Work

Zooming Network

Year: 2018
Type: preprint
Abstract: Structural information is important in natural language understanding. Although some current neural net-based models have a limited ability to take local syntactic information, they fail to use high-level and large-scale structures of documents. This information is valuable for text understanding since it contains the author's strategy to express information, in building an effective representation and forming appropriate output modes. We propose a neural net-based model, Zooming Network, capable of representing and leveraging text structure of long document and developing its own analyzing rhythm to extract critical information. Generally, ZN consists of an encoding neural net that can build a hierarchical representation of a document, and an interpreting neural model that can read the information at multi-levels and issuing labeling actions through a policy-net. Our model is trained with a hybrid paradigm of supervised learning (distinguishing right and wrong decision) and reinforcement learning (determining the goodness among multiple right paths). We applied the proposed model to long text sequence labeling tasks, with performance exceeding baseline model (biLSTM-crf) by 10 F1-measure.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4394651594
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