Spatial representation of context-dependent sentences and its application to sentence generation. (3rd August 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Maekawa, Tomoyuki; Takano, Wataru
• Is Part Of: Advanced robotics. Volume 31:Number 15(2017)
• Page Start: 780
• Page End: 790
• Publication Date: 2017-08-03
• Subjects: Natural language processing -- context -- search algorithm -- sentence generation; Robotics -- Periodicals; Robotics -- Japan -- Periodicals; Robotics; Japan; Periodicals; 629.89205
• DOI: 10.1080/01691864.2017.1351392
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0169-1864

Abstract

Abstract: We propose a novel approach to embedding sentences into a high-dimensional space. Independent words in the sentence are located at points in the space, and the sentence is represented by a curve along these words. A set of functions that evaluates a sequence of words is designed over this space and is helpful for searching for words that are likely to follow the observed sentences. More generally, our approach makes sentences sequentially depending on the context. We simplify Japanese grammar and subsequently implement it as a grammar that constrains simple sentences to be generated. In this study, we performed experiments in which we created a dictionary containing 2877 different independent words and constructed a semantic space from texts in eight digital archived books, consisting of 8495 independent words and 161 paragraphs in total. It was demonstrated that several meaningful sentences can be generated that are likely to follow untrained input sentences. Graphical Abstract: