IP Library Granted Patent US 10,789,942
Granted Patent B2
US 10,789,942 · App. 16/163,988 · Granted Sep 29, 2020

Word embedding system

Inventors: Renqiang Min (Princeton, NJ); Dinghan Shen (Durham, NC)
Assignee: NEC Corporation
G10L15/18G06F40/30G06N3/04G06N3/084G10L15/063G10L15/16G10L15/22
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Patent No.
US 10,789,942
App. No.
16/163,988
Granted
Sep 29, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computer processing system are provided for word embedding. The method includes receiving, by a processor device, a word embedding matrix. The method further includes generating, by a processor device, an average pooling vector and a max pooling vector, based on the word embedding matrix. The method also includes generating, by the processor device, a prediction by applying a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) to the average pooling vector and the max pooling vector.

Claims (31)

1. A computer-implemented method for word embedding, comprising:

receiving, by a processor device, a word embedding matrix;

generating, by a processor device, an average pooling vector and a max pooling vector, based on the word embedding matrix; and

generating, by the processor device, a prediction by applying a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) to the average pooling vector and the max pooling vector.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the word embedding matrix is generated from the pre-trained word embedding for a vocabulary, and wherein the method further comprises initializing out-of-vocabulary words from a uniform distribution within a preset range.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising performing a training session for the MLP, wherein the word embeddings are directly updated during the training session.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising performing a training session for the MLP, wherein the word embeddings are kept fixed during the training session.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising concatenating the average pooling vector and the max pooling vector in preparation for use by the MLP to generate the prediction.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , further comprising forming sentence embeddings from a concatenation of the average pooling vector and the max pooling vector.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the word embedding matrix is generated from a sentence.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the word embedding matrix is generated from a document.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising concatenating feature embeddings of phrases containing multiple words.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , wherein a max pooling operation is employed on the feature maps.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising transforming, by an automatic speech recognition system, an acoustic utterance by a user into the word embedding matrix.

12. A computer program product for word embedding, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to perform a method comprising:

receiving, by a processor device, a word embedding matrix;

generating, by a processor device, an average pooling vector and a max pooling vector, based on the word embedding matrix; and

generating, by the processor device, a prediction by applying a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) to the average pooling vector and the max pooling vector.

13. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the word embedding matrix is generated based on a vocabulary, and wherein the method further comprises initializing out-of-vocabulary words from a uniform distribution within a preset range.

14. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the method further comprises performing a training session for the MLP, wherein the word embeddings are directly updated during the training session.

15. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the method further comprises performing a training session for the MLP, wherein the word embeddings are kept fixed during the training session for certain tasks.

16. The computer program product of claim 12 , further comprising concatenating the average pooling vector and the max pooling vector in preparation for use by the MLP to generate the prediction.

17. The computer program product of claim 16 , further comprising forming sentence embeddings from a concatenation of the average pooling vector and the max pooling vector.

18. The computer program product of claim 12 , further comprising concatenating embeddings of phrases containing multiple words.

19. The computer program product of claim 18 , wherein a max pooling operation is employed on the feature maps.

20. A computer processing system for word embedding, comprising:

a memory for storing program code; and

a processor device for running the program code to

receive a word embedding matrix;

generate an average pooling vector and a max pooling vector, based on the word embedding matrix; and

generate a prediction by applying a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) to the average pooling vector and the max pooling vector.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 19, 2020
From: NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA, INC.
To: NEC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 053539/0385 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 18, 2018
From: MIN, RENQIANG; SHEN, DINGHAN
To: NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA, INC.
Reel/Frame 047267/0189 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62576296 · Oct 24, 2017
Related Publication 20190122655A1 · Apr 25, 2019
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