TY - GEN
T1 - Morphological inflection generation with hard monotonic attention
AU - Aharoni, Roee
AU - Goldberg, Yoav
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - We present a neural model for morphological inflection generation which employs a hard attention mechanism, inspired by the nearly-monotonic alignment commonly found between the characters in a word and the characters in its inflection. We evaluate the model on three previously studied morphological inflection generation datasets and show that it provides state of the art results in various setups compared to previous neural and non-neural approaches. Finally we present an analysis of the continuous representations learned by both the hard and soft attention (Bahdanau et al., 2015) models for the task, shedding some light on the features such models extract.
AB - We present a neural model for morphological inflection generation which employs a hard attention mechanism, inspired by the nearly-monotonic alignment commonly found between the characters in a word and the characters in its inflection. We evaluate the model on three previously studied morphological inflection generation datasets and show that it provides state of the art results in various setups compared to previous neural and non-neural approaches. Finally we present an analysis of the continuous representations learned by both the hard and soft attention (Bahdanau et al., 2015) models for the task, shedding some light on the features such models extract.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85040916628
U2 - 10.18653/v1/P17-1183
DO - 10.18653/v1/P17-1183
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85040916628
T3 - ACL 2017 - 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers)
SP - 2004
EP - 2015
BT - ACL 2017 - 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers)
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2017
Y2 - 30 July 2017 through 4 August 2017
ER -