[Colloquium] REMINDER: Research at TTIC: Mohit Bansal, TTIC

[Dawn Ellis]

When:     Friday, February 6th at noon

Where:    TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526

Who:       Mohit Bansal, TTIC

Title:       Improving Neural Embeddings using Knowledge

Abstract:

Purely unsupervised embeddings learned on large amounts of raw context data
are generally useful representations but these are learned using only
co-occurrence statistics and may not capture the specific type of semantics
or similarity one needs for a particular task. More useful representations
can be learned by using knowledge-based statistics. In this talk, I will
discuss our work on learning better neural embeddings (for both words and
higher-order units) using automatically-predicted paraphrase pairs
(monolingual alignments), translation pairs (multilingual alignments), and
syntactic context as three sources of weak supervision or knowledge.

This is joint work with Kevin Gimpel, Karen Livescu, Ang Lu, Weiran Wang,
and John Wieting.




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*Dawn Ellis*
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