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Headedness is widely used as an organizing device in syntactic analysis, yet constituency treebanks rarely encode it explicitly and most processing pipelines recover it procedurally via percolation rules. We treat this notion of constituent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zeyao Qi , Yige Chen , KyungTae Lim , Haihua Pan , Jungyeul Park

Since the superiority of Transformer in learning long-term dependency, the sign language Transformer model achieves remarkable progress in Sign Language Recognition (SLR) and Translation (SLT). However, there are several issues with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Pan Xie , Mengyi Zhao , Xiaohui Hu

Recently, self-attention models such as Transformers have given competitive results compared to recurrent neural network systems in speech recognition. The key factor for the outstanding performance of self-attention models is their ability…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-29 Shucong Zhang , Erfan Loweimi , Peter Bell , Steve Renals

Unsupervised constituency parsers organize phrases within a sentence into a tree-shaped syntactic constituent structure that reflects the organization of sentence semantics. However, the traditional objective of maximizing sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Junjie Chen , Xiangheng He , Yusuke Miyao , Danushka Bollegala

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in end-to-end speech recognition that directly transcribes speech to text without any predefined alignments. One approach is the attention-based encoder-decoder framework that learns a mapping…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Suyoun Kim , Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe

The dominant neural machine translation models are based on the encoder-decoder structure, and many of them rely on an unconstrained receptive field over source and target sequences. In this paper we study a new architecture that breaks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-17 José A. R. Fonollosa , Noe Casas , Marta R. Costa-jussà

Most approaches for semantic segmentation use only information from color cameras to parse the scenes, yet recent advancements show that using depth data allows to further improve performances. In this work, we focus on transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Francesco Barbato , Giulia Rizzoli , Pietro Zanuttigh

To extract robust deep representations from long sequential modeling of speech data, we propose a self-supervised learning approach, namely Contrastive Separative Coding (CSC). Our key finding is to learn such representations by separating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Jun Wang , Max W. Y. Lam , Dan Su , Dong Yu

Latest development of neural models has connected the encoder and decoder through a self-attention mechanism. In particular, Transformer, which is solely based on self-attention, has led to breakthroughs in Natural Language Processing (NLP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Xindian Ma , Peng Zhang , Shuai Zhang , Nan Duan , Yuexian Hou , Dawei Song , Ming Zhou

Representation learning plays a central role in structuring internal embeddings to capture the statistical properties of language, influencing the coherence and contextual consistency of generated text. Statistical Coherence Alignment is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Jonathan Gale , Godfrey Aldington , Harriet Thistlewood , Thomas Tattershall , Basil Wentworth , Vincent Enoasmo

Incorporating hierarchical structures like constituency trees has been shown to be effective for various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, it is evident that state-of-the-art (SOTA) sequence-based models like the Transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Xuan-Phi Nguyen , Shafiq Joty , Steven C. H. Hoi , Richard Socher

Self-attention-based networks have achieved remarkable performance in sequential recommendation tasks. A crucial component of these models is positional encoding. In this study, we delve into the learned positional embedding, demonstrating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Fan Luo , Haibo He , Juan Zhang , Shenghui Xu

Distantly supervised relation extraction intrinsically suffers from noisy labels due to the strong assumption of distant supervision. Most prior works adopt a selective attention mechanism over sentences in a bag to denoise from wrongly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Yang Li , Guodong Long , Tao Shen , Tianyi Zhou , Lina Yao , Huan Huo , Jing Jiang

Both bottom-up and top-down strategies have been used for neural transition-based constituent parsing. The parsing strategies differ in terms of the order in which they recognize productions in the derivation tree, where bottom-up…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Jiangming Liu , Yue Zhang

We inspect the multi-head self-attention in Transformer NMT encoders for three source languages, looking for patterns that could have a syntactic interpretation. In many of the attention heads, we frequently find sequences of consecutive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 David Mareček , Rudolf Rosa

Transformer-based models have demonstrated their effectiveness in automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks and even shown superior performance over the conventional hybrid framework. The main idea of Transformers is to capture the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Kun Wei , Pengcheng Guo , Ning Jiang

We introduce a novel approach to incorporate syntax into natural language inference (NLI) models. Our method uses contextual token-level vector representations from a pretrained dependency parser. Like other contextual embedders, our method…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Deric Pang , Lucy H. Lin , Noah A. Smith

We present a constituency parsing algorithm that, like a supertagger, works by assigning labels to each word in a sentence. In order to maximally leverage current neural architectures, the model scores each word's tags in parallel, with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Nikita Kitaev , Dan Klein

In this work, we present a minimal neural model for constituency parsing based on independent scoring of labels and spans. We show that this model is not only compatible with classical dynamic programming techniques, but also admits a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Mitchell Stern , Jacob Andreas , Dan Klein

The conversion from text to speech relies on the accurate mapping from linguistic to acoustic symbol sequences, for which current practice employs recurrent statistical models like recurrent neural networks. Despite the good performance of…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Santiago Pascual , Antonio Bonafonte , Joan Serrà