Wilcox , Takashi Morita , Roger Levy

We have recently shown that deep Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent neural networks (RNNs) outperform feed forward deep neural networks (DNNs) as acoustic models for speech recognition. More recently, we have shown that the performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Haşim Sak , Andrew Senior , Kanishka Rao , Françoise Beaufays

Optical character recognition (OCR) is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Research studies have shown significant progress in classifying printed characters using deep learning-based methods and topologies. Among current algorithms,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Saman Sarraf

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been shown to capture various aspects of syntax from raw linguistic input. In most previous experiments, however, learning happens over unrealistic corpora, which do not reflect the type and amount of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ludovica Pannitto , Aurélie Herbelot

An exhaustive study on neural network language modeling (NNLM) is performed in this paper. Different architectures of basic neural network language models are described and examined. A number of different improvements over basic neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Dengliang Shi

Generating character-level features is an important step for achieving good results in various natural language processing tasks. To alleviate the need for human labor in generating hand-crafted features, methods that utilize neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Chanhee Lee , Young-Bum Kim , Dongyub Lee , HeuiSeok Lim

Recent work has shown that deeper character-based neural machine translation (NMT) models can outperform subword-based models. However, it is still unclear what makes deeper character-based models successful. In this paper, we conduct an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Gongbo Tang , Rico Sennrich , Joakim Nivre

We develop a representation suitable for the unconstrained recognition of words in natural images: the general case of no fixed lexicon and unknown length. To this end we propose a convolutional neural network (CNN) based architecture which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Max Jaderberg , Karen Simonyan , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs), especially long short-term memory (LSTM) RNNs, are effective network for sequential task like speech recognition. Deeper LSTM models perform well on large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, because…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Xu Tian , Jun Zhang , Zejun Ma , Yi He , Juan Wei , Peihao Wu , Wenchang Situ , Shuai Li , Yang Zhang

Text normalization is an important enabling technology for several NLP tasks. Recently, neural-network-based approaches have outperformed well-established models in this task. However, in languages other than English, there has been little…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Daniel Watson , Nasser Zalmout , Nizar Habash

Neural network models have been demonstrated to be capable of achieving remarkable performance in sentence and document modeling. Convolutional neural network (CNN) and recurrent neural network (RNN) are two mainstream architectures for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Chunting Zhou , Chonglin Sun , Zhiyuan Liu , Francis C. M. Lau

Linguistic sequence labeling is a general modeling approach that encompasses a variety of problems, such as part-of-speech tagging and named entity recognition. Recent advances in neural networks (NNs) make it possible to build reliable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Liyuan Liu , Jingbo Shang , Frank F. Xu , Xiang Ren , Huan Gui , Jian Peng , Jiawei Han

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are theoretically Turing-complete and established themselves as a dominant model for language processing. Yet, there still remains an uncertainty regarding their language learning capabilities. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Mirac Suzgun , Yonatan Belinkov , Stuart M. Shieber

Current language models have a significant limitation in the ability to encode and decode factual knowledge. This is mainly because they acquire such knowledge from statistical co-occurrences although most of the knowledge words are rarely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Sungjin Ahn , Heeyoul Choi , Tanel Pärnamaa , Yoshua Bengio

Feedforward Neural Network (FNN)-based language models estimate the probability of the next word based on the history of the last N words, whereas Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) perform the same task based only on the last word and some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Youssef Oualil , Clayton Greenberg , Mittul Singh , Dietrich Klakow

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) have obtained excellent result in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, understanding and interpreting the source of this success remains a challenge. In this paper, we propose Recurrent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Ke Tran , Arianna Bisazza , Christof Monz