Abstract
Recent work has shown that recurrent neural networks (RNNs) can implicitly capture and exploit hierarchical information when trained to solve common natural language processing tasks (Blevins et al., 2018) such as language modeling (Linzen et al., 2016; Gulordava et al., 2018) and neural machine translation (Shi et al., 2016). In contrast, the ability to model structured data with non-recurrent neural networks has received little attention despite their success in many NLP tasks (Gehring et al., 2017; Vaswani et al., 2017). In this work, we compare the two architectures—recurrent versus non-recurrent—with respect to their ability to model hierarchical structure and find that recurrency is indeed important for this purpose. The code and data used in our experiments is available at https://github.com/ketranm/fan_vs_rnn- Anthology ID:
- D18-1503
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- October-November
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Brussels, Belgium
- Editors:
- Ellen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun’ichi Tsujii
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4731–4736
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D18-1503
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D18-1503
- Cite (ACL):
- Ke Tran, Arianna Bisazza, and Christof Monz. 2018. The Importance of Being Recurrent for Modeling Hierarchical Structure. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 4731–4736, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- The Importance of Being Recurrent for Modeling Hierarchical Structure (Tran et al., EMNLP 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-dup-bibkey/D18-1503.pdf
- Code
- ketranm/fan_vs_rnn
- Data
- SNLI