A Classification Approach to Word Prediction

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dc.creatorEven-Zohar, Yair
dc.creatorRoth, Dan
dc.date2000-09-28
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:16:35Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:16:35Z
dc.descriptionThe eventual goal of a language model is to accurately predict the value of a missing word given its context. We present an approach to word prediction that is based on learning a representation for each word as a function of words and linguistics predicates in its context. This approach raises a few new questions that we address. First, in order to learn good word representations it is necessary to use an expressive representation of the context. We present a way that uses external knowledge to generate expressive context representations, along with a learning method capable of handling the large number of features generated this way that can, potentially, contribute to each prediction. Second, since the number of words ``competing'' for each prediction is large, there is a need to ``focus the attention'' on a smaller subset of these. We exhibit the contribution of a ``focus of attention'' mechanism to the performance of the word predictor. Finally, we describe a large scale experimental study in which the approach presented is shown to yield significant improvements in word prediction tasks.
dc.description8 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0009027
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0009027
dc.identifierNAACL 2000
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/30406
dc.subjectComputation and Language
dc.subjectArtificial Intelligence
dc.subjectMachine Learning
dc.subjectI.2.6;I.2.7
dc.titleA Classification Approach to Word Prediction
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