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e-SNLI: Natural Language Inference with Natural Language Explanations
In order for machine learning to garner widespread public adoption, models
must be able to provide interpretable and robust explanations for their
decisions, as well as learn from human-provided explanations at train time. In
this work, we extend the Stanford Natural Language Inference dataset with an
additional layer of human-annotated natural language explanations of the
entailment relations. We further implement models that incorporate these
explanations into their training process and output them at test time. We show
how our corpus of explanations, which we call e-SNLI, can be used for various
goals, such as obtaining full sentence justifications of a model's decisions,
improving universal sentence representations and transferring to out-of-domain
NLI datasets. Our dataset thus opens up a range of research directions for
using natural language explanations, both for improving models and for
asserting their trust.Comment: NeurIPS 201
A Survey of Paraphrasing and Textual Entailment Methods
Paraphrasing methods recognize, generate, or extract phrases, sentences, or
longer natural language expressions that convey almost the same information.
Textual entailment methods, on the other hand, recognize, generate, or extract
pairs of natural language expressions, such that a human who reads (and trusts)
the first element of a pair would most likely infer that the other element is
also true. Paraphrasing can be seen as bidirectional textual entailment and
methods from the two areas are often similar. Both kinds of methods are useful,
at least in principle, in a wide range of natural language processing
applications, including question answering, summarization, text generation, and
machine translation. We summarize key ideas from the two areas by considering
in turn recognition, generation, and extraction methods, also pointing to
prominent articles and resources.Comment: Technical Report, Natural Language Processing Group, Department of
Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece, 201
Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP: A Report on the First BlackboxNLP Workshop
The EMNLP 2018 workshop BlackboxNLP was dedicated to resources and techniques
specifically developed for analyzing and understanding the inner-workings and
representations acquired by neural models of language. Approaches included:
systematic manipulation of input to neural networks and investigating the
impact on their performance, testing whether interpretable knowledge can be
decoded from intermediate representations acquired by neural networks,
proposing modifications to neural network architectures to make their knowledge
state or generated output more explainable, and examining the performance of
networks on simplified or formal languages. Here we review a number of
representative studies in each category
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