Attentive Language Models

Giancarlo Salton, Robert Ross, John Kelleher


Abstract
In this paper, we extend Recurrent Neural Network Language Models (RNN-LMs) with an attention mechanism. We show that an “attentive” RNN-LM (with 11M parameters) achieves a better perplexity than larger RNN-LMs (with 66M parameters) and achieves performance comparable to an ensemble of 10 similar sized RNN-LMs. We also show that an “attentive” RNN-LM needs less contextual information to achieve similar results to the state-of-the-art on the wikitext2 dataset.
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I17-1045
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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November
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2017
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Taipei, Taiwan
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Greg Kondrak, Taro Watanabe
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IJCNLP
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Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
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441–450
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https://aclanthology.org/I17-1045
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Giancarlo Salton, Robert Ross, and John Kelleher. 2017. Attentive Language Models. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 441–450, Taipei, Taiwan. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.
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Attentive Language Models (Salton et al., IJCNLP 2017)
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