2018 EMNLP EMNLP 2018

Extracting Syntactic Trees from Transformer Encoder Self-Attentions

Abstract

AbstractThis is a work in progress about extracting the sentence tree structures from the encoder’s self-attention weights, when translating into another language using the Transformer neural network architecture. We visualize the structures and discuss their characteristics with respect to the existing syntactic theories and annotations.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — tree structure extraction
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — transformer encoder
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Security & Privacy, Speech & Audio