Abstract
Natural language is generated by people, yet traditional language modeling views words or documents as if generated independently. Here, we propose human language modeling (HuLM), a hierarchical extension to the language modeling problem where by a human- level exists to connect sequences of documents (e.g. social media messages) and capture the notion that human language is moderated by changing human states. We introduce, HaRT, a large-scale transformer model for solving HuLM, pre-trained on approximately 100,000 social media users, and demonstrate it’s effectiveness in terms of both language modeling (perplexity) for social media and fine-tuning for 4 downstream tasks spanning document- and user-levels. Results on all tasks meet or surpass the current state-of-the-art.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.findings-acl.52
- Volume:
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Dublin, Ireland
- Editors:
- Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
- Venue:
- Findings
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 622–636
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-acl.52
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.findings-acl.52
- Cite (ACL):
- Nikita Soni, Matthew Matero, Niranjan Balasubramanian, and H. Andrew Schwartz. 2022. Human Language Modeling. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, pages 622–636, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Human Language Modeling (Soni et al., Findings 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-5/2022.findings-acl.52.pdf
- Code
- humanlab/hart