
Abstract
Pretraining deep language models has led to large performance gains in NLP. Despite this success, Schick and Schu ̈tze (2020) recently showed that these models struggle to under- stand rare words. For static word embeddings, this problem has been addressed by separately learning representations for rare words. In this work, we transfer this idea to pretrained language models: We introduce BERTRAM, a powerful architecture based on BERT that is capable of inferring high-quality embeddings for rare words that are suitable as input rep- resentations for deep language models. This is achieved by enabling the surface form and con- texts of a word to interact with each other in a deep architecture. Integrating BERTRAM into BERT leads to large performance increases due to improved representations of rare and medium frequency words on both a rare word probing task and three downstream tasks.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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EU Funded Grant Agreement Number: | 740516 |
EU Projects: | Horizon 2020 > ERC Grants > ERC Advanced Grant > ERC Grant 740516: NonSequeToR - Non-sequence models for tokenization replacement |
Research Centers: | Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS) |
Subjects: | 000 Computer science, information and general works > 000 Computer science, knowledge, and systems 400 Language > 410 Linguistics |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-72196-8 |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 72196 |
Date Deposited: | 20. May 2020, 09:45 |
Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020, 13:53 |