A Neural Attention Model for Disfluency Detection

Shaolei Wang, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu


Abstract
In this paper, we study the problem of disfluency detection using the encoder-decoder framework. We treat disfluency detection as a sequence-to-sequence problem and propose a neural attention-based model which can efficiently model the long-range dependencies between words and make the resulting sentence more likely to be grammatically correct. Our model firstly encode the source sentence with a bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BI-LSTM) and then use the neural attention as a pointer to select an ordered sub sequence of the input as the output. Experiments show that our model achieves the state-of-the-art f-score of 86.7% on the commonly used English Switchboard test set. We also evaluate the performance of our model on the in-house annotated Chinese data and achieve a significantly higher f-score compared to the baseline of CRF-based approach.
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C16-1027
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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278–287
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Shaolei Wang, Wanxiang Che, and Ting Liu. 2016. A Neural Attention Model for Disfluency Detection. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 278–287, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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