Title
What You Can Cram Into A Single $&!#* Vector: Probing Sentence Embeddings For Linguistic Properties
Abstract
Although much effort has recently been devoted to training high-quality sentence embeddings, we still have a poor understanding of what they are capturing. "Downstream" tasks, often based on sentence classification, are commonly used to evaluate the quality of sentence representations. The complexity of the tasks makes it however difficult to infer what kind of information is present in the representations. We introduce here 10 probing tasks designed to capture simple linguistic features of sentences, and we use them to study embeddings generated by three different encoders trained in eight distinct ways, uncovering intriguing properties of both encoders and training methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.18653/v1/p18-1198
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 56TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL), VOL 1
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Encoder,Natural language processing,Linguistics,Sentence
Journal
abs/1805.01070
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
0.65
28
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexis Conneau134215.03
German Kruszewski29212.21
Guillaume Lample365122.75
Loïc Barrault428422.91
marco baroni52067127.57