Object-oriented Neural Programming (OONP) for Document Understanding
Zhengdong Lu, Xianggen Liu, Haotian Cui, Yukun Yan, Daqi Zheng
Abstract
We propose Object-oriented Neural Programming (OONP), a framework for semantically parsing documents in specific domains. Basically, OONP reads a document and parses it into a predesigned object-oriented data structure that reflects the domain-specific semantics of the document. An OONP parser models semantic parsing as a decision process: a neural net-based Reader sequentially goes through the document, and builds and updates an intermediate ontology during the process to summarize its partial understanding of the text. OONP supports a big variety of forms (both symbolic and differentiable) for representing the state and the document, and a rich family of operations to compose the representation. An OONP parser can be trained with supervision of different forms and strength, including supervised learning (SL), reinforcement learning (RL) and hybrid of the two. Our experiments on both synthetic and real-world document parsing tasks have shown that OONP can learn to handle fairly complicated ontology with training data of modest sizes.- Anthology ID:
- P18-1253
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Melbourne, Australia
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2717–2726
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/P18-1253
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/P18-1253
- Cite (ACL):
- Zhengdong Lu, Xianggen Liu, Haotian Cui, Yukun Yan, and Daqi Zheng. 2018. Object-oriented Neural Programming (OONP) for Document Understanding. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2717–2726, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Object-oriented Neural Programming (OONP) for Document Understanding (Lu et al., ACL 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/paclic-22-ingestion/P18-1253.pdf