Syntax Representation in Word Embeddings and Neural Networks -- A Survey

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01063v1
• Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 15:44:58 GMT
• Title: Syntax Representation in Word Embeddings and Neural Networks -- A Survey
• Authors: Tomasz Limisiewicz and David Mare\v{c}ek
• Abstract summary: This paper covers approaches of evaluating the amount of syntactic information included in the representations of words. We mainly summarize re-search on English monolingual data on language modeling tasks. We describe which pre-trained models and representations of language are best suited for transfer to syntactic tasks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Neural networks trained on natural language processing tasks capture syntax even though it is not provided as a supervision signal. This indicates that syntactic analysis is essential to the understating of language in artificial intelligence systems. This overview paper covers approaches of evaluating the amount of syntactic information included in the representations of words for different neural network architectures. We mainly summarize re-search on English monolingual data on language modeling tasks and multilingual data for neural machine translation systems and multilingual language models. We describe which pre-trained models and representations of language are best suited for transfer to syntactic tasks.

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