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Radical-Enhanced Chinese Character Embedding
We present a method to leverage radical for learning Chinese character
embedding. Radical is a semantic and phonetic component of Chinese character.
It plays an important role as characters with the same radical usually have
similar semantic meaning and grammatical usage. However, existing Chinese
processing algorithms typically regard word or character as the basic unit but
ignore the crucial radical information. In this paper, we fill this gap by
leveraging radical for learning continuous representation of Chinese character.
We develop a dedicated neural architecture to effectively learn character
embedding and apply it on Chinese character similarity judgement and Chinese
word segmentation. Experiment results show that our radical-enhanced method
outperforms existing embedding learning algorithms on both tasks.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Dual Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Sub-Character Representation Learning
Characters have commonly been regarded as the minimal processing unit in
Natural Language Processing (NLP). But many non-latin languages have
hieroglyphic writing systems, involving a big alphabet with thousands or
millions of characters. Each character is composed of even smaller parts, which
are often ignored by the previous work. In this paper, we propose a novel
architecture employing two stacked Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs) to
learn sub-character level representation and capture deeper level of semantic
meanings. To build a concrete study and substantiate the efficiency of our
neural architecture, we take Chinese Word Segmentation as a research case
example. Among those languages, Chinese is a typical case, for which every
character contains several components called radicals. Our networks employ a
shared radical level embedding to solve both Simplified and Traditional Chinese
Word Segmentation, without extra Traditional to Simplified Chinese conversion,
in such a highly end-to-end way the word segmentation can be significantly
simplified compared to the previous work. Radical level embeddings can also
capture deeper semantic meaning below character level and improve the system
performance of learning. By tying radical and character embeddings together,
the parameter count is reduced whereas semantic knowledge is shared and
transferred between two levels, boosting the performance largely. On 3 out of 4
Bakeoff 2005 datasets, our method surpassed state-of-the-art results by up to
0.4%. Our results are reproducible, source codes and corpora are available on
GitHub.Comment: Accepted & forthcoming at ITNG-201
Cross Pixel Optical Flow Similarity for Self-Supervised Learning
We propose a novel method for learning convolutional neural image
representations without manual supervision. We use motion cues in the form of
optical flow, to supervise representations of static images. The obvious
approach of training a network to predict flow from a single image can be
needlessly difficult due to intrinsic ambiguities in this prediction task. We
instead propose a much simpler learning goal: embed pixels such that the
similarity between their embeddings matches that between their optical flow
vectors. At test time, the learned deep network can be used without access to
video or flow information and transferred to tasks such as image
classification, detection, and segmentation. Our method, which significantly
simplifies previous attempts at using motion for self-supervision, achieves
state-of-the-art results in self-supervision using motion cues, competitive
results for self-supervision in general, and is overall state of the art in
self-supervised pretraining for semantic image segmentation, as demonstrated on
standard benchmarks
Learnable PINs: Cross-Modal Embeddings for Person Identity
We propose and investigate an identity sensitive joint embedding of face and
voice. Such an embedding enables cross-modal retrieval from voice to face and
from face to voice. We make the following four contributions: first, we show
that the embedding can be learnt from videos of talking faces, without
requiring any identity labels, using a form of cross-modal self-supervision;
second, we develop a curriculum learning schedule for hard negative mining
targeted to this task, that is essential for learning to proceed successfully;
third, we demonstrate and evaluate cross-modal retrieval for identities unseen
and unheard during training over a number of scenarios and establish a
benchmark for this novel task; finally, we show an application of using the
joint embedding for automatically retrieving and labelling characters in TV
dramas.Comment: To appear in ECCV 201
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