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Still not there? Comparing Traditional Sequence-to-Sequence Models to Encoder-Decoder Neural Networks on Monotone String Translation Tasks

Computation and Language 2016-10-27 v2

Abstract

We analyze the performance of encoder-decoder neural models and compare them with well-known established methods. The latter represent different classes of traditional approaches that are applied to the monotone sequence-to-sequence tasks OCR post-correction, spelling correction, grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, and lemmatization. Such tasks are of practical relevance for various higher-level research fields including digital humanities, automatic text correction, and speech recognition. We investigate how well generic deep-learning approaches adapt to these tasks, and how they perform in comparison with established and more specialized methods, including our own adaptation of pruned CRFs.

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@article{arxiv.1610.07796,
  title  = {Still not there? Comparing Traditional Sequence-to-Sequence Models to Encoder-Decoder Neural Networks on Monotone String Translation Tasks},
  author = {Carsten Schnober and Steffen Eger and Erik-Lân Do Dinh and Iryna Gurevych},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.07796},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Accepted for publication at COLING 2016. See also: https://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/publications/details/?no_cache=1&tx_bibtex_pi1%5Bpub_id%5D=TUD-CS-2016-1450 Version 2: corrected spelling of third author

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