Qiwei Peng


2021

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Representing Syntax and Composition with Geometric Transformations
Lorenzo Bertolini | Julie Weeds | David Weir | Qiwei Peng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021

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Structure-aware Sentence Encoder in Bert-Based Siamese Network
Qiwei Peng | David Weir | Julie Weeds
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2021)

Recently, impressive performance on various natural language understanding tasks has been achieved by explicitly incorporating syntax and semantic information into pre-trained models, such as BERT and RoBERTa. However, this approach depends on problem-specific fine-tuning, and as widely noted, BERT-like models exhibit weak performance, and are inefficient, when applied to unsupervised similarity comparison tasks. Sentence-BERT (SBERT) has been proposed as a general-purpose sentence embedding method, suited to both similarity comparison and downstream tasks. In this work, we show that by incorporating structural information into SBERT, the resulting model outperforms SBERT and previous general sentence encoders on unsupervised semantic textual similarity (STS) datasets and transfer classification tasks.