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Perturbation CheckLists for Evaluating NLG Evaluation Metrics

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Natural Language Generation (NLG) evaluation is a multifaceted task requiring assessment of multiple desirable criteria, e.g., fluency, coherency, coverage, relevance, adequacy, overall quality, etc. Across existing …

Tags: BERT, NLP, NLG

The Heads Hypothesis: A Unifying Statistical Approach Towards Understanding Multi-Headed Attention in BERT

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BERT has been a top contender in the space of NLP models. With its sucess, a parallel stream of research, named BERTology, has emerged, that tries to understand how does BERT work so well. With the similar objective, …

Tags: Explainable AI, BERT, NLP

The heads hypothesis: A unifying statistical approach towards understanding multi-headed attention in BERT

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Multi-headed attention heads are a mainstay in transformer-based models. Different methods have been proposed to classify the role of each attention head based on the relations between tokens which have high pair-wise …

Tags: BERT, Attention head

Improving Dialog Evaluation with a Multi-reference Adversarial Dataset and Large Scale Pretraining

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There is an increasing focus on model-based dialog evaluation metrics such as ADEM, RUBER, and the more recent BERT-based metrics. These models aim to assign a high score to all relevant responses and a low score to all …

Tags: NLP, dialog, pretraining, BERT

On Incorporating Structural Information to improve Dialogue Response Generation

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We consider the task of generating dialogue responses from background knowledge comprising of domain specific resources. Specifically, given a conversation around a movie, the task is to generate the next response based …

Tags: NLP, Dialogue response, BERT

Towards Interpreting BERT for Reading Comprehension Based QA

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BERT and its variants have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various NLP tasks. Since then, various works have been proposed to analyze the linguistic information being captured in BERT. However, the current works …

Tags: NLP, BERT, Reading comprehension

On the weak link between importance and prunability of attention heads

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Given the success of Transformer-based models, two directions of study have emerged: interpreting role of individual attention heads and down-sizing the models for efficiency. Our work straddles these two streams: We …

Tags: NLP, Attention, BERT, Pruning

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