Enhanced LSTM for Natural Language Inference

Enhanced LSTM for Natural Language Inference

26 Apr 2017 | Qian Chen, Xiaodan Zhu, Zhenhua Ling, Si Wei, Hui Jiang, Diana Inkpen
This paper presents a state-of-the-art approach to natural language inference (NLI) using enhanced LSTM models. The authors demonstrate that carefully designed sequential inference models based on chain LSTMs can outperform previous models, which often employed more complex network architectures. By explicitly incorporating recursive architectures in both local inference modeling and inference composition, the authors achieve an accuracy of 88.6% on the Stanford Natural Language Inference (SNLI) dataset, surpassing all previous models. The key contributions include the use of bidirectional LSTMs for input encoding, attention mechanisms for local inference, and tree-LSTMs for capturing syntactic parsing information. The authors also show that combining these components significantly improves performance, highlighting the potential of sequential inference models in NLI tasks.This paper presents a state-of-the-art approach to natural language inference (NLI) using enhanced LSTM models. The authors demonstrate that carefully designed sequential inference models based on chain LSTMs can outperform previous models, which often employed more complex network architectures. By explicitly incorporating recursive architectures in both local inference modeling and inference composition, the authors achieve an accuracy of 88.6% on the Stanford Natural Language Inference (SNLI) dataset, surpassing all previous models. The key contributions include the use of bidirectional LSTMs for input encoding, attention mechanisms for local inference, and tree-LSTMs for capturing syntactic parsing information. The authors also show that combining these components significantly improves performance, highlighting the potential of sequential inference models in NLI tasks.
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