Piyush Rai


2019

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Incorporating Syntactic and Semantic Information in Word Embeddings using Graph Convolutional Networks
Shikhar Vashishth | Manik Bhandari | Prateek Yadav | Piyush Rai | Chiranjib Bhattacharyya | Partha Talukdar
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Word embeddings have been widely adopted across several NLP applications. Most existing word embedding methods utilize sequential context of a word to learn its embedding. While there have been some attempts at utilizing syntactic context of a word, such methods result in an explosion of the vocabulary size. In this paper, we overcome this problem by proposing SynGCN, a flexible Graph Convolution based method for learning word embeddings. SynGCN utilizes the dependency context of a word without increasing the vocabulary size. Word embeddings learned by SynGCN outperform existing methods on various intrinsic and extrinsic tasks and provide an advantage when used with ELMo. We also propose SemGCN, an effective framework for incorporating diverse semantic knowledge for further enhancing learned word representations. We make the source code of both models available to encourage reproducible research.

2010

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Domain Adaptation meets Active Learning
Piyush Rai | Avishek Saha | Hal Daumé | Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Active Learning for Natural Language Processing