An Error-Oriented Approach to Word Embedding Pre-Training

Youmna Farag, Marek Rei, Ted Briscoe


Abstract
We propose a novel word embedding pre-training approach that exploits writing errors in learners’ scripts. We compare our method to previous models that tune the embeddings based on script scores and the discrimination between correct and corrupt word contexts in addition to the generic commonly-used embeddings pre-trained on large corpora. The comparison is achieved by using the aforementioned models to bootstrap a neural network that learns to predict a holistic score for scripts. Furthermore, we investigate augmenting our model with error corrections and monitor the impact on performance. Our results show that our error-oriented approach outperforms other comparable ones which is further demonstrated when training on more data. Additionally, extending the model with corrections provides further performance gains when data sparsity is an issue.
Anthology ID:
W17-5016
Volume:
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Month:
September
Year:
2017
Address:
Copenhagen, Denmark
Editors:
Joel Tetreault, Jill Burstein, Claudia Leacock, Helen Yannakoudakis
Venue:
BEA
SIG:
SIGEDU
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
149–158
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W17-5016
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-5016
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Youmna Farag, Marek Rei, and Ted Briscoe. 2017. An Error-Oriented Approach to Word Embedding Pre-Training. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, pages 149–158, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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An Error-Oriented Approach to Word Embedding Pre-Training (Farag et al., BEA 2017)
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