Attentive Tree-structured Network for Monotonicity Reasoning

Zeming Chen


Abstract
Many state-of-art neural models designed for monotonicity reasoning perform poorly on downward inference. To address this shortcoming, we developed an attentive tree-structured neural network. It consists of a tree-based long-short-term-memory network (Tree-LSTM) with soft attention. It is designed to model the syntactic parse tree information from the sentence pair of a reasoning task. A self-attentive aggregator is used for aligning the representations of the premise and the hypothesis. We present our model and evaluate it using the Monotonicity Entailment Dataset (MED). We show and attempt to explain that our model outperforms existing models on MED.
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2021.naloma-1.3
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Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Workshops on Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning (NALOMA)
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June
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2021
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Groningen, the Netherlands (online)
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Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli, Lawrence S. Moss
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NALOMA
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SIGSEM
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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12–21
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Zeming Chen. 2021. Attentive Tree-structured Network for Monotonicity Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Workshops on Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning (NALOMA), pages 12–21, Groningen, the Netherlands (online). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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