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Poster
MacNet: Transferring Knowledge from Machine Comprehension to Sequence-to-Sequence Models
Boyuan Pan · Yazheng Yang · Hao Li · Zhou Zhao · Yueting Zhuang · Deng Cai · Xiaofei He

Tue Dec 04 07:45 AM -- 09:45 AM (PST) @ Room 517 AB #151
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Machine Comprehension (MC) is one of the core problems in natural language processing, requiring both understanding of the natural language and knowledge about the world. Rapid progress has been made since the release of several benchmark datasets, and recently the state-of-the-art models even surpass human performance on the well-known SQuAD evaluation. In this paper, we transfer knowledge learned from machine comprehension to the sequence-to-sequence tasks to deepen the understanding of the text. We propose MacNet: a novel encoder-decoder supplementary architecture to the widely used attention-based sequence-to-sequence models. Experiments on neural machine translation (NMT) and abstractive text summarization show that our proposed framework can significantly improve the performance of the baseline models, and our method for the abstractive text summarization achieves the state-of-the-art results on the Gigaword dataset.

Keywords: Natural Language Processing · Text Analysis
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Author Information

Boyuan Pan (Zhejiang University)
Yazheng Yang (Zhejiang University)
Hao Li (Zhejiang University)
Zhou Zhao (Zhejiang University)
Yueting Zhuang (Zhejiang University)
Deng Cai (Zhejiang University)
Xiaofei He (Zhejiang University)

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