Grammatical Sequence Prediction for Real-Time Neural Semantic Parsing

Chunyang Xiao, Christoph Teichmann, Konstantine Arkoudas


Abstract
While sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models achieve state-of-the-art performance in many natural language processing tasks, they can be too slow for real-time applications. One performance bottleneck is predicting the most likely next token over a large vocabulary; methods to circumvent this bottleneck are a current research topic. We focus specifically on using seq2seq models for semantic parsing, where we observe that grammars often exist which specify valid formal representations of utterance semantics. By developing a generic approach for restricting the predictions of a seq2seq model to grammatically permissible continuations, we arrive at a widely applicable technique for speeding up semantic parsing. The technique leads to a 74% speed-up on an in-house dataset with a large vocabulary, compared to the same neural model without grammatical restrictions
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W19-3902
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Deep Learning and Formal Languages: Building Bridges
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August
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2019
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Florence
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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14–23
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-3902
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-3902
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Chunyang Xiao, Christoph Teichmann, and Konstantine Arkoudas. 2019. Grammatical Sequence Prediction for Real-Time Neural Semantic Parsing. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Deep Learning and Formal Languages: Building Bridges, pages 14–23, Florence. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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