Language as a latent variable: Discrete generative models for sentence compression

In this work we explore deep generative models of text in which the latent representation of a document is itself drawn from a discrete language model distribution. We formulate a variational auto-encoder for inference in this model and apply it to the task of compressing sentences. In this applicat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Miao, Y, Blunsom, P
Format: Conference item
Published: Association for Computational Linguistics 2016