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Natural Language Processing

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National Research University Higher School of Economics

Natural Language Processing

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Curso 6 de 7 em Specialization Advanced Machine Learning

This course covers a wide range of tasks in Natural Language Processing from basic to advanced: sentiment analysis, summarization, dialogue state tracking, to name a few. Upon completing, you will be able to recognize NLP tasks in your day-to-day work, propose approaches, and judge what techniques are likely to work well. The final project is devoted to one of the most hot topics in today’s NLP. You will build your own conversational chat-bot that will assist with search on StackOverflow website. The project will be based on practical assignments of the course, that will give you hands-on experience with such tasks as text classification, named entities recognition, and duplicates detection. Throughout the lectures, we will aim at finding a balance between traditional and deep learning techniques in NLP and cover them in parallel. For example, we will discuss word alignment models in machine translation and see how similar it is to attention mechanism in encoder-decoder neural networks. Core techniques are not treated as black boxes. On the contrary, you will get in-depth understanding of what’s happening inside. To succeed in that, we expect your familiarity with the basics of linear algebra and probability theory, machine learning setup, and deep neural networks. Some materials are based on one-month-old papers and introduce you to the very state-of-the-art in NLP research.

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Intro and text classification

In this module we will have two parts: first, a broad overview of NLP area and our course goals, and second, a text classification task. It is probably the most popular task that you would deal with in real life. It could be news flows classification, sentiment analysis, spam filtering, etc. You will learn how to go from raw texts to predicted classes both with traditional methods (e.g. linear classifiers) and deep learning techniques (e.g. Convolutional Neural Nets).

Neural networks for words14:46

Neural networks for characters8:16

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Anna Potapenko
Researcher
HSE Faculty of Computer Science
Alexey Zobnin
Accosiate professor
HSE Faculty of Computer Science
Anna Kozlova
Team Lead
Yandex
Sergey Yudin
Analyst-developer
Yandex
Andrei Zimovnov
Senior Lecturer
HSE Faculty of Computer Science

Hi, in this video, we'll go deeper with text.

Let me remind you that you can think of text as a sequence of words, or phrases,

or sentences.

Or, like in this video, we'll think of text as a sequence of characters.

How can we treat a text as a sequence of characters?

Lets take an example phrase cat runs, and

it has underscores which means white space and

it is easy to talkanize our text into characters.

And then we can embed each characters into vector of length let's say 70,

which has in a one hot-encoding manner.

So, our alphabet is not that huge and

our special characters are not that, their number is not that huge as well,

so this one hot-encoded vector will be sparse, but it will not be that long.

Okay, so what do we do next?

We have some numbers now and it looks like a sequence of those numbers.

Let's start with character n-grams.

It seems that we need to just like when we were processing words

in the setting when we have characters, n-grams still make sense.

And we can do that with 1D convolutions.

That means that we take that C character.

And we use padding here, that white space on the left.

And we take a convolution and we get some result.

And we move that window, get another value.

And we do it all the way to the end of the sequence and

get some values there as well.

So this is 1D convolution because we slide the window only in one direction, time.

Okay, we can have a different kernel, a different convolutional kernel, and

we will have different values.

We can take 1000 of those kernels and we'll have 1000 filters in the result.

But what's next?

If you remember how we do in convolutional networks, we usually add convolution

followed by pooling, then again convolution and pooling and so forth.

So let's add pooling here.

Let's see how pooling is applied.

We take, let me remind you that it works on filter level.

It takes the values that are neighboring values, and it takes the maximum of them.

This time, it's 0.8.

Then we move that window with a stride of two, and

we take the maximum of those values as well.

And we do it all to the end, and we do that for all the filters we have, and

this is our pooling output.

Why do we need pooling?

It actually introduces a little

bit of position invariance to our character n-grams.

So, if that character n-gram slides like one character to the left,

to the right, there is a high chance that thanks to pooling,

the activation that we will have in that pooling output will stay the same.

Okay, and as you remember,

we continue to apply convolutions followed by pooling and so forth.

So let's take that previous pooling output, and

let's apply 1D convolutions as well.

So we get some filter outputs, and we can work with those values.

And what we do next is we add pooling, and pooling works just the same.

We take neighboring two values, we take the maximum of that,

then we move that sliding window, that green window with a stride of two, and

we have a different value.

So that's how we applied convolution and pooling again.

And notice that our length of our like feature representation actually decreases.

That means that our receptive field actually increases and we look at more and

more characters in our input when we make decision about activation on a deep level.

We can continue to do that and we can actually do that six times and

that's how we get to our final architecture.

Our final architecture looks like this.

We take first 1,000 characters of text and in certain datasets that makes sense.

It doesn't make sense to like to read the whole text.

Maybe 1,000 characters will be enough.

Then we apply 1D convolution plus max pooling 6 times, and

we use the following kernel width: 7,7 and all the rest are 3s.

And we use 1,000 filters at each step.

That means that after applying that procedure 6 times,

we get a matrix of features of size 1,000 by 34.

And what you can do what those features now,

you can actually apply a multi-layer perceptron for your task.

It can be regression classification or any other laws you like.

Let's see how it works on experimental datasets.

All these datasets are either a categorization, like news datasets, or

a sentiment analysis like Yelp reviews, or Amazon reviews.

And we have two categories of these datasets.

The first one, the red one, are smaller datasets, and

they contain, at most, 600,000 training samples.

And we have bigger datasets that contains millions of samples.

So let's compare our models on these two types of datasets.

The first table that you see contains errors on test set for classical models.

For classical models like bag of worths or

bag of worths with TFIDF with linear model on top of that.

Or you can replace tokens with n-grams and to do the same thing.

And as you can see, on small datasets,

which are in red border here, you can see that our error

is the least when we use n-grams with TFIDF, most of the time.

So it tells us that if you have a small training set then it makes sense

to use classical approaches.

But if your dataset grows and

you have millions of examples, then maybe you can learn some deeper representations.

And that is the second table.

It contains errors and test sets for the same datasets.

And here you can see LSTM and

our convolutional architecture that we have overviewed.

And you can see that our architecture actually beats LSDM on huge datasets.

This gain sometimes is not that huge but it is actually very surprising.

And you can see that these deep approaches work significantly better

than classical approaches.

Let's say for Amazon reviews which is the last column,

you've got degrees in error from roughly 8% to like 5%.

So, this is pretty cool.

So what we learned from this that, we've learned the following,

that deep models work better for large datasets, and

it makes sense to make all that huge architectures when you have huge datasets.

Okay, so let me summarize.

You can use convolutional networks on not only on top of words but

also on top of characters.

You can tweak, text as a sequence of characters.

This is called learning from scratch in literature.

It works best for

large datasets where it beats classical approaches like bag of words.

And surprisingly, sometimes it even beats LSTM that works on word level.

So what you've done is you've come to the character level and

learned some deeper representations and

you don't tell the system or the model where the words are and it works better.

So this is pretty cool.

So this video concludes our first week.

And I wish you good luck in the following weeks.

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