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Discrete Word Embedding for Logical Natural Language Understanding

Computation and Language 2020-10-16 v2 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

We propose an unsupervised neural model for learning a discrete embedding of words. Unlike existing discrete embeddings, our binary embedding supports vector arithmetic operations similar to continuous embeddings. Our embedding represents each word as a set of propositional statements describing a transition rule in classical/STRIPS planning formalism. This makes the embedding directly compatible with symbolic, state of the art classical planning solvers.

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@article{arxiv.2008.11649,
  title  = {Discrete Word Embedding for Logical Natural Language Understanding},
  author = {Masataro Asai and Zilu Tang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.11649},
  year   = {2020}
}

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