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    A Global Context Mechanism for Sequence Labeling

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    Sequential labeling tasks necessitate the computation of sentence representations for each word within a given sentence. With the advent of advanced pretrained language models; one common approach involves incorporating a BiLSTM layer to bolster the sequence structure information at the output level. Nevertheless, it has been empirically demonstrated (P.-H. Li et al., 2020) that the potential of BiLSTM for generating sentence representations for sequence labeling tasks is constrained, primarily due to the amalgamation of fragments form past and future sentence representations to form a complete sentence representation. In this study, we discovered that strategically integrating the whole sentence representation, which existing in the first cell and last cell of BiLSTM, into sentence representation of ecah cell, could markedly enhance the F1 score and accuracy. Using BERT embedded within BiLSTM as illustration, we conducted exhaustive experiments on nine datasets for sequence labeling tasks, encompassing named entity recognition (NER), part of speech (POS) tagging and End-to-End Aspect-Based sentiment analysis (E2E-ABSA). We noted significant improvements in F1 scores and accuracy across all examined datasets

    Self-Attention Networks for Connectionist Temporal Classification in Speech Recognition

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    The success of self-attention in NLP has led to recent applications in end-to-end encoder-decoder architectures for speech recognition. Separately, connectionist temporal classification (CTC) has matured as an alignment-free, non-autoregressive approach to sequence transduction, either by itself or in various multitask and decoding frameworks. We propose SAN-CTC, a deep, fully self-attentional network for CTC, and show it is tractable and competitive for end-to-end speech recognition. SAN-CTC trains quickly and outperforms existing CTC models and most encoder-decoder models, with character error rates (CERs) of 4.7% in 1 day on WSJ eval92 and 2.8% in 1 week on LibriSpeech test-clean, with a fixed architecture and one GPU. Similar improvements hold for WERs after LM decoding. We motivate the architecture for speech, evaluate position and downsampling approaches, and explore how label alphabets (character, phoneme, subword) affect attention heads and performance.Comment: Accepted to ICASSP 201
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