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[11] Jacob Andreas - Learning from Language

Oct 29, 2020
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INSIGHT

Power of Compositionality

  • Compositionality allows infinite use of finite words to convey complex ideas.
  • This principle underlies the remarkable expressive power of human language.
ANECDOTE

Early Machine Translation Exploration

  • Jacob initially worked on machine translation using logical representations of meaning.
  • Although the approach didn't yield good results, it shaped his perspective on meaning in language.
INSIGHT

Neural Module Networks Explained

  • Neural module networks break down language into modules representing semantic components.
  • They learn to compose these modules for complex visual question answering tasks end-to-end.
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