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Contrastive Unsupervised Word Alignment with Non-Local Features

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Contrastive Unsupervised Word Alignment with Non-Local Features
Word alignment is an important natural language processing task that indicates the correspondence between natural languages. Recently, unsupervised learning of log-linear models for word alignment has received considerable attention as it combines the merits of generative and discriminative approaches. However, a major challenge still remains: it is intractable to calculate the expectations of non-local features that are critical for capturing the divergence between natural languages. We propose a contrastive approach that aims to differentiate observed training examples from noises. It not only introduces prior knowledge to guide unsupervised learning but also cancels out partition functions. Based on the observation that the probability mass of log-linear models for word alignment is usually highly concentrated, we propose to use top-n alignments to approximate the expectations with respect to posterior distributions. This allows for efficient and accurate calculation of expectatio...
Yang Liu, Maosong Sun
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Updated 27 Mar 2016
Type Journal
Year 2015
Where AAAI
Authors Yang Liu, Maosong Sun
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