@inproceedings{zhang-bowman-2018-language,
    title = "Language Modeling Teaches You More than Translation Does: Lessons Learned Through Auxiliary Syntactic Task Analysis",
    author = "Zhang, Kelly  and
      Bowman, Samuel",
    editor = "Linzen, Tal  and
      Chrupa{\l}a, Grzegorz  and
      Alishahi, Afra",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2018 {EMNLP} Workshop {B}lackbox{NLP}: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for {NLP}",
    month = nov,
    year = "2018",
    address = "Brussels, Belgium",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W18-5448/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-5448",
    pages = "359--361",
    abstract = "Recently, researchers have found that deep LSTMs trained on tasks like machine translation learn substantial syntactic and semantic information about their input sentences, including part-of-speech. These findings begin to shed light on why pretrained representations, like ELMo and CoVe, are so beneficial for neural language understanding models. We still, though, do not yet have a clear understanding of how the choice of pretraining objective affects the type of linguistic information that models learn. With this in mind, we compare four objectives{---}language modeling, translation, skip-thought, and autoencoding{---}on their ability to induce syntactic and part-of-speech information, holding constant the quantity and genre of the training data, as well as the LSTM architecture."
}