Dissecting Contextual Word Embeddings: Architecture and Representation
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Contextual word representations derived from pre-trained bidirectional language models (biLMs) have recently been shown to provide significant improvements to the state of the art for a wide range of NLP tasks.However, many questions remain as to how and why these models are so effective.In this paper, we present a detailed empirical study of how the choice of neural architecture (e.g.LSTM, CNN, or self attention) influences both end task accuracy and qualitative properties of the representations that are learned.We show there is a tradeoff between speed and accuracy, but all architectures learn high quality contextual representations that outperform word embeddings for four challenging NLP tasks.Additionally, all architectures learn representations that vary with network depth, from exclusively morphological based at the word embedding layer through local syntax based in the lower contextual layers to longer range semantics such coreference at the upper layers.Together, these results suggest that unsupervised biLMs, independent of architecture, are learning much more about the structure of language than previously appreciated.
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The study by Peters et al. (2018) suggests that the context vectors of bi-directional language models undergo abrupt changes at syntactic boundaries, allowing them to be utilized for constructing representations of spans or consecutive token sequences.
“The study by Peters et al. (2018) suggests that the context vectors of bi-directional language models undergo abrupt changes at syntactic boundaries, allowing them to be utilized for constructing representations of spans or consecutive token sequences.”
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- Authors
- Peters, M., Neumann, M., Zettlemoyer, L., & Yih, W.-T.
- Affiliations
- Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Published
- 2018
- Pages
- 1499-1509
- OpenAlex
- W2888329843
- Cited by
- 434
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 53 · 2022: 55 · 2021: 75 · 2020: 83 · 2019: 77 · 2018: 4
- FWCI
- 24.08
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Keywords
- contextual word embeddings, bidirectional language models, LSTM, convolutional neural networks, self-attention, representation learning, network depth, morphological representation, syntactic representation, coreference, word embeddings, speed-accuracy trade-off
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