A neural generative autoencoder for bilingual word embeddings

Bilingual word embeddings (BWEs) have been shown to be useful in various cross-lingual natural language processing tasks. To accurately learn BWEs, previous studies often resort to discriminative approaches which explore semantic proximities between translation equivalents of different languages. In...

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Vydané v:	Information sciences Ročník 424; s. 287 - 300
Hlavní autori:	Su, Jinsong, Wu, Shan, Zhang, Biao, Wu, Changxing, Qin, Yue, Xiong, Deyi
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	English
Vydavateľské údaje:	Elsevier Inc 01.01.2018
Predmet:	Bilingual word embeddings Cross-lingual document classification Neural generative autoencoder Translation probability modeling Translation probability modeling Bilingual word embeddings Cross-lingual document classification Neural generative autoencoder
ISSN:	0020-0255, 1872-6291
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Shrnutí:	Bilingual word embeddings (BWEs) have been shown to be useful in various cross-lingual natural language processing tasks. To accurately learn BWEs, previous studies often resort to discriminative approaches which explore semantic proximities between translation equivalents of different languages. Instead, in this paper, we propose a neural generative bilingual autoencoder (NGBAE) which introduces a latent variable to explicitly induce the underlying semantics of bilingual text. In this way, NGBAE is able to obtain better BWEs from more robust bilingual semantics by modeling the semantic distributions of bilingual text. In order to facilitate scalable inference and learning, we utilize deep neural networks to perform the recognition and generation procedures, and then employ stochastic gradient variational Bayes algorithm to optimize them jointly. We validate the proposed model via both extrinsic (cross-lingual document classification and translation probability modeling) and intrinsic (word embedding analysis) evaluations. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of NGBAE on learning BWEs.
ISSN:	0020-0255 1872-6291
DOI:	10.1016/j.ins.2017.09.070