2 papers
cs.CL2020
Explicitly Modeling Syntax in Language Models with Incremental Parsing and a Dynamic Oracle
Yikang Shen, Shawn Tan, Alessandro Sordoni +2
Syntax is fundamental to our thinking about language. Failing to capture the structure of input language could lead to generalization problems and over-parametrization. In the pres…
cs.CL2020
Recursive Top-Down Production for Sentence Generation with Latent Trees
Shawn Tan, Yikang Shen, Timothy J. O'Donnell +2
We model the recursive production property of context-free grammars for natural and synthetic languages. To this end, we present a dynamic programming algorithm that marginalises o…