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[22] Graham Neubig - Unsupervised Learning of Lexical Information

The Thesis Review

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Scaling Up N-Gram Language Models

N-grams are theoretically insufficient in transformers where we can't say that's the case. So it'd be tempting to just keep scaling these up but then at some point someone had to think we might actually need a new approach. Yeah, but it sounds like a mix in the sense that it was somewhat unexpected but you had some sense that there was something wrong at least with the phrase based paradigm.

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