Attention Boosted Sequential Inference Model

Guanyu Li, Pengfei Zhang, Caiyan Jia

Abstract

Attention mechanism has been proven effective on natural language processing. This paper proposes an attention boosted natural language inference model named aESIM by adding word attention and adaptive direction-oriented attention mechanisms to the traditional Bi-LSTM layer of natural language inference models, e.g. ESIM. This makes the inference model aESIM has the ability to effectively learn the representation of words and model the local subsentential inference between pairs of premise and hypothesis. The empirical studies on the SNLI, MultiNLI and Quora benchmarks manifest that aESIM is superior to the original ESIM model.

Results

TaskDatasetMetricValueModel
Natural Language InferenceQuora Question PairsAccuracy88.01aESIM
Natural Language InferenceSNLI% Test Accuracy88.1aESIM
Natural Language InferenceMultiNLIMatched73.9aESIM
Natural Language InferenceMultiNLIMismatched73.9aESIM

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