08/12/2020

Synonym Knowledge Enhanced Reader for Chinese Idiom Reading Comprehension

Siyu Long, Ran Wang, Kun Tao, Jiali Zeng, Xinyu Dai

Keywords:

Abstract Paper Similar Papers

Abstract: Machine reading comprehension (MRC) is the task that asks a machine to answer questions based on a given context. For Chinese MRC, due to the non-literal and non-compositional semantic characteristics, Chinese idioms pose unique challenges for machines to understand. Previous studies tend to treat idioms separately without fully exploiting the relationship among them. In this paper, we first define the concept of literal meaning coverage to measure the consistency between semantics and literal meanings for Chinese idioms. With the definition, we prove that the literal meanings of many idioms are far from their semantics, and we also verify that the synonymic relationship can mitigate this inconsistency, which would be beneficial for idiom comprehension. Furthermore, to fully utilize the synonymic relationship, we propose the synonym knowledge enhanced reader. Specifically, for each idiom, we first construct a synonym graph according to the annotations from the high-quality synonym dictionary or the cosine similarity between the pre-trained idiom embeddings and then incorporate the graph attention network and gate mechanism to encode the graph. Experimental results on ChID, a large-scale Chinese idiom reading comprehension dataset, show that our model achieves state-of-the-art performance.

The video of this talk cannot be embedded. You can watch it here:
https://underline.io/lecture/6142-synonym-knowledge-enhanced-reader-for-chinese-idiom-reading-comprehension
(Link will open in new window)
 0
 0
 0
 0
  Share    
This is an embedded video. Talk and the respective paper are published at COLING 2020 virtual conference. If you are one of the authors of the paper and want to manage your upload, see the question "My papertalk has been externally embedded..." in the FAQ section.

Comments

Post Comment
no comments yet
code of conduct: tbd Characters remaining: 140

Similar Papers

 0
 0
 0
 0
 11:00 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 15:57 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 8:15 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 13:23 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 6:03 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 13:50 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 14:48 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 14:26 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 10:27 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 11:43 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 8:52 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 11:47 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 7:38 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 4:35 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 8:35 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 11:53 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 18:24 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 17:52 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 11:20 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 10:49 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 19:38 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 5:38 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 7:54 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 11:49 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 11:29 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 10:10 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 5:23 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 8:27 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 21:57 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 11:07 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 10:36 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 12:44 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 15:21 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 18:51 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 14:53 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 15:39 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 3:19 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 4:59 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 10:51 
 0
 0
 0
 0
 14:10