19 Jun 2017 | Piotr Bojanowski* and Edouard Grave* and Armand Joulin and Tomas Mikolov
The paper "Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information" by Piotr Bojanowski, Edouard Grave, Armand Joulin, and Tomas Mikolov from Facebook AI Research introduces a novel approach to learning continuous word representations by incorporating subword information. The authors propose representing words as bags of character $n$-grams and summing the vector representations of these $n$-grams to form a word vector. This method is based on the skipgram model but extends it to include subword information, allowing for better handling of morphologically rich languages and rare words.
The main contributions of the paper include:
1. **Model Extension**: Introducing a subword model that uses character $n$-grams to represent words, enhancing the skipgram model.
2. **Efficiency**: The method is fast and allows for training on large corpora quickly.
3. **Generalizability**: It enables computing word representations for words not appearing in the training data.
4. **Evaluation**: The method is evaluated on nine different languages, showing state-of-the-art performance on word similarity and analogy tasks compared to other morphological word representations.
The paper also discusses related work, including methods for incorporating morphological information into word representations and character-level models for natural language processing. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, particularly in handling rare words and morphologically rich languages. The authors conclude by highlighting the practical implications of their method, such as the ability to compute high-quality word vectors with limited training data.The paper "Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information" by Piotr Bojanowski, Edouard Grave, Armand Joulin, and Tomas Mikolov from Facebook AI Research introduces a novel approach to learning continuous word representations by incorporating subword information. The authors propose representing words as bags of character $n$-grams and summing the vector representations of these $n$-grams to form a word vector. This method is based on the skipgram model but extends it to include subword information, allowing for better handling of morphologically rich languages and rare words.
The main contributions of the paper include:
1. **Model Extension**: Introducing a subword model that uses character $n$-grams to represent words, enhancing the skipgram model.
2. **Efficiency**: The method is fast and allows for training on large corpora quickly.
3. **Generalizability**: It enables computing word representations for words not appearing in the training data.
4. **Evaluation**: The method is evaluated on nine different languages, showing state-of-the-art performance on word similarity and analogy tasks compared to other morphological word representations.
The paper also discusses related work, including methods for incorporating morphological information into word representations and character-level models for natural language processing. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, particularly in handling rare words and morphologically rich languages. The authors conclude by highlighting the practical implications of their method, such as the ability to compute high-quality word vectors with limited training data.