A Classification Approach to Word Prediction
<|reference_start|>A Classification Approach to Word Prediction: The 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.<|reference_end|>
@article{even-zohar2000a,
    title={A Classification Approach to Word Prediction},
    author={Yair Even-Zohar and Dan Roth},
    journal={NAACL 2000},
    year={2000},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0009027},
    primaryClass={cs.CL cs.AI cs.LG}
}