2021

Recurrent Neural Networks with Mixed Hierarchical Structures for Natural Language Processing

Luo, Zhaoxin, Zhu, Michael

Understand

Hierarchical structures exist in both linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks.

  • How to design RNNs to learn hierarchical representations of natural languages remains a long-standing challenge.
  • In this paper, we define two different types of boundaries referred to as static and dynamic boundaries, respectively, and then use them to construct a multi-layer hierarchical structure for document classification tasks.
  • In particular, we focus on a three-layer hierarchical structure with static word- and sentence- layers and a dynamic phrase-layer.

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